Recruitment Team

Brian McDermott

Biography

I’m the Recruitment Coordinator for the University of Alaska Anchorage campus. I graduated from Waylan Baptist with a Business degree with a Management Information Systems emphasis. I’m currently working on my Masters through UAA’s Project Management program. Although I take EMT classes and volunteer for the Emergency Response Team here at UAA, my main responsibility centers around coordinating on campus recruitment events and being available to tour prospective students around our main campus. If you have questions, preface your emails with your favorite sports teams. I’m an avid Celtics, Red Sox, and Baltimore Ravens fan; otherwise I spend my weekends catering to my daughter, “the little princess,” Ella, and spending quality time with friends and family. I may have tattoos and rock to Irish punk rock, but I’m the most down to earth and personable member of the team.

Marnie Kaler

Biography

Kake, Alaska? Yeah, been there. San Diego, California? Always puts me in a “California state of mind.” Best place yet? Honolulu, Hawaii, hands down. Being the Outreach Specialist has afforded me the best chance to connect students to a better future, and feed my ever widening appreciation for travel. I get paid to travel, and it’s all in the name of education! Graduating from the University of Maine with a degree in Computer Science and Technology, I always find ways to update and maintain my databases of high school counselors in Alaska and other regions of the US. I’m still waiting for my invite from the CBS network’s “Amazing Race.”

Winston Montecillo

Biography

I’ve finished my Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from UAA, and now work full time in the Department of Recruitment as the Communications Coordinator and UA Scholars Outreach liaison. I’m passionate about education, and I’m excited I’ve found a means to promote UAA through our communications- social media, online databases, web design, and analytics. I’ve finished my Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from UAA, and now work full time in the Department of Recruitment as the Communications Coordinator and UA Scholars Outreach liaison. I’m passionate about education, and I’m excited I’ve found a means to promote UAA through our communications- social media, online databases, web design, and analytics. Also, I like to repeat myself.

Jenny Skaling

Biography

Wondering what to study at UAA? Although the UAA catalog is comprehensive, you probably don’t want to read it cover-to-cover. Luckily, there’s another way to explore degree options at UAA! The Career Cluster brochures are a set of almost 130 flyers, posted around campus and on the UAA web site, that detail UAA’s degree programs. From Nursing to Natural Sciences, Education to Engineering, Political Science to Piloting, there’s a program at UAA for just about everyone, and I really enjoy working to get the word out on the huge diversity of degree options. I started working at UAA in 1998. I have lived in Alaska on and off since the age of five, including Kodiak, Juneau, Ketchikan, and Anchorage. In addition, I have lived in Philadelphia, New York City, on the Jersey shore, and in Colorado. I graduated from Colby College in Maine, where I raced division I nordic skiing and studied abroad in Sweden. In my free time, my favorite activities include nordic and telemark skiing with my family, traveling to tropical locales, drinking Kona coffee, and creative writing.