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About the Business Transfer Program
Mission: The mission of the BCC Business Transfer Program is to create an exciting learning environment where high standards are set for students; innovative curriculum and great faculty creates high retention and high achievement; all students are welcome, diversity is valued and inclusion is the norm; and our graduates excel in further studies and their careers.
Our
Program
What we are
o The Business Transfer Program allows students to attain a two-year Associate in Business and transfer to state public universities to complete a bachelors degree in business.
o The program has 1000 majors completing the first two years of a four-year business degree, an estimated 200 to 400 students considering the major.
o We are the largest Business Transfer Program in the state and we transfer the largest number of students to the University of Washington Business School (ranked in the top 20 in the country).
o We have over 20 faculty including eight certified accountants and seven lawyers, some who have won awards and all who have extensive industry experience.
Access
o Business core courses including Accounting 210, 220, 230, Law (GBUS 202 and BA 200) and Statistics (BA 240) are offered every quarter.
o We have a dual enrollment program with the University of Washington, Bothell where students are admitted to the UW Bothell Business School but complete their first two years at BCC.
o Students also have the option of completing their four-year management degree from Eastern Washington University right on our campus.
o We offer all our courses online and along with Washington State University make accessible an online business degree.
o We have an email listserv that keeps students informed of important deadlines and upcoming events.
o We have a tutoring center manned by volunteer students that provides support to students in accounting and statistics.
Innovation and
Excellence
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Our
program gives many of the experiences of a four-year business school. We have developed
a multicultural consulting course
(ETHN 241) that gives our students invaluable experience
working with a real business and mentored by industry professionals from the
Bellevue Rotary or large corporations. This course has been commended by the Washington
state legislature and won a national award.
o We are working with colleges in China to develop joint programs for Chinese and US students to learn together. We already have signed a sister agreement with Shanghai Business School, a college with over 11,000 students and 6 campuses.
o Along with our corporate sponsor, The Boeing Company, we offer the biennial Connect to (create hyperlink to Connect to Your Future page) Your Future student career conference that informs over 1600 students about high-demand careers.
o Financial Education at BCC, a program to spread objective financial education throughout the state of Washington has reached over 3000 people, was featured in the Seattle Times and was commended by Governor Gregoire as a model for the nation.
o The Business Leadership Club (link) mounts many events to help students learn about careers including an accounting job shadow, speakers from Starbucks, Costco, venture capital firms and student entrepreneurs. Every year we hold over 12 events attended by 800 students.
Success
o Close to 250 students graduate from our program each year. Our alumni have transferred to the University of Washington (Seattle. Bothell and Tacoma), Seattle University, Western Washington University, Central Washington University, Stanford, Columbia, University of Arizona, University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of Southern California, University of Hawaii, and others.
o Our students have positions of responsibility at Boeing, KPMG, Alaska Air, Weyerhauser, Washington Mutual, Microsoft, Deloitte, prominent small businesses and more. They form our extensive alumni network that continues to provide advice and mentoring to our students.
o In 2007 over 120 of our alum graduated from the University of Washington (all campuses) including the winner of the University of Washington Bothell Chancellor’s award: Jayne Collins.
Faculty
We have five full-time faculty in our program who are committed to our students, our program and each other. Dr. Judy Woo has spearheaded the active recruiting of the most highly-qualified and diverse faculty. Our faculty includes eight certified accountants and seven JDs. All our faculty have significant industry experience. Of the twenty faculty who currently teach in our program, ten (50%) are faculty of color.
Staff Support
Janice Grayson, the Business Academic Advisor, conducts a phenomenal 1500 academic advising appointments in a year. She is supported by our capable administrative staff of Deanna Tiplin, Glenda Coma and Evelyn Kasama, who are totally knowledgeable in jumpstarting the advising process. Janice also maintains the Business Division website which provides invaluable information on our program and transfer requirements. She also created a business listserv which informs our students of pressing deadlines, speakers, internships and events. (To subscribe, send a message to lyris@list.bcc.ctc.edu and write SUBSCRIBE bccbusiness in the body of your email.) Through Janice's efforts, we have forged strong relationships with all the major four-year business schools which regularly come on campus to provide our students with important information that get them to the front of the pack in the admissions process.
Student Support
Rich Bratz manages the statistics and accounting tutoring center, including recruiting the mainly volunteer students who serve as tutors. The tutoring center is housed right outside full-time faculty offices in A255 and gives students open access to faculty whenever they are available. We know that contact with faculty outside of class time is important to student engagement and our faculty is fully committed to helping all our students. Additionally, the tutoring center has become a meeting place for our student teams, supports our online courses, and encourages students to study together--all best practices to student success.
Student Engagement
Judith Paquette, 2007 Margin of Excellence winner, is the lead faculty advisor of our Business Leadership Learning Community, a extensive network of current students, alumni in four-year institutions such as UW and Seattle U, and alumni successfully launched in their careers. We know that the future of our students depends not just on academic advising but on contact with practicing professionals who can give invaluable advice on career advancement and who can open up vistas that our students have never considered. This is especially important for students who do not come from privileged backgrounds or backgrounds where they were exposed to businesses. The Business Leadership Learning Community is another opportunity to foster student engagement. Every year the student leaders of the BLC mount an incredible program that bring prominent business executives on campus, include field trips to companies such as Costco where our students met executives, shadowing at accounting firms, and social events. We are extremely proud of our student leaders many who have stepped up to running for student government positions at BCC and UW.
Innovative Curriculum
The recent transfer memorandum from the University of Washington stresses the importance of relevant experience in the admissions process. The Business Transfer program through Leslie Lum has been in the forefront of innovative curriculum to give our students relevant experiential learning. In conjunction with Ethnic Studies, we have developed an integrated course where students can participate in a significant learning experience (Multicultural Entrepreneurship and Consulting GBUS/ETHN 241) that partners with the Small Business Development Center, other educational institutions for curriculum development (UWBS Seattle and Bothell, and City University), industry for mentorship (the Bellevue Rotary Club, Frank Russell, Port of Seattle, and The Boeing Company have provided mentors for the student teams), and economic development entities (City of Bellevue, King County, and the Port of Seattle). Leslie works closely with professors at the University of Washington's Business and Economic Center (BEDC) in which technical assistance is given to women- and minority-owned businesses and metrics are tracked.
This course is one of the core services offered by the Bellevue Entrepreneur Center of which our program was a founding member. BCC students have provided over 15,000 consulting hours with a market value of over $500,000 to businesses and organizations such as Asia Pacific Language School, Academic Edge (woman-owned), Milt's BBQ (African American owned) and the Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. This contributed to the total economic impact of over $10 million provided by the Bellevue Entrepreneur Center. Of the businesses in this program, revenues increased over 50%. This course won a national award in service learning and was commended by the Washington State Legislature as a contributor to small business development. It was cited as a model program in the Prosperity Partnership's New and Small Business Support Initiative, on of the six Foundation Initiatives proposed to drive economic prosperity in our region. For more information on this course, click here.
Faculty mentorship has played a major role in the success of our alumni and these examples are a case in point. Our student tutors (who represent our most engaged students) have been particularly diligent in maintaining contact with faculty who continue to mentor them past their time at BCC. Faculty mentors student tutors by using their network of connections to arrange internships and other activities that assist in career development. Our students have taken full advantage of these opportunities and used them as stepping stones to achievement. They have also been very generous in mentoring the students who follow behind them.
2007 Chancellor's Medalist at UWB is BCC Business Transfer alumna Jayne Collins.
Shortly after beginning her studies in June 2005, Jayne was diagnosed with breast cancer and her life took a drastic turn. She was forced to leave school and endure chemotherapy and surgery in order to take care of her illness. Upon her return in January 2006, an anxious Jayne was ready to resume her full-time schedule, but regaining her health was a priority so Jayne had to reduce her workload for a few quarters due to ongoing treatment. Jayne is the first in her family to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a 3.73 GPA. (from UW Bothell Graduation Program).
Jayne's Wisdom Tips for BCC Students:
Don't let life's strugglers get in the way of your education: It's never too late to go to school. I started at BCC when I was 41 and graduated from UW Bothell with honors at 46.
Realize that career goals may change over time! Company layoffs, etc. medical problems (such as breast cancer) and other life issues will change the direction you head in. Be ready for change--it's the only constant in life.
Make time to volunteer--it will change your outlook on life and make you a better person, plus it will expand your circle of friends.
Our
alumni have transferred to the University of Washington (Seattle and Bothell),
Seattle University, Western Washington University, Central Washington
University, Eastern Washington, Stanford, Columbia, University of Arizona,
University of Nevada Las Vegas, USC, and others. Our current contingent of graduating
students has committed to creating student blogs at UW-Seattle, UW-Bothell and
Columbia University to let our students know how life will change when they
reach their four-year institutions and other helpful advice for success. Our
alumni include Angel Kelchev who went on to Stanford with a Jack Kent Cooke
Scholarship, but we are equally proud of all our alumni including the
following:
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Brooke DeBay BCC Business Transfer "02. Brooke worked on an internship at Expedia arranged by BCC faculty.
Masters in Accounting, '04 University of Washington, Seattle.
Brooke completed her Masters in Accounting in four instead of the usual five years. While at the UW she received the WA Promise Scholarship and the Lorig Foundation Scholarship. She was on the Business School Dean’s List. Brooke now worked as an auditor at Deloitte & Touche and is now at Alaska Air. |
Yunice Fong BCC Business Transfer '01 Yunice worked as a statistics and math tutor while at BCC and faculty-arranged internships at Expedia and Smith Barney.
BA in Accounting '03, Seattle University.
While at Seattle U, Yunice received the Peach Foundation Scholarship, G. Robert Truex Scholarship, a Seattle University Grant, Accounting Associates Fund Seattle University Scholarship, and the Associated Students of Seattle University Service Award. Since graduating from Seattle U., Yunice worked as the controller of an investment company, as a finance manager at WDS Global, and is now in KPMG's CFOAdvisory/Consulting Group.
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Carl Cornish BCC Business Transfer '02. Carl was a statistics tutor while at BCC and worked as an intern for the Northwest Entrepreneur's Network which was arranged by BCC faculty.
BA in Business Administration, Finance and Management '04, Seattle University.
Carl graduated magna cum laude from Seattle U and garnered many honors including being one of 7 Seattle U. and 800 students nationally selected for the RISE national symposium on investing. He was also a Student Advisor. Carl was the lead financial analyst in the customer service department (the second largest budget) of Puget Sound Energy and currently works in Boeing Capital as a financial analyst.
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Matt Keller BCC Business Transfer '03. Matt was a statistics tutor while at BCC.
Bachelors in Business Administration with concentration in Finance '05, University of Washington, Bothell.
Consistently on the Dean's List at UW Bothell, Matt is graduated in June 05. Matt is a consultant at Proviti which specializes in risk assessment and internal auditing.
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Rae Kang BCC Business Transfer "04. Rae was an officer in the Business Leadership Club.
Bachelors in Business Administration, '07 University of Washington, Bothell. Rae Kang was recently hired into a full-time position in The Boeing Company's Business Foundation Program that targets high achievers. She is one of only ten people in the Puget Sound area selected for this prestigious program.
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Tony Cruz BCC Business Transfer '05 Bachelors in Business Administration, '06 University of Washington, Bothell
Tony worked as a financial analyst at Precor and recently was selected to the rotational program at Washington Mutual winning one of eight positions out of 300 candidates.
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Michael Wang BCC Business Transfer '05 Officer in Business Leadership Club Bachelors in Business Administration, '07 University of Washington, Bothell
Founder of the Business Leadership Club Michael was hired as a financial analyst at Weyerhauser.
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Jimmy Chang BCC Business Transfer '02 Bachelors in Business Administration, '04 University of Washington, Seattle
Tutor for the Business Transfer program has
been on the fast track program at Ford since graduation from UW. He is
currently a Systems Designer in Ford's Export Operations & Global Growth
Initiatives. Jimmy is also a professional photographer and expert fly
fisherman.
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| Matt McCaffey, former accounting tutor, is in the Accounting Program at Washington Mutual. | Jason Wiser received his Masters in tax from the University of Washington and is an accountant at Clarke Nuber. | David Engle received his BA in Economics from Columbia University and is a financial analyst with Black Rock hedge fund management. | Luke Tracy is a financial consultant with a major brokerage firm. |
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| Tom Harrington, former BLC president, is at American University studying International Relations. | |||
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| Andrew Buenbrazo transferred the UW Seattle Business School. | Andrey Norhkin is at the UW Bothell Business School. | Chenying Deng is at the UW Seattle Business School. | Kevin Hsu is at the UW Seattle Business School. |
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| Ryan Gray is at the UW Seattle Business School. | Esteban Martinez is at CWU Lynnwood. | Danica Coonan is at the UW Seattle Business School. | Michael Nachmanson is at the UW Bothell Business School. |
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| Efrain Moreno-Salamanca is at the UW Bothell Business School. | Brooke Phillips is at the UW Bothell Business School. | Cicilia Tjang, former president of the International Students' Association is at UW Seattle Business School. | Sakina Iqbal is at the UW Bothell Business School. |
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| Dalun Jin is at the UW Seattle Business School. | Felicity Chamberlain is at the UW Bothell Business School. | Tutor Dan Boulton is studying in Japan at Temple University. | Brian Clark was accepted in UW Seattle Business School. |
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| Wei-Ping Wang, BLC officer, is at Seattle University in the International Business Program. | Amir Turulja, BLC officer, is at the UW Bothell Business School. | Meng McCaw is at the UW Seattle Business School. | ASG officer Jose Vasquez is at the UW Seattle Business School. |
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Tutor Matt McCaffey
is at UW Seattle Business School. |
Tutor Dan Geller
is at UW Bothell. |
BLC VP Communication Stacy
Lee is at UW Seattle Business School. |
Tutor Frank Fagaoga
is at the Albers School of Business at Seattle U. Frank won the prestigious
General Motors Scholarship. |
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Tutor Michael Jennings
is at UW Seattle Business School. |
Tutor Angie Douglas
is at UW Seattle Business School. She is planning to pursue her masters in
accounting. |
BLC organizer, Alice Mueckl
is at UW Seattle Business School. |
BLC Co-President Yelena
Isakova is at UW Seattle Business School. |
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Tutor Abe Kim is
at the UW Seattle Business School. |
BLC Treasurer Lauren Hall is
at UW Bothell Business School. |
Shunsik Chin chose the UW Seattle Business School over USC which also accepted her. |
Jeff Chalfan is at the UW Bothell Business School. |
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Tutor Vera Plokhova
is in the accounting program at Central Washington University. |
Connect to Your Future Student Ambassador Matthew Weeks is at the UW Seattle Business
School. |
Connect to Your Future Student Ambassador Luis Silva-Behrens is at the UW Seattle
Business School. He has already secured a position in investment banking internship with JP
Morgan Chase winning over candidates from Ivy League school. |
Michael Bruggeman is at the UW Seattle. |
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Connect to Your Future Student Ambassador Scott Barker is at the UW Bothell Business
School. |
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Business Transfer Faculty and Staff
The Business
Transfer Program believes that excellent faculty is at the core of excellent
learning. All our faculty have the highest academic and professional
qualifications. All have extensive industry experience.
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Full-time Faculty and Advisors |
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Rich Bratz |
Rich is full-time faculty teaching
accounting. As a certified public accountant (CPA), he has directed
controllership, treasury and accounting information systems for corporate
subsidiaries in transportation, industrial land development and public
utility industries. Rich has also managed consolidated financial
reporting and control, administration of employee benefits, temporary cash
investments, insurance and risk management, stockholder relations of an
investment company and was the controller of a homebuilder company. He received
his MBA from Cal State.
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Dr. Judy Woo |
Judy teaches statistical analysis
and business-related topics. On occasion, she has taught at the University of
Washington in the area of organizational behavior and management. Her current
interests include policy development and working with human resources to
develop stronger programs to support culturally diverse adjunct faculty. She
also chairs the Board of Cross Cultural Health Care Program in Seattle, a
non-profit organization whose mission is to bridge access to health care for
underserved, multicultural communities. She received her PhD from the
University of Washington with an interdisciplinary focus on organizational
behavior and development, health care services, research methodology and
managerial accounting. |
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Judith Paquette |
Judith is full-time faculty with
over ten years of accounting industry experience at Motorola, PACCAR, Western
Wireless and Gottschalks. Her industry accounting responsibilities
included general and cost accounting, audit, payroll, systems selection and
development, department reengineering, TQM, financial planning and
training. Judith has a MBA from Golden Gate University and a BS California State University. She holds the CMA (Certified Management Accountant) designation and is active in accountant and teaching organizations. Judith is also the advisor for the Business Leadership Club. Judith won the Margin of Excellence award from the college in 2007 signifying exemplary performance. |
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Leslie Lum |
Leslie is full-time faculty
teaching statistics, investing, and introduction to business. She has taught
at the UW Business School-Seattle, will teach in the MBA program at UW
Bothell, and sits on the UW Business and Economic Development Program. Leslie
authored Personal Investing published by South-Western in 2002
and coauthored Marketing and Managing in a Multicultural Environment
with Thad Spratlen and Michael Verchot of the University of Washington. She is
currently writing a set of curriculum to teach the people of Washington state
about financial education. Leslie has extensive industry experience including strategic planning at a Fortune 100 now part of Citigroup, investment banking with the global bank HSBC, and general management of a retail start-up. She has a MBA from Columbia University.
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Winnie Li |
Xiao (Winnie) Li was a teaching
and research assistant in Statistics at California State University at
Hayward. She was one of three students out of 230 who won the 2005 George J.
Resnikoff Memorial Scholarship. She also won the best TA of the year award in
2001. She has a MS in Statistics from CSU Hayward and a BS in Computer
Science and Engineering from UC Davis.
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Brad Fader |
Brad has worked in finance and
accounting for The Boeing Company for the past eighteen years. His
responsibilities have included business planning and cost analysis. Brad
holds an MBA from Seattle University and a BA from the University of
Washington. |
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Karrin Klotz |
Karrin was in-house counsel for
Wall Data, Microsoft. Amdahl, and Apple prior to having her own practice. She
teaches courses on intellectual property and legal issues in new technologies
at Seattle University and the UW. Karrin received her JD from the University
of Wisconsin. |
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Louis Watanabe |
Louis has 18 years experience in
various software marketing and engineering positions including Digital
Equipment and Wall Data. He is a cofounder with Nathan Myhrvold of Dynamical
Systems Research which developed windowing technology acquired by Microsoft
and introduced in Windows v3.0. Louis has written articles on management,
public affairs, technology and edited a book on ethnic markets. He holds an
MBA from Loyola Marymount and a BA from UCLA.
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Kevin Rainge |
Kevin is currently an attorney
with Microsoft. He was Assistant Director at Harborview Medical Center Human
Resources. He has been an investigation and resolution manager for the
University of Washington, a contract attorney and a special deputy prosecutor
for King County. Kevin received his JD from the University of Oregon Law
School and his BA from the UC Davis. |
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Dan Yamasaki |
Dan has worked as a health care
statistician for Swedish Hospital and is currently a statistician at Premera
Blue Cross. He holds a MA in Biostatistics from UC Berkeley, MS (Biostatistics)
from the University of Washington, and a MBA from City University. |
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Armikka Bryant |
Armikka received his JD from the
University of Iowa and a Masters of Laws in Taxation from the University of
Washington. Armikka has previously done work for General Motors and was
Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, NY. He did his undergraduate degree
at the University of Michigan and was an attorney at Preston, Gates and Ellis
specializing in commercial litigation and e-Discovery. He is currently a
clerk for a Washington state judge. |
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Paul Johnson |
Paul is a CPA in private practice.
He has had a number of accounting and financial management positions
specializing in federal tax compliance, small business accounting and
accounting systems including Comptroller of the Alaska Air National Guard. He
was an officer in the US Air Force and received his Master of Science from
the University of North Dakota. |
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Dr. Michael Brown |
Michael practices civil rights law
and has taught at WSU, EWU and several community colleges in the area. He has
published extensively in history, American Studies, Ethnic studies and law.
He received his BA from Whitman, his MA in history from the University of
Maine, his JD from Temple University and his PhD in history from Washington
State University. |
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Shawn McCord |
Shawn worked for Deloitte Touche before
starting his own private practice as an accountant. He received his Masters
in Accounting from Brigham Young University and holds the CPA designation. |
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Margie Biliske |
Margie Biliske is the founder of State and Local Tax Accounting, a firm that investigates and audits Fortune 500 companies. She was previously manager of state and local tax for McGladrey and Pullen, a senior tax analyst for Immunex and a senior revenue auditor for the State of Washington. She holds a BS in accounting, a BA in Business Administration, Summa Cum Laude, and a Masters in Professional Accountancy, Cum Laude, from Central Washington University. She holds the CPA designation as well as the Certified Fraud Examiner designation. |
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Peter Van Tuyl |
Peter has extensive industry
experience including Director of Budget for Compass Health and Shareholder in
Charge of Taxation and Litigation Support of a public accounting firm. He
received his MS in taxation from Golden Gate University and his BA in
Business from the University of Washington. Peter holds the CPA designation. |
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Regina Paulose |
Regina is an attorney at Preston
Gates in the Data Analysis Group. She has been a commissioner on the Seattle
Human Rights Commission. She has a JD from Seattle University and received
her BS from the University of Miami where she was twice an All-American
Debate Team member. |
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Ed has extensive industry experience most recently as a marketing manager with Nintendo and Microsoft. He has been a consultant with Deloitte Touche among other companies. He received hi | |||
