Our Alumni

Faculty mentorship has played a major role in the success of our alumni and these examples are a case in point. Our student tutors (who represent our most engaged students) have been particularly diligent in maintaining contact with faculty who continue to mentor them past their time at BCC. Faculty mentors student tutors by using their network of connections to arrange internships and other activities that assist in career development. Our students have taken full advantage of these opportunities and used them as stepping stones to achievement. They have also been very generous in mentoring the students who follow behind them.

Our alumni have transferred to the University of Washington (Seattle and Bothell), Seattle University, Western Washington University, Central Washington University, Eastern Washington, Stanford, Columbia, University of Arizona, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USC, and others. Our current contingent of graduating students has committed to creating student blogs at UW-Seattle, UW-Bothell and Columbia University to let our students know how life will change when they reach their four-year institutions and other helpful advice for success. Our alumni include Angel Kelchev who went on to Stanford with a Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship, but we are equally proud of all our alumni including the following:

Brooke DeBay

BCC Business Transfer '02.

Brooke worked on an internship at Expedia arranged by BCC faculty.

Masters in Accounting, '04 University of Washington, Seattle.

Brooke completed her Masters in Accounting in four instead of the usual five years. While at the UW she received the WA Promise Scholarship and the Lorig Foundation Scholarship. She was on the Business School Dean’s List. Brooke now works as an auditor at Deloitte & Touche and is a CPA.

Yunice Fong

BCC Business Transfer '01

Yunice worked as a statistics and math tutor while at BCC and faculty-arranged internships at Expedia and Smith Barney.

BA in Accounting '03, Seattle University.

While at Seattle U, Yunice received the Peach Foundation Scholarship, G. Robert Truex Scholarship, a Seattle University Grant, Accounting Associates Fund Seattle University Scholarship, and the Associated Students of Seattle University Service Award. Since graduating from Seattle U., Yunice worked as the controller of an investment company, as a finance manager at WDS Global, and is now in KPMG's CFOAdvisory/Consulting Group.

Carl Cornish

BCC Business Transfer '02.

Carl was a statistics tutor while at BCC and worked as an intern for the Northwest Entrepreneur's Network which was arranged by BCC faculty.

BA in Business Administration, Finance and Management '04, Seattle University.

Carl graduated magna cum laude from Seattle U and garnered many honors including being one of 7 Seattle U. and 800 students nationally selected for the RISE national symposium on investing. He was also a Student Advisor. Carl was the lead financial analyst in the customer service department (the second largest budget) of Puget Sound Energy and currently works in Boeing Capital as a financial analyst.

Matt Keller

BCC Business Transfer '03.

Matt was a statistics tutor while at BCC.

Bachelors in Business Administration with concentration in Finance '05, University of Washington, Bothell.

Consistently on the Dean's List at UW Bothell, Matt is graduated in June 05. Matt is a consultant at Proviti which specializes in risk assessment and internal auditing.

Rae Kang

BCC Business Transfer "04.

Rae was an officer in the Business Leadership Club.

Bachelors in Business Administration, '07 University of Washington, Bothell.

Rae Kang was recently hired into a full-time position in The Boeing Company's Business Foundation Program that targets high achievers. She is one of only ten people in the Puget Sound area selected for this prestigious program.

Alumni Announcements

Yunice Fong recently accepted a position in KPMG's CFOAdvisory/Consulting Group.

Dan Goldfarb is now the District Manager for ADP Small Business Services.

Tony Cruz is a financial analyst at Precor.

Frank Fagaoga is a semifinalist in the General Motors Scholarship program. He is currently at the Seattle U. Albers School of Business.

Business Transfer Grads 2006

The Business Transfer Program had 245 graduates listed on the 2006 Commencement program, an increase of 26% over 2006. Here are some of our volunteer tutors and our Business Leadership Club officers who will be leaving BCC but who will continue to participate in the BCC Business Leadership Learning Community. Please join us in giving them and all our other graduates a well-deserved congratulations and good luck.

Tutor Matt McCaffey is at UW Seattle Business School.	Tutor Dan Geller is at UW Bothell.	BLC VP Communication Stacy Lee will be at UW Seattle Business School.
Tutor Frank Fagaoga is at the Albers School of Business at Seattle U.	Tutor Michael Jennings is at UW Seattle Business School.	Tutor Angie Douglas is at UW Seattle Business School.
BLC organizer, Alice Mueckl is at UW Seattle Business School	BLC Co-President Yelena Isakova is at UW Seattle Business School.	Tutor Abe Kim is at the UW Seattle Business School.
BLC Treasurer Lauren Hall is at UW Bothell Business School.	Shunsik Chin was accepted at USC Marshall School of Business.	Jeff Chalfan is at the UW Bothell Business School.
Tutor Vera Plokhova is in the accounting program at Central Washington University.	Connect to Your Future Student Ambassador Matthew Weeks is at the UW Seattle Business School.	Connect to Your Future Student Ambassador Luis Silva-Behrens is at the UW Seattle Business School.
Michael Bruggeman is at the UW Seattle.	Connect to Your Future Student Ambassador Scott Barker is at the UW Bothell Business School.