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Ralph Basilio(2007)
Ralph Basilio, Ph.D., of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, is the deputy project manager of the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) and of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO). The OSTM/Jason-2 spacecraft launch is scheduled for 15 June 2008 from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), CA. The mission will serve to extend the global sea surface data record set first established by the TOPEX/Poseidon spacecraft more than a decade and a half ago. The OCO spacecraft launch is scheduled for 15 December 2008, also from VAFB, and will provide the first global view of regional scale sources and sinks of carbon dioxide - a major anthropogenic gas. |
David Padgett(1979)
(MSSM) Joined Alion Science & Technology as Sr. Logistics Analyst in January '08, as an Army contractor for the Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) with primary duties at Crane Army Ammunition Activity, Crane, IN. Live with wife Deborah in Bloomington, IN. |
Sanjay Krishnan(1998)
In 2007, I moved to the Bay Area to manage a product line at Maxim Integrated Products.
I am also enrolled in the MBA program at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
I am currently interested in the future of the semiconductor industry. |
Gerard DeLong(1963)
Following graduation I spent twelve years in Aeropspace Engineering and then changed course and became a Investment Broker and Financial Planner. I now own Las Cruces Investment Center in beautiful Las Cruces, NM and enjoy helping people meet their financial goals. I am a Registered Principal with LPL Financial and recently earned the "Registered Financial Consultant ' (RFC) designation... I guess education will always be an important part of my life. I'm married and have three sons (plus many grandchildren) still in the Southern California area. I'm an avid USC sports fan and plan to make it to a homecoming game soon! |
Armando Santana(1998)
Since 1998, I've been working on creating magic for Walt Disney Imagineering's Research & Development group, the R&D arm of the Walt Disney Company. Recently helped to launch a new business called Adventures by Disney, a guided vacation experience. Currently responsible for Mobile initiatives and other various new media projects. Recently got promoted to Principal Technical Staff. Busy with family life, wife and two very active kids ages 6 and 4. Go Trojans! |
Imran Chaudhry(1999)
Imran N Chaudhry (BSME & MSCAE) at age 29 was selected as one of the youngest recipients of the 2007 40 under age 40 accomplished leaders by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal for his accomplishments in the Healthcare Industry. He is the youngest Regional Director at Providence Health and Services and he is charged with improving the operational and financial performance for the Southern California region. Previously he was the Quality Leader for General Electric Infrastructure Western Region from 2002-2004. |
Stephen Beckvonpeccoz(1983)
CAPT Beckvonpeccoz is a naval aviator and 1983 graduate of NROTC USC. He has been undergoing attache training in the Washington DC area. He and his family will report this summer to the US Embassy in Berlin as naval attache to Germany. Tschuss! |
Steve Palar(1986)
I am working for Chevron Thailand as a Petroleum Engineer. I have been living in Bangkok, Thailand since 2004.
Married to Hsiang Lun Tai (USC Class 1987) and have 2 children. The first one is an incoming freshman to USC. |
Charles Belk(1985)
Charles Belk (BSEE '85) recently launched Charles Belk Management (www.charlesbelk.com, www.myspace.com/charlesbelk), a Los Angeles based artist brand awareness and management agency. He previously served as VP-User Marketing for JuiceCaster, a NY/LA based unified web and mobile social networking application company and VP- Interactive Promotions for Hothouse Inc, an Atlanta based promotional marketing agency. Charles was also recently elected to the Board of Directors of the USC Black Alumni Association and delivered the key note address for the USC School of Engineer Center for Engineering Diversity's 2007 Awards Banquet |
Damion Desai(2001)
I have been in sales with Intel for the past 7 years. A recent promotion has brought us back from New England to California, where I will be calling on Cisco Systems in San Jose. We are stoked to be up in Silicon Valley and out of the snow! |
Al Morelli(1981)
Al Morelli, was named President of Searchtec Consulting Group. In addition, he is currently an Industry Professor at the University Southern California-Industrial and System Engineering Department. An International expert in operational improvements, organizational turnaround and restructuring. Al is a graduate industrial engineer from USC and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. Also, he was Past President, Institute of Industrial Engineers- Orange County chapter .
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Robert Miller(1978)
Received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1996. Now working for the Engility Corporation as a software engineer in the Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. |
Giovanni Jaramillo(2000)
Currently a Programmer/Principal Analyst I at DIRECTV Inc (from 2002 to present). Previously a consultant at the #1 biotech firm in the world: AMGEN Inc. And before that (right after I graduated) was an internet startup company called CheckOut.com. |
Rick Severinnghaus(1981)
In the summer of 2005, Rick Severinnghaus was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO Inc), an international M&S standards development organization. Rick works in the domain of command level decision processes, human performance research, and human systems integration. |
Arthur Nussberger(1967)
Mr. Nussberger recently published three books based on personal experiences: 1. Manned Space Projects (Apollo to Space Stations); 2. Solar Energy Systems (Heating-Cooling-Electric Power); and 3. Small Town America (Families Along the Chippewa River). The books are published through Xlibris Corporation, Philadelphia, PA. |
Imran Chaudhry(1999)
Imran N Chaudhry (BSME & MSCAE) at age 29 was selected as one of the youngest recipients of the 2007 40 under age 40 accomplished leaders by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal for his accomplishments in the Healthcare Industry. He is the youngest Regional Director at Providence Health and Services and he is charged with improving the operational and financial performance for the Southern California region. Previously he was the Quality Leader for General Electric Infrastructure Western Region from 2002-2004. |
Bruce Bouton(2004)
Bruce Bouton MS SAE '04 (System Architecture & Engineering) was inducted into the Technical Fellowship of the Boeing Co. He considers the Distance Education Network (DEN) an enabling technology to improve society by extending higher education beyond the campus boundaries and would like to salute the people that make it work.
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ShengFeng Hwang(1992)
I am proud to be a part of this big family. In 1998, along with friends, I initiated a consulting company that provides strategic business plans, training & development services to corporations. We currently have offices in Taipei, Beijing, and Shanghai and serve many international company like Cisco, Errison, DHL, Microsoft...etc. //www.bethelink.com |
Herbert, W . Hoeptner, Jr.(1952)
Life began 2/21/22, during high school years he broke wild horses & worked on ranch round ups where cattle are branded & inoculated. He served 31/2 years in the Army Air Corps, after which he started college. He began at LA City college getting an AA in Math & physics. He lettered in swimmig, water polo & foot ball. In 1950 he transfered to USC where he lettered in water polo & joined Phi Delta Theta Fraternaty. In 1952 the School of Engineering conferred the degree of Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanicl Engineering-Aeronautical Sequence. After graduating he worked in the aerospace industry for the next 16 years. He worked in the liquid rocket research department & obtained the title of rocket combustion expert. During that time he awarded 3 US patents in the liquid rocket field. He also gave a paper on combustion instability At Cape Canaveral & Aerospace Corp in El Segundo, Calif. One injector desgn was held under secret classification for several years. These were the early days before much design information was known. The design & testing he did was to obtain data that was used to develop the Atlas & othere vehicles. He tried to get a Calif. professonal engineering licence, but there was no criteria established at that time. In later years he joined the US Masters Swimming organization & during his compition in 1992, he at the age of 70 was 3rd in the world in his age group for the 1500 meter free style swim. Currently he enjoys his wife since 1951, 3 boys, & their familys. He plys tennis, swims & participates in roping & round ups. |
Praveen Vettiyattil(2002)
After completing my MS in Manufacturing Engineering and Entrepreneurship in 2002, I moved to India and started teaching engineering and business subjects. Right now I am a lecturer at a leading business school in India. During my spare time, I continue with my passion of inventing technologies that make the world a better place to live in. I have a patent for a power saving technology in street lighting and have also designed and prototyped a foot powered centrifugal pump that can pump water to a height of 8m at 20 liters per minute. It is called 6am-1. The next prototype, 6am-2, would be able to pump water to a height of 16 meters at 20LPM.
No electricity, no fossil fuel, no operating cost, no sound, no pollution, portable and gives a great workout. Five minutes of workout in the morning can pump enough water for a person's need to the water tank above. It's as clean, green and healthy as it can get. My marketing slogan is "Don't just workout, pumpout". I have enquiries from water theme parks and the Indian Army and is in the process of redesigning it to suit customer requirements.
Video of 6am-1 can be seen on http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-405068667702480246&q=foot+powered+centrifugal+pump
Praveen, MS, USC
Kerala, India |
Jeongmin Ahn(2005)
I have recently been accepted for a new tenure track faculty position as an Assistant Professor in School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. |
Anita Sengupta(2005)
Anita Sengupta, PhD 2005, was selected as the recipient of the 2006 Woman Engineer of the Year Award by the ASEI - American Society of Engineer's of Indian Origin for her accomplishments in developing propulsion technologies for space missions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
Stephen Monarque(1984)
After graduation I worked as a nuclear engineer at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in the San Francisco area from 1987 to 1994. Later I became an environmental engineer for the Marine Corps Base in Barstow, CA. During this period I obtained my professional engineering license in mechanical engineering from the State of California. Since 2000, I have been working in the Washington DC area for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission as a project engineer. |
Michael Martorano(1970)
Currently I am the Navy Aegis Ballitic Missile Defense Program Manager/Lead Test Engineer at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Pt Mugu, Ca |
John Latas(1982)
John Latas is a Captain on the Hawker 400XP business jet for Netjets, Inc. He lives in Cape Coral, FL with his wife Kristen. |
Swaminathan Balakrishnan(2005)
Working as an RF Systems Design Engineer with Sprint Nextel in Kansas City. |
Yen-shuo Peter Liao(1999)
Yen-Shuo Peter Liao (BMES, PhD '99) has recently been promoted as Principal Scientist of DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. a Johnson & Johnson company. He is in charge of the research on the wear of artificial hip joint and particle analysis of various implant materials. In addition, he is the chairman of the Community of Asian Asociates at Johnson & Johnson (CAAJJ), DePuy Chapter. He and fellow CAAJJ members received an Impact Award from Johnson & Johnson for Tsunami Relief Fundraising Campaign in 2005. He has numerous presentations at major international conferences, such as the Orthopedic Research Society (ORS), Society for Biomaterials (SFB) and Wear of Materials (WOM). He also has several patents in progress. |
Arturo Salazar(1980)
Arturo Salazar was elected as the Los Angeles area representative to the Board of Directors of the Professional Engineers in California Government. Also, Salazar reecently completed 25 years of employment with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). |
Juan Jose Gonzalez(1973)
After graduating in 1973, I started my career in the Peace Corps--first in Malaysia and then in Thailand. I have spent most of my professional career in Asia working for a two consultancy firms before joing the Louis Berger Group, Inc., where I have worked for 20 years.
I have managed rural and urban infrastructure projects in Asia supervising international and local professionals as well as support staff.
Recently, I participated in and managed several integrated urban and regional development programs in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and the Philippines. As the team leader for a World Bank project in Indonesia, for example, I prepared strategic plans for infrastructure development in 18 towns that included solid waste management, cost recovery, revenue generation, and financial management plans. During my first assignment in Indonesia, I was involved in all phases of planning and implementing labor-intensive subprojects in West Java and Jakarta that the local residents initiated and implemented. In addition, I recently completed two ADB-financed urban infrastructure assignments in Subic Bay, Philippines and Jaipur, India in which local governments implemented a variety of urban infrastructure subprojects.
My regional experience also includes working as an infrastructure specialist for two USAID-financed projects in the southern Philippines: Mindanao Growth Plan and Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM). I have also served as drainage engineer on projects in Korea and Vietnam. In addition, I have irrigation experience in Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. I have also worked on rural road and highway subprojects in Indonesia, Afghanistan, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and (briefly) the USA.
My employer, Louis Berger, has just won another contract in Afghanistan. I will leave in March 2006 to manage a three-year urban infrastructure project financed by the World Bank. |
Joel Chacon(1995)
Just started a new carrer with Matrikon Europe Ltd in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Any of you ex-alumni in Aberdeen? Drop me an email... |
