Cybersecurity (MS)

Mr. Steve Helms has worked in the network security industry since 1996. His career began in the energy sector at Schlumberger and continued at Reliant Energy in Houston providing technical systems security administration and infrastructure design. After moving to a consulting role in 2000, he began the vulnerability assessment practice at Accudata Systems and spent 17 years helping companies in numerous industries – including energy, healthcare, education, and finance – comply with best practices and laws through ongoing technical security assessments and penetration tests. He earned his undergraduate degree in  management information systems and his graduate degree in cybersecurity.

In addition to his technical abilities, Mr. Helms is a businessman and has conceived, designed, developed, operated, and eventually sold a small Internet software as a service (SaaS) company. Additionally, he has been an integral part of a start-up venture in the healthcare industry providing a software solution to improve medication adherence.

Mr. Helms and his entire family spent a month as missionaries to Belize in 2014 and hope to return for a longer stay in the future. He and his wife, Shelli, have five children: Natalie, Courtney, Connor, Garrett, and Joshua. They are involved with a growing church plant in Siloam Springs and truly desire to "live a life that demands a gospel explanation" (based on 1 Peter 3:15).

Dr. Tim Gilmour joined the engineering faculty in August of 2012. Dr. Gilmour received his B.S.E.E. from Cedarville University in 2003, his M.S.E.E. from Penn State University in 2005, and his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 2012. For his masters' research he tested different signal processing methods for brain-computer interfaces. For his doctoral research he applied signal processing to examine the effects of cell transplants on brain electrical activity in Parkinson's Disease. He has published four journal papers and presented seven conference abstracts. In his free time he enjoys spending time with friends, reading, hiking, music, playing Frisbee and Ping-Pong, learning about other cultures, and spreading the good news about Jesus Christ.