November 6, 20222022 Information Technology, Data Science & Computer Science Career Fair

Wednesday October 12, 1-3 pm, Alumni Lounges
On October 12, the Cahill Career Center hosted a specialized fair for Computer Science, Mathematics, Data Science and Information Technology majors to connect them to leading employers within their fields. 13 employers from a wide range of industries attended this event, with nearly 100 DMC students in attendance. Employer feedback was very positive, with high praise for RCNJ students on their preparedness and levels of knowledge. 100% of employers indicated that they would come back and attend more RCNJ events, with a highlight being the amount of engagement they each received from students in attendance. On the student end, surveys indicated more positive outcomes, with a focus on networking and the wide range of job opportunities that were discussed at the fair by employers.

The following employers were represented at this event: ACord Insurance, Aspen Insurance, Brooksource, Crestron Electronics, Gain Theory, Reckitt, SciTec, In., Selective Insurance Company of America, Sharp Electronics, United States Secret Service, UPS as well as the DMC Center and RCNJ Graduate Admissions. Of note, 7 RCNJ alumni represented their respective Employers at this Fair!

Categories: Data Science, MSCS, MSDS

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July 2, 2022DMC Advisory Board Member - Keith Osani

Ramapo College’s Center for Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sciences welcomes Keith Osani to our Advisory Board! Our Advisory Board’s mission is to assist the Center in aligning our curriculum with industry needs and expectations, helping us to promote our curriculum, and guide us in developing our sponsored fieldwork experiences to our students.

Keith earned a BS in Computer Science and Applied Physics from SUNY Albany and graduated from Ramapo College in 2022 with a Master’s Degree in Data Science. The
early part of his career was spent working as a consultant where he focused on custom software and web development for a variety of clients. For the last 20 years, Keith has worked in the music industry for Sony Music Group. Over the years with Sony, he has had the opportunity to work in royalties, digital supply chain and most recently data reporting and analytics. He is currently the Vice President of Data and Analytics in the Global Technology group. In this role, Keith leads a data engineering team responsible for the collection and storage of vast amounts of streaming consumption data reported by providers such as Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon. His team is also responsible for supporting Sony’s global community of analysts.

Categories: Data Science, MSCS, MSDS

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April 15, 2022Grand Opening of the Center for Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sciences

Wednesday, April 27th at 6pm
ASB 123

Join us in opening the new Center for Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sciences. This research space serves as a place for graduate students and students in 4+1 programs to work in groups, deliver presentations, and hold team meetings. It’s a great place to hold faculty/student meetings and research discussions, and to invite our external partners to campus.

For more information contact Dr. Amanda Beecher (abeecher@ramapo.edu)

Categories: Data Science, MSCS, MSDS

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March 22, 2022DMC Advisory Board Member - Yoav Nathaniel

Ramapo College’s Center for Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sciences welcomes Yoav Nathaniel to our Advisory Board! Our Advisory Board’s mission is to assist the Center in aligning our curriculum with industry needs and expectations, helping us to promote our curriculum, and guide us in developing our sponsored fieldwork experiences to our students.

Yoav Nathaniel was born in Israel and grew up in New Jersey, where he attended Ramapo College to study computer science. In 2015, while in school, Yoav joined Avanan, a cloud security startup that was later acquired by CheckPoint, as it’s first employee. Initially focused on QA for Avanan’s product, but later shifted to development, sales, marketing and cloud security thought leadership. Yoav later joined Goldman Sachs and led its firm wide cloud security engineering team, governing the cloud security standards of over 10,000 engineers. In early 2022, Yoav co-founded Silk Security to help security teams accelerate their remediation processes and save hours of work per week.

Categories: Data Science, MSCS, MSDS

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