Jan Johansson, MSI ‘04
Senior Records Project Manager, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Bank
Washington, D.C.

Before SI

Before coming to SI, Jan earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in political science. He also worked as a provisional librarian at the New York Public Library, St. George Branch.

Jan’s experience at SI

While studying at SI, Jan interned at JSTOR.org in QA and user interface design. The courses he took at SI educated him in many different fields, making him very desirable to employers when he graduated.

“SI proved to be such a multidisciplinary education, including human computer interaction, behavioral psychology, and the rudiments of computer science," he says. "It made my library and archives focus so much more valuable, flexible, and marketable. The common thread was that every process was driven by a commitment to user-oriented design.”

After SI

After graduating from SI, Jan went back to work for JSTOR, which was not only “a great opportunity to practice UI design and coding for an organization with a great mission, the readily recognizable brand was a great subject of discussion in interviews.”

Jan has since worked as a research librarian at the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress and as a data librarian for the agency as well. In his current position with the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve Bank, he says he exercises his “ability to articulate clearly the information challenge, the user-oriented solution, and the concrete steps to get to that solution.”