Turning on the Data Tap

Tech-sawy Dartmouth grads are flooding to the burgeoning "Byteway" in Northern Virginia. Many are venturing to jobs at Microstrategy, a data warehousing company with a mission to bring you "information like water." The 1,000-person company has expanded rapidly in the decade since its inception, with a lot of help from more than 60 grads.

As the company's growth rate soared in 1993, marketing VP Dave Sherwood'90 pushed for Dartmouth to become one of the two U.S. schools targeted for recruitment (the other is M.I.T., the founder's alma mater). Since then, Dartmouth alums have plugged into all parts of software development.

Eric White '98 and Damon Smith '97 are cubicle mates in technology, while '98s Dan Kerzner and Brook Detterman share space in the technical customer support division. Rick Fasani '96 and '97sMatt Sargent, Kevin Spence, Pete Mancoll, and Dave Miller all toil within a few feet of each other in product management, while Cosby Hall '97 initiates new hires in the company's six-week training "boot camp." And somewhere in the United States, '95sSpencer Doyle and Amanda Nelson are out in the field educating company partners about the intricacies of Microstrategy software.

Fasani sinks his teeth into the "Byteway."