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8/20/2008: new home
My firm, Interplay, has been a lot of fun. We've recently repositioned ourselves as a training organization offering "Empathy Skills for healers". We're working with two very large hospitals in the Northwest and expanding. My wife has started a new company, Sceneplay, that uses directors and improvisors to analyze and fix screenplays. That has been great fun as well. You can look for her website at www.sceneplay.net. Our twins, Jack and Livvy, are 4 1/2 and have just read their first books. I had no idea that was possible at their age. And I've never been so thrilled to hear that "Mat sat on Sam." I hope you're all getting what you hoped for. I'd love to hear from you.
Submitted by: Deepa Vij
Class of:
6/6/2008: Jagrati & Vishwas Shringi were blessed with a baby boy (Vihaan V. Shringi) on May 27th 2008.
Submitted by: Vishwas Shringi
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4/9/2008: Sascha and I would like to let everyone know that our daughter, Naomi Louisa Elsing, has arrived on Thursday, February 21st at 8:34pm at the Northwest Hospital. Mommy completed a natural birth within less than 2 hours after arriving at the hospital, and all three of us are doing great. Naomi was born at 8 pounds and 20 inches long, and appears perfectly healthy. A website album can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/naomi.elsing
Submitted by: Mona Elsing
Class of:
4/8/2008: Recently, I have discussed the causes and policy responses to ongoing sub-prime mortgage defaults on KIRO TV, KUOW radio and KIRO radio.
Submitted by: Alan Hess
Class of: 1969
4/8/2008: Ryan Knutson has been promoted to Director of Purchasing for Composites and Castings at PACCAR, Inc. PACCAR builds medium duty and class 8 trucks under the DAF, Peterbilt and Kenworth brands. Previously Ryan was the Controller for the Purchasing Department.
Submitted by: Ryan Knutson
Class of: 1994
4/8/2008: Promoted to Director in FTI Consulting's Corporate Finance Practice
Submitted by: Amit Shah
Class of:
4/8/2008: Ryan Knutson has been promoted to Director of Purchasing for Composites and Castings at PACCAR, Inc. PACCAR builds medium duty and class 8 trucks under the DAF, Peterbilt and Kenworth brands. Previously Ryan was the Controller for the Purchasing Department.
Submitted by: Ryan Knutson
Class of:
4/8/2008: Promoted to Director in FTI Consulting's Corporate Finance Practice
Submitted by: Amit Shah
Class of: 2006
3/31/2008: Hey everyone, got married in January this year - to Papiya Sarkar, staunch environmentalist.
Submitted by: Anjan Pal
Class of:
3/27/2008: Hosted B&T club students during Seattle Trek, March 2008.
Submitted by: Pritha Vaswani
Class of: 2003
3/27/2008: Hosted B&T club students during Seattle trek, March 2008.
Submitted by: Brian Olsavsky
Class of: 1989
11/20/2007: Madeleine Grace was born on November 9, 2007 to Michele and Brian Savoie. Michele was a superstar - baby and Mother are doing well.
Submitted by: Brian Savoie
Class of:
6/6/2007: Just accepted a position at Expedia and start June 18th.
Submitted by: Jennifer Binder
Class of: 2005
4/21/2007: I have moved to Seattle. I am now Senior VP Operations for Amazon.com
Submitted by: Marc Onetto
Class of: 1975
4/9/2007: Sorry for the late news, but last Summer I took a position in Microsoft’s entertainment division to help develop the strategy for bringing the Zune media player to market. This is keeping me crazy busy, but since my time at Tepper taught me that you can never me too busy, my wife and I are beginning the process of building a house in Seattle as well.
Submitted by: Peter Johnson
Class of:
4/4/2007: Peter Lee was married to Ji Yeon Park last fall. Peter is currently a Marketing Manager with Philips Medical Systems, and the couple is currently residing in San Francisco.
Submitted by: Peter Lee
Class of: 2002
4/3/2007: CTO of my own company, LuminTerra, LLC, with 4 other colleagues. We're in our 3rd successful year of "downsized" work, with a good measure of time for other pursuits -- such as my restoring a 1938 log house on the Whidbey Island coast.
Submitted by: Joseph West
Class of: 1977
11/6/2006: Ryan Knutson has been promoted to Controller for Purchasing and Supplier Quality at PACCAR, Inc. in Bellevue, WA. Previously, Ryan was the Director of Engineering Accounting for PACCAR's Peterbilt Division in Denton, TX.
Submitted by: Ryan Knutson
Class of:
3/28/2006: I have a new position with Nike as of April 2006. My wife and I will move to Portland, OR.
Submitted by: Brian Savoie
Class of: 2004
7/11/2005:
Submitted by: Timothy Dawes
Class of:
3/26/2005: Have accepted a new opportunity with Microsoft to join their Worldwide Premier Services Team as a Senior Manager at Redmond, WA. Previously was with Unisys in their Strategic Marketing Group in Philadelphia, PA. The projected join date is mid-May 2005 (Subject to US immigration laws)
Submitted by: Pradeep U.N.
Class of: 2003
3/19/2005: TJ and I just went to China in January to adopt our new 18-mo old son, Joshua.
Submitted by: Susan McCue
Class of:
2/8/2005: Steven Blackmore is currently the Assistant Treasurer at Precision Castparts Corp. in Portland, Oregon. PCC is a worldwide, diversified manufacturer of complex metal components and products. It serves the aerospace, power generation, automotive, and general industrial and other markets with over $2 billion in sales and a $4 billion + market cap on NYSE. Blackmore had previously been an Assistant Treasurer with Mentor Graphics Corp. and a Director of Corporate Finance and Financial Risk with Alcoa, Inc.
Submitted by: Steven Blackmore
Class of: 1996
9/27/2004: I have taken a position as First Vice President with Washington Mutual Bank with responsibility for Equity Portfolio Risk Management
Submitted by: Simon Osei-Agyemang
Class of:
8/28/2004: Deepa and Shawn welcomed their daughter, Sahana on July 31, 2003.
Submitted by: Deepa Vij
Class of:
8/22/2004: Looks like I missed the Fall 2004 deadline due to work travel. I submitted class notes to our class rep and the CMU Magazine for me and two other classmates with a photo since we had a mini reunion in Nassau, Bahamas this past March, but it didn't make the last issue. We were quite disappointed. Here's an update, although two CMU alums mentioned in this update graduated from other departments.
I've been living in Moscow, ID since March 2002. Not many CMU graduates in Idaho. I'm working as the Assistant Director of Development and External Relations for the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. I basically raise money and do external relations for the veterinary college. My work email is leonardo@vetmed.wsu.edu.
No big news, but I was pretty excited to go to the women's volleyball NCAAs in Hawaii this past December where my boyfriend's team played Hawaii in the first round of NCAA playoffs. They lost, but not a bad place to go in December. He's the Associate Head Women's Volleyball Coach for the University of Idaho Vandals. We also attended the Holiday Bowl in San Diego this past December where the WSU Cougars defeated the Texas Longhorns 28-20, I believe. WSU and the UI are 8 miles apart just across state lines. Our lives in the northwest are pretty consumed by collegiate athletics between the two university's where we work.
In March of 2004, I vacationed in Nassau, Bahamas with Elizabeth "E'beth" Rowlands (H&SS '93) and Joanna Downer (MCS '93). E'beth recently completed her DVM degree at Texas A&M and is practicing at a Cat Clinic in Houston, TX. Just a coincidence that were both in veterinary medicine. Joanna is a public information officer for the Johns Hopkins Medical School and is working on her row house in the Fells Point section of Baltimore. We met up a few times this past year.
I have also seen Stephanie Horwitz (IM '93)in San Francisco a few times this past year. She's currently working in Finance for Levi's. She attended the Stanford vs WSU football game with me last Fall.
Submitted by: Lisa Leonardo
Class of: 1993
7/29/2004: Tim Dawes is celebrating the one year anniversary for his firm Interplay, Inc. Interplay creates experiential learning events largely to teach healthcare workers how to be more effective on the job by bringing compassion into their work. In his most recent engagement, he led a team of four actors and two trainers to train over 100 medical staff in the hematology unit at Children's Hospital Regional Medical Center in Seattle. You can find out more about Interplay at www.interplaygroup.com
Submitted by: Timothy Dawes
Class of: 1985
7/28/2004: After joining Washingto Mutual last year as Program Manager for Corporate Finance and Accounting Systems, I was recently promoted to Vice President of Business Strategy for the Technology Solutions Group at WaMu. My responsibilities include developing a business model that supports the CIOs strategic goals, initiating major projects with our business customers, and identifying operational excellence opportunities. We are staffing up the team under direction of a new CIO so I am looking for project managers. David Spyra from our class recently took over Sarbanes Oxley leadership for TSG at WaMu and he is hiring as well.
Outside of work, my son Mason is almost a year old and is a very happy little guy. Let me know if any of you swing into town: 206.490.0373
Submitted by: Steven Alexander
Class of:
6/10/2004: On January 4, 2004, Pailin (MSIA '00) and Paul Huang (MSIA '00) welcomed the arrival of their son, Parker.
Submitted by: Pailin Huang
Class of: 2000
5/27/2004: please send the ALUMNI MAGAZINE to my preferred address in WI. thanks
Submitted by: David Brotherton
Class of: 2004
3/25/2004: Ryan Knutson just accepted a position as Assistant Controller for the Denton Plant of Peterbilt Motors Company, a division of PACCAR. He and his wife, Catalina, also adopted their three year old daughter, Daniela, from Romania last year. They live in Frisco, Texas.
Submitted by: Ryan Knutson
Class of: 1994
3/15/2004: Daughter born July 31st, 2003
Submitted by: Deepa Vij
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3/15/2004: Deepa and Shawn Vij were blessed with the birth of their daughter, Sahana, on July 31 2003.
Submitted by: Deepa Vij
Class of:
3/15/2004: Daughter born July 31st, 2003
Submitted by: Deepa Vij
Class of: 2001
3/15/2004: Deepa and Shawn Vij were blessed with the birth of their daughter, Sahana, on July 31 2003.
Submitted by: Deepa Vij
Class of: 2001
1/13/2004: Adopted Daniela Knutson (now age 3) in October of 2002.
Submitted by: Ryan Knutson
Class of: 1994
9/30/2003: Ketty Hsieh (IA'94) and her husband, Mathis Solverud (IA'94) announced the joyful arrival of their daughter, Kaili Solverud, on August 3, 2003.
Submitted by: T. Ketty Hsieh
Class of: 1994
4/2/2003: Two years and two months ago I started a high-tech company, Teseda Corporation (www.teseda.com)and have been President and CEO since then. We've been through 2 rounds of venture funding (one in 2001 and one in 2002; both of which were not great years for venture capital!) and have designed, built, and introduced a new kind of integrated circuit tester that is dramatically lower in cost than existing solutions. We're up to 25 people and 2003 is our first year of revenue, so life just keeps getting more interesting!
Submitted by: Steven Morris
Class of: 1981
4/1/2003: Tim Dawes recently became co-owner of EffectiveArts, Inc., a company that uses interactive drama to train people in emotionally intense interactions (journalists who interview victims of trauma, coordinators who work in hospitals collecting donated organs, respiratory therapists who care for patients with trouble breathing, and such). The new company makes him almost as happy as his two-year old twins, Jack Paris and Livvy Blair.
Submitted by: Timothy Dawes
Class of:
3/31/2003: I left Entergy (Houston, TX) where I was Senior Manager of Mergers and Acquisitions. I'm now Director of Risk Management for TXU Energy Trading in Dallas, TX.
Submitted by: Jon Hougland
Class of: 1997
9/27/2002: Brian Olsavsky is now Vice President of Finance for Amazon.com in Seattle, WA. He and his family moved from Pittsburgh where he has been Vice President of Finance for Fischer Scientific. He and his wife, Susan, have three daughters: Katherine (10), Alexandra (9) and Gracie (5).
Submitted by: Brian Olsavsky
Class of:
1/2/2002: Richard Pentuk is Vice President of Financial Risk Management with Wells Fargo Bank, NA in Seattle, WA. He markets financial (interest rate and equity) derivative products to the bank's commercial clients, corporate clients and private clients and is responsible for covering the Pacific Northwest (WA, OR, ID) and Alaska. Richard joined Wells Fargo in July 2000 from a similar position at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, PA.
Submitted by: Richard Pentuk
Class of: 1997
10/31/2001: My husband Mathis Solverud (MSIA, 1994) and I recently returned from a 5-month sabbatical and moved to Seattle, WA. During the sabbatical, we traveled to many interesting places in Asia and South America. You can check out our pictures and travel stories at http:\\longtrip.topcities.com. I am now working at Alaska Airlines as the Director of Financial Planning and analysis, while Mathis is working at Expedia.com. We're so excited to finally get away from the Texas heat and be much closer to nature!
Submitted by: T. Ketty Hsieh
Class of: 1994
11/27/2000: I've been named Director, Corporate Finance and Financial Risk at Alcoa Inc., a $20+ Billion aluminum manufacturing company.
Submitted by: Steven Blackmore
Class of: 1996
5/30/2000: Geoffrey Entress lives in Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington with his wife Susan and children Emma and Nick.
Submitted by: Geoffrey Entress
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