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Catherine Johnson
Informatics, 2017
As of 2024, Catherine was working at Khan Academy as a Senior Frontend Engineer.
Sean Ker
Informatics, 2017
Sean finished the Global Innovation Exchange dual-degree master's program and started in Microsoft's Cloud & AI organization as a software engineer.
Harsh Keswani
MSIM, 2017
As of September 2022, Harsh was leading the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Observability team as a Principal Product Manager for their logging and security products. He had also worked at Splunk for 3 years as a Product Manager for Machine Learning.
Harsh says, "UW iSchool has helped me build my foundation of AI/ML, Security, and Operational Management skills. The MSIM course/class learnings are still being utilized in one way or the other at my job."
Cassie Koldewyn
MLIS, 2017
As of late 2022, Cassie is a Librarian III/Branch Manager at the San Diego County Library.
Bryce Kolton
Informatics, 2017
Bryce is working as a software engineer at Mercedes-Benz R&D in Seattle, building new front-facing website frameworks and back-end server-sided vehicle data pipelines. He goes to Germany roughly twice a year to meet with engineers in Stuttgart and understand customer and business needs.
His current project is at the forefront of web frameworks and standards, working with Angular, React, Vue and more, targeting the latest browser specs and standards.
"Working here has been great; fantastic benefits, great teams, upper management that bends over backwards to empower us to do our jobs, and importantly, a great work-life balance. I'm proud to say that I work on this team!"
Beth Levin
MSIM, 2017
Beth is working as a technical writer at Microsoft for the Windows Trust content experience team.
Gianni Mancinelli
Informatics, 2017
Gianni works in interaction design and user research at Bloomberg, primarily focused on designing News and Charts experiences on the Bloomberg Terminal.
Elizabeth Manriquez
MLIS Law, 2017
In August 2022, Elizabeth was promoted from Scholarly Communications and Reference Librarian to Head of Reference and Scholarly Support at the University of Wisconsin Law Library.
Jyothirmayee Mocherla
MSIM, 2017
Jyothirmayee is working as a user experience researcher at Facebook. She is leveraging her skills as a mixed method researcher to improve the user experience of enterprise products at Facebook.
Amanda Nida
MLIS, 2017
Amanda has worked as a digital services librarian at the College of Western Idaho since 2018 and is co-chair of the ACRL Roundtable Discussion Planning Committee for ACRL.