Monmouth University - Alumni Profiles & Stories

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Howard Hall

Room 219

(2nd level of Howard Hall)

Monmouth University

West Long Branch, NJ 07764

Phone:732-571-7501

Fax:732-263-5253

General Inquiries

Patricia Lamarca

Department Chair

Jiacun Wang

CS Undergraduate Director

Allen Milewski

CS Graduate Director

Cui Yu

SE Undergraduate Director

Allen Milewski

SE Graduate Director

Daniela Rosca

IT Program Director

Jan Rohn

Alumni Profiles & Stories

Shawn Elliott, December 2004

Employer: LJT & Associates, Inc., Herndon, VA

Job: Systems Engineer – Understands and documents customer needs, designs products to meet those needs, informs customers of design changes as development proceeds, and ensures that implementations meet the specification

Quote: “I have been involved in procurement and logistics database development, Web-based portal migration, database conversions, and Geographic Information Systems for the US Navy. My education at Monmouth University prepared me very well for this work.”

Lauren Landrigan, May 2004

Employer: U.S. Army Software Engineering Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ

Job: Software Engineer - Developing Command and Control Battle Space applications

Quote: "The courses at Monmouth University in Requirements Management, the Personal Software Process, and Human Computer Interfaces have helped tremendously early in my career."

Mike DiGiovanni, December 2004

Employer: American Insurance General (AIG) Inc., Neptune, NJ

Job: Java developer who creates and maintains systems for the business area of the company. He solicits requirements from the business area, designs the applications, code, and deploys the software. He also coordinates the development and release of interdependent systems.

Quote: “My classes at Monmouth University set me up to be ready for almost all of the work I've been assigned to do. The most important part of the program was the practicum and the presentation of that project. It was a perfect collection of the many required tasks that I get whenever I'm involved with a new project here.”

Raffi Khatchadourian

Raffi Khatchadourian (BS in CS, 2004) earned a Ph.D. in the Ohio State University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2011. His Ph.D. thesis was titled Techniques for Automated Software Evolution. During his doctoral study, he was selected by the National Science Foundation for an East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) award for U.S. graduate students, which enabled him to travel to the University of Tokyo for research. Raffi is currently working for Apple Inc. as an RF Systems Integration Engineering with the iPhone/iPad team.

Trish Millines-Dziko

Trish Millines-Dziko '79, a graduate of the Computer Science Department, received the Distinguished Alumni Award at the Founders' Day Convocation, October 10, 2007. A gifted student and an outstanding athlete, she went on to a distinguished career at Microsoft and then co-founded the Technology Access Foundation, which provides children of color with technology experience through education and access opportunities. Read more ...

Suhaib Obeidat

Congratulations to Suhaib Obeidat, who completed his MS in Computer Science at Monmouth in 2001 under the supervision of Dr. Obaidat. Suhaib has successfully defended his PhD dissertation at Arizona State University's School of Computing and Informatics. His M.S. thesis topic at Monmouth was “Performance Evaluation of Adaptive ABR Voice over ATM Networks.” His PhD dissertation work was done under the supervision of Dr. Violet R. Syrotiuk and is titled “Cross-layer opportunistic adaptation for voice communications over wireless ad hoc networks.”