The Industry Advisory Board meets annually on Texas State campus in order to develop strong ties between the university and private industry. The board is comprised of 30 members who are active professionals from a diverse group of industry organizations.
The board aims to:
- shape curriculum to include key skills that are in high demand
- connect students with opportunities by organizing events such as job fairs, mixers, and speaking opportunities
- create alumni networks for Texas State alumni working with industry partners
- provides contributions for the Computer Science Industrial Advisory Board Scholarship
| Name | Company | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumit Abhichandani | Visa | Director, Quality Assurance | sumit.abhichandani@ieee.org |
| Austin Adamcik | ExxonMobil | Senior Manager, Application Support & Sourcing Stratgy | austin.h.adamcik@exxonmobil.com |
| Kenan Bubela | USAA | Chief Information Officer, Digital Technology | kenan.bubela@usaa.com |
| Clayton Bynum | USAA | Technical Director | clayton.bynum@usaa.com |
| Mason Egger | Temporal Technologies | Senior Solutions Architect | mason@masonegger.com |
| Greg Goshorn | Greg Goshorn PC | ggoshorn@ip-law.net | |
| Sudhanva Gurumurthi | AMD | Fellow | sudhanva.gurumurthi@amd.com |
| Laith Hasanian | Tufany.ai | Co-Founder & CTO | lhasanian@gmail.com |
| Leif Hemstad | Microsoft Corp. | Consulting Practice Leader | leif.hemstad@microsoft.com |
| Taylor Hodges-Harrison | Heb (formerly General Motors) | Full Stack Engineer | tnhodges70@gmail.com |
| Jim Holt | Intel Corp | Software Engineer | jim.holt@alumni.utexas.net |
| James Hunter | USAA | IT Director | james.hunter@usaa.com |
| Ronnie Killough | SWRI | Program Director | rkillough@swri.org |
| Kris Koehler | A+E Networks | Senior Director of Backend Services, Platform Engineering & Innovation | kristopher.koehler@usaa.com |
| Herschel Koska | Emerson Process | Senior Principal Software Engineer | herschel.koska@emerson.com |
| David Kuykendall | Camping World | Application Security Engineer | davidktx@gmail.com |
| Yevgeny Levitov | Facekey | CTO & VP of Engineering | ylevitov@facekey.com |
| Sean McMains | Doximity | Sr. Software Engineer | sean.mcmains@gmail.com |
| Joseph Reynolds | retired | JoeR_Tex@icloud.com | |
| John Rhodes | CM First Group | CTO & Managing Director | john.rhodes@cmfirstgroup.com |
| Jack Russell | Software Engineer | jwarrussell@gmail.com | |
| Hongchi Shi | Texas State | Department Chair | hs15@txstate.edu |
| Annette Starkweather | Facekey | President | astarkweather@facekey.com |
| Sean Thornton | IBM Cloud | Software Architect & Engineer | st1142@gmail.com |
| Brian Twichell | IBM | Senior Technical Staff Member | brian.twichell@gmail.com |
| Yolanda M. Wilkerson | ExxonMobil | Manager, Enterprise Analytics CoE | yolanda.m.wilkerson@exxonmobil.com |
| Rahul Toley | Condor Computing Corporation | Former Risc-V CPU Architect | rahul.toley@gmail.com |
| Elliot Sonoqui | Motorola Solutions | AI Solutions Engineer | elliot.sono@gmail.com |
| Samantha Coyle | sam@samcoyle.me | ||
| Mick Coyne | SWRI | mick.coyne@swri.org |