Fall 2025 Career Talks
Join us at Noon in ITE 459 this semester!
RSVP to each individual event below
lunch provided for those that rsvp
Mission-Driven Technology: Careers and Impact at RealmOne – Dec 4
RSVP for the RealmOne Discussion
Thursday, December 4, 12-1pm
ITE 459
Join us for the final Fall 2025 Career Talk on Thursday, December 4 at 12 p.m. in ITE 459, co-hosted by the Fort Meade Alliance.
Professionals from RealmOne will share how their team advances national security through cutting-edge work in cybersecurity, data science, and software development. Learn how RealmOne blends innovation and mission focus to tackle some of today’s most complex defense challenges, and discover what career paths exist for students passionate about using technology for impact.
Lunch provided for those who RSVP
Previous Career Talk Event Information and Recordings
Careers in Non-Profit IT: Insights from The Trevor Project – Wednesday, Sept 10
Join IT professionals Paul Pham, Will Young, Allie Kintner, and Ben Busath from The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGBTQ+ young people. Learn about career opportunities in the nonprofit sector, the role of technology in supporting life-saving services, and how IT skills can make a difference.
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Women in Tech: Career Journeys & Insights
In collaboration with UMBC’s Center for Women in Technology (CWIT), join Bri Bellavati (COO, SmartLogic), Anna Mykhailova (Director of Technology, Kalamuna), and Rachel Sax (Consultant, W4Sight) for a candid discussion on building successful careers in technology. This panel will cover career journeys, job-hunting strategies, and perspectives on today’s tech industry. The session will begin with guided questions and conclude with an open Q&A.
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Soft Skills: Knowing Your Audience
Join Rahul K. Razdan ’05, information systems (Principal IT Architect, Qualcomm), Patricia Grant (Chief Information Officer, Tenable), Shaneen Trotman (Director of People and Culture, Precise Software Solutions, Inc.), and Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry (Chief Information Officer, Precise Software Solutions, Inc.)for a conversation on the importance of soft skills in the workplace. Soft skills are personal traits and abilities not typically taught in the classroom and are essential for navigating job interviews, building professional relationships, and succeeding as a full-time employee. This session is designed for undergraduate and graduate students entering today’s competitive job market, offering practical advice on knowing your audience and standing out as a strong candidate.
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Gaming for Good: Career Paths and Community Impact
Are you interested in a career in gaming? Join us for a special event cohosted with the UMBC Game Developers Club, where industry leaders will share their insights and experiences. You’ll hear from Marc Almanzor, who uses gaming to drive nonprofit fundraising; Tronster Hartley, a senior developer at Firaxis Games known for his work on Civilization and XCOM; Tony Li, founder of Pixel Crushers and creator of narrative AI tools; and Ryan Griffin, an artist at Bit Reactor and president of the Baltimore IGDA. This panel will give you a behind-the-scenes look at different career paths in gaming, from development and art to AI and community impact. Don’t miss this chance to explore where your passion for games could take you.
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Careers at the Intersection of Technology and Social Good
Join Chad Capellman – Director of Business Development, Anna Mykailova – Director of Technology, Jeff Hebert (he/him) – Senior WordPress Lead, and Sean Lehane (he/him) – Associate Director of Projects for an engaging session on careers at mission-driven tech companies. Kalamuna partners with socially impactful organizations to tackle pressing challenges, blending digital expertise with purpose-driven work. Learn how technology, strategy, and design can come together to create meaningful solutions, and hear advice for students who want to leverage their skills to make a positive impact in the world. This session is perfect for students passionate about using technology to drive social good.
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Sharing the Stack: What 20 Years in Development Can Teach You
Join us for a special discussion with Scott Stroz, MySQL Developer Advocate at Oracle, who brings over 20 years of experience as a developer across multiple languages. Throughout his career, MySQL has been the one constant in his toolkit, and he’s passionate about sharing his knowledge to help the next generation of technologists learn from his journey. This is a great opportunity for UMBC Information Systems students to gain insights from an industry expert and deepen their understanding of one of the most widely used database systems in the world.
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Careers in Public Sector Technology with Precise Solutions
Join Roman Zhelenko (Senior Director, Business Development & Capture), Arun Sanna (Solutions/Enterprise Architect), John Nguyen (Senior Business Analyst), and Harinder Singh (Senior Cloud Engineer) from Precise Solutions for an engaging session on technology careers that make an impact. For over a decade, Precise Solutions has delivered performance excellence, agility, and innovation to advance public sector missions. As a trusted advisor to government technology leaders, the company drives modernization, safeguards systems, and enables effective mission delivery through strategic consulting, digital transformation, cloud implementation, and data analytics.
Learn about career paths in public sector technology and get insider advice on how to launch your career right out of college. Precise Solutions was founded by Dr. Zhensen Huang, M.S. ’00, Ph.D. ’04, Information Systems.
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Connecting Innovation and Impact: Career Pathways at AT&T
In collaboration with the Fort Meade Alliance and ISSA, join us for our next Fall 2025 Career Talk featuring technology professionals from AT&T’s government sector on Tuesday, November 18 at 12 p.m. in ITE 459!
Hear from Rachael Cangelosi, Rob Collins, Candace Reigel, and April Martinez, with Joe Samek moderating the discussion, as they share their experiences working at the intersection of engineering, program management, and national security.
This panel will dive into how to build a rewarding career in STEM—from finding mentors and navigating challenges to applying your classroom knowledge in the real world. Students will gain insight into how engineers and program managers at AT&T use their technical expertise to solve complex problems that matter.
Whether you’re just starting out or preparing for your next career step, this is a great chance to learn directly from industry professionals who have been where you are now.
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WISS Seminar Series
Dr. Tarannum Shaila Zaman – Nov 19
Assistant Professor Tarannum Shaila Zaman will be giving a research talk Wednesday, November 19 at 12 noon in ITE 459.
Join us virtually at this link.
Bio:
Tarannum Shaila Zaman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Before joining UMBC, she served as an Assistant Professor at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York.
Dr. Zaman earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 2022 under the supervision of Dr. Tingting Yu. She also holds an M.S. (2013) and a B.Sc. (2011) in Computer Science from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Her research is in the field of Software Engineering, with the overarching goal of developing methods and tools that improve the autonomy, efficiency, security, and usability of computer systems. She is particularly interested in the challenges of complex software applications, with a focus on concurrent and distributed systems. To address these challenges, she applies techniques from data mining, natural language processing, generative AI, and program analysis.
Abstract:
Reproducing system-level concurrency bugs requires both input data and the precise interleaving order of system calls. This process is challenging because such bugs are non-deterministic, and bug reports often lack the detailed information needed. Additionally, the unstructured nature of reports written in natural language makes it difficult to extract necessary details.Existing tools are inadequate to reproduce these bugs due to their inability to manage the specific interleaving at the system call level. To address these challenges, we propose SysPro, a novel approach that automatically extracts relevant system call names from bug reports and identifies their locations in the source code. It generates input data by utilizing information retrieval, regular expression matching, and the category-partition method. This extracted input and interleaving data are then used to reproduce bugs through dynamic source code instrumentation. Our empirical study on real-world benchmarks demonstrates that SysPro is both effective and efficient at localizing and reproducing system-level concurrency bugs from bug reports.
Dr. Md Tariqul Islam – Dec 3
Assistant Professor Md Tariqul Islam will be giving a research talk Wednesday, December 3 at 12 noon in ITE 459.
Join us virtually here.
Bio: