The Alumni Magazine for Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (WPI)
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classnotes sition, I have recently embarked on a new endeavor. Along with my partner, Rose-Ellen Padavano, I have opened a res- taurant called Rosalina's Kitchen, located at 83 Hamilton Street, in the Grafton Hill section of Worcester. We are a neigh- borhood restaurant that serves homemade Italian fare. We are also a BYOB establishment. The link is rosalinaskitchen.com." Cathy (Dochak) and Tom Pelnik '85 have lived in Rich- mond, Va., for the past 19 years. Cathy has been teaching middle school math for 14 years at the Orchard House School. Tom recently joined ACS Infrastructure Development, where he is in charge of business development for North America. They have two children; Carolyn is studying engi- neering at the University of Virginia, and Eric is a freshman at Washington & Lee University, where he is majoring in psychol- ogy and playing on the lacrosse team. Michael Raspuzzi '85 writes, "After almost 15 years at SeaChange working on video delivery software, I decided to move on. I recently accepted a position as technical lead, software engineering at Cisco Systems in Boxborough, Mass. I have run into a few WPI alums here at Cisco. My group works on secure connection (VPN) and secure virtualization soft- ware. My wife and I continue to live in Leominster and have a home-away-from-home in the White Mountains. Our twins graduated from Leominster High School this past June and headed off to college last fall. Michael, who was the class of 2011 valedictorian, is at Cornell studying architecture. Nicole is at Suffolk University studying graphic design." Susan Woods '85 writes, "I have moved from The Nether- lands, where I lived for six years, to New York City in late 2010 and have recently started work at Hearst Magazines. I have the world's easiest commute—a 15-block walk to work each day! We are involved with the international editions of many of the Hearst titles (Cosmo, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, etc.). We are starting a new edition this spring, and many new international editions later in 2012. It's very interesting and a complete career change after years in health care administration." Chris Adams '86 writes, "I am still working for a local utility company. I support computer systems used for transmission and distribution. During tropical storm Irene, and winter storm Alfred, I worked many long shifts monitoring these systems. I was even sleeping on the computer room floor for several nights. Fortunately, my systems were OK, but during the first three days of Alfred, my office did not have power, and my site was using one of its backup generators. So even the power company was not immune to losing service!" Ron Barth '86 writes, "Who says you can't switch careers? I graduated 25 years ago as an electrical engineer, and now I'm following my original passion: music. My band, Clockwork (clockworkboston.com), has really taken off—so much that it's taking over as my main occupation. And I'm loving it! We 11 Mike Kelly '86 reports that after 17+ years in the manufac- turing organization of Haemonetics Corp., he has accepted a new position at Instrumentation Laboratory in Bedford, Mass., as director of consumables manufacturing. "I'm looking for- ward to a new career challenge," he says, "along with a loca- tion that is much closer to my golf course!" Jennifer Mellone '86 writes, "In 2006, as a Navy Reserve officer, I was mobilized to Kabul for a year. I could not believe that Afghan officials were asking ME for advice on how to run their country! I did not see any mines explode on the golf course with the sand putting 'greens.' After surviving 'Opera- tion Enduring Freedom,' in 2007 I survived 'Operation Endur- ing Ovarian Cancer' on the home front. In 2008 I got married at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. My hus- band and I lived in Campbell, and in 2010 we bought a sec- ond home condo in Napa (wine country). In 2011 I left Boe- ing to join AppSec Consulting in San Jose as senior information security consultant. I'm also commanding officer of a Navy Reserve unit. Now in 2012—I have been journaling and would love to write a book about my experiences." play wedding receptions and corporate events across New England. Know someone getting married? Give me a call!" James Bundock '86 says, "I'm a senior IC designer at ADI, where I recently designed the AD8229, a low-noise, low- distortion, high-temperature-capable (>200C), precision instrumentation amplifier. Previous work includes designing the EE Times China Ace Award-winning AD825X family of pro- grammable gain instrumentation amplifiers (Best Amplifier category)." Cheryl Costa '86 writes, "After 10 years at MITRE Corp., I left engineering and became a certified financial planner. It was a fantastic career change—I've been working in the investment management world for almost 15 years now. My business partner and I run Forteris, a wealth management firm with offices in Purchase, N.Y., and Framingham, Mass. Between work and raising three kids, my days are pretty full." 11 Samir Ghosh '86 writes, "Hey! Loving life in Northern California still after 15 years. I'm at Qontext, where we provide social collaboration for businesses. And I'm coaching triath- lon teams for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training." John Joseph '86 is starting a new information technology company in the Central Massachusetts area. He recently left Dell, three years after being acquired as vice president of mar- keting and product management at EqualLogic (an iSCSI data storage company). There, he worked with the manage- ment team to grow the company to 3,700 customers and $200M in sales annually when Dell acquired the business. John lives in Bolton, Mass., with Kelley, his wife of 23 years, and three college-bound children: John (19), Jesslyn (18), and Brittany (16). Anne Marie (Daly) Riechmann '86 says, "I moved to southwest Oregon two years ago for my husband's job. It's very rural out here in the mountains, but quite beautiful. We live near a large nesting site for bald eagles—we see them flying around or sitting in trees. I'm teaching CAD in the Me- chanical Engineering and Technology Department at Oregon Institute of Technology." Donna Barone Viens '86 is still teaching and coaching at Wilbraham and Monson Academy in Wilbraham, Mass. "Sent my first child off to college this year—Saint Andrew's in Scotland." Tony Erwin '87 is active in the WPI Alumni community, play- ing with the WPI Alumni Jazz Band. He recently started a new job at Teradyne as an applications engineer. "My wife, Lisa, and I recently celebrated 20 years of marriage. We live in Tewksbury, Mass., with our two children and two dogs." Marie Hutchinson '87 lives in Connecticut with her hus- band and 5- year-old and (newly adopted) 2-year-old daugh- ters. "I work at Hamilton Sundstrand as manager of program office effectiveness, optimizing budgeting processes. My kids' godparents are sorority sisters from WPI." Paul Lubas '87 is senior marketing manager for 3M Purifica- tion Inc., responsible for the life sciences business segment, which includes pharmaceutical, biotech, and biologic filtration and separations applications. He lives in Glastonbury, Conn., with his wife, Paula. Elliot Scot '87 writes, "It's hard to believe we're coming up on 25 years since graduation. I haven't strayed far from the Worcester area. Shrewsbury has been a great place to raise Spring 2012 75