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Jen Waller
MLIS, 2009
In January 2020, Jen was promoted to Director of Open Initiatives and Scholarly Communication at the University of Oklahoma. She recently published "From Start-Up to Adolescence: University of Oklahoma’s OER Efforts" in OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians and "Dissertation-to-Book Publication Patterns Among a Sample of R1 Institutions" in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. She serves on the steering committee for the Open Textbook Network, and manages OU's Alternative Textbook Grant, which has saved OU students $3.1 million in course material costs.
Jason Wyttenbach
Informatics, 2009
Jason is Senior Operations Network Engineer for Ericsson, specializing in core LTE network systems.
Sueng-yon Yu
MSIM, 2009
Seung-yon works for T-Mobile as a Commissions Analyst.
Jack Baur
MLIS, 2008
Jack was promoted to Supervising Librarian of the Berkeley Public Library North Branch in March 2016.
Lynly Beard
MLIS, 2008
Lynly is working as a Library Technician III at the UW Health Sciences Library.
Elke Bernal Bruton
MLIS, 2008
Elke is the program manager for the Oregon Talking Book and Braille Library at the State Library of Oregon.
Catriona Buhayar
MLIS, 2008
Catriona published a comedic romance, "Mistakes Were Made," as her alter-ego Taylor Rush. A second novel, "Best Laid Plans," should be published by the end of the year!
Timothy Chen
Informatics, 2008
Timothy is a lead distributed systems engineer at Mesosphere, a startup in San Francisco, where he works on the datacenter operating system.
Mari Cheney
MLIS, 2008
Mari was promoted in 2018 to assistant director of research and instruction at Boley Law Library in the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.
Erin Conor
MLIS, 2008
Erin has recently begun work as the Head of the Music Library at the University of Washington and is thrilled to have returned to her alma mater. She previously held positions at the University of California, Irvine; and Reed College.