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J.D. ROSS
B.S. IN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
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Menotti Minutillo ’07 came to campus as part of the HINDSights Alumni Visitor Program. He recently moved to the San Diego area, and works for Uber as an engineering manager on the company’s privacy engineering team. J.D. ROSS HINDSights PARTICIPANT John Burke (left) and Kevin Dong talk with students in Professor Jeff Rubin’s IST 195 course about their JetBlue careers.
HINDSights PARTICIPANT
Menotti Minutillo speaks with students in Professor Bruce Kingma’s class during his campus visit in September.
Jasmine P. Thompson ’07 married her best friend Marques A. Dunn in August 2017 and works for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in Chicago.
Josh Frost ’08 returned to campus in November as part of our HINDSights Alumni Visitor Program. After nearly 10 years working for Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media division, Josh left MLB in April to take on a new role as Head of Product at Barstool Sports. HINDSights PARTICIPANT
John Burke ’12, Manager of Airports Project Management & Testing for JetBlue Airways, visited campus in October along with Kevin Dong ’09, who serves as Senior Analyst for JetBlue’s hospitality programs. Burke and Dong were part of the HINDSights Alumni Visitor Program and shared their JetBlue career experiences with students. Keegan Slattery ’13 recently took a new job as a Senior Digital Media Specialist with 2U in Denver, Colorado. Andrew Pregler ’15 started a new role at the Topps Company, as a Mobile Application Producer, creating content for digital collectors. He also continues to write for the Syracuse sports blog, Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician.
M.S. IN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
RJ Sherman G’12 is now Vice President of Innovation at Citizens Bank in Boston. Zach Schleien G’15 is co-founder of 18percent, a free mental health online community based on the Slack messaging platform, where users can receive peer-to-peer support. The community offers free, 24/7 support in a moderated environment with many channels that cover various mental health issues. They recently partnered with the Crisis Text Line, a confidential text message service for people in crisis. Billy Ceskavich G’15 started a new position at Frame.io, based in New York City. Joshua Aviv G’17 founder and CEO ofSparkCharge, a company that produces a portable, fast charging battery unit for electric vehicles, earned the top prize of $1 million at 43North, a Buffalo New York-based startup competition. As a student, Aviv was a participant in the iSchool’sInformation Technology, Design, and Startups program, and took his project to theSyracuse Student Sandboxaccelerator where he received guidance and mentorship.
Joshua Aviv G’17 receives his trophy from New York Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul at the 43North awards ceremony.
Brian Kievit G’17 recently started a new position at The Bulfinch Group working in financial planning and services.
M.S. IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
M.Wahiduzzaman G’64, now retired, publishes a monthly tourism and trade newsletter, The Traveller. A recent issue features his column, “A Writer’s Approach to Imagination Science.” Wahiduzzaman resides in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and his newsletter website is: www.thetraveller.online.
Jane Verostek G’96 is an Associate Librarian at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship. This award recognized her re-opening of SUNY ESF’s Archives and Special Collections and her dedication to preserving and digitizing archival items and her work with faculty, students and alumni and researchers. In May Jane also completed work on and received a second Masters from Syracuse - a Masters of Arts in Museum Studies.
Jane Verostek and Otto after her May graduation ceremony.
Brian Hildreth G’05 was appointed to the New York State Regents Advisory Council on Libraries in November. He is the Executive Director of the Southern Tier Library System in Painted Post, New York. He also serves as Chair of the Trustee Education Committee of the New York State Public Library System Directors Organization, President of the Public Libraries Section Board of the New York Library Association (NYLA), and Secretary of NYLA’s Rural Libraries Roundtable. M.S. IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT
Congratulations to these iSchool alumnae, named Super Librarians by the CNY School Librarians Association. From left: Margaret Middleton, Susan Padjen, Penny Feeney, and Leslie Cartier.
Leslie Cartier G’08, Penny Feeney G’13, Margaret Middleton G’11, and Susan Padjen G’11 were honored with the 2018 Super Librarian Award by the Central New York School Librarians Association. Cartier is a school librarian at Baker High School in the Baldwinsville Central School District, Feeney is a Library Media Specialist in the Westhill School District, Middleton is a Library Media Specialist at K.C. Heffernan Elementary in the Marcellus Central School District, and Padjen is the Librarian at the East Syracuse-Minoa High School. Abigail Digel G’17 has recently accepted a position as the lower school librarian at Graland Country Day School in Denver, Colorado. Alexa Hirsch Lalejini G’17 received the Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Professional Education from the Beta Phi Mu International Library and Information Studies Honor Society. Lalejini works as a youth and teen librarian at the Clarkston Independence District Library in Clarkston, Michigan. Sathya Gopal G’10 is a consulting systems engineer for the Northern California territory for Aruba Networks. He supports 20 sales engineers in the Bay Area and primarily works on large opportunities. He writes, “I love the current role as I get to work with some of the largest and complex networks like Google, Facebook, Kaiser, Uber, Lyft, Safeway, Sephora, Wells Fargo, CSUs, U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Davis, and U.C. San Francisco, to name a few.”
PH.D. IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Isabelle Fagnot G’11 was recently promoted to Full Professor in Management of Information Systems at Audencia Business School in Nantes, France where she also serves as the Director of Quality, Accreditations, and Rankings. Jerry Robinson G’18 took a position with Facebook in June as a User Experience and Accessibility Researcher.
Ph.D. graduate Jerry Robinson G’18 (center) was surprised with a visit by Professor Jennifer Stromer-Galley (left) and Postdoctoral Researcher Patricia Rossini when they stopped in to see him during a meeting at Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, Calif.
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