ALUMNI NEWS Life after the Pennoni Honors College
ALUMNI UPDATES Steffanie Altman, international area studies ’13, is a Campaign Executive for JNFuture (the Jewish National Fund) in Los Angeles. She spent four months in 2015 living in Tanzania and working for E.P.I.C. (Everyday People Initiating Change), where she was managing projects and supervising volunteers in Iringa, Tanzania to work with the local community to drill wells, educate the community on water hygiene and sanitation, and help renovate and build an addition to an elementary school. She also climbed Mt. Kilmanjaro. Photo: Steffanie with students in Tanzania
Marc Blumberg, electrical engineering ‘04, graduated with a master’s degree in electrical engineering from NYU in 2009. He married Audrey Blumberg in 2012 and had a daughter Shayna in November 2015. He works as a Principal Engineer, System Performance at Verizon Wireless with the national network organization. He resides in Hillsborough, New Jersey. Rita T. Bucca, business administration ’13, is a tax analyst at Comcast in Philadelphia. She is engaged to Christopher J. Wozunk ’13. Anthony Costantino, mathematics and computer science ’05, is the director of credit management at Marlette
Funding LLC. His second child, Matthew Anthony Earl Costantino, was born March 1, 2016. Katherine Devanney, psychology ’12 (2009-2010 STAR Scholar), started working in August as an attorney at Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. Bryan Fyalkowski, sport management ’15, is an athletic communications assistant for the Arkansas Razorbacks. Jimmy Hamalian, finance and entrepreneurship ’15, is an investor relations analyst at Comcast in Philadelphia. Sylvia Herbert, BS/MS mechanical engineering ’14 (2009-2010 STAR Scholar),
Girish Balakrishnan, digital media ’13 (2008-2009 STAR Scholar), is the Virtual Production Lead Technical Director for Digital Domain. He helped architect and operate a unique pipeline for Disney’s “The Jungle Book,” which became the first film to deeply integrate game engines into the motion capture process and advance the virtual cinematography tools on the capture stage and live action set. 32
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is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley. She is the recipient of the NSF GRFP and UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship. Dan Huber, computer science ’03, works as a financial advisor at The Philadelphia Group. Greg in den Berken, economics ’12, graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law School in December 2015. He recently started as a law clerk for Judge Kim Gibson of the Western District of Pennsylvania. Rebecca Hoyle (née Vogt), business administration and accounting ’01, started a consulting business, Colebrook Advisors, in October 2015. She married Tim Hoyle ’01 in 1999. Shefali Karani (née Ramsinghani), BS/BA, Business Administration ‘10, MBA ‘13, was part of the 19-student cohort for the highly competitive 1-year MBA program at Drexel. She received her MBA degree at 24. She was made an Executive at the Rama Group of Companies
in Mumbai, India at just 21, a real defining moment for her since there were only a handful of female business executives in India at the time. Shefali was married in November 2015 and lives in Dubai, U.A.E. She continues to frequently travel for work to Mumbai. Jordan M. Osecki, BS/MS computer science ’10 (20052006 STAR Scholar), is an engineering team lead for the Data Technologies Web Services Team at Bloomberg L.P.
Matthew Hunter Jamerson, biological sciences ’95, is currently serving as the commanding officer of the Navy Drug Screening Laboratory in San Diego. He received his PhD from Georgetown in Tumor Biology in 2003. Leeanne Park (née Griffith), biology ’09, is an anesthesiology resident physician at Stanford University/Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, CA.