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\n\tBy Douglas Esser
\n\tWhen University of Washington Bothell Professor Kelvin Sung recommends one of his programming graduates for a job at a tech company he’s not surprised if the hiring manager later calls and asks, “Do you have any more like that one?”<\/p>\n

\n\tIt’s even more common when the CEO is one of his graduates. That’s the case with Bill Harding, founder of Bonanza.com<\/a>, an online marketplace based in Seattle that provides the technical expertise for entrepreneurs to operate an ecommerce storefront, competing with Amazon, eBay and Etsy.<\/p>\n

\n\t足彩app哪个是正规的 2004 Computer Software Systems graduate now employs three more of Sung’s students.<\/p>\n

\n\t“Your previous students comprise the core of our business,” he recently wrote to Sung. “Bonanza is basically the ‘Kelvin Sung All Stars’ team.’”<\/p>\n

\n\t“Please continue to keep me posted if you spot any new stars coming through your doors,” Harding continued. “I’m building the team on the idea that ‘A-players want to work with A-players,’ which means we’ve had a tough time finding people to meet our bar for quality.”<\/p>\n

\n\tSung modestly defers the credit for successful students to the graduates themselves. Harding admits he was an unusual student.<\/p>\n

\n\t“I have always suffered from impatience and rapid onset of boredom,” he said in an email interview from Mexico where he took his team on a winter vacation. “It made me a poor student by conventional measures. But it turns out to be a ‘talent’ if you end up as the CEO.”<\/p>\n

\n\tHarding says he grew to respect Sung immensely during his time at UW Bothell.<\/p>\n

\n\t“Kelvin wanted to understand how he could build a class that engaged all different types of learners, including those that weren't crazy about going to lectures,” he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Harding landed an early job at a video game studio in Kirkland, the hiring manager contacted Sung and said it had four UW Bothell graduates, including Bill, and asked, “Do you having any more of those?”<\/p>\n

\n\t足彩app哪个是正规的 16-year School of STEM Computing and Software Systems professor says UW Bothell has graduates at Amazon, Microsoft and Boeing. He has helped place graduates into jobs at several local companies: PicoBrew, which introduced technology to homebrewing; Vertafore, which provides software for insurance companies; Her Interactive, which creates video games based on Nancy Drew stories; Mylio, which imports and syncs photos across devices; Big Fish, maker of mobile and PC games; and Humongous Entertainment, video game maker.<\/p>\n

\n\tSung says he’s glad to make recommendations. He’s humble about his contribution but admits he does attract good students.<\/p>\n

\n\t“I’m really lousy at teaching in the sense I make students do a lot of the work,” he said. “足彩app哪个是正规的s who like to code, who excel at coding, gravitate to some of the classes I offer. 足彩app哪个是正规的se are very good students. 足彩app哪个是正规的 jobs they get … they shine through.”<\/p>\n

\n\tHarding estimates he has personally worked with more than 100 developers over his career.<\/p>\n

\n\t“足彩app哪个是正规的 developers that Kelvin has introduced me to are consistently in the top 5 percent of those that I encounter,” he said. “Kelvin has proven himself time and time again to be a remarkable judge of character and competence.”<\/p>\n

\n\tHarding says UW Bothell graduates “deliver the tools to spark this community and make it stronger every day.”<\/p>\n

\n\tBonanza, in turn, is helping entrepreneurs “by empowering regular people to take their passion (often a hobby) and share it with the world through an online storefront.”<\/p>\n

\n\tHarding boasts Bonanza is highly rated by EcommerceBytes and a best place to work award winner in the 2015 Best in Biz awards. <\/p>\n

\n\t“I believe our time at UW Bothell taught us to work hard and get things done,” he said. <\/p>\n

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