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Murray Sampson
MLIS, 2011
As of 2024, Murray was the branch librarian for the Winthrop Branch of North Central Washington Libraries. He was featured in the Methow Valley News.
Joel Shapiro
Informatics, 2011
Joel is guiding technical architecture in Atlassian's marketing and sales technology groups. He also founded a lightweight automation and robotics company.
Oktavianus Sinaga
MSIM, 2011
As of 2023, Oktavianus was a senior business analyst at the Department of Digital Innovation Development in the Central Bank of Indonesia.
Andrew Smirnov
Informatics, 2011
Andrew is currently a Technical Solutions Engineer at Catchpoint, a web performance analytics startup based out of New York.
Emily Sparling
Museology, 2011
As of 2023, Emily was starting to study at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, MN. She is a scholar in the law school’s Robina Public Interest Scholars Program.
Osman Surkatty
Informatics, 2011
As of 2013, Osman was a security engineer for Amazon Web Services, working on their Elastic Cloud Computing product.
Rishi Talwar
Informatics, 2011
Rishi is the co-founder of Bottega8, a software consulting company.
Joel Turner
MLIS, 2011
Joel is working as a technical adviser for media and information literacy at IREX, a global development non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. He is part of a team that is testing a citizen media literacy skills-building approach called Learn to Discern. The team first tested Learn to Discern in Ukraine, training librarians in citizen media literacy concepts. Joel is currently testing adaptations of Learn to Discern in Indonesia (online-only messaging) and in Arizona (training rural and tribal librarians).
Jeroen van den Eijkhof
MSIM, 2011
Jeroen has worked with Deloitte Digital in Seattle as a Senior User Experience Architect since 2013.
Andrew Vitollo
Informatics, 2011
In 2021, Andrew reported working on a useable and secure solution to solve the problems associated with using passwords on the internet: "I am a Senior Product Manager at Trusona, and leading 12 engineers on product strategy around our platform, which has a component of mobile, front end, back end and partner with security and UX to delight our customers. We offer both a mobile app and browser native solution to authentication that doesn't require the use of passwords and instead uses your phones built-in security capabilities. I love the job and company and am definitely using my Informatics background as well as a decade of experience working with customers in various capacities."