Kerrie Ishkarin recently joined the CBI Software & Tool Team, bringing 8+ years of experience working as a user interface (UI), user experience (UX), and product designer. She has worked on desktop and mobile product designs using tools such as Figma, Sketch, and InVision to create sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and implementation-ready designs.
Kerrie has a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Certificate in UX Design from Rhode Island School of Design.
Libbey White grew up enjoying the natural splendor of Montana, which instilled in her an instinctive interest in conservation. Libbey majored in biology, but was a laundromat attendant, book store clerk, ranch cook, and lab assistant, among other things, before getting close to working with data and code. She got her start in the software field thanks to willing tutors at the Center for Computational Biology at Montana State University. Since then she has held a variety of software development roles, including exhibit software developer at Oregon Museum of Science & Industry and research software developer at Knight Cancer Institute, where she created a genomic data visualization application. She now has over 15 years of software development experience, much of it related to science and data visualization.
Jorge Diaz joined CBI in 2024. He started his career in technology as an artist, animator, and designer working on both the mainstream and the educational video game industry.
After completing an MS in Computer Science he started as a software engineer in the public sector. Sometime in between he taught college classes in storyboarding as well as computer science and co-owned two art supply stores with his wife. His developer experience is in accessibility, automation, full stack development, security, user interface design, and developing systems for a wide variety of user types.
Jorge’s love for nature started while growing up in Puerto Rico where he spent a lot of time fishing, swimming, and playing with his brother and friends in forested and undeveloped lots. He lives in the Northeast where he enjoys mentoring, camping, exercising, drawing, writing, and illustrating comic books and occasionally making music-like sounds with a guitar.
Brianna Fair focuses on project architecture, technical project management, behavioral analytics, and full-stack software engineering, with a particular interest in UX for its direct link to user behavior and interaction. Brianna has worked in tech since the beginning of her career, leading developing and growing a number of digital departments and software teams throughout the West Coast. Much of her work has been focused on integrating a behavioral analytics layer into software to allow for direct feedback to the user experience, in order to better personalize digital interactions. Most recently, she co-founded a decentralized hydroponic farming initiative, based out of Corvallis, Oregon.
Tyler joined CBI in August 2022 as a software engineer. In previous lives, he has taught high school math and computer science, written software tools for computer animation, and worked as a field biology technician tracking moose calves in northern Idaho. He has always been interested in ecology, sustainability and appropriate technology.
After growing up on the shores of Puget Sound, Tyler studied computer science at Middlebury college with a particular focus on spatial computing, exploring cartographic design alongside geospatial algorithms. His previous experiences as a GIS analyst and a wildlife technician enable him to communicate effectively with a variety of professionals, and inform the decisions he now makes as a software engineer situated in the world of conservation biology.
Currently back in the Pacific Northwest, Tyler gets his kicks canoeing, backpacking, and checking the surf forecast.
Jesudas (Jess) Joseph joined CBI in August 2021 as a software engineer and will be responsible for IT administration. He was born in Corvallis, Oregon, but moved to Bangalore, India, at the age of one. After living in India for 16 years, Jess and his family moved back to Corvallis. Jess graduated from Oregon State University in June 2021 with a major in computer science. He enjoys spending his time outside hiking, taking photos, and running sound and other tech at his church.
Torrence joined CBI in August 2021. She enjoys working in a variety of languages and technologies and considers herself a polyglot programmer. Torrence recently returned to higher education and is currently a student in the Natural Resources program at Oregon State University specializing in Landscape Analysis.
When not studying or researching where to travel in her van, Torrence spends most of her spare time hiking and camping in the outdoors. She also enjoys board games and reading sci-fi. She plans to eventually hike a section of the Blue Mountains Trail. She lives in Portland, OR with her partner and their cat.
Taylor is an Eastern Oregon native and has been interested in mathematics and computers since a young age. While at college, he studied computational geometry, topology, probability and computer graphics, as well as mathematical fundamentals of cryptography. He has since blended those interests by integrating computer graphics and the web with data visualization and environmental science, developing desktop- and web-based software to assist scientists in leveraging their data.
Esti Shay joined CBI in 2018. She is active in her local tech community, hosting educational meetups and running regional conferences. As a former librarian, she is perennially curious and always learning something new. She is a full-stack developer and manages the team’s accessibility guides.
Esti loves the Pacific Northwest, from the cloudy skies to the mossy trees, rhododendrons to rocky beaches. She prefers getting around on foot or by bicycle.
Bill is proud to have grown up in Oak Park, IL but has lived on the West Coast for most of his adult life. Bill studied philosophy at Occidental College and received his Masters in Mathematics Education from DePaul University. After teaching math at the high school and community college level in his twenties, Bill decided to learn how to program and defend wildlife with computers. He loves working with geospatial data because of its connection to mathematics and the beautiful visual displays that can be created. When Bill is not at CBI, he is usually watching David Attenborough documentaries, snowboarding, playing guitar, or expanding his collection of tropical house plants.