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Harver (Chun Hao) Yang
MSIM, 2007
Harver has worked as a Software Development Manager at iSoftStone in Kirkland, WA since 2008.
Meliha Yetisgen
PhD, 2007
Meliha is an Associate Professor in the department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.
Stephanie Zero
MLIS, 2007
In 2022, Stephanie transitioned from being a KCLS Teen Services Librarian at Redmond Library to being a KCLS Operations Manager at Crossroads Library. She was the also incoming Chair of the CAYAS section of WLA (Children and Young Adult Services).
Stephen Coker
MLIS, 2006
As of 2025, Stephen is serving as Athletic Director and teacher librarian at North Thurston High School in Lacey, Washington. In October 2015, he was honored as Washington State Teacher Librarian of the Year by the Washington Library Media Association at its annual conference in Yakima, Washington.
Scott Daniels
MLIS, 2006
Scott is celebrating his 10-year anniversary at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. He is now Reference Services Manager.
Christopher Erdmann
MLIS, 2006
As of 2024, Christopher was Head of Open Science, SciLifeLab in Sweden.
Reese (Coffin) Evenson
MLIS, 2006
In 2013, Reese began work as the Corporate Records Administrator for Johns Manville in Denver, CO. She also has been accepted to sit for the Certified Records Manager exam administered by the Institute of Certified Records Managers.
Mary Hansen
MLIS, 2006
In 2026, Mary expected to publish her second book in a series about a traveling archivist. She reports: "I combine my love of finding archival resources for people and my passion for storytelling in my novels and newsletter. The comments I get most from readers at book events and book clubs is how much they learned about archives and how important they are to collect and preserve. It is the best outreach I have ever done."
Zerrin Hejazi
MSIM, 2006
Zerrin launched a new business called CleanUV to provide everyone a safe and clean environment by using UV sanitization, the same process used for decades to sterilize environments. Mass transit, commercial and personal vehicles, schools and hospitals are all in the scope of this business.
Chris Iremonger
Informatics, 2006
In 2015, Chris joined Google (again) in a leadership role in Android. He is currently a Technical Program Manager working on developer tools used to create mobile Apps.
From 2013 to 2015, Chris was a director of customer success at a growing mobile marketing startup in the Palo Alto, California. His team focused on technical integrations, marketing best practices, and a great customer journey.
From 2006 to 2009, Chris managed a number of teams at Google in technical sales focused on online, SMB, and educational sales. From 2009-2013, he lead operations teams focused on technical integrations and deployments for Google Apps and Chrome OS. At Google he was on the launch team for Google Apps, Chrome OS, and a number of enterprise focused technologies.