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2000s
Greg Herzing(IE '01 MS '04) currently works at Hayward Tyler, Inc. as a unit contract administrator. Prior to HTI, Greg worked for UPS and Tyco Electronics. Greg got married in 2005 and moved to Burlington, Vermont from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, so his wife could pursue her Ph.D. in experimental and behavioral psychology at the University of Vermont. Greg's dog’s name is Lennon (the Beatle) and cat’s name is Smokey. (posted 03/24/09 )
Amanda Cole(IE '02, MBA '06) is currently employed as a LEAN facilitator and programs manager for WESCO Distribution and was married to Ben Cole on May 1, 2009. Ben is a graduate of Villanova University, Thomas Jefferson Medical School, and Temple University and manages several outpatient Physical Therapy clinics in suburban Pittsburgh. The couple resides in their new home in Cranberry Township, PA. (posted 07/14/09)
Lisa Ferrence(IE '02) currently works at MEDRAD, Inc. as a senior procurement engineer. Lisa was engaged in December 2008 and will be married on November 28, 2009 to Pittsburgh native/Allegheny College & CMU grad Brad Cole. Brad is an assistant project manager with Michael Baker Corporation (posted 03/24/09)
Sachin Halbe(IE '02) currently works at Emirates Airline & Group in Dubai, UAE, as a perfomance development manager. He currently lives in Dubai with his wife, Tejashree. (posted 10/24/08)
Keith Hall(IE '02) currently works at Pier 1 Imports as a distribution center operations manager in Maryland. (posted 04/23/09)
Prasanna Nirgudkar(IE '02) currently works as a manager at Schlumberger in Texas. (posted 07/07/09)
Harshawardhan Bhide (IE MS'03) moved Orlando, Florida in August 2006 to work for Siemens Energy Inc. as a gas turbine repair engineer II. He currently works with the same group and is the team lead for repair R&D. Harshawardhan lives in Orlando with his wife, Gouri, and two year old daughter Era.(posted 03/17/09)
Pamela Feasel (IE '03) currently works as a consultant for Accenture in Virginia. (posted 07/07/09)
Daniel Giraldo (IE '03) recently moved to Cincinnati to take on a new position at Proctor & Gamble. He changed roles from operations manager to initiative leader, where he is responsible for the execution of new Charmin products to five manufacturing sites.(posted 10/24/08)
Davisson Hammond (IE MS'03) recently joined Ameriprise Financial as a financial advisor. Pittsburgh, Pa. (posted 08/03/09)
George Ju (IE '03) recently was promoted from a regional role as the operations planning supervisor to a national role as a supply chain network strategy analyst for Nestle Waters North America . He will be relocating from Tallahassee, FL to Allentown, PA for the new position. (posted 08/03/09)
Gaurav Tiwari (IE MS'03) currently works as the operations planning manager for M&M's Brand Chocolate Candies for Mars North America. He is married to Anjana J. Pandey (Wharton '00). Anjana works at the Robinhood Foundation in New York City as a program officer. (posted 11/10/08)
Jaime (Wallace) Faulhaber (IE '04) currently works for Boeing as a systems engineer on the Apache helicopter program. She married Matthew Faulhaber (INT B '01) in 2004 and the couple is expecting their first child in December. (posted 08/04/09)
Bron Holloway (IE '04) is currently living and working in Peru as a Peace Corps volunteer. As a small business development volunteer, she primarily works with an artisan group of female weavers, she strives to improve group dynamics and organization and also helps them to find and enter new markets. Some of her other volunteer work in Peru includes teaching business skills to at-risk youth and aiding the disabled in obtaining medical treatment. If you would like to hear more about Bron's experiences or learn more about volunteering with the Peace Corps, email Bron at bronwen.holloway@gmail.com (posted 11/12/08)
Ian Anderson (IE '05) currently works at the Department of Defense as a cost analyst at the Pentagon. Ian specifically supports acquisition of naval aircrafts, weapons, ships, and submarines. (posted 03/19/09)
Drew Brown (IE '05) currently works at the Petent and Trademark Office in Virginia as a patent examiner. (posted 07/16/09)
Levemt Cakcak (IE '05) currently works at AAMC as a business analyst. He was married in April 2009 and moved to Alexandria, VA from Bethesda, MD. (posted 07/16/09)
Alexandrea (Matunis) Lynch (IE '05) currently works as a high school math teacher at Bald Eagle Area Middle/High School, where she also coaches the junior high girls soccer team. Alex married Paul Lynch (B.S. IE '04, M.S. IE '07) on December 27, 2008. The couple traveled to Pasedena, CA to see the Rose Bowel as part of their honeymoon and currently live in State College. Paul is pursuing his Ph.D. in industrial engineering. (posted 03/19/09)
Brian Piccolo (IE '05) currently works at PowerAdvocate in Boston, MA, as an energy infrastructure analyst, where he forecasts the cost of operating and constructing power plants. Brian married Jennifer, another Penn State alum, on June 17, 2007, on the Long Island Sound. For their honeymoon, the couple explored southern Spain and visited relatives in Italy. (posted 10/24/08)
Kevin Busha (IE '06) currently works at Lockheed Martin as an industrial engineer. (posted 07/07/09)
Nathan Forney (IE '06) currently works for BP Solar in Frederick, MD. (posted 11/20/08)
Tom Gencarelli (IE '06) currently works for Harbison-Walker Refractories in Pennsylvania. (posted 1/5/09)
Eric Krall (IE MS'06) currently works for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as an operations research analyst in Washington, DC. (posted 3/3/09)
John Vincent Padre (IE '06) currently works for NCI Information Systems as a FMS engineer in New Jersey.. (posted 7/13/09)
Stephanie (Geibel) Thompson (IE '06) currently works for Curtiss-Wright EMD in Pennsylvania. She married David Thompson (ME '06) in June 2007. (posted 3/2/09)
Oguzhan Carmikli (IE '07) recently moved to UAE to work as a planning and scheduling manager for Nurol L.L.C., a well-rooted contractor of civil works with a 25-year history in the GCC. Oguzhan's coverage area spans eight construction sites across Abu Dhabi and Dubai. (posted 12/22/08)
Mary Katherine Moravek (IE '07) currently works for Accenture. In the past year she worked for clients in Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Cabo. (posted 11/10/08)
Carrie (Bufalini) Smith (IE '07) recently got married and moved to Colorado. She currently works for Pepsi Bottling Group. (posted 12/22/08)
Oh Joon Song (IE '07) currently works at UBS AG in Seoul, S.Korea as an analyst in banks operations department. Responsible for SWAP settlements and planning to work on a process excellence project focusing on operational cost reduction as well as process automation. (posted 12/22/08)
David Walters (IE '07) currently works at MWH Global in Chicago, Illinois, as an associate mechanical engineer. The company is primarily in the 'wet infrastructure' and renewable energy sector. His position is acutally as a mechanical engineer in the hydromechanical design group working on large hydroelectric projects, locks and dams. According to David, "although I'm not an IE by profession, the skills I was able to take from the program could not have helped me more up to this point." (posted 07/16/09)
Lisa Yim (IE '07) currently works for C&S Wholesale Grocers in Keene, NH as a business analyst, and is working on $250 mil expansion project (posted 1/22/09)
Katy Hemphill (IE '08) currently works as a supply chain analyst for SRA International, Inc. in Pennsylvania. (posted 12/22/08)
1990s
John Bankoske (IE '92) currently works as the director of underwriting at HM Insurance Group. (posted 07/16/09)
Bradley Stump (IE '92) currently works as a lean sigma process improvement facilitator for Chevron Global Upstream & Gas in Houston, TX. Brad has had the opportunity to work for Chevron on various Lean Sigma projects all around the globe. In this year alone, he has been to Canada, Angola, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, and Thailand. Brad firmly believes that his IE background has provided him with a firm foundation to continue his professional development in the continuous improvement arena. (posted 11/20/08)
Rich Tannenbaum (IE '92) is the vice president of supply chain for The Vitamin Shoppe, a specialty retailer with 400 stores, catalog and internet site. He is responsible for purchasing, inventory management, warehousing, distribution and transportation of the company's 20,000 health and wellness products. Rich and his family recently relocated from Arizona to New Jersey. (posted 12/22/08)
Michael Noll (IE '93) currently works as a senior manufacturing engineer at ESAB Welding and Cutting Products in Pennsylvania. (posted 03/04/09)
John Flynn (IE '94) was recently promoted to manager of manufacturing engineering at Volvo Powertrain North America, and will be hosting two Penn State IE student interns for summer 2009. John has two sons, John Dillon, 2 1/2, and Collin Teagan, born March 2, 2009. (posted 03/26/09)
David Pasi (IE BS '94, MS '96) has been working for JLG Industries for the last twelve years. He has been married for eleven years to Darlene, a Penn State Mont Alto employee. They have two children, Jordan, 5, and Jack, 2. (posted 12/02/08)
David Riordan (IE '96) is an adventure trip leader for an English overland company. He has led trips in South America, Africa and Asia and is currently leading trips in West Africa. David says that his time at PSU helped him to be able to handle anything that comes his way...and most of it does. (posted 03/19/09)
William (Bill) Gregg (IE '96) joined JLG Industries, Inc. in 2008 as senior manager, supply chain. Bill currently resides in Greencastle, PA with wife Tamara. (posted 03/03/09)
Iris Rivero (IE BS '96, MS '98, Ph.D '02) is one of six recipients of The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) 2009 John G. Bollinger Outstanding Young Manufacturing Award. She is currently an associate professor of industrial engineering at Texas Tech University. (posted 2/20/09)
Jessica (Feinman) Chapman (IE '97) recently joined Medidata Solutions as product marketing manager. She lives in Audubon, PA, with her husband and son. (posted 11/12/08)
Binglai Chen (IE '97) currently works as the NPI sourcing manager for food preparation procurement at Whirlpool Corporation in Michigan. (posted 11/12/08)
Brian Giumento (IE '98) was recently promoted to program manager at Lockheed Martin. He is responsible for the Dual Mode Laser-Guided Bomb Program at Missiles and Fire Control in Archbald, PA. Brian is also dad to twins, born in April 2007. (posted 2/20/09)
Josh Kramlick (IE BS '98, MS '99) currently works for W.L.Gore & Associates as a product specialist in the disk drive filtration technologies business. He is on an ex-pat assignment in Hong Kong through March of 2011 as a project lead in the launch of the new Asia-Pacific operations. (posted 07/07/09)
Marcy (Wetzel) Cautreels (IE '99) works as an SAP systems analyst at a state environmental agency in Florida. She and her husband, husband, Jurgen (IE '98), just welcomed twins (girl and boy) Marin and Aidan on June 3rd, 2009! Jurgen also just started a marketing company based in Delray Beach, Florida. (posted 07/07/09)
Joseph White (IE '99) has been working for as a staff engineer for the Solid Waste Department at AECOM (formerly Earth Tech) for the past three years. (posted 12/22/08)
1980s
Triche Guenin (IE '80) is principal/owner of Partners Through Change, Inc., a process improvement consulting firm which facilitates organizations through operational changes resulting in increased efficiency and effectiveness. Her specialty is in the area of implementation, specifically focusing in the areas of ISO/TL/AS 9001, Six Sigma, Baldrige, and Lean Thinking. Her education and certifications include: MBA, BSIE, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Examiner, Colorado Performance Excellence (CPEx) Examiner, ASQ - Certified Quality Manager, Six Sigma-Black Belt, APICS - Certified Production & Inventory Management, PMI - Certified Project Manager. She also was awarded the Denver Business Journal's Woman of the Year (2004): Consultant Category. (posted 08/04/09)
Mark Pelletier (IE '81) is the director of global tooling procurement for Tyco Electronics.(posted 07/07/09)
Jane Snowdon (IE '81) has been inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at The Georgia Institute of Technology, where she received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering. The Academy, initiated in 1994, recognizes those members who have made outstanding career achievements. The Academy's ceremony is held annually with only fifteen outstanding individuals selected each year worldwide. Jane has also been named to the Industrial Advisory Board of Stony Brook University's newly formed Medical Division of the Center for Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT-MD). Jane is currently a senior manager at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and has responsibility for developing strategies and driving research efforts globally to create innovative solutions for small and medium-sized businesses in areas such as collaboration and social networks, security, systems management, cloud computing, and green supply chain. She resides in Greenwich, Connecticut. (posted 11/20/08)
Philip Ricciardi (IE '82) was recently promoted to director of logistics reporting for David's Bridal in Conshohocken, PA, where he has worked for the last six years. He has two children - Ralph, a sophomore studying psychology at Gwynedd-Mercy College, and a daughter, Emma, a straight-A high school senior hoping to attend Penn State to major in creative writing. Philip was also recently married - congratulations! (posted 12/03/08)
Mike Ryan (IE '82) is president and CEO of Accelerate Inc, which he incorporated in 2008. Accelerate Inc develops products and helps others do the same in clean tech, life sciences and medical device industries. Entrepreneurship and engineering! Mike can be contacted at mryan@xlr8-inc.com. He has been married for 25 years and has 2 children – the oldest is a freshman at Clemson University. (posted 03/03/09)
Howard Saidman (IE '82) has been providing industrial engineering resources to the Sinking Spring, PA, location of Alcon Research Ltd. His is married with three children. (posted 10/24/08)
Kathleen (Plante) Clark (IE '83) currently is the director of professional services for GlobalSubmit, a Philadelphia-based company specializing in products and services related to electronic regulatory submissions for the pharmaceutical industry. She has been marriedto Dave Clark, a native of Shrewsbury, UK, since 2004. They live in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. (posted 03/19/09)
Steve Middlesworth (IE '83) is the owner of Middlesworth Consulting in Hershey, PA. (posted 02/20/09)
Mary Muller Stetson (IE '83) currently works in residential real estate in Westchester County, NY. In addition to her IE degree, Mary earned her MBA in finance but insists that her IE training is the most useful of the two! She is married with two children. (posted 11/20/08)
M. Richard Webb (IE '83 M.Eng '90) currently works at Mars Chocolate NA as a a segment industrial engineer and supply chain manager for the M&M's Business Management Team. He is married to Niai (PSU '81) and has a son, Josh. (posted 03/26/09)
Steve Byrne (IE '85) currently works as the engineering director at Strategic Products & Services in Parsippany, New Jersey. Steve and his four children live in Fanwood, New Jersey.(posted 03/19/09)
Joa (Kuchinic) Fencel (IE '85) currently works as an engineering recruiter at the Engineering Resource Group in New Jersey. (posted 03/04/09)
John Phinney (IE '85) currently works at Morgan Advanced Ceramics as methods and costing engineer. He and his wife, Antigone, have two children, Emmitt and Caroline Grace, and reside in Alameda, CA. (posted 02/20/09)
Gerald Mark Waring (IE '85) currently works as the rransportation construction inspector for PENNDOT Engineering District 8-0. (posted 12/01/08)
Patricia Wilson (IE '86) is working for an international company and leading Lean Six Sigma initiatives in sales, marketing, finance, and other transactional functions. (posted 03/19/09)
Tom Dean (IE '87) currently works as a general manager for Ferguson Beauregard in Houston, Texas. (posted 08/04/09)
Jill Jarrett (IE '87) is the owner of Jarrett Design, LLC. (posted 03/04/09)
Tom Copper (IE '89) is serving as a naval reservist assigned to the 5th fleet in the Middle East. He lives in Florida and works as a residential contractor. Tom is married with three children. (posted 07/16/09)
1970s
Bill Arnold (IE '70) currently works at Stanley Vidmar in Allentown, Pennsylvania as manager of productivity.
He is married and has a daughter, Allison, who is a junior majoring in geogrpahy at University Park. (posted 03/17/09)
Fred Oleson (IE '74) currently works for BAE Systems US Combat Systems division as staff systems engineer in the York, PA facility. He is responsible for institutionalizing quantitative project management for the division. Fred is married to with two grown daughters, and is preparing for the wedding of the youngest daughter inmid July. (posted 07/07/09)
John Weller (IE '79) currently works as an estimating and planning specialist for the United States Postal Service. In 1988, John started with the Postal Service and developed the first computer controlled in-process automated tray staging system called the PASRS which was installed in Sacramento, California. John also developed, in concert with HK Systems, the micro miniload aisle captive tray staging systems in use today in many facilities. In 1995, he started work on adapting commercial material handling robotics into the postal environment to address repetitive motion injuries. Generation One was based on the FANUC M410iW four axis material handling pedestal type robot. The Generation Two cells were based on the ABB Gantry style robot. In 2000, John was awarded the Golden Robot award by the International Federation of Robots (IFR) in Montreal, Canada, for his contribution to expanding robots into the Postal Service. The United States Postal Service is the world's largest user of gantry style material handling robots with well over 300 robots. Currently, John is developing the use of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) in primarily material handling and asset tracking applications. John has three daughters. (posted 03/19/09)
1960s
John Grofcsik (IE '61) is retired. During his career, John was a U.S. Navy Pilot, an airline pilot for PanAm & captain for American Airlines. John established the department for engineered standards for airline services at both airlines and also worked as the Financial Controller of Operations at AA. (posted 03/17/09 )
Chet Ross (IE '61) was recently name district director for SCORE in Greater Phoenix and across Arizona. SCORE is a nonprofit association of volunteers dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. The organization offers free and confidential advice to small businesses. In his new position, Chet will coordinate with area chapters to manage and elevate small business counseling, workshop and fundraising programs. (posted 11/10/08)
Jeffery Cohen (IE '65) works at the University of Maryland as assistant conptroller. Each semester at the University he is a speaking partner to an international graduate student, and this year's student is from Japan. Jeff is married, with two children, and two grandchildren, all of whom live in Bethesda, MD. (posted 03/03/09)
Ron Houser (IE '65) recently retired from his position as project manager/engineer for Siemens Airfield Solutions. He currently works as the transportation manager for the Arnold Schwarzenegger Sports Festival which is held in Columbus, OH. every year. (posted 12/01/08)
Robert Forry (IE '68) recently retired for his postion as a planning engineer at an electric utility plant in Wake Forest, North Carolina. (posted 11/10/08)
G. Thomas Phillips (IE '68) worked at General Electric until 1973, when he decided to enter dental school at the Medical College of Virginia, where he graduated in 1977. He has been in private dental practice for 31 years and is included on the list of Best Dentists in America, a peer selected list. In addition, he has both lectured and published throughout his career. (posted 12/01/08)
Paul Steel (IE '68 MS '74) is president of Total Quality Inc (TQI) which he founded in 1991. Paul is a 2008 member of the Baldrige Board of Examiners and an original 1988 Baldrige Award Board of Examiners member, serving as NIST Examiner, Senior Examiner, and Alumni Examiner, and is the only person to serve as senior examiner in three different decades. He has more than 25 years of application, management, education, and consulting experience in the organizational excellence field. His international consulting experience includes over 220 consulting assignments in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Australasia, and South America. Paul served as a Washington State Quality Award (WSQA) Judge/Board of Directors Member for 12 years. He is on the KPMG Technical Advisory Committee and served as a Fortune Magazine Best Practices Awards Judge. He is a senior member of ASQ and he holds masters degrees in business and engineering, is visiting professor in the graduate masters program in quality management at UPH, and has served as an adjunct professor of process management. (posted 03/26/09)
1950s
Charles Moser (IE '52) spent 37 years with the Western Electric Co., attained middle management status and then retired in 1982. His major career highlight was spending 5 1/2 years in the middle east -- 2 years in Iran and 3 1/2 years in Saudi Arabia. The last 3 was spent in Saudi Arabia with Aramco, where he retired again in 1985. (posted 12/01/08)
Donald Nash (IE '53) retired from IBM in 1986 after 29 years. He has large coin and stamp collections, along with replica cars and address label collections. He enjoys watching television and listening to music. (posted 03/26/09)
Karl Grettenberger (IE '54) is retired with 32 grandchildren! (posted 12/01/08)
Michael Meckley (IE '55) is retired in York, PA from U.S. Steel Corp. after 36 years in production planning and marketing/sales in Homestead, PA ,Pittsburgh, PA, Detroit, MI,and Chicago, IL. (posted 04/09/09)
Jonathan Plaut (IE '57) is retired in New Jersey. During his career, Jonathan was an adjunct professor of environmental policy at Ramapo College and Rutgers. In addition, he was a presidential appointee for NAFTA during the Clinton administration, a senior enrionmental advisor at the United Nations in New York City, president of Global Learning of New Jersey, and a trustee of Summit Library. (posted 07/16/09)
1940s
Norbert Gaelen (IE '47) retired from his position as chairman of O.Berk Co. in 2006 after 59 years. Norbert recieved a U.S. patent for a bottle set design, called "Trio" in 2207. (posted 03/26/09)
Alexander (Lew) Parry (IE '48) retired from his position as VP of purchasing and general services at Philadelphia Electric Co. after 41 years in 1988. Lew started at Penn State in fall of 1942. By spring of 1943, he was in the Army and ended up in the Air Corps, based in Guam, with 31 missions over Japan. He ended his service as a Lt. Col. and a navigator and returned to Penn State in fall of 1946. Lew has been married for 62 years, with three children, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. (posted 03/20/09)
Howard Lee (IE '49) retired from his position as executive vice president of Amalgamated Bank of New York. (posted 12/01/08)