Alumni

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Saad Ahmad, 1994

McHugh Freeman & Associates, Inc., Waukesha, WI
email: saad.ahmad@mfa.com
Senior Software Engineer. McHugh Freeman is a leading supplier of software for warehouse management systems.
//posted Sep 1996

Jene Atkinson, 1986

UW-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
email: atkinson@uwosh.edu
Novell network manager. Currently maintain twelve Novell file servers, four labs and over 200 IBM-compatible microcomputers.
//posted Oct 1995

Jordan Bradford, 2005

BrownBoots Interactive, Inc. -- http //www.brownboots.com
email: jordan_bradford@hotmail.com
Website: http //www.jordanbradford.com
Responsibilities: "Senior Underling" (Jordan's own description)
When I first started two years ago I mostly took our designer's Photoshop layouts and turned them into HTML/CSS, or I would create simple form-based pages in PHP and use MySQL databases when required. Now I mostly do all of our back-end programming for client projects. I also maintain our content management system and have implemented new features/improvements.
Comments: I've recently recruited another UWO Comp Sci alumnus, Steven Kuhn, to help me with my game project at http://www.blockpartymod.com.
//posted August 2006

Doug Browning, 1998

Independent Consultant, Hollywood, CA
email: dougbrowning@yahoo.com
Consultant, doing independent contract programming.
//updated Feb 2000

Patrick Bruss, 1994

Schneider Logistics, Inc., Green Bay, WI
email: brussp@slxi.com
Lead Member of Technical Staff. Acting tech lead on a number of our web products which give our customers visibility into their supply chains. Applications utilize Java, JSP and EJB.
//posted Oct 2001

Christopher Crofoot, 2001

Seaquist Closures, Mukwonago, WI
email: chris.crofoot@seaquistclosures.com
Senior SAP Business/Technical Analyst. Seaquist Closures is a worldwide leader in design and manufacturing of dispensing closures.

Tim Curless, 2007

UW Oshkosh - Department of Residence Life Grad Assistant
email: tim.curless@gmail.com
I'm working as network manager for the Residential Network as I attend classes in the Master of Business Administration program at UWO.
//posted June 2007

Dennis L. Draheim, 1983

MS (Computer Science) UW-Madison 1986
Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, TX
email: ddra@airmail.net
Senior Member, Technical Staff, Semiconductor Group. Technical lead for the ControlWORKS team, producing embedded control software for semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
//posted Oct 1995

Robert Dull, 1987

MyWeather, LLC, Madison, WI
email: bdull@myweather.net
MyWeather, LLC creates innovative web applications and services using patented technology. MyWeather is a leading supplier of private-brand weather data, services and applications for B2B & B2C Internet sites and other electronic delivery networks.
//updated Feb 2006

Mukhametjan Elemanov, 2001

ABN AMRO Group, Kazakhstan
email:elemanov at yahoo dot com
Business Analyst, programming in Oracle\Delphi\C
//updated March 2006

Chuck Emmons, 2007

Wisconsin Department of Transportation, BITS Unit - Madison, Wi
email: c.emmons@gmail.com
Developing intranet, internet, and extranet applications in a J2EE based environment for internal business units and external customers

//posted December 2007

Hib Engler, 1990

GW Consulting, Santa Clara, CA
email: hib@kcd.com
Senior Oracle Database Consultant - Oracle Analyst, Developer and Data Base Administrator. Currently working at Hewlett Packard. Founder of Casey Dakota.
//posted Oct 1995

Mark Femal, 1999

MS(Computer Science), North Carolina State University 2005
Computer Scientist, Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for the Naval Research Lab,
email: femal@acm.org
//posted May 2005.

John Fruncek, 1988

Stark Investments, St. Francis, WI
email: fishribs@gmail.com
Senior Software Engineer; Actuate (Birt & eSpreadsheet), Java, Oracle. Member of Wisconsin Java User Group and Chicago.pm Both groups are free, meet me there.
//updated Oct 2007

Tyler Goff, 2007

Direct Supply, Milwaukee, WI
email: gofft96@gmail.com
Monitor Network and website status. Firefight issues that come up within the network, internal programs, or order processing chain.
Comment from Tyler: Direct Supply is a fast growing, upbeat, and fun company to work for!!
//posted December 2006

Tom Gralewicz, 1984

MS(Computer Science), Southern Methodist U.
Milwaukee, WI
email: mot@ieee.org
Currently an Independent Consultant. Previously worked as Software Engineer for Texas Instruments, taught Computer Science at SMU and owned a computer store (GWZ Computers) in Dallas.
//posted Jul 1997

Gordon Groleau, 1990

email: ggroleau90@alumni.uwosh.edu
//posted June 2007

Bradford Hansen, 1989

Nsight Teleservices, Inc.
450 Security Blvd., Green Bay, WI 54307, (920)733-0033
email: bradhansen@bradhansen.com
web: bradhansen.com
Currently Vice President and Chief Operating Office of Fixed Operations, financially responsible for six Nsight companies: Northeast Telephone Company, NET Cable TV, Nsight Long Distance Telephone Company, Local Nsight Telephone, NetNet and NET-LEC. Formerly Chief Technology Officer with BidBuyBuild, a BusinessToBusiness internet company serving the worldwide construction industry; Director of Corporate Development with Grant Thornton accountants and management consultants; and Executive Vice-President and Co-Founder of Multicircuits, a manufacturer of industrial and medical application printed circuit boards. 1996 Outstanding Young Alumni of the year.
//updated September 2002

Thomas Harron, 1988

Group Manager, Business Objects
Completed MSE (Master's of Software Engineering) at UW-La Crosse May 2006
email: tom.harron@businessobjects.com

//posted April 2007

Jessica Gowey, 2003

Great Lakes Educational Loan Services
Madison, WI
email: jgowey@gmail.com
Programmer.
//updated July 2006

Thomas W. Harron, 1988

Firstlogic, Inc.
La Crosse, WI
work email: tom.harron@firstlogic.com
home email: harron@fflax.net
Group manager supervising 4 developers, 3 testers, and 3 technical writers. Currently working on MSE degree.
//posted April 2004

Robert C. Held, 1993

St. Paul Travelers
Sheboygan, WI
email: heldr@charter.net
Senior technology specialist. Working for CATRisk division of St. Paul Travelers since 2001 doing web development with Visual Basic and ASP. Worked at Strategic Data Systems from 1993-2001 doing COBOL AS/400 programming.
//posted April 2004

Glenn E. Highland, 1985

Computer Network Technology
Awarded the MCI Engineering Brilliance Award in 1996 for developing the Intelligent Services Network’s Call Park Server platform, patent number 5,970,134.
//updated November 2004

Akif Ikram, 1994

Oracle Corporation, Oracle Data Center, Redwood Shores, CA
email: aikram@us.oracle.com
Principal Consultant, Oracle Consulting Services, System Performance Group. The System Performance Group is responsible for providing system and database performance-related services for various clients.
//updated Nov 1998

Sharee Johnson, 1991

S Johnson Consulting
Private consultant specializing in relational database design and project management.
After spending about 12 years working for the WI Dept of Natural Resources leading software development projects on an Oracle/Unix platform, now Sharee is living in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness area in northern Minnesota and is working as a private consultant.
//updated Jan 2006

Asad M. Khattak, 2006

Data Coordinator/Computer Instructor, Milwaukee School of Engineering, http://www.msoe.edu
email: khattak@msoe.edu
//posted May 2007

Josh Kiecker, 2005

J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
email: jkiecker@jjkeller.com
Develop web-based applications to assist internal business units in performing daily tasks. Married. One daughter, Olivia, born November 2005.
//posted January 2007

Sean Knisely, 2006

Astronautics Corporation of America

email: seanknisely@gmail.com
Responsibilities: Software Engineer, Design and implement test software and test embedded systems for use in aircraft.
Comments: Astronautics is currently hiring Software Engineers, if you want more information or are interested, email me and I will get your information to the correct people.
// posted January 2007

Joseph W. LaChapell, 2000

Warehouse Specialists, Inc., Appleton, WI
email: j_lachapell@yahoo.com
Web Administrator. Warehouse Specialists, Inc. (WSI) is the premier warehousing and distribution organization in North America. Our IT department supports over 60 local and satellite facilities located throughout the United States.
//posted Sept 2004

Gerard S. Lucarelli, Jr., 1991

Information Technology Consultant with LCISoft, Inc. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

email: jerry.lucarelli.@Icisoft.com
//updated Aug 2007

Jeff Lucas, 2003

Integrys Energy Group, Green Bay, WI
email: enstrim@yahoo.com
Programmer/analyst for HR (.NET web application development/support) Training and guiding interns for .NET web application development for our HR-ITS group.
//posted February 2007

Paul MacArthur, 1993

Human Head Studios, Madison, WI
email: pmacarthur@humanhead.com
Programmer. Human Head Studios develops 3D action games for the PC market. Previous programming projects include Take No Prisoners, Mageslayer, Necrodome, Hexen and Cyclones.
// updated May 1998

Steve Mading, 1994

BioMagResBank, UW-Madison, Madison, WI
email: madings@execpc.com, madings@bmrb.wisc.edu
Programmer/Analyst. BioMagResBank is a repository for data from NMR spectroscopy on proteins, peptides and nucleic acids.
//updated Feb 2001

John Maline, 1986

MS(Computer Science) Southern Methodist U. 1994
Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, TX
email: jmaline@ti.com
Member, Group Technical Staff, Texas Instruments Semiconductor Group Manufacturing Science & Technology Center, working with engineering support applications in data collection and monitoring.
// posted Oct 1995

Debbie Markham, 1984

McKesson Provider Technologies - Colorado
email: luv2byk_dlm@msn.com
Manage software development teams that develop healthcare software for use in hospitals for direct patient care at the bedside.
//posted December 2006

Larry McCann, 1989

MS (Computer Science) UW-Madison 1991
Kohl's Department Stores, Corporate Office, Menomonee Falls, WI
email: mccann@execpc.com
Technical Programmer. Responsibities include technical support, tools, applications and intranet development.
//posted Feb 1996

Lester I. McCann, 1985

MS(Computer Science) UW-Madison 1987; Ph.D. (Computer Science) North Dakota State U. 1994 (Dissertation: Enhanced Database Concurrency Control in a Supercomputer Vector-Processing Environment)
Currently University of Arizona, Senior Lecturer, Computer Science Department.
email: mccannl@acm.org
website: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/mccann/
// updated January, 2007

Manish Mehrotra, 1993

MS (Computer Science) Central Michigan U. 1995
AMR Corporation, Dallas, TX
email: Manish.Mehrotra@sabre.com
Senior Software Engineer, Project Lead, SABRE Group. AMR Corp is the parent company of American Airlines and SABRE Group provides on-line reservation services for the travel and transportation industry (see Travelocity).
//posted Jun 1998

Chad Miller, 2006

email: machoprogrammer@gmail.com
I am a software developer for Epic, a healthcare software company in Madison. I work on the EpicCare Orders application.
//posted July 2007

Justin Miller, 2003

C# .NET Web Developer at U.S. Bank (Oshkosh)
Computer Science Lecturer at UW-Oshkosh (Oshkosh)
UWO Web page
email: millerju@uwosh.edu
I went to the University of Iowa to get my Masters degree and returned to work in Oshkosh and live in Berlin.
//posted February 2007

Peter Morgan, 2006

email: peter.morgan@berbee.com
Berbee Information Networks / CDW
Network Security Engineer - Perform penetration tests, network security assessments, wireles security assessments, secure configuration reviews, overall information security services to clients.
//posted Nov 2006

Darin J. Moon, 1993

John Deere Horicon Works, Horicon, WI
email: mx99907@deere.com
Unix System Administrator for engineering and manufacturing environments for CAD/CAM systems.
//posted May 1997

Ryan Mulder, 2006

Extract Systems, Madison, WI
email:ryanmulder@gmail.com
Programming product enhancements, new builds of existing products, and in-house tools for our rule writers.
//updated September 2006

D. Scott Neice, 1983

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Dallas, TX
email: dneice@csc.com
Partner, Consulting Group. Account manager in the Dallas Consulting Practice. Focused on business development for our E-Wave (Electronic Commerce) and IT Fusion (Strategy) service offerings in the retail and distribution industries.
//updated Nov 1998

Andrew Ninneman, 2006

Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee, WI
Test Automation for two of the company's largest software products for our field representatives, as well as Software Configuration Management for our Marketing products.
//updated September 2006

Revocate Niyizonkiza, 2007

Miles Kimball, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
.NET Web Developer
email: revocate@gmail.com
//posted July 2007

Susan Nuernberg, 1986

Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, WI
email: snuernberg@mbco.com, BrianBSusanN@yahoo.com
Senior Systems Analyst and Project Manager in a Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence department.
//posted Oct 2001

Herb C. Numrich, 1994

Berbee Information Networks Corp., Appleton, WI
email: hjanumrich@new.rr.com
Network Engineer, specializing in the design and implementation of LAN/WAN solutions for clients, including Microsoft, Novell and Cisco hardware and software solutions.
//posted Jan 2002

Jennifer L. Numrich (Poppy), 1994

GreatMom!, Neenah, WI
email: hjanumrich@new.rr.com
After getting her MSE in Mathematics Education in 1998, Jenny decided to leave teaching algebra and geometry at Oshkosh West High School and devote herself to teaching her own children. She tutors high school students in her spare time.
//posted Jan 2002

Anton Oey, 2003

Webfeat, Inc. Federated search engine.
email: antonoey@hotmail.com
Software development engineer.
//posted Feb 2006

Erion Omeri, 2005

Erion's own website
email: erion.omeri@gmail.com
ZyQuest Inc., De Pere, WI
Developing business web systems using ASP.NET(C#) and MS SQL Server
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. Green Bay, WI
Adjunct Instructor of Business and Information Technology
//posted Jan 2008

Brian D. Otte, 1998

Sargento Foods, Inc., Plymouth, WI
email: brian.otte@verizon.net
Unix systems administrator. Primarily responsible for Unix system administration. Sargento Foods is the premier marketer of shredded, sliced, snack and specialty cheeses, available worldwide.
//posted March 2005

Adam Patrick, 1997

Oracular, Inc., Oshkosh, WI
email: apatrick@oracular.com
Manager, E-Business Department. The E-Business Department provides web design, development and hosting services.
//updated Sep 2001

Brian Paul, 1990

MS(Computer Science) UW-Madison 1994
Tungsten Graphics, Inc., Steamboat Springs, CO
email: brian@tungstengraphics.com, brian_e_paul@yahoo.com, brian_paul@mesa3d.org
Cofounder and Senior 3D Architect. Tungsten Graphics is a graphics consulting company, focusing on technology related to OpenGL (1.x and upcoming 2.x), Mesa (an open source implementation of the OpenGL 1.x API), XFree86 (the X Server used in all major Linux distributions, and BSD variants), and the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI - which is the defacto standard for open source direct rendering). Current projects include work on Chromium, a flexible framework for scalable real time rendering on clusters of workstations, based on the Stanford WireGL project code base.
Owner and principal author of Mesa.
// updated Jan 2002

Michael C. Peters, 1979

work email: mpeters@netapp.com
home email: mikepeters@netspace1.com
Information Technology Director for Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA.
// posted May 2004

Patrick Peters, 1983

MS(Computer Science) Southern Methodist U. 1988
OraMetrix, Inc., Dallas, TX
email: patrick.peters@pobox.com
Director of Information Systems at OraMetrix, a venture capital funded company doing technology work in the field of orthodontics.
//updated September 2005

James Purvins, 1987

Inland Northwest Health Services, Spokane, WA
email: jpurvins@msn.com
Financial Systems Analyst. Implement and install health care information systems. INHS is an umbrella organization for 30 hospitals in western Washington.
//posted Nov 2000

Jim Quackenboss, 1989

UW-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
email: quackenb@uwosh.edu
Senior Systems Manager. Coordinate, install and maintain OpenVMS & UNIX computer systems including a wide range of servers.
//updated Oct 2000

Ben Raboine, 2007

CUNA, 5710 Mineral Point Road, Madison, WI 53705, http://www.cuna.org/
email: ben.raboine@gmail.com
Personal Web site at: http;//www.raboine.com
//posted May 2007

Bob Ryan , 1983

Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
email: bob.ryan@medtronic.com
Senior Principal Software Engineer, application development to program pacemakers with Radio Telemetry; and . Medtronic is the world's leading therapeutic medical technology company, providing therapies for treating diseases of the heart's electrical conduction system.
//posted Dec 1995

Donovan Schneider, 1985

MS(Computer Science) UW-Madison 1987; Ph.D. (Computer Science) UW-Madison 1990 (Dissertation: Complex Query Processing in Multiprocessor Database Machines)
Siebel Systems, Inc., San Mateo, CA
email: dschneider@siebel.com
Director, Analytics Engineering.
//updated February 2003

Jeffrey Schrab, 1990

Royle Communications, Sun Prairie, WI
email: jschrab@malicstower.org
Senior Internet Applications Developer. Currently developing application enabled web sites for corporate clients.
//updated Jan 2003

David Schultz, 1989

Marine Credit Union, Fond du Lac, WI
email: schuld66@execpc.com
Network Manager. Received state teaching certification in 1995 and visited the Persian Gulf Nov 1990 to July 1991.
//posted Sep 1998

Dan Schwister, 2005

Quality Calibration Services, West Allis, WI
email: dan@danschwister.com
//posted July 2005

Julie (Krueger) Sherwin, 1982

email: julie.sherwin@thrivent.com
Currently at Thrivent Financial for Lutherns. Previously at American Family Insurance, Winnebago County, and Advanced Information Management.
//posted May 2004.

David Snyder, 1999

Sadoff and Rudoy Industries, Fond du Lac, WI
work email: snyderd@sadoff.com
home email: dave@dan-n-dave.com
Applications developer.
//posted April 2004

Kevin Spanbauer, CPC, 1982

President
High Impact Hires, Inc.
High Impact Hires specializes in identifying, qualifying, and attracting those top performers who have that innate insight and ability to make a strategic difference.
952-941-3062 Direct
952-941-3063 Fax
952-250-0836 Cell
email: kevins@highimpacthires.com
High Impact Hires, Inc.
//updated Oct 2004

Bret Stastny, 1996

Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA
email: Bret.Stastny@intel.com
Software Engineer, working on analysis and control tools for yield improvement of microprocessor manufacturing.
//posted Aug 1998

Tom Storma, 2002

MGS Mfg. Group
email: thomas.storma@mgstech.com
Application/database developer
//posted Aug 2006

Rob Strenn, 1996

Marshfield Clinic., Marshfield, WI
email: strenn.rob@marshfieldclinic.org
Senior Programmer/Analyst.
//updated Jul 2007

Erik Thompson, 1998

Spectria, Inc., Redmond, WA
email: erikt@spectria.com
Senior Consultant. Spectria helps companies transition their business processes to the Internet through custom, high performance solutions.
//updated July 2000

Scott Thomson, 1982

Thomson Software Services, Inc., Neenah, WI
home email: scott.thomson@acm.org
work email: tssi@athenet.net
President/consultant/developer. Thomson Software Services provides programming and consulting services for Unix, MS-DOS and Windows. Software used is primarily C, C++ and Delphi.
//updated April 2004

Kevin M. Vandenberg, 1987

Navitaire, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
email: Kevin.Vandenberg@Navitaire.com, vandenk@visi.com
Software Engineering Manager - External Data Communications & Technology. Navitaire provides data processing solutions to the travel industry, particularly airlines, from online booking to reservations hosting, revenue management and revenue accounting.
//updated Sep 2001

Andrew Vander Heyden, 2007

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
email: andy.vanderheyden@thrivent.com
Software Development - Mostly J2EE development, but also some COBOL programming and interactive voice recording system testing.
//posted June 2007

Tom Verburgt, 1984

August Technology, Edina MN
email: Tom.Verburgt@AugustTech.com
Chief Technology Officer. August Technology develops automated inspection systems. August inspection systems incorporate computer vision, robotics and Windows-based software to provide automated solutions to the semiconductor manufacturing industry worldwide.
// posted Oct 1995

James Voigt, 1995

Veolia Environmental Services
email: jvoight@new.rr.com
Oracle DBA primarily supporting the PeopleSoft Application (versions 8.3, 8.4)
//posted April 2007

Steve Wallace, 1985

Stellcom Technologies, San Diego, CA
email: swallace@stellcom.com
Senior Software Engineer, specializing in embedded real-time firmware and Unix device drivers. Stellcom Technologies is a technical services consulting firm. Currently working at Titan Broadband Communications, developing encryped data delivery systems for digital satellite television.
//posted May 1997

Peter Wallin, 1997

Georgia-Pacific Coproration, Atlanta, GA
email:wallin@pobox.com
Senior Programmer Analyst, Business programming (production/orders/shipping/system interfaces/etc.) for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, one of the largest forest product companies in the US.
//posted Dec 2003

Christopher Webb, 1986

Attunity, Inc.
email: cdrwebb@yahoo.com, chris.webb@attunity.com
Director of Technical Services. Using Attunity's CONNECT, FEDERATE, and STREAM products, companies can seamlessly connect to data sources, stream data changes across the enterprise, and federate heterogeneous information to achieve a single view of their business. Attunity's products run, natively, on Windows, Unix, Linux, OpenVMS, OS400, OS/390, zOS, and HP Nonstop NSK, providing SQL and XML based access to a wide variety of data an applications.
//updated Sept, 2004

James Wiesner, 1991

Wurth IT International , Germany
email: james.wiesner@wuerth-it.com
Head, Asset Management Department. Currently living in Europe in preparation for a return to the United States to establish and run a data center for the North American companies of Wurth. Wurth has over 200 companies in more than 50 countries with sales exceeding five billion dollars in 1999.
//posted May 2000

Brian Wightman, 1995

Compuware Corp., Milwaukee, WI
email: brian-uwocsalum@wightmantfam.org
Senior Staff Analyst, Professional Services Division. Compuware is a global provider of software and professional services to support the IT operations of businesses.
//posted Feb 2001

Mary Wilber, 1999

Accenture, Milwaukee, WI
email: mary.k.wilber@ac.com
Technical Analyst. Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) is a global management and technology consulting firm.
//posted May 1999

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