Wheaton Blog

Sam Kottler ’15 
Sam Kottler ’15 is a software engineer for Red Hat, where he uses his knowledge of systems design to write automation software.

Emily Baldwin ’14
Emily Baldwin works with the staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the International Safeguards and Technology Systems Department in support of Sandia’s global security mission.

Jose Rosario ’13
Jose Rosario ’13 is working as an Application Developer at ThoughtWorks Inc. — A community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation and delivery, while advocating for positive social change. He toggles between Chicago and India.

Nate Hunt ’13
Nate Hunt ’13 is a software QA (quality assurance) engineer at Nexgen Compliance Solutions in Middletown, RI. NexGen offers lenders unique delivery and overnight integration opportunities that were never before available to the Title Insurance industry.

Anthony Castellani ’13
Anthony Castellani ’13 is a software engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Raleigh Upshur ’10
Raleigh Upshur ’10 has worked at Amazon for 7 years. He currently is in charge of user interfaces on Amazon’s business products. He noted that the Wheaton Computer Science degree is not only valuable for the coverage of technical aspects but also for the liberal arts background. Amazon looks for students who can communicate clearly as well as have technical skills.

Adrian Schaedle ’12
Adrian Schaedle ’12 is a software engineer at NerdWallet where he says he is a “front-end dude doing Javascript and responsive design up to his eyeballs”. NerdWallet uses quantitative analysis to provide transparent personal finance advice for consumers.

Christina Nelson ’11
Worked as a student researcher for both the Genomics and Lexomics research groups. She interned at Raytheon for two summers… and is now working there. While at Wheaton, she studied abroad in Italy during her junior year. Christina was a captain of the cross country team her junior year and continues to run in all she does.

Sean Sidoti ’11
Sean Sidoti ’11 is an IT Analyst in Dover, New Hampshire. Sean advises current students: “Always be willing to accept help when you need it. That’d be something I wish I did more during college”.

Neil Kathok ’10
Neil Kathok ’10 is an Internet Technologies Engineer at Apple. At Wheaton, Neil was everywhere where computing was done. He was lead sysadmin in our labs and was lead developer for Wheaton’s Genomics Group, where he wrote tens if not hundreds of scripts, including his seedDB script which pounded on NCBI to auto-download hundreds of microbial genomes and their metadata to seed our local dB. Before leaving Wheaton, Neil helped automate machine learning experiments for Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifications on microbial genomes (yeah, we miss him).

Karen Peyton ’09
Karen (Grieb) Peyton ’09 is a Web Developer in London, England. Karen studied computer science and studio art while at Wheaton.

Brent DiGiovanna ’08
Brent DiGiovanna ’08 is a Development Programmer at MEDITECH.

Alum David Machado ’07
Software Engineer for Simulia.

Sarah Milewski ’07
Engineer at Raytheon

Robert Grossman ’07
Robbie Grossman ’07 is an engineer at Wistia where they do professional video hosting built specifically for business.

Ben Burrage ’07
Currently pursuing a Master’s of Technological Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University. Former Systems Administrator at the Museum of Science Boston and Wheaton College.

Chris Stuetzle ’06
Chris Stuetzle ’06 is a computer science PhD student at RPI, working under Randolph Franklin. As part of a group funded by an NSF/CDI grant, Chris is modeling the erosion of levees to help predict future events such as those which occurred during hurricane Katrina. This work involves computational geometry as well as 3D computer graphics. At Wheaton, Chris was a double computer science and mathematics major.
Chris Stuetzle ’06 is a computer science PhD student at RPI, working under Randolph Franklin. As part of a group funded by an NSF/CDI grant, Chris is modeling the erosion of levees to help predict future events such as those which occurred during hurricane Katrina. This work involves computational geometry as well as 3D computer graphics. At Wheaton, Chris was a double computer science and mathematics major.

Nguni Phakela ’06
Nguni Phakela ’06 was a double Computer Science and Biochemistry major. He is presently a software developer for Witwatersrand University (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa where he is helping the university move to an open source learning management system (Sakai). He is pursuing his Masters in Information Technology Management. At Wheaton, Nguni was a true interdisciplinary scholar, working with the Genomics Research Group, combining his academic studies in computing and biochemistry.

Stephen Benz ’05
Graduate Student in Santa Cruz CA

Steven Bowe ’05
Computer Programmer at Meditech.

Nicholas Nahas ’04
Engineering/Research/Sr. Consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton

Adam Villa ’03
Adam Villa ’03 is currently in the Ph.D. program for Computer Science at the University of New Hampshire. Adam’s research involves transferring massive datasets (TBs) through shared, public networks like a campus network (keeping cloud/grid computing in mind). While at Wheaton, Adam studied in France and worked with the Wheaton Genomics Group. Adam Villa ’03 is currently in the Ph.D. program for Computer Science at the University of New Hampshire. Adam’s research involves transferring massive datasets (TBs) through shared, public networks like a campus network (keeping cloud/grid computing in mind). While at Wheaton, Adam studied in France and worked with the Wheaton Genomics Group.

Greg Williams ’03
Greg Williams ’03 is completing his PhD in computer science at RPI. His research focuses on scaling the huge sets of data available on the web down to more manageable subsets. One of the challenges in this work is to cull only the information that is less relevant for one’s problem domain. He is the co-author of several papers on this subject. At Wheaton, he was well known for his computing wiz and his spiked hair (think Elmer’s glue).

Patrick Thomas ’03
Patrick Thomas ’03 is currently working for the California Institute of Technology at LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) in Hanford, WA as an Operations Specialist. LIGO is an experiment to detect and characterize gravitational waves from astronomical sources. When they are collecting data Patrick helps to staff the control room and operate the interferometer. He also works on code for their control and data collection software. There is more information about the project at http://www.ligo-wa.caltech.edu.

Steven Hayes ’02
Programmer/Analyst for Medical Information Technology, Inc.

Kenneth Babby ’02
Ken Babby ’02 is the sole owner of the Akron Aeros minor league baseball team since October 11, 2012. Formed in 1989, the Aeros are based in Akron, Ohio, they compete in the Eastern League, and are the Double-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. In September 2012 they won the title to become the 2012 Eastern League Champions. While at Wheaton, Ken designed and completed an independent major in Computer Science and Economics.

Brendan Thurber ’01
Senior Software Engineer and Software Development Engineer for Raytheon Surveillance.

Seth Fernald ’01
Seth Fernald ’01 is a cost control analyst in construction management for Burns and McDonnell (headquarters in Kansas City).

Nathan Buggia ’01
Nathan is a Senior Lead Program Manager at Microsoft. Nathan ran Microsoft’s Answers program for about a year. He previously founded and ran their Live Search Webmaster Center for 2 years. While at Wheaton (studying Computer Science, Physics, and Painting), Nathan was a founding member of the Wheaton Genomics team. He also served as General Manager of Wheaton’s Lyons Den Coffeehouse.

Kenneth Aspeslagh ’00
Ken Aspeslagh ’00 is co-founder of Ecamm Network. While at Wheaton, Ken studied Computer Science, Mathematics, and Astronomy. Ken and his brother Glen ’00 were co-recipients of the Fred Kollett prize in Math and Computer Science. Ken also founded the “Science House” on campus in 1999. After Wheaton, Ken worked at Avid Technology until leaving to start Ecamm in 2005.

Glen Aspeslagh ’00
Glen Aspeslagh ’00 is co-founder of Ecamm Network. At Wheaton, Glen did lots of midnight puppet shows in the freshman dorms with his twin brother Ken ’00. He sold his first app, a Palm OS app for astronomers to calculate the position of the stars, while at Wheaton. It cost $8! For research, Glen was one of the founding members of the Genomics Research Group. Glen minored in French where he met his future wife in French class.

Ka Yee Kwok ’00
Ka Yee Kwok ’00 works as a Special Agent in Federal Investigative Services in Hawaii.

Mark Rudenko ’99
Software Programmer for the X Band Radar Program.

Christopher Zahka ’99
Senior Software Engineer for Raytheon Company

Todd Oldenburg ’98
Todd Oldenburg ’98 is an Information Technology and Services Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston where he applies a strong understanding of enterprise architecture (e.g., SOA), client-server, web services, cloud computing (e.g., SaaS), voice/network, infrastructure management, security management, business process management, and the system development lifecycle. After Wheaton, Todd obtained his MBA in Operations Management from Bentley College.

Josiah Bruns ’97
Josiah Bruns ’97 works at Comcast Business Services. While at Wheaton, Josiah was one of our first computer science majors and played a mean game of paint ball.

Marie Principe ’96
Mathematics Teacher at East Bridgewater High School.

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