European Solid State Circuits Conference best paper award. He is a senior principal engineer and director of high performance circuits research at Intel Labs in Hillsboro, Ore., and lives in Portland, Ore.
Donald Leo, PhD 1995 & MS 1992, has been named dean of the University of Georgia College of Engineering. Previously associate dean for research and graduate studies at Virginia Tech College of Engineering, Leo is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2004, he was named outstanding recent alumnus of the University of Illinois. He lives in Blacksburg, Va. Kasey Nye, BA 1996, is chair of Tucson (Ariz.) Metro Chamber’s budget, finance and legal committee. He practices bankruptcy law, repreNYE senting large and small business and nonprofit entities as creditors and debtors throughout the nation. He lives in Tucson. Michael J. Ball, BS 1997, became deputy regional director for Western New York for Empire State Development. He was recently employed at Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus as director of planning and implementation. Ball resides in Buffalo, N.Y. Natalie Miovski, BPS 1997, was named among the 10 Most Influential designers in the nation by Healthcare Design MIOVSKI Magazine. As director of health care at EwingCole, one of the nation’s foremost health care architecture firms, Miovski has led the planning of complex, highly specialized health care facilities. She resides in Philadelphia, Pa. Scott Rybarczyk, BS 1997, was appointed associate principal at Wendel, an architectural and engineering firm. He is a civil and environmental engineer who has assisted in the design of various modeling projects throughout RYBARCZYK
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the U.S. He is also active in green design. Rybarczyk lives in Buffalo, N.Y. Sean Beachy, BPS 1998, is the associate principal at Wendel, an architectural and engineering firm. A registered architect in both Virginia and New York State, Beachy is renowned for his work on the awardwinning BEACHY Kalamazoo, Mich., Transportation Center. He resides in Arlington, Va.
John Koeppel, JD 1998, MBA 1995 & BS 1995, was recognized as an international leader in the 2013 edition of Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. A partner at Buffalobased Nixon KOEPPEL Peabody LLP, Koeppel leads the company’s nationally recognized private equity funds practice. He lives in Hamburg, N.Y. Frank Sparacino, JD 1998, formed Sparacino & Sparacino PLLC in August 2012 with his wife, Jessica Sparacino. Located in Northport, N.Y., the general practice firm concentrates in matrimonial and family law mediation, as well as real estate transactions. He resides in Northport. Kevin Lembke, BA 1999, is vice president of merchandise at Busch Gardens. Lembke has 13 years’ experience at Sea World parks and entertainment as merchandise manager. He resides in Williamsburg, Fla. Eric Pettee, BS 1999, joined the Gunlocke Company as a division finance controller, where he will provide leadership to all financial aspects of the company. Previously, Pettee worked for General Motors and Electronic Data Systems. He resides in Lima, N.Y.
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attorney at Ulmer & FIORELLA Berne LLP, was named an Ohio Super Lawyer Rising Star. Fiorella resides in Bay City, Ohio. Krista Glenn, BS 2000, was named director of marketing at ABCAmega, a global commercial receivable management firm. Previously, she was marketing manager at Buffalo Lodging Associates for 10 years. Glenn resides in Amherst, N.Y. James Dwyer, MD 2001, is medical director of the emergency department at Northern Westchester Medical Center in DWYER Mount Kisco, N.Y. Most recently, he was associate director of emergency services for Nyack, N.Y. Dwyer resides in New City, N.Y. Robert Hambrecht, BS 2001, is senior project manager at AVCON Inc. in Orlando, Fla., where he specializes in airport design and construction. Hambrecht resides in Orlando. Markus Messer, MS 2001, is a research engineer at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG in Germany, where he specializes in structural dynamics. He also teaches a dynamics class at Technische MESSER Hochschule Mittelhessen (University of Applied Sciences) in Freidberg, Germany. Messer lives in Bad Nauheim, Germany. Keith
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