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Kim Swenson
MLIS, 2014
Kim works for a medical device manufacturing company that is making rapid testing kits for the Zika virus. She is setting up and configuring their document management software, MasterControl, as well as providing help desk services for document routing and approvals within the system. Configuration management has become her dream niche job and she is really happy to have found it.
Ceradwen Tokheim (nee Bacon)
MLIS, 2014
Ceradwen works as an Instructional Designer at the College of Education at Seattle University, helping faculty build and teach online classes with the goal of creating engaging and accessible classes of high quality that promote reflection and deep learning.
Danielle Trierweiler
MLIS, 2014
In December 2020, Danielle started at the non-profit ITHAKA S+R as the Partner and User Services Knowledge Base Lead. ITHAKA's mission is "to make education more accessible, affordable, and effective for everyone" and manages electronic scholarly resources including JSTOR and ArtStor.
Nicholas Van Wiggeren
Informatics, 2014
As of 2021, Nicholas was leading engineering teams as the VP of engineering at PlanetScale.
Junjie Wang
MSIM, 2014
Junjie works as a Software Engineer at IXL Learning in San Mateo, California.
Kassia Wilhelm
Informatics, 2014
Kassia is a Marketing Automation Manager at Smartsheet, a work management software company in Bellevue, managing a small team that designs, builds and sends marketing emails and runs campaigns.
Natalie Wittenbrook
Informatics, 2014
Natalie was recently promoted to the role of Web Developer to pioneer a new front-end web team at Catalysis LLC in Seattle. She's been promoted twice since starting there two years ago.
Sue Wozniak
MLIS, 2014
Sue is a temporary librarian at the UW's Foster Business Library.
Anthony Wright
MLIS, 2014
Anthony was hired in 2018 as a community collections archivist at Virginia Tech in a continued appointment track position after completing a three-year term appointment as a resident librarian. In this new position, he will be focused on improving the relationship of the archives with various traditionally marginalized communities. He will also be working to improve the balance of representation for those communities within the university's archival holdings and ensure that they are described respectfully in finding aids and search terms.
Donghe Xu
MSIM, 2014
In 2018, Donghe joined Microsoft as a software engineer.