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Brooks Mershon

N69KK Pitts S-1S Brooks Mershon

Software Developer @ EarthScope Consortium, focused on making interactive tools on the web.

β†’ Flight Instruction

β†’ My flying logbook

β†’ Flickr

β†’ YouTube

β†’ Reading

β†’ RΓ©sumΓ© [PDF]

πŸ†• Projects

UNAVCO for Observable

See my latest work for EarthScope on Observable.

# Grid Cycles Grid Cycles

# The Little Schemer Code The Little Schemer [code]

# From Mathematics to Generic Programming From Mathematics to Generic Programming

# Category Theory (self-study module) [Wiki] Category Theory

# SIGGRAPH 2016: A Wide-Eyed Account [PDF] [SRC] SIGGRAPH 2016 Report

# Hofstadter Sequences Hofstadter sequences

# Equidecomposability equidecompose

# Laplacian Mesh Editing laplacian-meshes

# Shape Descriptors shape-descriptors

# Procrustes Alignment of 3D Meshes procrustes-alignment

# Specular Reflections (Echo Simulator 2016) specular-reflections

# WikiBlocks [VIDEO] [SRC] wikiblocks

# Context Sensitive Label Placement nuclear-testing

# Reid's Conservation Legacy nevada-wilderness

# 2015 Cy Young Tracker Cy Young Tracker

# Teaching Topology with Code [PDF] [SRC] topology-with-applications

# Flickr [Medium] Chain Fence and Spinning Can

πŸ›©οΈ Aviation

In the news!

Brooks Mershon Bellanca Viking N6694V

FAA 4034486

EAA 1271516 (Flight Advisor)

IAC 440213

Own and operate Pitts S-1S and Bellanca Viking, based in Camarillo, California (KCMA).

See www.boulderpilot.com/gallery

πŸ’» Code

  • GitHub repositories for longer projects. Some repos are actually teaching materials organized in the spirit of a software project, because teaching is programming. And I love teaching and explaining as I'm learning while leaving a record beind, if only to help externalize memory.

  • bl.ocks.org for interactive visuals, code snippets, and bite-sized explainers. Often made to teach myself. These are updated frequently and more often than not reflect a day's effort at playing with a new idea. In the same veign as Mike Bostock's examples, these blocks help me to break a larger project into smaller self-contained explainers. It's a good day when I can upload another one of these; like building blocks, these tend to be part of larger and more involved structures.

  • Observable Notebooks. My latest work has been a series of interacive tools built for UNAVCO to support the geoscience and geodesy scientific communities; get data, share data, explore data, and find pedagogical tools built to explain what we can do with geoscience data (mostly high precisison GPS/GNSS archival and realtime data).

🌎 Publications

πŸ“œ Essays

selected entries

πŸ“š Catalog

Books, essays, films and other resources I have found to be particularly great or enriching. Updated frequently.

πŸ“· Camera

Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo.

πŸŽ“ Education

Duke University

BS in Computer Science

May 2016 | Durham, NC

Cum. GPA: 3.74 / 4.0

Duke Cycling Team Member

New York University

Writers in New York 2014

πŸ•” Experience

UNAVCO / EarthScope Consortium

Software Engineer III

April 2021 - Present | Boulder, CO

Mile High Gliding

Chief Pilot and Brand Ambassador

April 2021 - February, 2022 | Boulder, CO

  • Staff training in Piper Super Cub, Citabria, Schweizer 2-32 and 2-33 gliders.
  • Curriculum development for instruction at MHG, interfacing with Wings Over the Rockies scholarship programs for students learning to fly gliders.
  • Sponsored aerobatic pilot, Pitts S-1S, representing Journeys Aviation and Mile High Gliding.

Boulder Pilot, LLC

Co-Owner and Pilot

March 2020 - Present | Boulder, CO

  • Started an aircraft ferry services and transition training LLC with an emphasis on experimental aircraft, biplanes, and other demanding tailwheel aircraft with a Fedex Express and Air National Guard Pilot.
  • Developed the website, branding, merchandizing, and billing practices for the Boulder Pilot brand.
  • Long term contract test pilot for an Experimental Ryan ST replica. All new, CAD from the ground up, kitplane design being brought to market.
  • Formed long term relationship for flight test, design consultation, marketing, video production, and technical documentation with Timber Tiger Aircraft.

Mile High Gliding

Manager and Pilot

January 2019 - April 2021 | Boulder, CO

  • Experienced commercial glider and tow pilot. Scenic glider rides, transition training, and primary flight instruction. Responsible for staff pilot training.
  • Rebranding and implementing advertising and web presence under new ownership and merging with Journeys Aviation.
  • Organizing restoration of existing gliders and acquisition of new aircraft.
  • Overhauling facilities and modernizing scheduling and billing practices.

Trimble SketchUp

Software Developer

July 2016 - January 2019 | Boulder, CO

  • Significant engineering and design involvement bringing SketchUp Web to the EDU market, including integrating online file saving with Google Drive.
  • Focused on improving the look, feel, and usability of the SketchUp Web user interface, specifically the search for Commands.
  • 90 percent front-end work, 10 percent core geometry engine work.
  • Won Best Presentation and Best Overall Hack at internal 2018 hackathon.

The Washington Post

Graphics Intern

June 2015 - August 2015 | Washington, D.C.

  • Designed graphics for print and online publication using Adobe Illustrator.
  • Developed interactive graphics that were published online on subjects including baseball statistics, historical U.S. nuclear testing, and environmental conservation.

Duke University Press

Books Editorial Intern

January 2015 - May 2015 | Durham, NC

Versal

Software Engineering Intern

May 2013 - August 2013 | San Francisco, CA

  • Developed simulations related to optics, epidemiology, image processing, and geometry as the company launched.

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