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Mesa Yee
Informatics, 2010
In January 2015 Mesa moved to Los Angeles to take a position as Supervisor of Digital Ad Operations at OMD Entertainment, a digital media agency that works on all the Disney titles including Marvel, Dreamworks, and Lucasfilm. She is in charge of all the technical operations and deployment of client advertising campaigns.
Jin Ahn
MSIM, 2009
As of 2024, Jin was working as a VP at an insuretech company in Korea. Jin reports: "Since I learned lots of useful knowledge from MSIM, I stepped up every single company of different industry (SME, startup, major etc) by mixing academic & practical asset."
Adam Argo
Informatics, 2009
In 2014 Adam started at zulily as a Senior Software Engineer on the Personalization team, working at the intersection between machine learning and high-performance, low-latency software engineering.
David Austin
MLIS, 2009
David recently started work as a part-time adult services librarian at the Bellevue Library. He continues to do some woodworking and other maker activities on the side.
Ray Barnhart
Informatics, 2009
Since 2011, Ray has worked as a web developer at POSSIBLE.
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."