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Home | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s | 1960s | 1950s | 1930s 1990s: Russell Anderson (B.S. '97, civil engineering) works with the Maryland State Highway Administration as project manager and transportation engineer. He recently completed his fourth year assisting with the instruction of ENCE 466, the civil engineering senior design Capstone course. Andrew Baker (B.S. '93 and M.S. '95, aerospace engineering) graduated from the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School, Class 114, and the U.S. Executive Leadership Development Program Class of 2004. He was deployed to Iraq with the 113th DC Air National Guard in 2006 and 2007, and is now home with his wife, Jennifer, and children, Jocelyn and Nathaniel. Naveen Bhat (Ph.D. '91, chemical engineering) has been named vice president of sales for Asia and Japan by Ixia, a provider of performance test systems for IP-based infrastructure and services. Matthew Bishop (B.S. '97, fire protection engineering) is a fire protection engineer with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). He reports that he is one of five Clark School FPE alumni working for the company. Daniel D. Blake (B.S. '90, civil engineering) is president and CEO of CourseMax, a provider of online training management software. Michael Boswell (B.S. '91, mechanical engineering) has been named chairman of AMDL, Inc., a bio-pharmaceutical company in Tustin, Calif. Bill Byrne (Ph.D. '93, electrical engineering) is a reader of information engineering at the University of Cambridge (U.K.). He was previously a lecturer in speech processing. Dale Christenson (M.S. '93, civil engineering) has been named federal project director for the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Greg Crowley (M.S. '96, mechanical engineering) has been appointed to the Schererville, Ind., Board of Zoning Appeals. He is president of Crowley Engineering Group, LLC. Rebecca Currano (B.S. '97, mechanical engineering) is pursuing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. Previously, she worked for Black & Decker designing power tools. Protagoras "Tag" Cutchis (B.S. '79, electrical engineering and physics, and M.S. '90, electrical engineering) has been named among the "Most Intriguing Baltimoreans" by Baltimore Magazine. He is a licensed physician. Peter C. D'Antonio (B.S. '91, civil engineering) is listed among Consulting and Specifying Engineer Magazine's "Forty Under 40" young professionals in the building and construction industry. Peter is founder and president of PCD Engineering Services Inc. in Boulder, Colo. Terry L. Downs (M.S. '94, civil engineering) is a senior associate at Gannett Fleming. Neal B. Eberly (B.S. '93, aerospace engineering) is a systems engineer at Wyle Laboratories in Houston, Texas, where he works on human spaceflight hardware. Josh Elvander (B.S. '94, aerospace engineering) is a project manager with Bluefin Robotics Corporation in Cambridge, Mass. Bluefin Robotics manufactures autonomous underwater vehicles. Claudio Filippone (M.S. '94 and Ph.D. '96, nuclear engineering) has been named senior director of nuclear technology analysis at Thorium Power Ltd. John Fines (B.S. '95, electrical engineering) will have his Master's thesis, "Machine Tool Positioning Error Compensation Using Artificial Neural Networks," published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Jon Forst (B.S. '93, aerospace engineering) was recently awarded his second patent for a new system that dynamically determines the eligibility of credit card customers. In 1999, he received his first patent for a system to allow for electronic funds transfers over the phone. He has a third patent pending. Ronald G. Forsythe, Jr. (M.S. '92 and Ph.D. '95, chemical engineering) has been named a new member of BB&T Salisbury's local advisory board. He is a vice president of technology and commercialization at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Derrick Frost (B.S. '93, electrical engineering) has launched Invision.tv, an interactive program guide to internet video. Frost is founder and CEO of the company. Reza Ghanadan (B.S. '88, M.S. '90 and Ph.D. '93, electrical engineering) has been named an Engineering Fellow at BAE Systems. Kevin Greenaugh (Ph.D. '98, nuclear engineering) has been named director of the Office of Military Application and Stockpile Operations at the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. Kiran Hebbar (M.S. '96, mechanical engineering) has been promoted to partner by Valhalla Partners. Thomas O. Heikkinen (B.S. '91, civil engineering, and M.Eng. '97) is the water utility general manager for the city of Madison, Wis. Previously, he was chief of plant operations for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. William Helms (B.S. '97, civil engineering) has joined Shaner Operating Corporation as director of construction. Reggie Holt (B.S. '89 and M.S. '94, civil engineering) is the other co-author of the NTSB report detailing defects in the design of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis last summer. Holt is a senior structural engineer for the Federal Highway Administration. Vivek Khuller (M.S. '93, electrical engineering) is president and CEO of DiVitas Networks, a provider of mobile communications. Tekin Kunt (Ph.D. '97, chemical engineering) has been promoted to director of research and development for software company Aspen Technology Inc. in Houston, Texas. Gregory LeBlanc (B.S. ' 95, civil engineering) is assistant city engineer for the Department of Public Works in Cambridge, Md. Liyou (Leo) Li (Ph.D. '91, electrical engineering) has been named president of Spreadtrum Communications, Inc., in Shanghai, China. Nancy Linton (B.S. '98, electrical engineering) received the 2008 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution in Government sponsored by USBE and Information Technology magazine. She is a systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Richard M. Liu (M.S. '88, electrical engineering, and MBA ' 91) is vice president of engineering for NavAsic Microelectronics, Inc. Vikram Manikonda (Ph.D. '97, electrical engineering) has been appointed president of Intelligent Automation, Inc., in Rockville, Md. Christie Minami (B.S. '99, environmental engineering) earned her professional engineering license in 2006 and has been working for the Maryland State Highway Administration's Green Highways Initiative, a partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Tim Moore (M.S. '99, civil engineering) is a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech, where he is working on a device to "sniff" for air-borne pollutants. Christopher Murphy (M.S. '90, mechanical engineering) has joined Kilpatrick Stockton as a partner in their intellectual property department. He will be a part of the patent litigation team. Michael Nusca (B.S. '82, M.S. '86 and Ph.D. '97, aerospace engineering), an aerospace engineer at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), was recently presented with the Superior Civilian Service Award and Medal by ARL Director John M. Miller (B.S. '69, aerospace engineering, and M.S. '74, mechanical engineering). Robert Pearce (B.S. '97, civil engineering) is a project manager for Whiting-Turner Contracting Company in Charlotte, N.C. Martin Pietrucha (Ph.D. '90, civil engineering) has been named interim director of the Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at Penn State University. Robert Radicevich (B.S. '94, electrical engineering) is a spacecraft engineer with Red Canyon Software. He is interested in catching up with former UM Solar Car Team members. Please send email to Robert if you would like to connect with him. Jeffrey C. Robbert (B.S. '99, civil engineering) has been hired as an associate with engineering firm Erdman Anthony in West Palm Beach, Fla. Gautam Roy (B.S. '92, electrical engineering) is vice president of system software and an officer of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Roy received an MBA in 2001 from Northwestern University. He is also on the board of the Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity in Chicago. Nikos Sidiropoulos (M.S. '90 and Ph.D. '92, electrical engineering) has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Lt. Cmdr. Jacob P. Staub (MEng. '98) was featured in the Baltimore Sun recently for his efforts to build an electric vehicle. Suvir Sujan (B.S. '93, electrical engineering) is a team member at venture investment firm Nexus India Capital. Curtis Taylor (B.S. '98, mechanical engineering) is an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Florida. Brian Timberlake (B.S. '99, chemical engineering) has earned a Masters in quantitative and computational finance and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech. He also married Allison Yasitis last year. Kuansan Wang (M.S. '89 and Ph.D. '94, electrical engineering) is a principal researcher for Microsoft. Andrew F. Weisfield (B.S. '96, fire protection engineering) has been hired as a fire protection engineer at Burt, Hill in Pittsburgh. Timothy Wilcox (B.S. '91, aerospace engineering) has served as mission planner lead and flight dynamics analyst for the Landsat-5 and Landsat-7 flight operations teams at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Jessie Yung (B.S. '96 and M.S. '99, civil engineering) is a program manager for the Federal Highway Administration.
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