Ninth Annual Student Alumni meeting

April 26, 2016

We had a wonderful turnout for our annual alumni/student meeting.  18 alumns, and our retired chair, Loretta Pearson, came out.  Approximately 20 students had the opportunity to polish their resumes, learn how to address the questions they will face during an interview, and meet and network with both recent alumns and those who’ve been out a few years.    

Lauren Burkhart (CS) was inducted into the Epsilon Delta Pi Honor Society.    We updated our alumni on what’s going on,  including our involvement in the new Cyber Crime Minor housed in the Criminal and Social Justice department, updates to the server in our majors' lab, and, new this academic year, our 3D printer.

Of course there was plenty of time for informal discussion between alumni to catch up and meet some folks they hadn’t met before. 

If you couldn’t make it this year, don’t worry we plan to be back next year.

Winter 2015 Graduation

December 19, 2105

Congratulations to USF Computer Science Department Graduates, Winter 2015:  Jordan Drane (IT),  Nayeli Aceves (IT), Nadia Zola (WD).  

Jordan Drane, Nadia Zola, and Nayeli Aceves

We’re very happy to have you as USF alumni.

Math/CompSci speaker - HERE’s Dave Kettlestrings

September 30, 2015
Dave Kettlestrings discussed his experiences at HERE, a world-leading map and location technology company. 

Discussion topics included:

• Software development and testing for cloud-based processing of data at the petabyte scale.
• Measuring and ensuring data quality through statistics.
• Data quality and autonomous driving.
• Landing your first job and keeping it.
• Q & A session.

It was a well attended session.  
Thanks, Dave, for taking the time for our students.

Spring 2015 Graduation

May 16, 2015
Congratulations to the USF Computer Science Department Graduates, Spring 2015:
Nicholas Bond (CS), Daniel Burke (CS), Zach Hunter (CS), and Michelle Stefanich (IT). 

Nick Bond, Danny Burke, Zach Hunter, and Michelle Stefanich

We’re proud to claim them as USF alumni!

Honors Convocation Spring 2015

May 14, 2015
Our Computer Science department had a great showing at this year’s Honor’s Convocation.   Nicholas Bond (CS) was awarded the Joan Nahas Ramuta Award for an outstanding Computer Science Department student.  Daniel Burke (CS) earned the Computer Science Department’s Meritorious Service Award.

Nick Bond and Danny Burke

Lauren Burkhart was honored for being on the Dean’s List

Fighting Saints 2.0

 

 Six University of St. Francis students from Computer Science, Information Technology, and Web Application Development built an updated version of the USF Fighting Saints App.   The new mobile app features a new interface, added security, and all sports are now represented.

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The logon screen changes each month to showcase a different sport.    You may logon using any of your existing logons from applications such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, or Microsoft.  Verification is done with the provider you choose, no logon information is stored in the app. 

You can find roster information about all players, current stories, the gym schedule, and the calendar of sports events.

 

Members of the Senior Project team:   Nayeli Aceves (IT),  Dan Burke (CS), Jordan Drane (WD), Zach Hunter (CS), and Michelle Stefanich (IT) were joined by Nick Bond (CS), who was working on a directed study, to produce the professional looking app that is available on Google Play and the iTunes App stores.

L-R:  Nayeli, Zach, Jordan, Michele, Nick, and Dan

                            The QR codes for the apps are:
 

Android

Apple

Be sure and download this USF Fighting Saints app today!

Congratulations to the 2015 Senior Project team -- You did a terrific job.

Helping out – Eighth Annual Alumni/Student Resume-Interview Tips

On April 14, 2015, a number of our alumni from the various Computer Science majors returned to campus to lend a helping hand to our current undergrads at our Eighth Annual Student-Alumni Interview and Resume Tips meeting.   Over the years we’ve compiled the suggestions from alumni and after a brief review, students brought out their resumes and got personalized attention from our alumni on how to improve their resumes. 

Students and alumni exchange ideas and catch-up with old friends.

Prof Loretta Pearson, retired department chair, with featured article about alumnus Vic Pellicano

Thanks to Alumni Relations for the gifts for our alumni.

 

To help keep our alumni in touch with what’s happening we talked about plans for then department, new classes and projects.   Certificates were given to students who over the past year have been supporting the USF Sustainability Website, Daniel Burke, Jordan Drane, Wembo Mbiziwo-Tiapo, and Joselyn Mena.

Joselyn and Jordan with their certificates.

 

We inducted our newest members of the Epsilon Delta Pi Honor Society, Jordan Drane, Daniel Healy,  Bryona Johnson, and Thomas Uraski.  

 

From left to right:  Dan Healy, BJ Johnson, Jordan Drane

 We also announced our Meritorious Service winner, Daniel Burke, and our Joan Nahas Ramuta Award winner Nick Bond.

 

Dan Burke and Nick Bond

Our evening was as success as our alumni caught up with each other and students they remembered over refreshments.

Make it a point to  be here for next year’s event whether you’re an alum or a student – it’s a fun time.