MSA Class of 2020

Alumni News, 2020

DECEMBER
  • Rob Moreira ’13 – promoted to Senior Partner Development Manager at Microsoft.
  • Rich Conboy ’16 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist at The Home Depot in Atlanta.
  • Kate Rodrigues ’16 – promoted to Data Science Manager, Americas Business Finance at Red Hat.
  • Sarah Moore Parody ’17 – joined PNC as Data Scientist, AVP, in Austin, Texas.
  • Shawna (Cokley) Strickler ’18 – joined Encoura as Data Scientist.
  • Emily Hadley ’18 – promoted to Research Data Scientist at RTI International.
  • Jennifer Johnson ’18 – joined Evernorth as Business Analytics Senior Manager.
  • Tolan Nguyen ’19 – promoted to Data Science and Analytics Specialist at Accenture.
NOVEMBER
  • Jay Paulson ’11 – joined GlaxoSmithKline as Advanced Analytics and PRA Lead.
  • Emma Stapleton ’12 – joined Actium Health as Senior Data Scientist in Pittsburgh.
  • Josh Gredvig ’13 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist at Blue Cross NC.
  • Rachel Snyder ’16 – joined Vanguard as Data Analyst, Client Experience & Digital, in Philadelphia.
  • Hiwot Tesfaye ’16 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist at SAS.
  • Zack Schwartz ’17 – joined Intuit as Senior Business Data Analyst, in San Diego.
  • Dustin Wicker ’17 – joined General Dynamics IT as Senior Metrics & Data Analytics Analyst.
  • Ben Cash ’18 – joined Q2 as Product Manager, PrecisionLender.
  • Jacob Michel ’19 – promoted to Data Scientist at Elevate in Fort Worth, Texas.
  • Emmanuel Daramola ’20 – joined CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield as Health Informatics Analyst.
OCTOBER
  • Ben Yeomans ’13 – joined Red Ventures in Charlotte as Senior Data Scientist.
  • Kevin Baughman ’14 – joined Aizon as .
  • Anu Jagtap-Chatterjee ’14 – promoted to Director, Global Demand Accelerator-Activation at PepsiCo.
  • Andrew Bishop ’15 – joined The RiverStone Group in Boston as Data Scientist.
  • Patrick Dougherty ’15 – is the CTO & Co-Founder of Rasgo, a new data science platform.
  • Andrés Fischler ’15 – promoted to Senior Manager, Decision Science Analytics at USAA.
  • Ashutosh Garg ’16 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist at Blue Cross NC.
  • Chas Stikeleather ’16 – promoted to Senior Manager, Data Science at Bain & Company in Atlanta.
  • Xun Yang ’16 – promoted to Senior Manager, Data Science at Bain & Company in Boston.
  • Kelvin Espinal ’17 – promoted to Lead Product Manager, Supply Chain at Lowe’s Companies.
  • Colby Greene ’17 – joined Vanguard in Philadelphia as Data Scientist.
  • Grace Heyne Lebrand ’17 – promoted to Director, Data Science, at MetLife.
  • Erica (Nunn) Eveld ’17 – promoted to Senior Hosting Technical Account Manager at SAS.
  • Kimberly Davis ’18 – joined Local Government Federal Credit Union as Business Analytics Manager.
  • Nicole Dhruv ’18 – promoted to Data Scientist Lead, VP at JPMorgan Chase in West Grove, Pennsylvania.
  • Michael Schwarz ’18 – promoted to Manager, Pricing Strategy & Analytics at The Home Depot in Atlanta.
  • Kirsty (Ward) Weitzel ’18 – joined RTI International as Research Data Scientist.
  • Cindy (Qiaochu) Zhang ’18 – joined the Data Science team at Google.
  • Amy Hand ’19 – promoted to Manager, Data Science at Bain & Company in Dallas.
  • Tommy Lang ’19 – promoted to Quantitative Specialist at Fidelity Investments in Boston.
  • John Pamplin ’19 – joined Koya Medical in Oakland, California, as Director of Innovation & Data-science.
  • Sonja Simic ’19 – joined VectorVest as Business Intelligence Analyst.
SEPTEMBER
  • Zain Khandwala ’12 – joined U.S. Bank as Payments Analytics Studio Director.
  • Phil Reich ’13 – promoted to Cross-Google Partner Manager at Google in New York City.
  • Jay Timmerman ’13 – promoted to Lead Analyst, Senior Manager at Biogen.
  • Kevin Kelleher ’16 – promoted to Data Science Manager at The Home Depot in Atlanta.
  • Wah (Nick) Tran ’16 – joined Jun Group as Machine Learning Engineer in Los Angeles.
  • Tom Pinckney ’18 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist, PrecisionLender at Q2.
  • Richy Castellanos ’19 – joined Dentsply Sirona as Business Intelligence Analyst.
  • Chelsey Paulsen ’19 – promoted to Senior Technical Product Manager, Data Science and ML Team at Asurion.
  • Griffin Smith ’19 – promoted to Senior Consultant, Advanced Analytics at EY in New York City.
AUGUST
  • Nathan Peifer ’14 – joined Gartner as Analytics Projects Director in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Brianna Bonham ’15 – promoted to Reporting and Analytics Manager at Deloitte in Charlotte.
  • Erin Burke ’15 – promoted to Manager at Deloitte in Charlotte.
  • Katherine Grimshaw ’15 – joined Wake Technical Community College as Instructor.
  • Ian Lempert ’15 – promoted to Manager, Data Science at Deloitte Consulting in New York City.
  • Aimee (Mushrush) Marva, ’15 – promoted to Manager, Data Analytics at Ally.
  • Elom Quarm Goka ’16 – joined Humana as Senior Data Scientist in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Ryan King ’16 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist at Paylocity in Detroit.
  • Jared Morris ’16 – joined PNC as Senior Quantitative Model Development Analyst in New York.
  • Hamza Qureshi ’16 – joined Bankers Healthcare Group as Senior Director, Marketing Analytics.
  • Leah (Platt) Wolosiansky ’16 – joined JPMorgan Chase as Vice President Finance, in Columbus, Ohio.
  • Caroline Hughes ’17 – joined Bloomberg LP as Data Scientist for Environmental, Social, and Governance.
  • David Moore ’17 – joined Booz Allen Hamilton as Lead Scientist in Washington, DC.
  • Madison Smith ’17 – promoted to Data Science Manager, VP at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati.
  • Ashley Costello ’18 – joined Facebook in Austin, Texas, as Data Scientist.
  • Sarah Miller ’18 – promoted to Senior Consultant at Deloitte in Charlotte.
  • Qing Feng ’19 – joined CVS Health as Senior Consultant, Analytics.
  • Gavin Wilson ’19 – joined Walt Disney Television as Senior Data Scientist.
JULY
  • Marco Mascioli ’10 – promoted to Director with Bank of America in Charlotte.
  • Erick Irigoyen ’12 – joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) as Solution Architect.
  • Matthew Lackey ’15 – joined Disney ABC Television Group at Walt Disney Television as Data Scientist.
  • Alex Curcio ’17 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist, AVP, at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati.
  • Drew Lanning ’17 – joined Wells Fargo as Analytics Consultant.
  • Brandon Mayer ’17 – promoted to Data Scientist at Amazon Alexa in Seattle.
  • Bryson Bonham, ’18 – joined McKinsey & Co. as Associate/Specialist.
  • Daniel Li ’18 – promoted to Senior Consultant, AI & Advanced Analytics at Deloitte Consulting in Houston.
  • Jiajing Hu ’18 – joined Kroll as Manager II, Data Science & AI Research , VP, in Boston.
  • Yuqing Su ’18 – promoted to Senior Consultant (Lead Data Scientist), AI & Advanced Analytics at Deloitte.
JUNE
  • Beck Kloss ’09 – joined Endeavor as Head of Digital Product, in New York City.
  • Allison Dejonghe ’10 – joined evo.com as Senior Marketing Manager in Seattle.
  • Brian Cieszynski ’13 – joined Wells Fargo as Analytics Consultant.
  • Shu (Grace) Dong ’13 – joined TD as VP, Risk Manager.
  • Xin Zou ’13 – joined TikTok / ByteDance as Data Scientist in Mountain View, California.
  • Adam Pilz ’14 – joined Google as Specialist Customer Engineer, Analytics and Machine Learning.
  • Mark Hoffmann ’16 – is Chief Architect at HomeAware, a home security start-up in Chicago.
  • Yang Li ’16 – promoted to Credit Review Senior Manager at Bank of America in Charlotte.
  • Jesse Lund ’16 – joined Veeva Systems as Technical Architect.
  • Kate Mohorn ’16 – joined The Boston Beer Company as Business Intelligence Developer.
  • Charles Morris ’16 – promoted to Head of Enterprise Data Science, Financial Services at Microsoft in Boston.
  • Francis Shao ’16 – joined Google in San Francisco as Product & Business Strategy Analyst.
  • Ravi Solter ’16 – joined BLEND360 as Lead Data Scientist in Washington, DC.
  • Chris Becker ’18 – joined Humana as Senior Data Scientist in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Jessie Allen ’17 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist, Provider Network Analytics at Cigna.
  • Sneha Komma ’17 – promoted to Senior LoB Reporting Analyst at Fifth Third Bank.
  • Kiersten Kozbial ’18 – joined Accenture AI as Data Engineering Consultant in Chicago.
  • Dylan Blackwell ’19 – promoted to Data Science Specialist at Accenture Federal Services in Washington, DC.
MAY
  • Scott Stark ’09 – joined CTE as Director, Head of BI and Advanced Analytics, in Charlotte.
  • Dan Bock ’10 – joined SS&C Technologies as Web Developer.
  • Nicole Bader ’11 – joined SDC (Statistics & Data Corporation) as Principal Statistical Programmer.
  • Miguel Maldonado ’12 – joined IBM as AI Technology Lead in Las Vegas.
  • Trevor Edwards ’13 – joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as Data Scientist.
  • Cendric Warny ’13 – promoted to Senior Research Scientist at Amazon in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Alex Pierratos ’14 – joined Instagram as Data Engineer.
  • Holly Sweeney ’14 – joined Facebook as Documentation Engineer.
  • Shawn Inman ’15 – promoted to Senior Manager, Pricing Analytics and Insights at Lowe’s Companies.
  • Natali Ojeda Meneses ’15 – promoted to SVP, Data Analytics Senior Lead at Citi in Irving, Texas.
  • Diego Malaver ’17 – joined GSK as Access Strategy Manager.
  • Logan Teal ’17 – joined LexisNexis as Product Analyst.
  • Adam Crouch ’18 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist at Elevate in Fort Worth, Texas.
  • Mariam Elmasry ’18 – joined Henkel as Consultant Data Scientist in Cairo, Egypt.
  • Elijah Jones ’19 – joined Personify as Data Scientist.
APRIL
  • Ozan Ersoy ’13 – joined Flipkart in Seattle as Senior Data Scientist.
  • Jie Liu ’13 – promoted to Model Validation Manager at Ally in Charlotte.
  • Wesley Stewart ’13 – promoted to Manager, Data Science at Citrix.
  • Nicholas Pylypiw ’14 – joined Cape Fear Collective as Director of Data Science.
  • Beth Roy ’15 – joined PwC as Senior Manager, Global Insights and Analytics.
  • George Taylor Corbett ’16 – joined Microsoft as Data Scientist in Washington, DC.
  • Harish Kaushik ’16 – promoted to Product Director, Data and Analytics, Global Banking Digital Strategy at Bank of America.
  • Sarah Mohamed ’16 – joined Deloitte Consulting as Senior Data Scientist.
  • Jen Hines ’17 – joined Red Hat as Senior Data Engineer.
  • Joe Loftus ’17 – promoted to Manager, Data Science at Bain & Company in Boston.
  • DT Oliver’17 – promoted to Analytics Manager at Feeding America in Alexandria, Virginia.
  • Travis Beaulieu ’18 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist at Fidelity Investments in Boston.
  • Alec Brown ’18 – promoted to Manager, Data Science at Bain & Company in Chicago.
  • Logan Cones ’18 – joined SAS as Senior Associate Data Scientist.
  • Joshua Gandy ’18 – joined Salesforce as Associate Manager, Salesforce Innovation Center.
  • Veer Gupta ’18 – promoted to Manager, Revenue & Content Analytics at NBCUniversal Media in Los Angeles.
  • Nikhil Prasad ’18 – promoted to Manager, Data Science at Bain & Company in Atlanta.
  • Angelica Spratley ’19 – joined ABC Insights a HelioCampus Company as Client Services Manager.
MARCH
  • Angela Chen ’08 – promote to Senior Product Manager, Technical – Commerce Platform International Expansion at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle.
  • Diana Shaw ’14 – promoted to Senior Product Manager at SAS.
  • Hussein Sharafi ’15 – joined Credit Suisse as Credit Risk Analyst.
  • Jon Daniels ’16 – joined BambooHR as Data Analyst in Linden, Utah.
  • Manny Goti ’16 – joined MG Capital Maintenance as Chief Financial Officer.
  • Aditya Krishnan ’16 – joined the Los Angeles Chargers as Director of Football Research.
  • Mary Wells Ruth ’16 – joined Tiger Analytics as Senior Data Scientist.
  • Arkadiusz Bryja ’17 – promoted to Senior Data Scientist at Walgreens in Chicago.
  • Kevin Danchisko ’17 – promoted to Director at Ankura in Washington, DC.
  • Annabel Maschal ’17 – promoted to Data Analytics Senior Associate at Ankura in Washington, DC.
  • Mike Northeim ’17 – promoted to Director at Ankura in Washington, DC.
  • Jacqueline Hundley ’18 – joined Red Hat as People Data Analyst.
  • Evan Schaeffer ’19 – promoted to Consultant, Data & Analytics at Slalom in Atlanta.
FEBRUARY
  • Arturo Silva ’11 – joined IQVIA as Associate Data Science Director.
  • Reid Bryant ’14 – joined Red Hat as Director of Marketing Analytics.
  • Ryan Schork ’14 – joined the Data Science/Machine Learning team at DoorDash in San Francisco.
  • Todd Fuller ’16 – promoted to VP, Operations Research Analyst at Bank of America in Charlotte.
  • Carson Futch ’17 – promoted to Quantitative Risk Analyst Lead, AVP, at M&T Bank.
  • AbdulAziz Shemna ’18 – joined Verizon as Business Intelligence Consultant.
  • Anne Marie Strickland ’18 – joined SAS as Senior Analytics Consultant in Atlanta.
JANUARY
  • Erika (Streck) Cerwin ’10 – joined Biogen as Digital Transformation Lead.
  • Patrick Hall ’12 – joined bnh.ai as Principal Scientist.
  • Saima Akhter ’13 – joined Shutterstock as Senior Data Analyst in New York City.
  • Samantha Greenspan ’13 – joined Blue Shield of California as Medical Informatics Analyst, Senior.
  • Dhrumil Patel ’13 – joined Chipotle Mexican Grill as Data Scientist in Newport Beach, California.
  • Emily Wisner Barja ’13 – promoted to Access Strategy Director at GlaxoSmithKline.
  • Nick Marks ’14 – joined Facebook as Data Scientist in Menlo Park, California.
  • Chris Bruehl ’15 – joined at Metis as Data Science Instructor and Content Developer in Los Angeles.
  • Roshan Taheri ’15 – promoted to Director, Data Science at Fidelity Investments.
  • Mirna Domancic ’16 – joined Hulu as Senior Data Analyst, Advanced Analytics in Los Angeles.
  • Tanya Moore ’16 – joined Citi as Senior Data Analyst, VP, Security and Investigative Services in Tampa.
  • Supratik Saha ’16 – joined SAP as Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Los Angeles.
  • Catherine Barnes ’17 – joined Capital One as Data Engineer for Card Tech, in Richmond, Virginia.
  • Reid Baughman ’17 – joined SAS as Systems Engineer in Cary, North Carolina.
  • Michael Byman ’17 – joined Ibotta as Senior Decision Scientist – Product, in Denver.
  • Florian Kaiser ’17 – promoted to Product Manager at Facebook in London.
  • Matt Kelkenberg ’17 – promoted to VP, Treasury Quantitative Lead at M&T Bank.
  • Shannon (Muldoon) Sokol ’17 – promoted to Quantitative Risk Analyst Lead, AVP at M&T Bank.
  • Eric Reidelbach ’17 – joined The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as Operational Data Scientist.
  • Haani Husain ’18 – joined Oshkosh Corporation as Data Scientist, Associate.
  • Kian Kamyab ’18 – promoted to Executive Director at SAP for the Chief Innovation Officer in San Francisco.
  • Ricky Tharrington ’18 – promoted to Machine Learning Developer at SAS.
  • Katrina Crawford ’19 – promotes to Analytic Consultant at Wells Fargo in Charlotte.
  • Hayley Edmonds ’19 – joined Epsilon as Senior Data Analyst in Cincinnati.
  • Thrisha Oruganti ’19 – joined Pareto Intelligence as Data Scientist in Chicago.

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