Logistics
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?
- What do you need to know in order to succeed, that you don't
learn in your classes or during an internship?
- Why might you choose graduate school vs. tech industry
employment after graduation?
These should be great, informative, interactive sessions. This
seminar was very well received during the offerings in 2011, 2012,
2013, and 2014. But it's up to you - you need to make it interactive!
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
Send email to course members by using the address
cse390l_wi15 at uw.edu.
The archive of email is available
here.
The lineup
Take a look at the lineups from the
2014,
2013,
2012,
and
2011
offerings.
Tuesdays, 1:30, CSE 305
| Date |
Room |
Guest(s) |
Experience |
| January 6 |
CSE 305 |
Panel of young alums:
Jennifer Apacible, 2014 UW CSE B.S.
Mai Dang, 2012 U.W. CSE B.S.
Clint Tseng, 2010 UW CSE B.S.
Taylor Williams, 2014 UW CSE B.S.
|
These alums are still individual contributors - entry-level engineers - at:
Google
Microsoft
Socrata
Intentional Software
|
| January 13 |
CSE 305 |
Panel of CSE graduate students:
Nicki Dell (technology for development)
Greg Nelson (human-computer interaction)
Jeff Snyder (visualization)
Irene Zhang (distributed systems)
|
These CSE graduate students were undergraduates at:
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Georgetown Univ. -> Deloitte Consulting -> Abt Associates
Princeton Univ.
MIT -> VMware
|
| January 20 |
CSE 305 |
Mike Koss
Slides (pdf)
|
Microsoft (19 years) -> various startups -> Google
|
| January 27 |
CSE 305 |
Brian Pinkerton, 1999 UW CSE Ph.D.
Slides (pdf)
|
NeXT -> WebCrawler -> AOL -> Excite -> A9 -> various startups -> A9
|
| February 3 |
CSE 305 |
Brandon Ballinger, 2006 UW CSE B.S.
Slides (pdf)
|
Google -> Sift Science (co-founder) -> healthcare.gov
|
| February 10 |
CSE 305 |
Jason Murray, 1996 UW CSE B.S.
|
BSquare -> Amazon (VP, Forecasting & Supply Chain)
|
| February 17 |
CSE 305 |
Mohamed El-Zohairy, 2007 UW CSE B.S.
Slides (Haiku Deck)
|
Technivance -> Polar Mobile -> UBC (graduate school) -> NileTap (co-founder) -> CloudPress (co-founder) -> acquired by News Corp
|
| February 24 |
CSE 305 |
Ben Hindman, 2006 UW CSE B.S.
|
UC Berkeley (graduate school) -> Twitter (via Apache Mesos)
|
| March 3 |
CSE 305 |
Carolyn Hughes, 2007 UW CSE B.S.
Tim Prouty, 2006 UW CSE B.S.
Slides (pdf)
(pptx)
|
EMC Isilon
|
| March 10 |
CSE 305 |
Robert Morton
Kristi Morton
Slides (pdf)
(pptx)
|
National Instruments -> Intel -> Tableau Software
CSE graduate student
|
