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Katherine Root
Informatics, 2012
As of 2021, Katherine was working as the Director of Design at Mighty Networks, a company in the community and creator economy space. She reports: "We're actually hiring product designers for my team right now!" https://www.mightynetworks.com/careers
Mikala Salley
Informatics, 2012
As of 2021, Mikala reported being a Quality Assurance Engineer at Amazon, Seattle Sounders supporter and outdoor enthusiast.
Colleen Salmi
Informatics, 2012
Colleen joined Pinterest in 2020 as an engineering manager.
Matt Shannon
Informatics, 2012
As of 2020, Matt works on the Amazon finance organization's red team, where he conducts red team engagements, penetration testing and other information security assessments.
Harrison Weingard
Informatics, 2012
Harrison is working as a software engineer at Apple, developing tools and processes that can build, release and support operating systems that power Macs, iPhones, Apple Watches, Apple TVs, etc.
Joy Zhang
Informatics, 2012
Joy joined Affirma Consulting as a project manager. After completing a challenging but extremely successful project that resulted in a half-million dollars in revenue and the launch of a change management practice at the firm, Joy was promoted to Project Management Office (PMO) manager in March 2020.
Hamed Barahimi
Informatics, 2011
After graduating in 2011, Hamed worked briefly as a technology consultant at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California. He transitioned to a full-time role at the hospital in 2013 and, as of 2021, was working there as the IT Director for Inpatient Systems & Services at the hospital. He got his master's from the UW in Health Informatics and Health Information Management in 2017 and has since volunteered as a mentor and admissions committee member for the program.
Kara Fong
Informatics, 2011
Kara joined Microsoft after graduation as a Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Program Manager, working with partners such as Fujitsu and Lenovo to ship PCs, tablets and servers running the latest version of Windows. After a year and a half, she moved to Microsoft's Apple Productivity Experiences team as a Program Manager, shipping Office for Mac, iPad and iPhone. Kara recently moved to the Bay Area to work at Facebook as a Design Program Manager on their Interfaces and Tools team.
Jason Nutter
Informatics, 2011
In 2019, Jason joined Microsoft as a software engineer in Azure Identity.
Joel Shapiro
Informatics, 2011
Joel is guiding technical architecture in Atlassian's marketing and sales technology groups. He also founded a lightweight automation and robotics company.