BTU LAB - Key Persons


Abi Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Alex Green

Job Titles:
  • Systems Architect, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado

Alexandra Morgan-Kisarale

Job Titles:
  • National Director of Digital Innovation and Solutions, GirlTrek

Alexis (Wagnon) Byler

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager, Mambo Media

Alison Derbenwick Miller

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Oracle for Research

Andrew Kiproff

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer, UPMC

Angel Lam

Job Titles:
  • Product Designer, Flyreel

Ann Ruether

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional

Annie Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Research

Annie Margaret

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Curriculum Committee

Anthony Pinter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Curriculum Committee

Barbara MacFerrin

Job Titles:
  • Owner, Barbara MacFerrin Photography

Beth Galetti

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Amazon

Bobby Schnabel

Job Titles:
  • ATLAS Co - Founder
  • CIO of CU - Boulder

Booz Allen Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Senior Data Scientist

Bridget Dooney

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Graduate Committee
  • Ex Officio

Buff Techs Appointments


Carson Bruns

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the ATLAS Graduate Committee

Cassandra Goodby

Cassandra Goodby received a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, in Technology Arts and Media from the University of Colorado Boulder's ATLAS Institute in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. As an undergraduate, she worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a professional research experience program fellow, as a developer and designer for the Public Safety Communications Research Division. After her undergraduate studies, Cassandra stayed at the ATLAS Institute as a graduate student in the Creative Technologies and Design (CTD) program while continuing her work at NIST. Cassandra continues her experience and passion in user experience and user interfacing in web and mobile application development in her current role as Senior Design Technologist at Amazon.

Cassiane Cladis

Job Titles:
  • Digital Products Manager, TuaRes Foundation

Chris Carruth

Job Titles:
  • Instructor, University of Colorado Boulder

Chris Roser

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner, Roser Ventures, L.L.C

Christopher Vecchio

Chris Vecchio received a Bachelor of Science in public communication from the University of Vermont. He began a career in advertising at Cox Automotive, where he mentored with a senior UX architect and helped conduct user interface testing. He is looking forward to continuing his work in the automotive sector, specifically studying interactions between people and automotive interfaces and helping to combat distracted driving.

Clayton Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Computer Science, CU - Boulder

Conor Canaday

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional

Danny Rankin

Job Titles:
  • Instructor, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder

DaVita Kidney

Job Titles:
  • Motion Designer

Denise Powell

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder

Diane Sieber

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Faculty Director, Global Engineering RAP, University of Colorado Boulder

Donna Flynn

Job Titles:
  • VP Global Talent, Steelcase

Doug Price

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and CEO at CSBO Holdings, Inc

Elfred Anthony Pinkard

Job Titles:
  • President, Wilberforce University

Ellen Yi-Luen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Executive Committee

Emily Long

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Inflection Point Agency

Erik Knudsen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Undergraduate Curriculum

Gerhard Fischer

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Computer Science CU Boulder ( Emeritus )

Grace Leslie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Graduate Committee

Grant Oberholzer

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager, EC Electric

Herbert Fenster

Job Titles:
  • Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP ( Retired )

Ian Smith

Job Titles:
  • Lead Software Engineer, Magic

Idit Harel

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Founder at Globaloria

Isla Schanuel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Service Manager, ZBeta Consulting, Inc

Jack Lewis

Jack Lewis graduated from the Art Institute of Colorado with a Bachelor of Arts in Game Art & Design. After graduation he freelanced in the games industry and subsequently worked as a virtual reality (VR) developer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Currently Jack creates VR environments and scenarios for first responders in the Public Safety Communications Research division of NIST.

Jacob Henry

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional and Training & Consulting Lead

James Williams III

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Libraries ( Retired ), University of Colorado at Boulder

Jenna Keenan-Alspector

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance and Tax, Spectra Logic

Jill Tietjen

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, Technically Speaking, Inc

Joel Swanson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Curriculum Committee
  • Member of the ATLAS Executive Committee
  • Ex Officio

John Buckner

Job Titles:
  • Communications Strategist, Corporate Culture Consultant, Champion - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Four Winds Interactive

John Winsor

Job Titles:
  • General Partner, Winsor Communications

Karen Diener

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, KD Geospatial Solutions LLC

Kathie Broyles

Job Titles:
  • Broyles Consulting

Kevin McElhinney

Job Titles:
  • Director of Engineering, CirrusMD

Kim Koro

Job Titles:
  • President, Qualcomm Government Technologies

Krista Marks

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder, CEO, Woot Math Former Vice President, Disney Online Former CEO, Co - Founder, Kerpoof

Lakshmi Haridas

Job Titles:
  • Staff Engineer, Qualcomm

Laura Devendorf

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Curriculum Committee

Lauren Cole - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Chairman
  • Manager of Operations
Manager of Operations and Assistant to the Chair: Lauren Cole 303-735-0855 Chair: Professor Hanspeter Schaub 303-492-8183

Leslie Dodson

Job Titles:
  • Director, US Bureau, Dar Si Hmad for Development, Education and Culture

Lexi Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Technology, the White House

Lexia Learning

Job Titles:
  • Implementation Manager

Lindsay Lanning

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Customers for Life, Salesforce.Com

Lucy Sanders

Job Titles:
  • Director, National Center for Women and Information Technology
Bobby Schnabel - (ATLAS co-founder); Executive Director and CEO of the Association for Computing Machinery

Mariana Tamashiro

Job Titles:
  • Senior Design Researcher, IRobot

Marisa Pisaneschi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Curriculum Committee
  • Ex Officio

Mark D Gross

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the ATLAS Executive Committee
  • Member of the ATLAS Graduate Committee

Mark Koro

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Government Affairs, Qualcomm

Maryam Moghaddam-Sadeh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant, Sinai Marketing

Matthew Crum

Job Titles:
  • Architect, ICT4D Initiatives, United Methodist Communications Solutions

Matthew Hulse

Job Titles:
  • Senior Systems Architect, the World Bank

Mazdak Hashemi

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Engineering at Twitter

McClees Stephens

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Operations, CultivatePeople

Meg Leta (Ambrose) Jones

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown University

Mel Plett

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer, Mantel Technologies

Michael Kwolek

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager, With Story Ideas, Website Updates, New Academic Publications ( Include Citation Details ) and Other Comms / Marketing Needs
Email Michael Kwolek, Communications Manager, with story ideas, website updates, new academic publications (include citation details) and other comms/marketing needs: michael.kwolek@colorado.edu

Mike Moniz

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, Circadence Managing Director, Paladin Capital Group

Mike Rivera

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Graduate Committee

Milee Shrestha

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer, Accenture

Mitchell Wolfe

Job Titles:
  • Technology Specialist, University of Colorado Boulder

Monica Bolles

Job Titles:
  • Owner, Resonant Interaction

Mustafa Naseem

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Natalie Nunez

Job Titles:
  • Graphic Designer at BTI - Bicycle Technologies International

Nathan Seidle

Job Titles:
  • Founder, SparkFun Electronics

Nicole Simmons

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Manager

Patricia Limerick

Job Titles:
  • Professor of History, CU - Boulder

Phil Weiser

Job Titles:
  • Attorney General, State of Colorado

Rachel Powers

Job Titles:
  • Digital Health Consultant, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation

Ram Narayanswamy

Job Titles:
  • President, Teaq Innovations

Rebecca Kallemeyn

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager of Academic Technology Initiatives, Consulting and Training

Rich Content

Job Titles:
  • Editor Accessibility Checklist

Richard Foy

Job Titles:
  • Principal Partner, Communication Arts, Inc

Richard L. Byyny

Job Titles:
  • Chancellor
  • ATLAS Co - Founder

Robert Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs

Ruhan Yang

Job Titles:
  • Design Engineer
Ruhan Yang is a design engineer who never stops exploring and creating. A co-founder of EdBoard Technologies, she has been designing educational toys and tools for many years and hopes to bring opportunities to more children in the future. In addition to her ATLAS degree, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from CU Boulder. She is currently a PhD student with ATLAS in the ACME Lab.

Ruscha Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Curriculum Committee
  • Member of the ATLAS Graduate Committee

Ryo Suzuki

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Executive Committee

Sara Preston

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Executive Committee

Sarah Kim

Job Titles:
  • Sourcing Specialist, Google

Scott William Dudley

Job Titles:
  • Founder, Partavate Studios LLC

Sheiva Rezvani

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the ATLAS Curriculum Committee

Stephanie Wanek

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Executive Committee

Sticker Mule

Job Titles:
  • Production Artist Manager

Susie Armstrong

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm / Donna Auguste - Auguste Research Group

Tim Morrissey

Job Titles:
  • Owner - Operator, Easy Eats

Zack Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ATLAS Executive Committee