John Beswetherick
Adjunct Instructor
Email: john.beswetherick@bellevuecollege.edu
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Office Location: A254
Spring 2018 Courses: ISIT 336
Biography:
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Charles Calvert
Adjunct Instructor
Email: charles.calvert@bellevuecollege.edu
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Office Location:
Spring 2018 Courses: ISIT 322
Biography:
I’ve been working with computers and writing code in one form or another for about 25 years. I started out with Turbo Pascal and Delphi, spent time with Java, C++, Python and Perl, and then spent a number of years working in C#. I’ve spent most of my career in industry, working first for Borland, then for a start up in Silicon Valley, and until a few years ago I was at Microsoft on the C# team. Over the last few years I’ve been interested primarily in Agile Development, JavaScript, NodeJs, Git, Linux, the cloud and various mobile devices.
I have a degree in Journalism and Computer Science from the Evergreen State College. The author of ten technical books which have sold well over 100,000 copies, Charlie currently lives in the Seattle area where he enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking, sailing and skiing in the mountains.
Shanon Ehmke-Reedy
Adjunct Instructor
Email: shanon.reedy@bellevuecollege.edu
Phone: (425) 564-3167
Office Location: A254F
Spring 2018 Courses: ISIT 491
Biography:
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Eric Flior
Adjunct Instructor
Email: e.flior@bellevuecollege.edu
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Office Location: A254
Spring 2018 Courses: ISIT 491
Biography:
Eric has worked as a full-time penetration tester for the Boeing IS Red Team as a Cyber Security Assessment Specialist since 2013. Prior to this he worked for Boeing on their Cyber Incident Response Team. He has volunteered as a Red Team participant in the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (PRCCDC) since 2010. He is the faculty advisor for the Bellevue College PRCCDC student Blue Team.
Courses he has taught at Bellevue College include:
- ISIT 350 – Digital Information Analysis & Recovery
- ISIT 450 – Network Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures
- ISIT 490 – Capstone I
- ISIT 491 – Capstone II
Carl Freeberg
Full-time Faculty
Email: carl.freeberg@bellevuecollege.edu
Phone: (425) 564-2911
Office Location: A254
Spring 2018 Courses: BUSIT 103, DBA 130
Biography:
Carl Freeberg is an Assistant Professor of Business Intelligence at Bellevue College. Prior to teaching, he was a senior consultant with over 20 years of diverse financial, IT, business planning and sales experience. His most recent consulting position was as a Value Consultant with Oracle Corporation. In that role, he helped identify opportunities with Oracle’s customers and sales teams. He collaborated with customer management to quantify real business value in Oracle’s applications. After validating potential value and helping to develop realistic business cases, he measured results to verify the realization of anticipated value.
Mr. Freeberg is a seasoned professional who has held consulting and management positions with leading companies. In 10+ years at Oracle and Hyperion Solutions, he has matched business requirements to product capabilities for hundreds of organizations in diverse industries. At Nestlé USA, he developed and managed a cross-functional Executive Information System. At Arthur Andersen, he implemented large systems for organizations as diverse as the Rapid Transit District of Los Angeles, the Internal Revenue Service and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Mr. Freeberg holds an MBA in Finance from San Diego State University and lives in Bellevue, Washington.
Gerald Harvey
Adjunct Instructor
Email: gerald.harvey@bellevuecollege.edu
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Office Location: A255
Spring 2018 Courses: ISIT 344
Biography:
Gerald comes to us after serving as Information Technology Manager for the Virtual Lab Program. He was the chief architect and pioneer in designing and managing the overall NSCOM and IST program content behind the scene from inception in 2013. He successfully managed all technical aspects of ensuring staff, faculty and students alike were able to maximize learning success in the new virtual lab program environment.
He brings well over 26 years of customer service excellence, organizational leadership, personnel, program, project, and IT management as well as being an Air Force commissioned officer veteran culminating a 22-year career. Snippets of his vast capabilities include managing multiple multi-million-dollar LAN/WAN and IT tech refreshes and infrastructure upgrades for a large Western Regional trauma II military healthcare facility, Madigan AMC, where he served as Director, Network Operations overseeing all aspects of IT and Network Security for the site. In another project, he managed a portion of the $100M Air force wide personnel system overhaul project leading travel and install teams to successfully convert HR programs, software, applications and hardware at bases world-wide. He has a dual Business and Management Information Systems bachelor’s degree from Saint Martin’s University, a master’s degree from Faith International University in Counseling and Divinity and is currently pursuing a doctoral strategic business leadership program.
Frank Hatstat
Adjunct Instructor
Email: frank.hatstat@bellevuecollege.edu
Phone: (425) 564-2485
Office Location: A255
Spring 2018 Courses: BUS 355
Biography:
I hold an Associate degree in Science and Engineering from Henry Ford College, a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Michigan, an MBA from City University, and a Juris Doctor from Seattle University School of Law. I have been very privileged both in educational opportunity and professional activities in the public sector, private sector, and academia, including being an air traffic control specialist and instructor, entrepreneur, manager, corporate trainer, state director within a national business program, consultant with a national consulting firm, associate dean, academic program chair, along with legal and appellate work. Although business and law are my passions, my favorite is doing this, helping people learn and grow through education. In my free time I like to fly, being a licensed pilot, enjoy photography, and other outdoor activities like biking and fishing.
Chris (Ski) Kacoroski
Adjunct Instructor
Email: ski.kacoroski@bellevuecollege.edu
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Office Location: A254
Spring 2018 Courses: ISIT 444
Biography:
During Ski’s 30+ years experience as a system admin and IT Manager at large and small organizations, he has seen major changes in information technology systems and their impact on organizations. He currently works as a system admin at the Northshore School District WA, an adjunct Professor at Bellevue College, and is a Director of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA). Ski loves to teach and has given presentations and tutorials on various aspects of technology at LinuxFestNW, ACPENW, SCALE, Cascadia, and Cisco conferences along with several user groups. When not busy at a computer, Ski enjoys working in his garden, volunteering with King County Search & Rescue, and hiking in our wonderful Cascade Mountains.
Winnie Li
Full-time Faculty
Email: winnie.li@bellevuecollege.edu
Phone: (425) 564-2825
Office Location: A255G
Spring 2018 Courses: BA 240, DA 310, DA 485
Biography:
Winnie Li has been a full time faculty at Bellevue College since 2007, teaching in the Computer Science Transfer and Business Administration Programs. She is also the program chair and the lead faculty in the BAS in Data Analytics program. She has a MS in Statistics from California State University East Bay and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California Davis. Before joining BC, she worked in multiple roles in Clearwire and Microsoft.
Art Lovestedt
Adjunct Instructor
Email: art.lovestedt@bellevuecollege.edu
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Office Location: A254
Spring 2018 Courses: ISIT 334
Biography:
Art Lovestedt has been a CIO for nearly two decades, including extensive academic and professional experience in business management and information technology. He has been the CIO at PlayStream (now Internap), Guidant Financial Group and Online Video Service, and held contract or consulting positions at ShopNow.com, Blue Nile and TPI Software (now Hypercom). Five previous companies have gone public or been purchased by a public company during or just after his tenure. Areas of expertise include strategic planning, process automation and efficiency, information system design and management, web marketing, team building and business development. Currently, he is a founding partner at Executive TimeSlice and serves as a fractional CIO for several companies.
Art holds a M.S. in Computer Systems with an emphasis in Technology Management, and a B.A. in Business Administration with emphases in Organizational Behavior and Marketing from the University of Washington.
Maricel Medina-Mora
Adjunct Instructor
Email: maricel.medina@bellevuecollege.edu
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Office Location: A254
Spring 2018 Courses: ISIT 491
Biography:
I have over 15 years of practical experience working as a Software Developer, Designer, Consultant, Software Testing Manager, Technical Trainer in Higher Education and Instructional Designer. I have been working as an Adjunct Faculty at Bellevue College for three years and as Instructional Designer as well. Before, I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Center for Air Transportation Systems Research (CATSR) and for the Aviation Research Group in the Psychology Department at George Mason University for four years. I also worked as research assistant in usability patterns and requirements specifications at the Fraunhofer Institute fuer Experimentelles Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern, Germany and as a Software Testing Manager at Artinsoft, Costa Rica.
I hold a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology and Design and a MSc. in Software Engineering from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. I am also a certified Spanish Translator.
I am very proud of the mountains I have climbed. Originally from Costa Rica, I have worked and studied in Central America, Europe, and the USA. Many people helped me along the way, and for that, I will forever grateful. I am always serving and helping others accomplish their professional and personal goals. I truly believe, as Lewis Howes says, that “Your greatness is not what you have. It’s what you give”.
I live with my husband and three wonderful kids in the Sammamish Plateau area.
Randal Root
Adjunct Instructor
Email: rroot@bellevuecollege.edu
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Office Location: Offsite by Video
Spring 2018 Courses: ISIT 332
Biography:
Randal is a senior consultant specializing in Microsoft SQL Server, .Net web applications, and technical education. He has worked in the industry since the 1980s, with experience in both network and database administration. Randal, currently consults on creating database, business intelligence (BI), reporting, and personalized training solutions for small to mid-size companies. Randal has been teaching BI and .Net programing for Bellevue College, the University of Washington, other colleges and private schools for almost twenty years now. During that time he has authored the books “A Tester’s Guide to .NET Programming” (Apress) and “Pro SQL Server 2012 BI Solutions” (Apress), and earned several Microsoft professional certifications including MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, MCDBA, and MCAD.
Ahmed (AK) Saleh
Adjunct Instructor
Email: ahmed.saleh@bellevuecollege.edu
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Office Location: A254
Spring 2018 Courses: TECH 223, ISIT 454
Biography:
Cyber security experience and computer programming professional with over a decade of first-hand experience writing, developing, researching and producing technology internationally. Written and published appealing, unique and user-friendly security software reviewed and awarded from multiple networks.
Areas of Expertise:
- Cyber Security
- Computer Forensics/Mobile Forensics and Data Recovery
- Network Security Monitoring
- Ethical Hacking and Vulnerability Assessment
- Python and C#.NET
- Linux and Unix Administration
- Shell Programming
- Mac OS X Programming
- ASP.NET and MVC
- CCNA Networking and VOIP/SIP
Pratima Suneel
Adjunct Instructor
Email: pratima.suneel@bellevuecollege.edu
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Office Location: A254
Spring 2018 Courses: ISIT 491
Biography:
Proven ability to quickly learn new business areas, software applications, and the data they contain. Excellent analytical, organizational, communication and documentation skills. I maintain a strong work ethic while striving for excellence in all new challenges and projects I work on. My solutions to complex challenges shows my attention to details and reflects in my ability to complete business solutions that are required to maintain the level of expertise for which I strive. I am a strong team player as well as an individual contributor.
Specialize in the area of Business Intelligence (BI).
Pursued higher education in Business Intelligence Developer courses at Bellevue College in the following areas:
- Business Intelligence with Microsoft SSMS, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS and Tableau
- Data Warehousing including ETL processes, Data Mining, Data Modeling, Data Visualization
- Relational Database Design, T-SQL and database programming using SQL Server 2014
Dan Yamasaki
Adjunct Instructor
Email: dyamasak@bellevuecollege.edu
Phone: (425) 564-2806
Office Location: D110
Spring 2018 Courses: MATH 342
Biography:
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Last Updated June 5, 2023