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Kevin Wong
Informatics, 2007
In 2013, Kevin was promoted to Director of Product Design at Livefyre, a growing startup located in the heart of the Bay Area that creates next-generation real-time experiences for publishers and marketers. He leads a team of visual and interaction designers who help the business by defining and building all of their products on the platform. Kevin is also an advisor for Groove, another startup, which focuses on enterprise sales enablement by integrating Salesforce data with Google Apps.
Chris Iremonger
Informatics, 2006
In 2015, Chris joined Google (again) in a leadership role in Android. He is currently a Technical Program Manager working on developer tools used to create mobile Apps.
From 2013 to 2015, Chris was a director of customer success at a growing mobile marketing startup in the Palo Alto, California. His team focused on technical integrations, marketing best practices, and a great customer journey.
From 2006 to 2009, Chris managed a number of teams at Google in technical sales focused on online, SMB, and educational sales. From 2009-2013, he lead operations teams focused on technical integrations and deployments for Google Apps and Chrome OS. At Google he was on the launch team for Google Apps, Chrome OS, and a number of enterprise focused technologies.
Andrew Martin
Informatics, 2006
Andrew earned a Master of Statistics from Stanford in 2012. More recently he started working in the Data Science team at Zillow as a statistical modeler for its home valuation algorithm, the Zestimate.
Yana Yatkovskaya
Informatics, 2006
Yana has been promoted to a senior project manager at CDW and manages various projects for customers. She works with technologies including firewalls, telephony, routers and switches, primarily on Cisco and some Microsoft projects.
Laila Almounaier
Informatics, 2005
Laila spent nine years working in Product and Technology at Nordstrom, most recently as Senior Manager of Mobile Apps. In the past three years, she was focused on developing a shopping app. In September, she accepted a position in Product Management for Amazon Restaurants.
Jamie Prins
Informatics, 2005
In 2013, Jamie was promoted to Senior Marketing Manager, Kindle Education, at Amazon. She and her husband Ryan Prins (INFO 2005), a senior consultant at Avanade, also welcomed their first child, son Lincoln.
David Allen
Informatics, 2004
David is working as an Application Analyst for the Puyallup School District. He manages the district's Learning Management System and creates reports to analyze trends in student learning, attendance, and behavior. He's also involved in the district's transition from a paper archive to a digital archiving system.
Jeremy Hyland
Informatics, 2004
Jeremy got married in May 2021, then accepted a new job as the Director of Cyber Defense for Dow Inc., and moved to Midland, Michigan, in November 2021. He and his wife, Claire, celebrated the birth of their first child, a daughter named Adeline Joy Hyland, in August 2022.
David Lowe
Informatics, 2004
David is now an associate director at Intentional Futures, a progressive consultancy that works on projects for clients such as Bill Gates’s private office, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GE and Viacom.
Robin Smith
Informatics, 2004
Robin is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and the product owner for the Microsoft Sustainability Calculator, which calculates a customer's cloud carbon footprint and carbon savings from using Azure. When customers move from on-prem IT infrastructure to Azure, they reduce their carbon emissions by over 70%. The tool provides the data, calculations, and platform for Microsoft's customers to join it on its sustainability journey. More information about the product can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sustainability/sustainability-guide/sustainability-calculator