Wartburg College alumni will return to campus to participate in the annual Career Directions and Connections panel discussions for students Friday, Oct. 19.

The panels sponsored by the department of business administration and economics help students network and provide them with information about current trends in their chosen fields.

The panel schedules are as follows:

10:45 — Accounting, WBC 116

  • Susan Uthoff Orth ’98,  accounting supervisor, SYSCO Food Service of Iowa, West Des Moines 
  • Todd Schildroth ’89, manager, business process integration, John Deere Power Systems, Cedar Falls 
  • Trevor Shannon ’99, controller, Minnesota Wild, St. Paul, Minn.

Noon — Management, WBC 117

  • Eric Bauer, ’94, senior manager of terminal operations, Union Pacific, Ankeny 
  • Amy Corkery, ’01, director of training, Child Plus Software, Atlanta 
  • Megan Goedken, ’11, production supervisor, Hormel, Dubuque 
  • Craig Green ’88, claims manager – Subrogation, Nationwide Insurance, Des Moines 
  • Kristina Hill ’01, senior communications manager, Charter Communications, 
  • Ed Scharlau ’61, retired 3M manager; treasurer, nonprofit Water to Thrive, Austin, Texas 
  • Kris Voyna ’01, manager – UCAN HR Communication, Deere & Company 
  • Allen Weaver ’10, assistant manager, Sherwin Williams, Des Moines 
  • Jamie Enfeld Weaver ’08, food business partner, Target Store, Des Moines

1:15 p.m. — Marketing, WBC 117 

  • Allison Anderson ’01, senior marketing strategist, Principal Financial Group, Des Moines 
  • Patrick Mullan ’09, market development manager, Coca Cola, Ames 
  • Derek Miller ’00, pharmaceutical sales rep, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Huxley 
  • Wayne Zemke ’92, marketing support manager, Caterpillar, Houston
  • Jamie Breitbach-Wiehe ’02, marketing director, RK Motors and RKM Performance Center, Charlotte, N.C.

2:30 p.m. — Finance, WBC 117

  • Kris Fassler ’01, co-founder of startup Cajillion, Cedar Rapids
  • Nate Peters ’07, Controller and Treasurer, Peters Construction, Waterloo
  • Katie Schares ’10, Accounting Analyst, Epic Software, Verona, Wis.
  • Trevor Shannon ’99, Controller, Minnesota Wild, St. Paul, Minn.
  • Jon Waddell ’89, Managing Director/Founder, Trexin / Perficient, Inc., Sioux Falls, S.D.

3:45 p.m.  Pre-Law, WBC 117

  • Scott Hendrickson ’92, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Creighton University, Omaha 
  • Kent Lewis ’72, assistant Iowa attorney general, Iowa Department of Human Services / Child Support, Burlington 
  • Kerrie Larson Liedtke ’98, compliance, Value Wealth Management, West Des Moines