1990s Paul A. Bizier, MS EnvE 97, was awarded the 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers Presidential Medal. He is the vice president of water and wastewater at Pape Dawson Freda Washington Bredy, MS EE 94, completed an eight-month tour in Kuwait as an IT analyst and Army reservist. Renee Butler, IE 96, MS OR 99, PhD IE 0 3 , was selected as the first department chair for the systems and mechanical engineering department at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Ga. Brian H. Frank, Mgt 90, was named a "Best of Best" financial advisers attending Barron's Winner's Circle Top Advisors Summit. He's the managing director at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in Atlanta Cassandra Johnson, IE 92, was promotedto senior vice president of operations at CredAbility Ashley Joseph, IA 94, was named to the board of directors for the Children's Theatre of Charlotte, N.C. She is the owner of two Gymboree franchises and a former principal with McKinsey & Company. Eric Lausten, HTS 98, is chief of staff for U.S. Congressman Dan Lipinski from Illinois' third district. Kenneth "Abi" E. Norman, EE 92, retired from the U.S. Air Force on Sept. 30 as a lieutenant colonel He is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and served on the U.S. Forces-Iraq joint staff in 2010. He returned to work at Georgia Tech. William Keats Pierce, Bio 95, has joined Woodbine advertising agency as a senior art director.
Wendi Sturgis, Mgt 90, was named among "13 Powerful Women Running Today's Biggest Startups" by Business Insider. She is the executive vice president of sales and services at Yext in New York City Previously, she was a vice president at Yahoo! and Oracle.
Joy Buolamwini, CS12, Awarded 2013 Rhodes and Fulbright Scholarships & Kristen Bailey
Ashley Turner, IE 95, graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University with an MBA focused on international business. Richard Tyler, IE 90, was appointed as director of land management for the United States with Laf arge, a global leader in construction materials. He serves as a consultant for the International Olympic Committee.
2000s Ryan Kaysen, ME 0 5 , w a s promoted to senior m a n a g e r in the operations m a n a g e m e n t consulting practice of Accenture. He specializes in supply chain p l a n n i n g within the consumer goods industry. Shilvi Gandhi Leinwand, IA 01, w a s n o m i n a t e d to the board of directors for Prevent Blindness Georgia. She is employed with The Coca-Cola Company in the Global Information Technology group.
In 2013, J o y Buolamwini, CS 12, will take her talents to the U.K., where she'll study Global Governance and Diplomacy and African Studies at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. She's also a 2013 Fulbright scholar a n d will u s e her grant to improve a c c e s s to education in Zambia
Kristin Lundberg, IAML 06, is a U.S. State Department official serving as director of programs for the Bureau of International Information Programs.
Her p a s t e x p e r i e n c e d e v e l o p i n g web a n d m o b i l e a p p l i c a t i o n s for Atlanta's Teach for America schools will inform her efforts with the Zambian Institute for Sustainable Development to create a p r o g r a m t h a t gives s t u d e n t s a foundation in information technology, mobile software development and entrepreneurship.
Sean Michael Solomon, Econ 09, has joinedthe law firm of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in Birmingham, Ala, as a first-year associate. Brett Whorley, IA 03, was named Naval Flight Officer of the Year (Shore Duty) for the Navy's E-2C
Buolamwini came to Tech as a computer science major and Stamps President's Scholar in 2008; following her May 2012 graduation, s h e a n d t h r e e other Tech alumnae founded a hair and social media company called Techturized GTALUMNIMAG.COM VOLUME B9 1J0.1 2 0 1 3
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