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segment chief financial officer at SunGard after tours of duty in finance leadership roles in Paris and Hong Kong. Benamar is relocating to Geneva, Switzerland, for a third time. Jason Brownlie, IE 98, and his wife, Jennifer, announce the birth of a daughter, Alexa Savannah, on Aug. 10. Brownlie is an account manager at Manhattan Associates. The family lives in Smyrna, Ga. Shari Lew Carson, ID 95, and her husband, Ric, announce the birth of a son, Tilden Clint Carson, on Sept. 16. Carson is a designer for GES. The family lives in San Diego. Luke Davis, CE 97, MS CE 99, and his wife, Kathryn, announce the birth of a son, Nicholas Paul, on Sept. 23. He joins sister Sophia, 3, and brother Joey, 5, at the family’s home in Ellicott City, Md. Davis is an information technology specialist with IBM. Mark Horstemeyer, PhD ME 95, has been named a fellow of ASM International, the materials information society. Horstemeyer is the CAVS chair in computational solid mechanics and a professor of mechanical engineering at Mississippi State University. Regina Smith Joiner, CS 99, and Shane Joiner, ISyE 97, announce the birth of daughter Caroline Ann on Sept. 1. Caroline joins sister Mallory, 2, and brother Zach, 4, at the family’s home in Jacksonville, Fla. Tami Randolph, MS EE 94, PhD ECE 01, was honored with a special recognition award at the 15th annual Women of Color in Technology STEM conference. A program manager in Northrop Grumman’s information systems sector in Fairfax, Va., Randolph provides leadership to the research, development and integration of signals intelligence systems and leads a large, cross-organization, multidisciplinary team in the pursuit of a large business opportunity. W. Jud Ready, MSE 94, MS MetE 97, PhD MatSci 00, and Jamie Anderson Ready, CE 99, announce the birth of Robert Mason Ready on Oct. 14. Mason joins sister Vivian and brother Lucas at the family’s home in Atlanta. Frances Rogers, Econ 93, of Atlanta, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Georgia Lottery Corp. by Gov. Sonny Perdue. 64
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Rogers is the founder and president of Checks & Balances Inc. and the president of WH Capital LLC. She serves on the Waffle House Inc. stand-by board of directors. She also is a trustee and officer of The Lovett School and a member of the Georgia Tech Foundation board of trustees. Melinda Messinger Servick, Mgt 96, and her husband, Todd, announce the birth of a son, Brady Todd, on April 12. Servick is the national sales and marketing manager for Artisan Design Group out of San Diego. The family lives in Park City, Utah. John T. Trainor, EE 98, has been promoted to vice president and chief information officer of Aaron’s Inc. He previously was vice president of information technology for the company’s sales and lease ownership division. Trainor joined Aaron’s in 1999. He lives in Roswell, Ga., with his wife and three sons. David Weber, ChE 99, and his wife Shanon celebrated the first birthday of son Tyler Michael on Dec. 11. The family lives in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Ashley Armstrong, Mgt 08, and Nathaniel Adam Almon, ISyE 08, were married in October in Carrollton, Ga. The couple went to school together in Carrollton and began dating their freshman year at Tech. Armstrong, who earned an MBA earlier this year, works in the human resources department at Southwire Company. Almon works in the company’s logistics department. Lauren Benson Lisowe, Mgt 03, and her husband, Brad, announce the birth of a daughter, Amelia Danielle Lisowe, on Sept. 28. She joins brother Braden at the family’s home in Duluth, Ga. Jenny Wood Clay, ME 03, and her husband, Will, announce the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth McCants, on Oct. 1. Clay works as a merchant at the Atlanta headquarters of The Home Depot. Wendy Anderson Cocke, ChE 02, and her husband, Andy, announce the birth of a son, Anderson Jackson “A.J.,” on June 21. Cocke works as a product developer for Kimberly-Clark
Healthcare in Roswell, Ga. The family lives in Marietta, Ga. Daniel J. DeCicco, ISyE 01, and his wife, Jessica, announce the birth of daughter Kaylyn Elizabeth. Lt. DeCicco now is deployed aboard the USS Harry S. Truman in the Middle East in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn. The family lives in Norfolk, Va. Suzannah Gill, Mgt 05, is the vice president of benefits at The Bottoms Group. Gill previously served as an employee benefits attorney at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP in Atlanta. Gill, a President’s Scholar while at Tech, taught English in Shenzhen, China, for a year following graduation and earned a law degree from the University of Georgia. She is a member of the Georgia Bar Association, a registered neutral through the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution and a committee member for the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers Foundation and HealthMPowers. She lives in Atlanta. Jamie Hall, ME 08, and Donniece Wright, Arch 10, were married May 11. Hall is a hardware engineer for Hewlett-Packard and coowner of King and Lord Apparel (kingandlord.com), an online specialty clothing market. Wright is a freelance home designer. The couple live in Albany, Ore. Katie Hunley, CE 06, married Kevin Willis, EE 01, on Oct. 2. Hunley is a senior construction engineer for Juneau Construction Co., and Willis is a senior electronics engineer for the Federal Aviation Administration. The couple live in Smyrna, Ga. Rutherford Johnson, APhys 00, MS Econ 03, covered the G20 Summit in Seoul, South Korea, in November for the Anglo-Catholic News Service and Coberly Communications News Service. Johnson is an assistant professor of economics at the SolBridge International School of Business. Kara Manry, IntA 04, MS IntA 06, has been promoted to producer in the special events unit at CNN in Atlanta. Manry was the overall producer for CNN’s coverage of the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto. She joined CNN in 2005. Kenyata Martin, ChE 01, has been appointed brand manager for Old Spice Global Innovation at Procter & Gamble. He will be responsible for the five-year innovation strategy and
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