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Seana McNeal, B.S.E.E. ’06, works on aircraft electrical power systems at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Propulsion Directorate. Michael T. Pabin, B.S.M.E. ’63, passed away on June 11, 2011. John Deforest Quint, B.S.A. ’12, is a pilot with Commut Air in Cleveland, Ohio. Benjamin Saydah, B.S.Ch.E. ’97, joined biofuels start-up Sapphire Energy in July 2011. As director of conversion and upgrading, he oversees all of the algae-to-oil conversion activities at the New Mexico production facility and R&D efforts in algae conversion and oil upgrading in San Diego. Alan Schaaf, B.S.C.S. ’10, is the founder of Imgur.com, was named Best Bootstrapped Start-Up at the fifth annual Crunchies Awards — sponsored by TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and GigaOM — in January. Imgur.com (pronounced “imager”) is an image-hosting site Schaaf started as an undergraduate in the Russ College. The company grew as a client of the Ohio University Innovation Center before moving to San Francisco in 2011. With 13 million images uploaded and 15.5 billion image views every month, Imgur is currently the 35th most-visited site in the United States.

Andrew Stockton, B.S.M.E. ’12, is a field service engineer with Babcock and Wilcox, where he inspects, troubleshoots, and commissions power plant equipment. Christopher Wilkins, B.S.I.T. ’06, was promoted to project manager in the Advanced Engineering in Life Sciences group at the Battelle Institute in Columbus in March 2011. He has a son, born in December 2010. Richard Wolfe, B.S.C.S. ’12, is a graduate student in the Russ College of Engineering. Jim Wyllie, B.S.C.S. ’05, joined Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after graduation. He was promoted to manager of performance engineering in April 2012.

Warren Brown

Zach Fetchu

Saydah Family

Imgur at the Crunchies

Jim Wyllie

Toni Brown

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