Our last staffing update was posted in August 2022. We have a lot of folks you've probably already worked with or seen working around the college, but we wanted to post a full update of hires, promotions, and departures.
To put faces with all the names below, please check out our online Directory with many updated photos.
New Hires
New Hires since early Summer 2022, divided by division:
Application Development and Data Analytics
- Mehdi Lahjouji hired as Data Analyst
- Sarah Chen hired as Associate Application Developer
IT Operations (AV, Infrastructure, and User Services)
- Luther Young hired as Audio Visual (AV) Coordinator
- Justin Gulley started with us as a Senior Field Consultant working in User Services
- Irene Sakellarakis hired as User Services Manager
- Glenn Penecios hired as Senior IT Specialist
- Carlos Marquez hired as Associate IT Specialist
- Josh Genung hired as Associate IT Specialist
Instructional Services
- Anya Kanevskaya hired as eLearning Specialist
- Elaine Robbins hired as Assistant Director for Instructional Services
- Michaela Hillen started as Interim Instructional Technology Facilitator
Administrative
- Jill McKenna hired as Office Support Specialist (shared with HRSS)
Promotions
Below are our promotions since early Summer 2022, also divided by division:
Application Development and Data Analytics
- Ben Kaap to Senior Database Administrator
- Halim Beere to Web Application Developer
IT Operations (AV, Infrastructure, User Services)
- Sal Belahi to Associate Director for IT Operations
- Brian Nicely to Cybersecurity Technology Facilitator
- Frank Penrose to Team Lead in Infrastructure
- Darius Summerville to Assistant Director for Infrastructure
- Paul Tarszka to Associate Site Reliability Engineer
- Alex Burke to Associate IT Specialist
- Zac Weisenbarn to Associate IT Specialist
- Stephen Yamaguchi to IT Specialist
Instructional Services
- Khlaf Alkhaldi to Labs Coordinator in Instructional Services
- Janelle Hodgson to Linux System Administrator
- Manu Pulikkan to Systems Engineer
- Melissa Whitt to Senior eLearning Specialist
Research Services
- Glen Rundblom to Senior Linux System Administrator
- Eddie Waldmire to Senior Linux System Administrator
Departures
The following staff have left Engineering IT. They are listed in reverse order of their departure.
- Dave Mussulman left our Instructional Technology Facilitator position to be a full-time instructor at iSchool. You may see him back around working on small projects for Instructional Services.
- Kevin Parli was an AV Specialist and left for an opportunity in Chicago.
- Akash Govind and Rahul Mahesh were graduate assistants in Data Analytics and both left upon graduation in May 2023 to start full-time jobs.
- Justin Hedrick left the eLearning team for work with Technology Services.