| Rachel Holst (Gossett) |
Math Education |
1999 |
Contractor |
Contracting (part-time) from home in the standardized
testing industry while I stay home with our
two kids. I first worked as a high school math teacher
for 5 years, then as a math test development (standardized
tests) specialist for two years.
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| Jami Eckerle (Hillenbrand) |
Math |
1998 |
Supervisor |
I work in a division called Financial Institution
Group at Securian where our clients are credit unions
and banks who offer Securian's products (credit
insurance and debt protection) to their borrowers. I
am on the Client Implementations team and my job is to
make sure financial institution's data processing systems
are set up to accurately charge premium/fees. My math
degree comes in handy because I look at premium
calculations and formulas every day (yes, some formulas
have a-angles, s-angles, and all that good interest
theory stuff).
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| Beth Johnson |
Math Education |
1998 |
Teacher |
I teach Middle School math & coach track in Richfield, MN.
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| David L Wetzell |
Math |
1997 |
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I earned a PhD in Economics.
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| Mark Nelson |
Computer Science |
1996 |
Consultant |
I work at Accenture, which is a management, consulting,
and outsourcing company with 200,000 employees around the world.
I started with Accenture as an intern while I was still in
school at Bethel. I am the lead engineer for our internal
email system, which includes user mailboxes, mail client
access, mobile phone access, voicemail integration,
anti-spam/anti-virus filtering, and application integration.
I design, plan, test, and deploy changes and new features for
the email system, and provide escalation support for our help
desk and server administrators. I also work with our IT
leadership and client projects to take business requirements
and turn them into technical solutions.
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| Ellen Anderson (Stoltenow) |
Math |
1995 |
Sr. Project Manager |
I work at Thomson Reuters as a Sr. Project Manager.
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| Joshua Anderson |
Computer Science |
1995 |
Principal Software Engineer |
I currently work as a software engineer at Data Sciences International, which specializes in physiologic monitoring and analysis via wireless implantable devices.
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| Amy Johnson |
Math Education |
1995 |
Teacher |
I was a teacher in Japan for several years, now teaching
high school at a small K-12 school in MN.
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| Laurie Varecka (Heide) |
Math |
1995 |
Undergraduate Program Coordinator |
Taught math at University of Arizona, now the Undergraduate
Program Coordinator for the math department. My new job involves
advising a significant number of our undergraduate math majors.
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| Chris Meidt |
Math |
1992 |
Assistant Football Coach |
Assistant Football Coach Washington Redskins. MBA from Carlson
School at UMN, First worked as an IT Systems Analyst for
Burlington Northern, then a math instructor and Offensive
Coordinator from 1995-2001 at Bethel, and was St. Olaf's head
football coach from 2002-2008. Problem solving, organizing data,
situational analysis are football related skills that have
allowed me to excel at every level, never more so than in the NFL.
Being able to quickly evaluate, analyze and make a decision over
complex data sets is a skill I use a game day, providing the head
coach with recommendations needed to make game changing decisions.
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| Janet Lindstrom (Holmes) |
Math |
1990 |
Actuary |
Actuarial - Construction, D&E, National Accts, Wexford
& Alt Markets, now Senior Vice President & Corporate Actuary at Arch
Insurance in NY, NY.
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| Bill Kinney |
Math |
1990 |
Professor |
I earned a PhD in Math from the U of MN, Professor at
Bethel since 1998. I teach a variety of courses at Bethel,
but my favorites are the calculus sequence, differential
equations, and real analysis. I love being able to work
with students and help them to learn about amazing topics
and applications of math. I also love using Mathematica
as a visualization, learning, and research tool.
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| Stephanie Pearson (Kondes) |
Math |
1990 |
Business Analyst |
I have been employed at 3M Company for 17 years. My
range of jobs have been diverse - customer service,
supply chain analyst, project leader and my current
position as business analyst. I enjoy working with
people and data - a mix for me is always good. I
received an MBA in Marketing from University of St.
Thomas in 2000.
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| Joe LaLuzerne |
Math |
1988 |
Senior Vice President |
Former Bethel Alum. Director (had been at Anderson
Consulting for several years), now Sr VP Strategic Plan
Research at Bethel
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| David Smythe |
CS |
1988 |
PMTS |
I'm a software developer at Sandia National Laboratories. We do a
variety of work to assist other government partners. Past projects
I've participated in involved embedded systems engineering, device
drivers, and various low-level OS activities. Prior to Sandia I did
network and routing protocol development at Zhone Technologies,
Bravara and NEO Networks, secure-OS work at Secure Computing
Corporation, and PBX call-processing and embedded applications work at
Siemens and IBM. At home I hack around in Common Lisp and Scheme.
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| Curt Koehn |
Computer Science |
1987 |
Senior Technical Architect |
I currently work in the Stores Development IT
department at Target where they develop solutions for the
operation of our stores. As a Senior Technical
Architect, I am responsible for defining and providing
architectural guidance and governance to the projects in
my department.
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| Melinda Connon (Bradshaw) |
Math Education |
1987 |
High School Math Teacher |
I currently teach HS math at Earlham High School,
Earlham, IA, with two courses for dual credit through DMACC.
I have also taught at Aurora Christian School (IL), Rockford
Christian School (IL), Rain Forest International School
(Cameroon, Africa), and Iowa Valley Community College.
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| Patrice Conrath (Pedersen) |
Math |
1986 |
Professor |
When I came to Bethel as a student, I wanted to be an optometrist,
and was a math/chem. double major for 2 years. Then, my love for
math took over, so I became a math major with chem. & physics
minors. I wanted more math background, and thought I would end up
in industry, so I went to grad. school in math at the U of OK. I
never dreamed that I would teach or return to Bethel as a math prof.
But while in grad. school, I taught several courses and really enjoyed
this experience, and also found a love for Operations Research. When
a one year sabbatical replacement became available at Bethel, I took
the opportunity and was hooked! But, after the one year, there were no
positions available; so, I went back to grad school at the U of MN and
got a second masters in transportation engineering. During this time,
a position at Bethel opened up for F '90, so I returned and have enjoyed
teaching ever since.
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| Monica Miller |
Computer Science |
1986 |
IT Team Coach |
Since joining Thomson Reuters over 25 years ago, I have held numerous technical and leadership positions within the company, including my current role as IT Team Coach of the .Law School. project, a course management system for law students to build preference for our products, such as WestlawNext, our premiere research product. One of my favorite aspects of my job is working with people, including partnering with our business teams, developing staff, and recruiting/interviewing. I earned my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bethel University and continued my education with graduate level courses at St. Thomas.
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| Mark Anderson |
CS |
1984 |
IT Director for SIL International in Dallas TX |
SIL is a sister organization of Wycliffe Bible Translators. I manage
a team doing customer support, network support, web development and several
other things.
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| Roseanne Sension |
Math and Chemistry |
1981 |
Chemistry and Physics Professor |
PhD 1986 in Chemistry specializing in experimental
physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
On the faculty at the University of Michigan since 1992.
Currently Professor of Chemistry and Professor of
Physics working in the areas of ultrafast spectroscopy,
chemical reaction dynamics, and the interaction of light
with molecular systems.
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| Becky Seaberg (Johnson) |
Math Education |
1977 |
Professor |
I received an MA from UMN in Math Education. I have taught at Apple
Valley HS, Minnehaha Academy, UMN, & Normandale,and first taught at
Bethel in 1981. Since I began teaching at Bethel, I was able to
take full years off and teach part-time, sometimes in the evening
school for adults. I believe that my family benefited greatly from
this flexibility while my sons were growing up. I am very thankful
for the Bethel math department!
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| David Wetzell |
Math |
1974 |
Professor |
I earned a PhD from the University of Nebraska. I have been a
professor at Bethel since 1985.
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