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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
Jason Tabert
Informatics, 2004
Jason is the Website Optimization Manager at Tableau Software. Tableau helps people see and understand their data. Jason owns the web analytics and testing platform and focuses on driving increased customer engagement and lead generation. His prior experience ranges from working with local non-profits to consulting for Fortune 500 companies.
Jenny Abdo
Informatics, 2002
Jenny and her husband Jeff celebrated the birth of their daughter, Sydney Renee Abdo, in October 2013. Jenny also sits on the Informatics Advisory Board.
Joe Goldberg
Informatics, 2002
Joe started a job at a Seattle-based startup called Convoy, which is a freight logistics company. He's an engineering manager on a team that's building back-end services to help import shipping data quickly and accurately.