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1960s

William L. Ball, IM 69, is spearheading Georgia’s strategic, jobs-focused defense initiative formed by Gov. Nathan Deal. He is the former U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan and a former member of the Georgia Tech President’s Advisory Board.

Jack B. Murray Jr., ChE 69, retired from Exxon Mobil’s law department after 31 years and now serves as managing member of his own firm, J B Murray PLLC, in Fairfax, Va.

1970s

Khosrow Behbehani, IE 75, was named a 2013 IEEE Fellow for her contributions to the development of respiratory therapy devices in chronic pulmonary diseases.

Bruce J. Cutler, ESM 78, was promoted to president of MasterWorks International, an HP-authorized distributor and logistics company in Houston.

Donald Struble, PhD AE 72, retired after a 30-year career as an auto-accident reconstructor. He is working on a book about the field.

Richard L. Thornton, Arch 72, appeared on The History Channel’s America Unearthed, discussing his research on the Mayan civilization’s presence in North Georgia.

1980s

Abe Adewale, CE 88, was selected as Engineer of the Year for 2013 by the St. Louis Chapter of the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers. He is a principal of ABNA Engineering Inc.

Rodney Arroyo, M CRP 82, was named adjunct professor at Wayne State University, where he teaches a graduate land-use planning class. His consulting firm, Clearzoning Inc., was awarded the 2012 John Keller Award for Planning Initiative.

Mark Bourcier, ME 89, is a senior engineer at the Hyundai America Technical Center, where he works on engine design.

F. Perna Carter, IE 89, was named the dean of the School of Business and Technology at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, N.C.

Eric Fidler, ME 83, was appointed president of global operations at Intech Process Automation. He lives in Spring, Texas.

Mark A. Glass, Mgt 89, was appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal to the board of the Georgia Department of Economic Development. He is the founder and president of Glass Enterprises Inc., a poultry and alligator farm in Camilla, Ga.

Ric Gray, IE 87, was named president of AdTech Global in Alpharetta, Ga. He serves as a mentor for local nonprofits and Georgia Tech students. A cancer survivor, he volunteers as a patient coach through the American Cancer Society.

Paula Hammond, MS ChE 88, was featured in an episode of Catalyst Film Series: Women in Chemistry, produced by the Chemical Heritage Foundation. She is a David H. Koch professor of engineering at MIT.

Rhett R. Jaehn, AE 88, was given command of the USS Georgia submarine.

Ron Johnson, MS OR 85, was named a professor of practice in Tech’s school of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the managing director of the Tennenbaum Institute. He is the former vice president of referee operations for the NBA and a retired two-star Army general.

Richard Kramer, Arch 80, M Arch 82, received an Honorable Recognition Award from AIA Georgia. He is an architect with Pieper O’Brien Herr Architects and is the chairman of Alpharetta’s Design Review Board.

Andrea Laliberte, IE 82, MS IE 84, joined the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering as the Edenfield Executive in Residence. She was previously a senior vice president of distribution and consumer service for Coach Inc.

Mike MacIntyre, Mgt 89, was hired by the University of Colorado to head its football program. He was formerly a coach at San Jose State.

Patrise Perkins-Hooker, IM 80, was nominated as president-elect of the State Bar of Georgia. She is the past president of the Gate City Bar Assoc.

Michael Price, Bio 88, gave the keynote at the Chinese Orthopedic Association’s annual meeting in Beijing in November 2012. He is a practicing orthopedic surgeon in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Wade R. Smith, AE 86, was nominated by President Barack Obama for an appointment to the rank of brigadier general. He is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force.

Richard Staten, AE 88, contributed a case study, “Harnessing Globalization: The Case of Innovation at The Coca-Cola Company,” to the 2012 collection Beyond Knowledge Management: What Every Leader Should Know. In 2012, as the innovation director at Coca-Cola, he was granted four patents for new beverage technologies. In April 2012, he helped his wife open Cupcakelicious, a gourmet bakery in Woodstock, Ga.

Eric Sweeney, EE 84, received his master of science in international political economy from the University of Texas at Dallas. He works as a test engineer.

Al Trujillo, AE 81, was appointed to the Georgia State Lottery Board by Gov. Nathan Deal.

1990s

Jaimie R. Anderson, Chem 99, joined the law firm of Quarles & Brady as an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Matt Bracewell, CE 95, was hired by Burns & McDonnell-Southeast as a senior engineer with the company’s water practice department.

John Cordova, EE 94, completed a master’s of science in applied biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University in May 2012. He is a contractor with the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C.

Tim Hagan, MS EE 93, was elected as the treasurer of the Libertarian Party.

Wanda J. Harding, MS EE 93, accepted a group achievement award on behalf of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission Integration Team for work on the Mars Science Laboratory mission. She is a senior mission manager in the Flight Projects Office of the Launch Services Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Carolyn Holcomb, MS Mgt 91, was awarded the Woman of the Year in Technology award for the enterprise organization category by Women in Technology. She is a partner and leader of PwC’s Assurance Data Protection and Privacy Practice.

Stan Hoptroff, MS MoT 98, was named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2013. He works for Southern Company.

Mark F. Horstemeyer, PhD ME 95, was recognized as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Engineering Section and as a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He is chair professor in mechanical and computation engineering at Mississippi State University.

Lina Karam, MS EE 92, PhD EE 95, was named a 2013 IEEE Fellow for her contributions to perception-based visual processing, image and video communications and digital filtering.

Eric Lausten, HTS 98, is chief of staff for U.S. Congressman Dan Lipinksi in Washington, D.C.

Sandra Magnus, CerE 96, was appointed as the executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Errika Mallett, IE 96, joined the Information Technology Senior Management Forum as membership director. She is a member of the Alumni Association Board of Trustees and the Industrial Engineering Department’s advisory board and is a former president of the Georgia Tech Black Alumni Organization.

John Marshall, IE 96, was named the Atlanta Telecom Professional of the Year by the Association of Telecom Professionals. As founder, president and CEO of AirWatch, he has brought more than 700 jobs to Atlanta.

Siddeeqah Powell, Mgt 97, received an honorable mention in GMC’s Faith and Family Screenplay Competition for Somebody’s Child. The movie received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Actor in a Television Movie for Michael Jai White.

Heather Smith Rocker, IE 98, was named executive director of the national headquarters for the Distinguished Young Women scholarship program.

Dudley Smith, ME 93, is the engineering coordinator for Honda of America Manufacturing, where he works in new model development.

Jamal Starr, MS IE 99, founded Starr and Associates in Atlanta in 2003 and has since recruited a number of fellow students from the School of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, including Monte Fowler, IE 01, MBA 12, and Albert Thomas, IE 00. The consulting firm works with companies to provide strategic guidance, project management, interim executive leadership and more.

Jason P. Tuell, PhD GeoS 90, was named the director of the National Weather Service eastern region. He is the chief of the meteorological services division of NOAA’s National Weather Service.

2000s

Adam Bever, EE 04, received his master of science in systems engineering with a specialization in software intensive systems from George Mason University in December. He was promoted to senior systems engineer at Sedna Digital Solutions in February. He lives in Oakton, Va.

Simon Clark, ME 09, is working with Engineers Without Borders to build an earthen dam for a trade school outside of Lichinga, Mozambique, to provide water for irrigation during Mozambique’s dry season. He also works as a space flight consultant.

Keedick Coulter, IE 01, celebrated the one-year anniversary of his restaurant, Bobwhite Lunch & Supper Counter, in New York City. He has been recognized in the New York Times and recently reopened Bobwhite after Hurricane Sandy.

Joseph Dant, AE 05, received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for exemplary achievement in leading the Kennedy Space Center Safety and Mission Assurance team, culminating in the successful launch of the Mars Science Lab mission.

Andrew Dana Dalton, Cls 03, was ordained as one of the Legionaries of Christ, a Catholic congregation, in December 2012 in a ceremony in Rome, where he lives and specializes in biblical theology.

Kathryn Genter, CS 09, was the RoboCup 2012 robot soccer world champion in the standard platform league. Her team defeated the three-time world-champion German team in the finals.

Sandie Grage, MS AM 03, won the 2013 Science Spectrum Trailblazer award, sponsored by the U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology website. Grage is a mathematician at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division in Newport, R.I.

Dail Tim Hur, IE 05, was appointed by the president of the National Association of Realtors as the liaison to South Korea.

Yousef S. Iskander, MS ECE 01, earned a PhD in computer engineering from Virginia Tech.

Atif Khan, CS 01, joined Sandvik Mining’s Gainesville, Fla., branch as the manufacturing plant’s first software engineer and has served as its engineering manager for Automation and Control Systems since October 2010.

Amanda Koons-Gillespie, AM 00, earned her American Society of Quality Reliability Engineer Certification in January 2011. She is a reliability, maintainability and analysis engineer with the Science Applications International Corporation, supporting the NASA KSC Ground Systems Development and Operations program. She has won a number of awards for her work—most recently, the Space Coast Woman Engineer Technical Achievement Award of the Year from the Society of Women Engineers.

Hugh Malkin, ME 05, and Adam Wilson, CS 03, MS CS 05, created HUGEcity.us as a way to connect people to events in Atlanta and beyond.

Lea Miller, Mgt 02, is the president of Lea Miller & Associates, a sports and entertainment firm founded in 2010. She recently won a stadium bid in Nassau, Bahamas, to bring in sporting events from all over the world. She created, among other events, the Battle 4 Atlantis Division I men’s preseason college basketball tournament.

Chioma Nwachukwu, IA 02, returned from four years in Africa working on women’s reproductive health issues. She received her master of public health at the London School of Economics and a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke.

Michael Pink, IE 01, founded Construx Solutions, a company focused on changing how the construction industry views consultants. He lives in New York City.

Charles Brian Quinn, CS 03, became CEO of Big Nerd Ranch. He was previously CEO of Highgroove Studios.

Kristen Shaw, Mgt 06, graduated first in her class from the Medical College of Georgia’s College of Dental Medicine with her doctorate of dental medicine. She will continue her residency training in orthodontics at the Medical College of Georgia.

Page Siplon, CmpE 02, MS ECE 05, was appointed to the U.S. Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness. He is the executive director of the Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics.

Domenick Treschitta, M Arch 02, was promoted to principal of Historical Concepts, an architecture and planning firm, and was appointed to the board of directors of the Southern Architecture Foundation. He has served as an adjunct faculty member in Tech’s School of Architecture.

Daniel Weinman, ME 09, is a professional poker player competing in both the World Series of Poker and the European Poker Tour.

Harry Woodworth, PP 09, was named an associate attorney at McCurdy & Candler LLC after passing the Georgia bar exam.

2010s

Jon Paprocki, AM 11, Phys 11, competed on TBS’s King of the Nerds reality TV show.

Kunal Parbadia, EE 10, co-founded Better Weekdays, a job search service that recently launched in beta.

Luis Alberto Simauchi Jr., BA 12, is an inbound marketing specialist for Do My Own Pest Control.

Weddings

William “Randy” Avera, AE 77, and Kelli Nabors on June 25, 2011. Randy works with the FAA. They live in Madison, Ga., with their daughter Maggie.

Annie-Rae Barber, Bio 12, and Andrew Rosen, CS 10, on May 27, 2012, in Long Creek, S.C. Annie-Rae is pursuing a job in conservation education. Andrew is a doctoral student in computer science at Georgia State University.

Drew Bolton, IE 99, and Elizabeth Ellen Richwine on Nov. 3. Drew is a senior program manager for Precyse Technologies.

Michelle Renee Corley, ChE 98, and Andrew Michael Galuski on Aug. 14 in Castries, St Lucia. Michelle is a market development engineer for Techmer Engineered Solutions. They live in Coppell, Texas.

Umehani Dalal, ECE 08, and Imran Kanga were married in January in Mumbia, India. The weeklong celebration doubled as a reunion for a number of far-flung Tech friends. In attendance were Grace Marie Mooken, Bio 08; Haley Carney, ME 11; Sugandh Windlass, ECE 07; Jennifer Vilbig, CE 07; Sharifa Chinikamwala, IE 10; Shruthi Panicker, CS 08; Raahi Kapadia, IE 10; Peony Park, IAML 10; Charlene D’Souza, EE 09; and Shalini Bumb, BME 07.

Michael Deane, CE 11, and Georgia Kennedy, IA 10, on Dec. 27, in Decatur, Ga. Michael is a law student at the University of Texas. Georgia is a kindergarten teacher. They live in Austin, Texas.

Emily Gress, Mgt 11, and Brandon Taylor, Mgt 09, on July 28 in Peachtree City, Ga. Brandon is an operations consultant and Emily is a derivatives analyst, both at Bank of America. They live in Charlotte, N.C.

Laura Janet, ID 07, MBA 09, and Kelly Gravesen on Nov. 3 in Atlanta. Laura works for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Holly Shannon, BC 08, and Bryan Webster, ME 06, on April 28, 2012, in Roswell, Ga. In attendance: Holly’s grandfather, James Robinson, EE 45. Holly is an insurance agent specializing in construction contracting insurance. Bryan is a mechanical engineer for an HVAC consulting firm. They live in Vail, Colo.

Matthew T. Taylor, Mgt 05, Econ 05, and Jennifer Nicole Bruzan on Oct. 12 in Naperville, Ill. Matthew is a division finance manager at Freudenberg-NOK. They live in Chicago.

Births

DuQuay D. Allen, CmpE 04, and Myisha Franklin-Allen, IE 04, welcomed son Mason on Jan. 2. Myisha is a senior business analyst at Americold Logistics. DuQuay is a technical consultant for Information Insights LLC., and president of the Gwinnett, Ga., Alumni Network.

Eric Chang, CE, MS CE 99 and his wife, Dana, welcomed son Adlai Tottenham Chang on Feb. 5. Adlai joins big brother Lyndon, Eric’s stepson. Eric is a senior EHS compliance engineer at URS. They live in Decatur, Ga.

Nikki L. Cooksey, IAML 04, welcomed son Jalen Carter on Dec. 26. Nikki is a human resources generalist at Project Time & Cost. They live in in Glendale, Ariz.

Christopher George Cox, Arch 05, MS BC 12, and his wife, Alison, welcomed daughter Riley Josephine on Jan. 24. Christopher is an assistant project manager for Noble Investment Group. They live in Marietta, Ga.

Lisa Ann Barron Curtis, ME 92, and her husband, Douglas, welcomed daughter Mollie Grace on Oct. 9. Douglas is a systems architect for OIT at Georgia Tech.

Kimberly Wallace Gantt, IE 01, and David Gantt, MBA candidate, welcomed son Jacob David on Dec. 21. He joins big sister Kendall, 1. David is a C-17 pilot in the Air Force. Kimberly is a solutions engineer with Sprint. Grandfather: John Wallace, ME 75.

Steve Gilbert, ME 97, and his wife, Melanie, welcomed daughter Claire Eloise on Sept. 19. They live in Atlanta.

Erin Porter Izen, IE 01, and her husband, James, welcomed daughter Lauren Ann-Marie on Aug. 17. Erin is the director of strategic projects for The Home Depot. They live in Marietta, Ga.

Charles S. Mayfield III, Mgt 97, and his wife, Julie, welcomed son Charles Scott Mayfield IV on Dec. 23. Grandfather: Scottie Mayfield, Mgt 73. They live in Smyrna, Ga.

Randy McDow, PP 95, MS IE 03, and Lauren Weatherly McDow, Mgt 03, welcomed son Liam on July 16. He joins brother Eston, 4, at the family’s home in Atlanta.

Michael Scott, CE 06, MS CE 07, and Gena Scott, CE 01, welcomed son Theodore Eugene on Jan. 8.

Matt Wieters, Cls 08, and Maria Wieters, STC 07, welcomed son Maverick Luther on Sept. 28. Matt is a catcher for the Baltimore Orioles.

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