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Kristina Dahlberg
Informatics, 2009
In 2014, Kristina was promoted to Technical Accounting Manager at Atlassian, a pre-IPO software company in San Francisco. The company is known for JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, Bitbucket, and more. She focuses primarily on software revenue recognition, and her technical background (and double major in accounting) is extremely helpful as she works with the company to understand revenue streams, execute new contracts and drive changes to their systems.
Scott Dalessandro
MLIS, 2009
Scott works as a program officer on the Postsecondary Success team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Kristen Dietiker
MLIS, 2009
Kristen was appointed Chief Information Officer for Menlo College in Atherton, California, in September 2015.
Winford Dixon
MSIM, 2009
Winford is a manager with Deloitte in San Francisco in Enterprise Risk Services.
Maura Hadaway
MLIS, 2009
As of late 2022, Maura was working as a librarian at East High School in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She reports: "This is the best job I have ever had, and I have a lot of jobs in Library Land, but working with students and teachers and seeing them connect with books and information is by far the greatest accomplishment and truly a fulfilling, daily event."
Zhuang (John) Jiang
MSIM, 2009
Jiang has worked as a senior analytical manager in the banking/financial industry for five years, managing high-profile projects in areas such as mortgages, risk portfolios and virtual channel fraud. Jiang lives in the Bay Area in California and is happy to provide any coaching or career advice to students.
Jared Keller
MSIM, 2009
Jared is a founding member of Conversica, an AI-powered sales automation platform. he left Conversica around 2015 to start a digital marketing and SaaS development agency.
Michael Loy
MSIM, 2009
In 2023, Michael started in a new role as a principal solution architect for ZScaler’s Technology Alliance Partnership Business Development.
Heather Lunceford
MLIS, 2009
Heather is a Patent and Trademark paralegal at Baker Hostetler in Seattle.
Monica McCool
MSIM, 2009
Monica gave birth to Oona McCool in October 2013. After suiting up in her iSchool onesie, Monica and her husband, Alan, say that Oona is ready to be a member of the iSchool class of 2022.
In 2013, the iSchool produced a short video featuring Monica and her work at Satori Software.