Tuesdays, 1:30-2:20, CSE 305 (refreshments and further discussion, 2:20-2:45)
Instructors: Ed Lazowska / Hank Levy
A one-credit (CR/NC) seminar series

Intent

The UW CSE Leadership Seminar Series, CSE 390L, is a one-credit (CR/NC) seminar series, primarily targeted at upper-division CSE undergraduates, that brings CSE alumni and friends to campus to describe how to be effective in a startup, small company, large company, or less common environment. Our guests will discuss topics such as:

• How do you position yourself to work on interesting projects?
• In a large company, what strategies can make you influential, vs. a cog in a wheel?
• What is life like in a startup?
• If your goal is to start and grow your own company, where do you begin?
• What are the pros and cons of less common career options, such as teaching high school computer science?

Course requirements

Regular attendance, active participation. Please read up on the individual and his/her employer(s) in advance of each course session.

Course email archive

https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/private/cse390l_wi12/

To send mail, use cse390l_wi12 at u dot washington dot edu

The lineup

Tuesdays, 1:30, CSE 305

Date	Room	Guest(s)	Experience
January 3	CSE 305	Panel of young alums:     Happy Dong, 2011 UW CSE B.S.     Lisa Fiedler, 2010 U.W. CSE B.S.     Dan Gerdesmeier, 2011 UW CSE B.S.     Alyssa Harding, 2009 UW CSE B.S., 2010 M.S.     Dan Otero, 2009 UW CSE B.S., 2010 M.S.	These alums are still individual contributors - entry-level engineers - at:     Microsoft     Groundspeak - http://www.groundspeak.com/     Amazon.com     Whitepages.com - http://www.whitepagesinc.com/about/     Google
January 10	CSE 305	Sam Kim, 2004 UW CSE B.S. Slides here	UCLA M.S. -> Datachannel software engineer -> Microsoft SDET -> Amazon.com SDE
January 17	CSE 305	Bill Baxter, UW CSE friend	Intergraph manager of compiler development -> DECwest Engineering principal engineer -> BSQUARE co-founder, chairman, and CEO -> Snaptune co-founder -> Cozi Group Inc. CTO/VP of Engineering -> BuddyTV CTO/EVP of Products http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/10/bill_baxter_joins_buddytv_as_cto.html http://www.buddytv.com/
January 24	CSE 305	Paul Mikesell, 1996 UW CSE B.S. Slides here	RealNetworks developer and development manager -> Isilon co-founder and director of engineering -> Clustrix co-founder and vice president of strategy and technology http://www.isilon.com/ http://www.clustrix.com/ http://siliconangle.tv/video/strata-conference-2011-paul-mikesell-0
January 31	CSE 305	Charlie Reis, 2009 UW CSE Ph.D. Ed away; Hank Levy will handle class Slides here	Google http://www.charlesreis.com/ http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/8/34494-browser-security/fulltext
February 7	CSE 305	Aber Whitcomb, 2000 UW ACMS B.S. Slides here	MySpace co-founder and CTO -> MindJolt CTO, i/o Ventures co-founder http://corp.mindjolt.com/team/ http://www.ventures.io/ TED talk
February 14	CSE 305	Parvez Anandam, 2007 UW CSE M.S. Slides here	B.S., M.S., Ph.D. in Physics -> SafeWeb (Bay Area startup acquired by Norton/Symantec) -> Aventail (now SonicWALL) and UW CSE M.S. -> Microsoft -> HomePipe Networks CTO & Co-Founder (re-named Tappin after recent acquisition by GlobalSCAPE) http://safeweb.norton.com/ http://www.sonicwall.com/ http://www.tappin.com/
February 21	CSE 305	Col. Eileen Bjorkman, 1979 UW CSE B.S. Slides and videos here	Technical Adviser, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, CA http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=13222
February 28	CSE 305	Philip Lee, 2005 UW CSE B.S. Ed away; Hank Levy will handle class Slides here	Microsoft -> BuzzLabs co-founder (acquired by CityGrid Media) -> CityGrid Media senior director http://buzzlabs.com/ http://www.citygridmedia.com/
March 6	CSE 305	John Davis, 1997 UW CSE B.S.	Stanford Ph.D. -> Microsoft Research http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/joda/