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Meet the SWE Columbia River FY18 Board!

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Sireesha Akula: Section President

Sireesha Akula is an OEM Program Manager at Intel Connectivity group helping customers to enable new businesses and resolving issues with Intel Ethernet products from 2015. She has been with Intel for 12+ years and enjoyed working in her roles as Tactical planner and Senior Validation Engineer on CPU and SOC products in past. Sireesha holds a Master’s degree from Portland state university in Electrical Engineering and a certified Project Management Professional. In her spare time Sireesha loves to cook, to watch movies and celebrate festivals with family and friends, to explore new places, and to spend time with her husband Bapi and two kids: Sahan and Sahasra.

Nicole Woodman: President-Elect

Nicole Woodman is currently an Electrical Facilities Engineer working in technical development for the Intel Corporation. She received her Master's degree in Energy System Engineering from Portland State University. She has volunteered for many roles within SWE, which have fostered her personal and professional growth as well as given her a chance to give back to the engineering education community that has had such an immensely positive impact on her life. In her "free" time, Nicole has been busy perfecting her prowess on quad roller skates.

Carina Hahn: Section Secretary

Carina Hahn is in her second year at Intel working as a Process Engineer. For the past two years she has been involved in the SWE CRS section as the Secretary and has volunteered in some of the outreach events. In 2016 she graduated from the University of Utah where she served as her SWE section's Secretary for three years. In SWE she loves being involved in outreach and has enjoyed getting to known the SWE community in Portland. In 2015 Carina received an Outstanding Collegiate Member Award from SWE. She is excited to continue being involved with SWE and contributing to the CRS section.

Nikita Tiwari: Section Treasurer

Nikita Tiwari is currently a Platform Applications Engineer with Intel's Transportation Solutions Division providing world class customer enablement for Intel’s expanding product line and customer base in the area of Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS). She has been with Intel for 4+ years working on areas like debug, validation, security, virtualization, computer vision and automotive. She obtained her Masters in ECE from Portland State University. She has also been involved in numerous organizational and leadership roles within and outside of Intel and has emceed several Intel events. Nikita is very passionate about SWE which is reflected in her heavy involvement with the local Columbia River Section as past Section Representative and VP of Professional Development and the current treasurer. She is also a professional focused leadership coach with the Society Leadership Coaching Committee for Idaho, Oregon, Washington and other parts of the Pacific Northwest. Outside of work, Nikita enjoys reading, writing, travelling, hiking and has recently developed an inclination for CrossFit-ing :)

 Swepna Doss: Section Representative & Newsletter Editor

Sonali Fernanado: VP, Professional Development

Sonali Fernando is a first generation Electrical Engineer who is passionate about paving the way for women of all walks of lives to navigate through Engineering filed with least amount of hassle.  Her most recent job experience is working at Lam Research as an Controls Engineer and constantly learning board designs and learning about system level architecture of Lam Research Process tools that manufacture SemiConductors. At Lam Research, Sonali is a Committee member of Women in Engineering.  She successfully planned and delivered Women in Engineering April 2017 Live Speaker Event, “Quantum Thinking in the Work Environment”.  Sonali thrives innovative event planning for Engineering Professional Development and she is very detail oriented.  With the experience of working in high-tech fast phase diverse environment she tries to accommodate Engineers of all types.  She is a very social and a relatable person that enjoy being connected to the community.  

Ruthee Morris: VP, Professional Development

Priyanka Dobriyal: VP, Outreach

Priyanka Dobriyal is a Product Engineer in Datacenter group at Intel Corporation. She is a Ph. D in Chemistry from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and MS from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. She is passionate about leading STEM outreach related activities.

Jill Murfin: VP, Outreach

Joy Marsalla: Scholarship Chair & Website Chair

Joy Marsalla is currently a Senior Environmental Engineer. She spent 6 years at Intel working with chemicals, air, and wastewater. She received her Masters in Environmental Engineering from Arizona State University. Joy loves giving back to her community through Big Brothers Big Sisters, SESHA and SWE.  Outside of work, Joy is passionate about friends and family, travelling, hiking and reading!

Coral Jean Cotterell: Database Officer

I am a senior member of SWE and have been a member since February, 1981.  I continue to be active in SWE because of the STEM Outreach opportunities.  I think that it is important to introduce children to STEM.  Currently I am responsible for maintaining the section database, .Since I live in Longview, WA, it is easier to do "back-office" tasks that require fewer trips to Portland.
I am a retired Process Control Engineer with a degree in Electrical Engineering.  My first college degree is in Biology (Microbial Genetics).  I worked in cancer research at the Primate Center in Aloha for several years before returning to school to obtain an engineering degree.

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Position                              FY18 Officer                      Email
President                                           Sireesha Akula           J002.President@gmail.com              
President-Elect                                 Nicole Woodman        J002.Pres.Elect@gmail.com
Secretary                                           Carina Hahn                J002.Secretary@gmail.com
Treasurer                                           Nikita Tiwari                J002.Treasurer@gmail.com
Section Representative                    Swepna Mohan Doss J002.SectionRep@gmail.com
VP of Professional Development    Sonali Fernando         J002.VP.PD@gmail.com
                                                            Ruthee Morris             see above
VP of Outreach                                  Jill Murfin                    J002.VP.Outreach@gmail.com
                                                            Priyanka Dobriyal       see above
VP of Collegiate Relations               Brianna LaBarge        J002.VP.Coll.Relations@gmail.com
Webmaster                                        Open-Interim:Joy Marsalla  J002.Webmaster@gmail.com
Database Officer                               Coral Jean Cotterell   J002.Database@gmail.com
Newsletter Editor                              Federica Bogani         J002.newsletter@gmail.com
Scholarship & Social Media Chair   Joy Marsalla               J002.Social@gmail.com
Membership Chair                             Amy Williams             J002.Membership@gmail.com
Bylaws Chair                                     Stephanie Chin           
Food Bank Coordinator E. Side       Kari Nichols      J002.EastFoodBank.Coord@gmail.com  


Meet and Greet Coordinators

Position                              FY18 Officer                      Email
Hillsboro                                            Shelley Welke                J002-Beav-Hills-M-G@gmail.com
Gresham                                            Ann Simmons                J002-Gresham-M-G@gmail.com
Downtown Portland                          Melinda Holtzman         J002-Downtown-M-G@gmail.com
South I-5                                            Laura Ken Kramer         J002-I5-South-M-G@gmail.com
Vancouver                                         Jennifer Kootstra           J002-Vancouver-M-G@gmail.com


Collegiate Section Counselors

Position                              FY18 Officer                      Email
University of Portland                     Catherine Myers            J002-UP-Counselor@gmail.com
Portland State University               Nicole Woodman           J002-PSU-Counselor@gmail.com
George Fox University                   Jessica McMullan          J002-GF-Counselor@gmail.com
OIT-Wilsonville                                Pratima Rao              J002-OIT-WV-Counselor@gmail.com