Computing - What Comes Next? Alumni Panel

University of Westminster

A panel of Computing recent graduates (graduated between 2017-2022) will share insights on career options after graduating.

University of Westminster Marylebone Campus

Join a diverse panel of recent graduates from the School of Computer Science and Engineering courses as they share their insights into what you can do with your degree once you have graduated. The alumni will: <ul><li>Explain who they are and the career journeys they have taken post-studies </li><li>Discuss how their experience at Westminster helped them discover their own interests and find employment after graduation </li><li>Talk about their worries versus actual experiences of finding jobs </li><li>Share tips and advice on how to navigate your own career pathways </li><li>Shed light on how you can move from being a student in the School of Computer Science to being in highly skilled employment </li></ul>The event is co-organised by Westminster's Alumni Relations team and the School of Computer Science and Engineering and will cover a range of questions before a Q&A session allowing students to ask their own questions. This will be followed by a social where refreshments and light snacks will be served. The event is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students in the School of Computer Science and Engineering. Students are asked to book their spot in advance through Eventbrite. The event is taking place at the University's Cavendish Campus in room CLG.06 from 3 -5pm GMT on Wednesday November 2, 2022.About the panelPanel chair: Dr Anastasia Angelopoulou

T﻿rung Johnny Le - Junior Software Engineer at Eventsforce (Computer Science BSc, Class of 2021)

Trung graduated from Computer Science and Engineering in 2021 with First Class Honours in BSc (Hons) Computer Science. During his time at the university, Trung achieved the Excellence Award during his second year and was part of Westminster Working Cultures. Outside of university, Trung was also part of the ColorInTech Tech Career Readiness, Migrant Leaders, and Generating Genius Uni Genius programmes which helped build interpersonal skills to start a career in Tech.Currently, Trung is a Junior Full Stack Engineer at Eventsforce who works to implement new functionalities for the frontend and backend system for its online Event Management tool using React, Typescript, SQL, and Python. He has gained experience in maintaining and improving existing codebases, peer-reviewing code changes, and liaising with colleagues to implement technical designs. What he likes about working in Tech is that there are endless learning opportunities to expand his knowledge of newer technologies and there is much creativity in developing and improving existing solutions.

Y﻿ousra Kassaoui - Solutions Engineer at NetApp (Computer Science BSc, Class of 2019)

Yousra graduated from the University of Westminster in the summer of 2019 with a Computer Science BSc degree. While undertaking her degree, she worked on her security skills because she knew she wanted to go down the security route. Yousra then undertook a master’s in information security while doing some freelance work and projects. Following University, Yousra started working full-time at a data management services company and her career was aligned to cater to customers that would like to take the cloud-first strategy route. Her role allowed her to flexibly work with customers and talk to them about how to protect their data and align their requirements with solutions. Her work experience in this field has enabled Yousra to work on her security techniques further and share her educational knowledge across teams.

E﻿visa Terziu - Frontend Engineer at Masabi (Computer Science BSc, Class of 2019)

Evisa graduated in 2019 with a First in Computer Science and was a Tigerspike Prize winner in Computer Science. During her penultimate year of University, Evisa took on an internship at the British Broadcasting Corporation as a Software Engineer. She worked alongside Journalists, Data Engineers, Designers and other developers within the Visual Journalism department. Since graduating, she was able to return to the BBC to continue her career as a Software Engineer.
As of today, Evisa currently works at Masabi, a London-based technology company that develops and markets fare collection services for public transport.

M﻿atthew Hollick - System Integration Engineer at Disguise (Digital Media Development BSc, Class of 2021)

Matthew graduated from Westminster school of Computing on the 29th of July 2021 and on the same day was offered a position as a mid-level System Integration Engineer at disguise. Before their studies ze spent 6 years as a system administrator working with Microsoft systems for organisations such as WAGGGS and Radio Maluti. During their studies they focused heavily on VR &amp; 360 video research. Including conducting research for the Zabludowicz Collection and their extensive VR portfolio. 

At disguise ze has focused on the testing of new equipment and drivers for the latest media servers. Creating packaging new OEM embedded Windows operating systems that are tailored to high end performance and graphics rendering. In June of 2021 they were part responsible for the successful launch of the vx4+ server ushering in the next generation of layer reality capable servers.

On the 28th of September 2022 engineering team at disguise were presented with an Emmy at the 74th Annual Emmy awards for developments in engineering that are either so extensive an improvement on existing methods or so innovative in nature that they materially affect the production, recording, transmission or reception of television.

After just over a year at the organisation Matthew has recently been promoted to senior system integration engineer and tasked to forge a new team in system integration that can pioneer the next generation of layer reality and broadcast servers. Other interests include AI technologies for character animation and modelling.

J﻿ames Thomas-Purcell Developer at IBM (Computer Science BSc, Class of 2017)

James Purcell is a developer with IBM’s Client Innovation Centre. James works with a development team to create and maintain tools to ensure IBM’s software follows local and international regulations and licensing restrictions. James brings nearly 3 years of development experience in embedded systems. Before joining IBM, James spent over 2 years as a C language developer at BAE Systems, working in teams to develop maritime electronic control systems. During this period James experienced most of the software lifecycle including design, coding and integration testing. Design phases included the use of UML, collecting user stories and writing requirements. Coding used C language and Assembly to create programs to interface with processors and registers across an array of motherboard hardware and peripherals. Prior to that project James worked on detecting bugs in software for aircraft sensors and running verification tests on code before deployment. James earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Westminster’s School of Engineering and Computer Science.

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