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Andrew Magnusson
MSIM, 2015
Andrew's first book, "Practical Vulnerability Management," is out in September 2020 from No Starch Press. It is a hands-on guide to building a vulnerability management system using free tools and some Python to glue it all together, taking the reader step-by-step through building and tuning the system to provide actionable vulnerability intelligence to improve their organization's security posture.
The iSchool's own Annie Searle reviewed early drafts of the first part of this book!
Clint Malcolm
Informatics, 2015
Clint is working as a software engineer at Indeed.
Korissa McGlocklin
MLIS, 2015
Korissa accepted a new position in October 2022 as the Director of Extended Learning at Spokane Community College and bought her first home in June 2023. She oversees library circulation and the non-credit ACT 2 program (education for those ages 50 and older).
Vatsal Mehta
MSIM, 2015
After graduating, Vatsal moved to New York to work for Bank of America as a business analyst. In 2018, he moved to Goldman Sachs as a data analyst within the Finance Division, working on the division's data strategy.
Justin Melde
MLIS, 2015
Justin is the database administrator for the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is responsible for organizing, securing, and maintaining large, cloud-based data systems across the school’s finance, health, and education sectors.
Bryce Newell
PhD, 2015
As of 2025, Bryce was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Denmark and will be hosted at the University of Copenhagen for 5 months in 2026. He was named The David and Nancy Petrone Faculty Fellow in the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. In 2023, Bryce was awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor at the University of Oregon, where he is a member of the Media Studies faculty within the School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC). He has also been appointed to serve as the director of the SOJC's undergraduate Honors Program.
Bryce Newell
PhD, 2015
As of 2025, Bryce has been named the David and Nancy Petrone Faculty Fellow in the Univeristy of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication.
Senteara Orwig
MLIS, 2015
Senteara accepted a job offer at Emanation Marketing Group as an event coordinator in management training.
Shekhar Parkhi
MSIM, 2015
In 2023, Shekhar reports: "After working for PayPal as an Integration Engineer and Solution Engineer for 6+ years, I got promoted to a people manager role during the pandemic. I currently run a team of 5-6 Solutions Engineers as part of PayPal's Professional Services Organization. This was a pivotal moment in my career journey, which was exciting as well as nerve-wracking. Now that I have been a people manager for the last couple of years, I am fairly settled into the day-to-day functions of the role and understand the operational aspects as well as the leadership aspects of the role.
"My team of Solutions Engineers is responsible for supporting the pre-sales stages of solution design for our channel partner clients and sales teams. We work directly with our strategic clients to help design for them the most optimal payments, identity, and platform solutions, using PayPal’s world-class technology and APIs, per their business and technical requirements. We strive to improve the products we work on from their users’ perspective and be the voice of the customer for our product and engineering teams, closing the feedback loop.
"I collaborate closely with our Sales and Business Development counterparts to make sure all their clients' needs are fulfilled at the earliest possible and PayPal makes the maximum return on the solution launch.
"I am overall responsible for mentoring and guiding the members of the team as they work on their solution engagements, and promoting the succession and development of the best talent in the group.
"There is so much I have learned about FinTech, payments, customer relationship management, sales, leadership, etc. at PayPal and am happy to continue to grow in this role in the near future."
Chelsea Pemberton
MLIS, 2015
Chelsea has been working at the Arlington, Texas, Public Library as a Community Programming Librarian for the last two years. In July 2017, she was preparing for a new role as the Early Childhood Librarian at the Episcopal School of Dallas, working alongside her iSchool Capstone partner, Megan Barnes.