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WIN 2013

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classnotes Mark Schmidt '92 and his wife, Lisa, have been living in San Diego for the past three years, where Mark has been working on UAVs for Northrop Grumman. 13 14 David Drescher '93 writes, "I am looking for work in the heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration industry near Newark, N.J." Jeffrey Rembold '93 says, "I'm still working for PTC as an applications engineer, helping companies to improve their product development and service processes. I am living in Rochester, N.Y., with my wife, Cristine, and our five children." On Dec. 10, 2012, William Solomon '93 was relieved as commanding officer of the USS Pittsburgh (SSN720), an attack submarine homeported in Groton, Conn. Chad Council '94 sends good news: "In September of 2011, my wife, Lora, and I welcomed our daughter, Margo, into the world. She's a feisty and energetic little girl. I was very lucky to have the opportunity to spend the first year at home with her, while finishing up grad school on weekends. In June 2012 I finished an MS in emergency management from Mass Maritime Academy. In December, I started working full time as a geospatial planning specialist in the Response Division of FEMA in the Region 1 office in Boston." Ian Faass '94 was appointed director of off-highway business by The Timken Company of Canton, Ohio. He has been with the company since 1994, managing sales of friction management and mechanical power transmission products and services to major accounts including Daimler Chrysler and Caterpillar. Ian holds a master's degree in business administration from RPI and completed the Executive Leadership Development program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 13 Richard Leaton '94 reports that he has a new role: Data governance and master data leader/master black belt at GE Appliances. Following his service as a U.S. Naval offi- training and mentoring of Six Sigma Black Belts and Green Christopher Mangiarelli '96 married Meghan Lane on Belts assigned to the ERP project." Oct. 7, 2012. They live in Cranston, R.I. Bob Mason '94 writes, "After eight successful years, I left Joseph Maraia '96, an intellectual property partner at Brightcove, the company I co-founded in Boston, to start a Pierce Atwood, was selected as president of the Boston Pat- new adventure. Currently I'm focused on helping other start- ent Law Association. He previously served as vice president, ups and entrepreneurs through the TechStars Boston accel- treasurer, and secretary. His law practice focuses on all as- erator program." pects of U.S. and international intellectual property law, with particular emphasis on semiconductor equipment, power Gus Blaschitz '95 reports, "Started a new job as a senior supplies, lasers, image processing devices, optical compo- validation engineer with SHL Pharma, the leading auto injec- nents, plasma systems, medical devices, alternative energy tors medical device manufacturer in the U.S." technologies, financial services, multimedia, multivariate anal- Cindy (Mitchell) Daly '96 and her husband, Joe, welcomed their second child, Lauren, in November. Cindy and ysis techniques, software and telecommunications systems and software. her family live in Maine, where she works as a project engineer Rebecca (Rubenstein) Sgambati '96 was promoted to at Pratt & Whitney. engineering director at Valero Benicia refinery in California. cer, Rich has worked for GE Appliances for 14 years, leading 14 Dwalin DeBoer '96 was selected by Vermont Business large-scale quality initiatives from sourced product quality to Magazine as a Vermont Rising Star. She lives in Bennington IT system implementations. "In my current role, I lead the GE with her husband, Brad, and children, Callum, 8, and Tyler, 6. Appliances executive data governance boards, implement- Research & Innovation, based in Madrid, Spain. After gradu- Her community involvement includes coaching youth soccer ing data policies, identifying and resourcing data quality ini- ating from WPI, Pedro worked in the Massachusetts area for and serving as vice president of AIM (Adults Interested in tiatives, establishing an empowered decision-making coun- three years before returning to Spain; he has been with a Monument), the Monument School PTA. "I am involved in the cil for shared data, and formalizing an ongoing data number of companies since, including Atos (the largest IT community as much as possible and have spent many a late stewardship program throughout the business. I lead a team services firm in Europe) since 2005, where he was in charge night planning school and community functions," says Dwa- of 50+ focused on implementing an Oracle master data of the information security research team. lin. "It's thrilling to watch the light bulb moments as kids realize management solution, simultaneously improving the quality that teamwork, fun, and winning can all go together!" Before Sean Squire '96 has been appointed a technology fellow and business value of both legacy and new data sources. As joining Mack Medical 12 years ago, she worked for Saint- of the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, I am focused on business Gobain Performance Plastics, GE Plastics (now SABIC), and located at the Naval War College, in Newport, R.I. process improvements within the supply chain, distribution, Monsanto Plastics. Her recent promotion to director at Mack and commercial areas of GE Appliances as the ERP system puts her at the head of a new business unit that focuses on After several years in the private sector, Ben Higgins '97 has is architected and deployed. Additional focus areas include the orthopedic and disposable medical device markets. returned to WPI as a network engineer in Network Operations. Pedro Soria-Rodriguez '96, '98 (MS EE) has been appointed market manager of Financial Services Market at Atos Winter 2013 85

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