University of Southern California

Vanessa Rodriguez

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Undergrad Institution: 
Loyola Marymount University
Civil Engineering
Intern Class: 
Project: 
2009 CMS Development

Kaitlin Welch

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Undergrad Institution: 
University of Cincinnati
Computer Science
Intern Class: 
Project: 
2009 SCEC-VDO Development
After Internship
Current Affiliation: 
Hewlett-Packard
Global IT Developer
Alumni Statements
Yes, it provided me with the necessary tools to network and advance in my career path.
Kaitlin Welch joined the SCEC program in 2009. As a developer, Kaitlin worked with other programmers to implement new features to the SCEC-VDO program. Her new found interest in earthquakes and California brought her back to SCEC in 2010. She worked on the SCEC Intern websites and led a small team of USEIT interns to implement more features to the current USEIT intern website. Kaitlin graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a BS in Computer Science. She now resides in Houston, TX, where she works for Hewlett-Packard. As an IT Engineer, she develops mobile applications for HP field engineers and customer support.

Ziran Zhang

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Undergrad Institution: 
University of California
Berkeley
Civil Engineering
Intern Class: 
Project: 
2009 SCEC-VDO Production
After Internship
Graduate Institution: 
University of California Berkeley
08/2012
Civil and Environmental Engineering -- Civil Systems
Current Affiliation: 
Glaser's Lab
Engineering Aide
Alumni Statements
Definitely, still go back to the SCEC website to from time to time to look for useful data and updates.
Ziran's experience at SCEC during the summer USEIT internship took him a long way. He met interesting people and worked on cool projects. He is proud to be part of the SCEC community. Although Ziran's current work is not directly related to earthquake science and engineering, his close colleagues are doing experiments on related fields such as laboratory earthquake and nano seismology. It's always an interesting conversation with them when he can relay back to his experience working with SCEC.

Brian Oliver

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Undergrad Institution: 
Cal Poly Pomona
Geology
Intern Class: 
Project: 
2009 SCEC-VDO Production

John Montes De Oca

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Undergrad Institution: 
University of Southern California
Mechanical Engineering
Intern Class: 
Project: 
2009 CMS Development
After Internship
Current Affiliation: 
Machine Engineering Technologies
Design Engineer
Alumni Statements
The SCEC Internship helped me learn a new transferable skill that I have been able to utilize in and out of the workplace. I was a member of the 2009 CMS Development team whose goal was to create an online system to manage any metadata created throughout the internship and document basically everything. We used Drupal, an open source content management system to development this idea. I had to learn my way around HTML, php, and linux. I enjoyed the work and continued working with SCEC as a work-study student and later as an employee. I further developed the intern website into a fully fledged intern portal. With the help of Tran Huynh I created the site as it is today. I have been able to use this knowledge to create countless other websites including my current company's website. I also create blogs for friends and acquaintances as well as personal sites for bands and musical artists. I also learned how to organize and document project files so that they will be useful in the future for myself or any future developers, a skill which has translated very well to my current engineering work.
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