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and husband Noah Thomas ’17 (CS) recently celebrated their fifth anniversary and adopted a second shelter pup, Lola. They enjoy traveling, outdoor activities and spending time with both their pups at home in Temecula, California.

cameras and building his second airplane on the side. 2016 Mike Bagian (ME) recently earned his MBA from The Ohio State University and is currently working as a consultant. Stephanie Sherman (EE) recently completed her MBA with an emphasis in organizational leadership from the University of California, Davis. She continues to manage the Networks, Integration & Automation Department for Burns & McDonnell in California. 2017 Emmanuel Gomez (EE) is a GCS project engineer at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. He completed his masters in project management in 2022 at the University of Southern California. While visiting Washington D.C. he ran into Truc Ngo, PhD.

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to big-tech. Her focus is on biotech and medical applications, including non-invasive glucose measurements, cancer detection using fluorescence spectroscopy, flow-cytometry and capnography measurements. 2018 Cyro Kamogawa (CS) is working as a software engineer for Salesforce, where he helps build tools to allow marketers to better connect with their customers.

MAARON (TESFAYE) BEA AMANDA KENNEDY BILLINGS

2019 Maaron (Tesfaye) Bea (ME) , product manager at Intuit, spearheads a cross-functional product team of engineers, designers, researchers and data scientists centered around Intuit Assist, QuickBooks’ cutting edge AI-powered financial assistant. Bea participates in alumni events and serves as the philanthropy chair for USD’s Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering alumni council.

Tabitha (Ary) Thomas (ME) continues to work as a systems engineer for NuScale Power. She is also a freelance fashion model and content creator for her fashion blog, Pumps and Protractors. She

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Sam Lange (ME) started a new job as an enterprise systems engineer at Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. He is working to automate the generation of digital engineering models by leveraging cybersecurity datasets. Morgan McDowell (ME) is a photonics and optics engineer at Hamamatsu Photonics, working with companies ranging from start-ups

Amanda Kennedy Billings (ME) finished her Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She and her husband recently moved to Washington state, where she continues to work for Raytheon.

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