The Alumni Magazine for Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (WPI)
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Winter 2015 67 class notes Patrick Welge says, "As of Nov. 1, 2014, I am president of Jaeger Spindles of North America Corp. Jaeger Spindles is based out of Bad Nauheim, Germany, with U.S. operations in Atlanta, Ga. It is a manufacturer of high- speed, high-frequency spindles for the machine tool and other industries." 1991 Bob Prytko writes, "I recently completed the scale-up (50kg) of a Phase III drug candidate. Amazingly, I've been at Sepracor (now Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, in Marlborough, Mass.) for over 20 years! We sponsored an MQP project last year and it worked out so well, we are working with WPI again this year." 1992 David Friedman is acting director of the National Highway Traffc Safety Administration. He was previously deputy administrator. 1993 Jim O'Neill was part of the group on the podium of the NYSE when HubSpot went public. Jim, an early member of the executive team, serves as CIO for the company, which develops and markets software for inbound marketing, social media marketing, email marketing, content management, web analytics, and search engine optimization. Jeff Rembold writes, "After many years working as an application engineer with PTC, primarily on mechanical CAD and PLM solutions, I have taken on a new challenge. I am now a technical sales engineer for ThingWorx (a PTC business), enabling companies to develop applications Jonathan Bird directed and produced Space School, the world's frst digitally flmed live-action flm for dome-format theatres. He is best known as host of the syndicated Public Television series Jonathan Bird's Blue World. The new ultra-high defnition documentary offers viewers a rare glimpse of NASA astronauts training for space by spending time in underwater environments here on Earth. With the cooperation of NASA, Bird and his team flmed astronaut Chris Cassidy training for space walks at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, and astronaut Jeannette Epps practicing techniques for exploring distant asteroids and planets at the Aquarius Reef Base in Florida. Space School premiered Jan. 15, 2015, at Broward College's Buehler Planetarium. Bird's camera work made use of RED Dragon, the frst commercial camera to offer high-resolution images suitable for projection on a dome. Space School will be shown in fulldome theatres across the country this year. See more at spaceschool.blueworldtv.com. '90