Brian Dean

Current

Director of Technical Services at Secure-i, Inc.
Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago

Past

IT Project Manager at Secure Integrations
Corporate Security Officer at Hewitt Associates

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago
Trinity International University
La Salle University

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Brian Dean’s Summary

I am the Director of Technical Services at Secure-i, Inc., a privately-held startup company offering on-demand video surveillance services that require no dedicated client-side software or hardware.

Before succumbing to the lure of IT, I spent several years teaching philosophy and logic while doing research in the history and philosophy of early modern science. I remain fascinated by the 17th Century.

Brian Dean’s Specialties:

Axis Subscriber Technology Services. NVR software: OnSSI, Milestone, Axis, Geovision. Axis and Sony IP cameras. Firetide, Avalan, and other wireless tools; Linux: Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu, etc. Apache, MySQL, PHP. All Miscrosoft OSes. Storage networks. Server design and configuration. Switches, firewalls, load balancers. Project development and management; Budgeting and infrastructure development and planning. Hosted software and services.

Brian Dean’s Experience

Director of Technical Services

Secure-i, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Direct day-to-day systems administration of HVR; manage server and SAN maintenance activity at co-location center by datacenter staff; determine and coordinate implementation of firewall, switch, and load balancer configurations. Oversee progress of outsourced web development teams, providing feedback and QA testing.
Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy

University of Illinois at Chicago

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

September 2000 — Present (9 years 3 months)

A series of studies on the development of mechanical philosophy in the 17th Century, focusing on attempts to define and formalize the properties of fluid equilibrium and pressure. There are three significant moments when hydrostatics was a nexus wherein theological, mathematical, and experimental considerations tangled and shaped the development of mechanism. Galileo's first tangle with Aristotelian natural philosophers was over the role of experiment and mathematics in hydrostatics. Robert Boyle and Henry More tangled over whether the experimentally established properties of fluid pressure could be (or even should be) given a fully mechanical explanation. Newton's invective against Descartes' "impious" mechanism comes in a treatise on hydrostatics; his theologically-driven metaphysics permanently reshaped the concept of mechanism and opened the conceptual space for his breakthrough on universal gravitation.
IT Project Manager

Secure Integrations

(Privately Held; Security and Investigations industry)

November 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 8 months)

Consulting with Sales Team to engineer, and see through successful installation, custom digital video surveillance systems appropriate to customer's budget, current technology infrastructure, and anticipated future needs. Also serve as subject matter expert, advising IT and Physical Security Departments on the implications and mutual obligations that arise when converging IP-based security systems with pre-existing managed networks.
Corporate Security Officer

Hewitt Associates

(Public Company; Human Resources industry)

August 1996 — August 2000 (4 years 1 month)

Brian Dean’s Education

University of Illinois at Chicago

Ph.D. Cand. , Philosophy , 2000 — 2009

Activities and Societies:

Twice elected to University Fellowships for Academic Research in 2004 and 2007.
Trinity International University

M.A. , Philosophy / Theology , 1994 — 1998

My thesis was on the slipperiness of the concept of responsibility and the difficulties of defining its proper application. Title: The Problem of Moral Luck: The Indeterminacy of Moral Responsibility and the Instability of Moral Judgment
La Salle University

B.A. , English/Writing, German, Business , 1990 — 1993