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Adil Ait Hamd
MSIM, 2013
Adil is a Project Manger at the University of Washington School of Medicine Dean's Office, where he leads system development projects, infrastructure upgrades and business process improvements.
Lauren Appelbaum
Informatics, 2013
After a few years as a technical writer, Lauren is now a technical editor at Amazon Web Services.
Heather Barnum
MLIS, 2013
As of June 2017, Heather was working as the supervising librarian at the Mary D. Pretlow Anchor Branch of Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Miranda Belarde-Lewis
PhD, 2013
Miranda will be leading the Frye Art Museum's new art history lecture series, "The Multi-Faceted World of Native Art." Over the course of five lectures, she will discuss "indigenous knowledge, bounded space, and knowledge visualization" through weaving, carving and sculpture, jewelry, and painting.
Sanjay Bhatt
MSIM, 2013
Sanjay joined Kitsap Transit, which operates buses and ferries in Kitsap County, in 2016 as its public information officer. Sanjay was promoted in January 2017 to oversee marketing and communications for the agency, and also serves on the board of Seattle Globalist, a non-profit focused on promoting diverse voices in media.
Rachael Black
MLIS, 2013
In January 2016, Rachael started a new position as an archivist with the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives in Santa Fe.
Elizabeth Brookbank
MLIS, 2013
Elizabeth is an instruction librarian at Western Oregon University, where she has been since just a couple months after graduation in 2013.
Some highlights: In 2018, she was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. In summer 2019, the book she co-wrote with UW librarian Faye Christenberry was published by MLA. And beginning this November she embarks upon her first research sabbatical, during which she will conduct a qualitative research study on student reading habits and use of recreational reading collections in academic libraries in the U.S. and U.K.
Dylan Bussone
Informatics, 2013
Dylan works as a software engineer at Zillow.
Jeff Cairns
Informatics, 2013
Jeff started working at Apptio as an analyst, then moved to a SQL support engineer as a contractor at Microsoft, where he supported advertising on Bing.com. He then moved to a DevOps and support engineer role at Carbonite Inc., where he supported a desktop application that backed up files to a cloud or on-premises database. He is currently a developer support specialist at Intellipro Group Inc., where he provides technical support to Google.
Parmit Chilana
PhD, 2013
Parmit is now an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Previously, Parmit was an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo.