  {"id":16828,"date":"2015-03-26T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=16828"},"modified":"2023-05-10T16:06:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:06:33","slug":"from-microsoft-to-madtv-here-are-11-uwm-alums-whose-work-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/from-microsoft-to-madtv-here-are-11-uwm-alums-whose-work-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"From Microsoft to MADtv, here are 11 51ÁÔÆæ alums whose work you know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>51ÁÔÆæ alumni include many business executives and high-ranking public officials, such as the former U.S. ambassador to Iceland, Luis Arreaga, who is now a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. Here are 11 Panthers whose work you certainly know, as we celebrate the many paths to success. Way to represent!<\/p>\n<h2>Microsoft CEO<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/satya.nadella_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16840 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/satya.nadella_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" hspace=\"5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/satya.nadella_d.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/satya.nadella_d-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Satya Nadella (\u201990, MS, computer science). The CEO of software giant Microsoft Corp., Nadella is remembered by 51ÁÔÆæ faculty members as a student who would bring a sleeping bag to the lab in anticipation of working late into the night. After only a year in the top spot at Microsoft, Nadella recently announced plans to launch new products under the famous brand, an agenda that landed him on the cover of Wired magazine.<\/p>\n<h2>American Idol<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Naima_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16841 size-full\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Naima_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Naima_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Naima_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Naima Adedapo (\u201907, BFA, dance). Adedapo finished in the top 10 on \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d in 2011 and appeared previously on P. Diddy&#8217;s MTV series \u201cMaking the Band.\u201d After touring with other \u201cIdol\u201d finalists, the mother of two is honing her craft as a songwriter and solo artist with Given Entertainment in Nashville, Tennessee,\u00a0where she will be relocating\u00a0this summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Filmmakers at Sundance<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16842\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Vollmann.Thompson_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16842 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Vollmann.Thompson_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Vollmann.Thompson_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Vollmann.Thompson_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael T. Vollmann (left) and and Chris James Thompson (right) with Sundance Short Film Programmer Mike Plante.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Milwaukee filmmakers Michael Vollmann and Chris James Thompson (both \u201906, BFA, film) just scored a double win. After their short documentary, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/502242358\">The 414s: The Original Teenage Hackers<\/a>,\u201d was accepted into the Sundance Film Festival, <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/01\/cnn-film-series-414s-sundance-1201356625\/\">CNN bought the rights<\/a> to premiere the film online in April. The two previously worked together on films including \u201cThe Jeffrey Dahmer Files,\u201d which was picked up by IFC Films.<\/p>\n<h2>Boston Globe columnist<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Derrick.Jackson_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16850 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Derrick.Jackson_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Derrick.Jackson_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Derrick.Jackson_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a stint writing for Newsday in New York, Derrick Z. Jackson (\u201976, BA, journalism), became an award-winning columnist at The Boston Globe, where in 2001, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary. Also a talented amateur photographer, Jackson showed his series of photos of President Barack Obama at Boston\u2019s Museum of African-American History.<\/p>\n<h2>Nurse at Disney<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Clarice.Yenor_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16839 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Clarice.Yenor_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Clarice.Yenor_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Clarice.Yenor_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clarice Yenor, (\u201973, BS, nursing) started in 1995 as a nurse manager in the occupational health clinic at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Today, she helps oversee the health and occupational care of more than 65,000 employees at the park. How many people can say they keep hundreds of Disney characters healthy and, well, magical?<\/p>\n<h2>Search engine creator<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/ScottYanoff_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16845 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/ScottYanoff_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/ScottYanoff_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/ScottYanoff_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next time you use a search engine like Google, give a nod of thanks to Scott Yanoff (\u201993, BS, computer science). Yanoff developed one of the world\u2019s first search engines while he was an undergraduate at 51ÁÔÆæ in the early 1990s. The \u201cYanoff List\u201d led to book deals, television appearances and speaking gigs before he took a job at Northwestern Mutual.<\/p>\n<h2>Comedian<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/caliendo_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16837 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/caliendo_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/caliendo_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/caliendo_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People have been talking about Frank Caliendo (\u201996, BA, mass communications) since the comedian from Waukesha began appearing on television shows like \u201cMADtv\u201d more than a decade ago. Between 2002 and 2011, Caliendo was a regular on FOX\u2019s \u201cNFL Sunday,\u201d doing impressions of the show\u2019s sports commentators, including his signature impersonation of John Madden.<\/p>\n<h2>Amazon executive<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/kris.thomas_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16835 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/kris.thomas_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/kris.thomas_d.jpg 454w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/kris.thomas_d-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/kris.thomas_d-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a year at MillerCoors in Milwaukee, Kris Thomas (\u201913, PhD, adult education) got snapped up by Amazon in Seattle, where he works with IT people who run human resources systems \u2013 as well as the largest data warehouse in the world.\u00a0Good thing this Port Washington native was armed with a doctorate from 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s adult education program, which includes a human resources development component.<\/p>\n<h2>Academy Award winner<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Jim-Rygiel_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16836 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Jim-Rygiel_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Jim-Rygiel_d.jpg 302w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Jim-Rygiel_d-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name may not be familiar, but James Rygiel\u2019s work sure is. Rygiel (\u201977, BFA, painting and drawing) began his career at one of the first companies to use computer animation in ads and films. Since then, he has supervised the visual effects for movies like \u201cNight at the Museum,\u201d \u201cThe Amazing Spiderman,\u201d and \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d trilogy \u2013 for which he earned three Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<h2>White House advisor<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Paul.Schmitz_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16838 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Paul.Schmitz_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Paul.Schmitz_d.jpg 459w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Paul.Schmitz_d-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interested in social change? Take a number from President Barack Obama\u2019s playbook and call Paul Schmitz (\u201994, BA, political science). This author and scholar served as an advisor to the White House on community-building and youth leadership. He also launched the Milwaukee chapter of Public Allies, a national organization that recruits young people for nonprofit leadership. He was promoted to national CEO in 2000 and led the nonprofit for 14 years, during which he wrote his first book, &#8220;Everyone Leads.&#8221; Today, he&#8217;s senior advisor to the Collective Impact Forum and social entrepreneur in residence at Georgetown University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>51ÁÔÆæ alumni include many business executives and high-ranking public officials, such as the U.S. ambassador to Iceland, Luis Arreaga. 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