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Joshua Swanson

Aparna Subramanian

Age: 33

Systems Engineer

DCN (Dakota Carrier Network)

Bismarck, N.D.

Aparna Subramanian is the Systems Engineer at DCN (Dakota Carrier Network), a North Dakota fiber optic network owned by 14 independent broadband service providers that serve more than 164,000 customers.

Joining DCN in June 2014 as an Ethernet/IP Technician II, she was in that role for nearly three years before being promoted to sales engineer and in 2020 was promoted to systems engineer. In the systems engineer role, her responsibilities include sales engineering, leading product development activities, acting as a point of escalation for technical design and service fulfillment, and providing engineering input to optimize network architecture.

Subramanian earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics with a minor in leadership studies, graduating summa cum laude, from Dickinson State University. She has since earned multiple professional certifications including MEF CECP, Cisco CCNP, and Nokia NRS II.

In 2019, she gained her U.S. citizenship and currently resides in Bismarck, N.D., with her family. Outside of work, her favorite pastimes are adventuring with her son Dylan, 7, cooking, reading, and running the occasional half-marathon.

Jason Sutheimer

Age: 39

Human Resource Director Job Service North Dakota

Bismarck, N.D.

Jason Sutheimer

Jason Sutheimer is the Human Resource Director at Job Service North Dakota, where he leads human resources strategies including talent acquisition, employee engagement, learning and development, total rewards, employee relations, diversity and inclusion, risk management, employment law compliance, and agency communications. He is also an instructor at Dakota College at Bottineau, director of ND SHRM, and government affairs chair of the Central Dakota HR Association. He holds an MBA from the University of Mary, dual

Joshua Swanson

Age: 38

Shareholder

Vogel Law Firm bachelor’s degree from NDSU, and is certified as both a Senior Professional in Human Resources and Society for Human Resource Management – Senior Certified Professional.

Fargo, N.D.

Growing up in Maddock, N.D., Joshua Swanson learned the power of service leadership and small town values that have carried over into his law practice at Vogel Law Firm. To Swanson, a shareholder at North Dakota’s largest law firm, the law provides a platform to better its communities and serve others.

Based out of Fargo, he represents clients from all walks of life, and all corners of North Dakota and western Minnesota. His practice focuses on energy law, land use and property law, and business law.

Swanson is one of the co-chairs of Vogel Law Firm’s mentoring committee, where he leads a mentoring program for associates at the firm, and also serves on the firm’s recruiting committee.

Thompson Reuters has recognized him as a “Rising Star” in its SuperLawyers program every year since 2014. Swanson volunteers his time at the UND Law School, writing law journal articles and speaking to student groups; he has taught constitutional law at Concordia, and has served in several mentoring and advising roles for students at North Dakota State.

His passion for helping individuals, communities, and organizations achieve success is evident through his extensive service and advocacy work. This passion also led him to co-founding DisruptHR Bismarck, an information exchange to energize, inform and empower HR professionals, and being a recipient of the ND Award for Professional Excellence in Human Resource Management.

Sutheimer grew up in Zap, N.D., and resides in Bismarck with his wife, Andrea, and three children, Anya, Brynlee and Koy.