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David Allen
Informatics, 2004
David is working as an Application Analyst for the Puyallup School District. He manages the district's Learning Management System and creates reports to analyze trends in student learning, attendance, and behavior. He's also involved in the district's transition from a paper archive to a digital archiving system.
James Boaz
MSIM, 2004
Since graduation from the mid-career MSIM program, work has taken James to T-Mobile, then Clearwire/Sprint, where he has put many of his MSIM skills to use in the corporate setting. He serves on the MSIM Advisory Board and is enjoying the opportunity to add to the conversation on ways to strengthen the mid-career program.
Kaijsa Calkins
MLIS, 2004
In August 2019, Kaijsa was appointed Assistant Dean for Education and Research at University of Wyoming Libraries. She leads a division that includes special collections, digital collections, digital scholarship, library instruction, and the liaison program.
Debra Cox
MLIS, 2004
Debra is beginning her third year as Special Collections cataloger at Seattle Public Library.
John Henderson
MLIS, 2004
John has lived in Asia since 2005. In 2014, he led a UN food security survey in northern Myanmar.
Jeremy Hyland
Informatics, 2004
Jeremy got married in May 2021, then accepted a new job as the Director of Cyber Defense for Dow Inc., and moved to Midland, Michigan, in November 2021. He and his wife, Claire, celebrated the birth of their first child, a daughter named Adeline Joy Hyland, in August 2022.
Tzu-Jing (TJ) Kao
MLIS, 2004
After two and half years working at Yale University Library as the Chinese Technical Services Librarian, TJ moved back to the West Coast in December 2015. He is now the Original Cataloging and Metadata Team Leader and the Asian Studies Librarian at Claremont Colleges Library in Southern California.
Christina Kulp
MLIS, 2004
After 10 years as the Life Sciences Librarian at the University of Oklahoma, Christina accepted a new job that gets her closer to home. She is the first ever Data Services Librarian at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Paula Land
MSIM, 2004
In 2021, Paula reported that she was working as a senior content strategist for the NASA Earth Science Data Systems program, doing content strategy, information architecture and user experience work on the program's website. She continues to consult via her consulting company, Strategic Content, and teaches in the content strategy master's degree program at the FH Joanneum college in Graz, Austria. In 2014, her book, Content Audits and Inventories: A Handbook, was published and she is currently working on a second edition.
David Lowe
Informatics, 2004
David is now an associate director at Intentional Futures, a progressive consultancy that works on projects for clients such as Bill Gates’s private office, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GE and Viacom.