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8 Success After TCNJ OUR ALUMNI make important contributions in a variety of industries and communities each year. The following examples demonstrate the quality of work and character that TCNJ graduates offer to the world. Last night, someone tried to break into the White House. It wasn't the ski-mask-and- crowbar attempt you might be imagining, though. It was the type of attack that Brian Wanner '05 spends his days fending off: a threat of the digital variety. When we spoke in early April, Wanner said that a prominent group of hackers had launched a "distributed denial-of-service attack" on the White House's Web site the night before, sending numerous requests to the site at the same time in an attempt to crash it. As branch chief of security operations, Wanner spends his days shielding the executive office of the President's computer network from all sorts of digital dangers. His charges include the president and vice president, along with about 3,500 White House employees. "We monitor the firewalls here, any traffic to the Internet, and e-mail traffic to make sure it's legitimate and that nobody's trying to attack us," he adds. "And when they are, we try to defend ourselves." Kristen Zimmerman '05 has been on her game while working as an executive editor at MLB Advanced Media in New York, managing the editorial content of the American League and National League East coverage on MLB.com. The Web site has one or two writers covering each team, and Zimmerman, a former two-time All-New Jersey Athletic Conference right fielder for TCNJ's softball team, serves as their supervisor/editor. The Web site is editorially independent from the major league clubs to help ensure the coverage's integrity. Zimmerman usually works out of MLB's Manhattan headquarters, but during the postseason she will manage a series on site with 10 to 15 reporters. THE CLASS OF 2012 LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK ON TCNJ Its members are embarking upon new adventures. They have gained admission to the most prestigious graduate schools, such as: Yale Penn Johns Hopkins Georgetown Columbia They have been hired by global companies like: Boeing Bank of America Merrill Lynch Watch to see where they are headed: www.tcnj.edu/seniors12

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