The advisory board of the CS department is a group of industrial, business, legislative and professional leaders interested in the vitality of the CS department at K-State. The board helps the CS department strengthen its learning, research and outreach programs; improve its facilities; expand its base of support; and serve its alumni. Board members actively participate in the continual assessment of the department's progress and the development of department/industry partnerships. Specifically, advisory board members are asked to —
Provide advice from the perspective of alumni, successful computing science and software engineering practitioners, industry and business leaders, and other external entities regarding the relevance of our programs and the effectiveness of our internal operations
Provide a connection between our faculty and students on campus and the various industries the board members represent
Provide leadership to the many K-State CS alumni in the form of service and financial support
Alexandru Bardas: Associate Professor, University of Kansas
Kacy Clarke: Chief Technology Officer, CHIEFLY&CO
Jordan DeLoach: VP of Engineering at Scaled Cognition
Amit Gupta: Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft Corp
Scott Hale:Director of AI, Molex
Kyle Hill: Software Engineering Manager, Garmin International
Jennifer Jordan: Chief Scientist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Andrew King: Director, Autonomy Platform, DoorDash Labs
Lara Kwartin:Technical Program Manager @ Amazon | Cross-Selling, Agile, E-commerce
Justin Morrison: Senior Director, CareAware Development at Oracle
Ben Sebree: Senior Vice President of Product Management (R&D), CivicPlus
Ryan Summerskill:Global Director of Products & Technology, Veritas Prime
Dustin Wiens: Technical Lead iOS Software Engineer, Garmin International
Bill Cary
Susan Chambers
Terry Ecklund
Lynn Frick: Database Administrator, Kansas State University Foundation
Dominic Gelinas
Jerry Havemann: Vice President (retired), Cargill
Mary Lou Hines Fritts: CIO, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Connie Jaynes
Martin Malley
Azfar Moazzam: Engineering Manager, Google
Don Mounday: Falcon Technology Group
Brian Rempe: President, CivicPlus
Mark Schonhoff: Vice President, Cerner Corporation
Ken Switzer
Jacqualine Trombly: Operations Director (retired), Lucent Technologies
Norm Tsiguloff
Neil Tucker
Ray Vaugh
Dennis Yeo: Founder, Multigen-Paradigm
Tieren Zhou
Kevin Elmore: Executive Chairman, TopBloc (IT Services); Managing Partner, Round Three LLC