Advisory Board

The Advisory Board is composed of members of the community and industry with an interest in Computer Science and Data Science education at Western Washington University. The Board works with the program faculty and staff to ensure that the program delivers appropriately scoped curricula that are up to date and relevant to current practices. The Board reviews, advises, and supports the programs at Western, including the BS in Computer Science, and BS in Data Science.

Advisory Board Members 2024-2025

  • Phil Conophy, Consultant, DIS Corporation
  • Court Corley, Chief Data Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Todd Dillon, Director of Engineering, Igneous
  • Ananya Chowdhury, Sr. Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
  • Chris Hopen, CEO and CO-Founder Strivve, Inc
  • Preetish Kakkar, Sr. Graphics Engineer, Adobe
  • Margo Martinez, Director of Industry Solutions in Higher Education, Salesforce.org
  • Kevin Mills, Development Manager, SPIE
  • Jim Reavis, President, Reavis Consulting Group / CEO, Cloud Security Alliance
  • Kable Wilmoth, Portfolio Architect, Rocket Software
  • Vaughn Wine, Software Engineer, ESO

Advisory Board Members 2023-2024

  • Phil Conophy, Consultant -- DIS Corporation
  • Court Corley, Chief Data Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Todd Dillon, Director of Engineering, Igneous
  • Chris Hopen, CEO and CO-Founder Strivve, Inc
  • Margo Martinez, Director of Industry Solutions in Higher Education, Salesforce.org
  • Kevin Mills, Development Manager, SPIE
  • Jim Reavis, President, Reavis Consulting Group / CEO, Cloud Security Alliance
  • Kable Wilmoth, Portfolio Architect, Rocket Software
  • Vaughn Wine, Software Engineer, ESO

Advisory Board Members 2022-2023

  • Phil Conophy, Consultant -- DIS Corporation
  • Court Corley, Chief Data Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Todd Dillon, Director of Engineering, Igneous
  • Chris Hopen, CEO and CO-Founder Strivve, Inc
  • Gabe Martin, Principal Software Engineer, Emergency Reporting
  • Margo Martinez, Director of Industry Solutions in Higher Education, Salesforce.org
  • Kevin Mills, Development Manager, SPIE
  • Jim Reavis, President, Reavis Consulting Group / CEO, Cloud Security Alliance
  • Kable Wilmoth, Senior Software Development Manager, MicroFocus 

Advisory  Board Members 2019-2021

  • Phil Conophy, VP of Development, DIS Corporation
  • Todd Dillon, Director of Engineering, Igneous
  • Chris Hopen, Research and Development Engineer, Switch Inc.
  • Gabe Martin, Principal Software Engineer, Emergency Reporting
  • Margo Martinez, Director of Industry Solutions in Higher Education, Salesforce.org
  • Nicole Nichols, PNNL
  • Jim Reavis, President, Reavis Consulting Group / CEO, Cloud Security Alliance
  • Jill Stanton, IT Development Manager, SPIE
  • Kable Wilmoth, Senior Software Development Manager, MicroFocus