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Alanna McAuley
MLIS, 2018
Alanna now lives in London, England, where she is a senior knowledge coordinator at Baringa Partners. She helps more than 650 management consultants capture, curate and share knowledge.
Joshua Mielke
Informatics, 2018
Joshua moved to Los Angeles to one of the hubs of space exploration and development and joined Boeing, working in the Phantom Works division. He works in the Space & Intelligence Systems Special Technology Integration team as a software engineer, focusing on developing resilient space systems that can survive the natural and geopolitical environment of space.
Christina Miskey
MLIS, 2018
Christina started a new position in April 2020 as a scholarly communication librarian for Research Infrastructure, where she works closely with colleagues to support faculty research in the areas of impact, metrics, and reputation management.
Matthew Myers
MLIS, 2018
In 2021, Matt had been recently promoted to Librarian II and took on duties as the Data Librarian for the Virginia Beach Public Library system.
Cindy Nguyen
Informatics, 2018
After graduation, Cindy moved to the Bay Area to work as a UI engineer. A few months later, she moved to a hyper-growth startup company as a full-stack engineer. The foundations she learned at the iSchool helped her accelerate her learning and overcome hard challenges each day at work.
Jonathan Phan
Informatics, 2018
Jonathan is working at Comcast as a Kubernetes administrator for its development teams. He gets the chance to work on some open-source software, particularly Kuberhealthy, a synthetic testing framework for Kubernetes clusters.
You can find the project at https://github.com/Comcast/kuberhealthy and they are having a talk at KubeCon this year: https://sched.co/UaXs
Nick Polsin
Informatics, 2018
After graduating, Nick moved to New York City to work for NBCUniversal in a rotation program, with positions in cybersecurity, network engineering, and cloud infrastructure. Nick was recently promoted to a new role as a cloud solutions architect.
Stephen Richards
MLIS Law, 2018
In 2022, Stephen was appointed the director for the Marin County Law Library.
Benjamin Riesenberg
MLIS, 2018
Benjamin started a job as a metadata librarian in the University of Washington Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services unit in October 2019.
Shalyn Rodriguez
MLIS, 2018
As of 2023, Shalyn was the Assistant Director of the New Lenox Public Library in New Lenox, IL.