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Jayesh Satish
MSIM, 2021
In late 2022, Jayesh reported: "It's been almost two years since I joined Campfire Analytics as a Data Engineer and have been working full time since my graduation. It feels like I am making a difference to a great community of people I work with at my firm. I have also been connecting with few of the current MSIM students to help them with any questions regarding the program or getting internships, as I feel I was in the same place about few years ago. But it has been a good few years full of learning and new challenges and hopefully new year brings the same."
Maureen Shaughnessy
MSIM, 2021
As of 2022, Maureen was working at Microsoft as a program manager and getting to use skills from the MSIM program in UX design and information architecture to better the onboarding experience for new employees.
Ashmann Syngle
Informatics, 2021
As of 2021, Ashmann was working as a software engineer at HBO Max.
Erik Thomas-Hommer
Informatics, 2021
As of 2021, Erik was working as a Software Developer at Amazon while trying to start a hospitality SaaS company on the side.
Abigail Tish
MSIM, 2021
As of 2023, Abigail was doing cyber/risk consulting at Deloitte.
Julie Varee
MLIS, 2021
After graduating in 2021, Julie was offered a position in the library & archives at the Anchorage Museum. As the Community Outreach Archivist, Julie is helping to ensure the archives include individuals and groups from historically marginalized communities in the story the museum tells about Anchorage and Alaska. Part of Julie's outreach work is engaging a more diverse group of community members in programs, exhibitions and archival collections. In addition, Julie continues to learn about processing large and small collections and assisting with research requests.
Nicholas Xu
Informatics, 2021
As of 2021, Nicholas was working as a program manager at Microsoft Azure Edge + Platform.
Xinyi Yang
MSIM, 2021
As of 2023, Xinyi was working as a big data engineer at AWS.
Wenpei Zhang
MSIM, 2021
As of 2023, Wenpei was working at an asset management firm in New York City.
Veronica Adair
MLIS, 2020
As of 2025, Veronica was the Student Engagement Librarian at BYU Idaho. They started this job in June of 2021 and also got married in November of 2021 and had their first child, a girl, in May of 2024.