BitWise Fellows

John Shi is responsible for the management of projects as well as the coordination of the Fellows team. Additionally, he serves as head of the Fellows alumni program and oversees aspects of Fellows marketing and design initiatives. He is a graduate of Carmel High School where he developed extensive experience with staff leadership and a background in communications, web design, print design, and management. He served as Managing editor for the nationally celebrated Hilite newspaper and as a photographer for Carmel Clay Parks. John is now attending Dartmouth College.

Sarah Cunningham is responsible for marketing at BitWise Fellows. She is a home schooled freshman who enjoys her speech and French coursework. She is also an accomplished photographer with interests in capturing landscapes and portraits. Sarah is a creative, expressive and outgoing individual who enjoys meeting new people and working in various environments. Her strong interpersonal skills uniquely position her as BitWise Fellow’s first Marketing Manager. Sarah is planning to pursue a dual major in college in the areas of marketing and photography. Along with photography, Sarah’s interests include taking part in local plays, reading, and playing piano and guitar.

Joshua Kimpel is a web developer at Fellows. He graduated from Park Tudor where he carried a high GPA and had taken all the advanced placement computer classes available, including computer science, data structures, dynamic web design, and independant study computer science. Josh has been recognized by the Cum Laude Society during each of his first three years in high school. He is currently attending the Rochester Institute of Technology. Josh helps other high school students with their computer courses through his volunteer work as a computer science tutor at school. Josh has competed in computer science competitions at Butler, Miami of Ohio, and Evansville and has good experience working in group projects. Josh has worked on several web sites for school projects and has knowledge of HTML, Java, C#, ASP, SQL, graphics, databases, and Photoshop.

Sahil Yakhmi is a Web developer at Bitwise Fellows. He is a senior at Park Tudor where he has maintained a very high GPA while taking a challenging courseload of Advanced Placement classes. He has taken all of the available computer science classes in his three years at Park Tudor, including AP Computer Science, AP Data Structures, and Dynamic Web Development, in addition to a directed study in Computer Science. Apart from his academic achievements and work at Bitwise, Sahil is an active member of the school's music program, particularly the Jazz program. He has competed in Computer Science competitions at IUPUI, Butler, and Miami of Ohio, including two first place finishes with fellow Bitwise team member Alex Hearn. He also has competed on his school's ACSL team, qualifying for the All-Stars competition in Katy, Texas, where the team placed seventh. Sahil has extensive knowledge of HTML, CSS, SQL, ASP.NET, C#, Java, and has also worked in Python and the Flash environment.

Kevin Trehan, a junior at Covenant Christian High School, takes on the role as a designer at the Fellows. He has spent many years studying various aspects of video game development, including 3D modeling, animation, and programming. He has taken a number of digital design classes and is ambitious to teach himself several programming languages. Kevin has strived in self-learning C#, Perl, Python, JavaScript, HTML, and C++. He has also spent much time and effort learning and creating Flash animations. During his freshman year in high school, Kevin tested out of computer and art classes. Now, as a junior, Kevin is taking an advanced digital design class. Some of Kevin’s hobbies include playing the drums, designing and developing video games, and playing basketball. Upon being hired as a Fellow, Kevin is determined to gain experience as both a designer and developer in an office environment, and to increase his knowledge in those areas.