of Richmond. Chris is an anthropologist and Helena is a musician. He reports that their two-year-old, Lucia, loves to eat and play almost as much as he does. Lance Brisbois has recently joined the fundraising team at The Boston Conservatory as the director of individual giving. He lives in Somerville.
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Paul D’Amore is vice president, senior finance manager at RBS Citizens. He says that new son Carter’s (pictured on page 28) rooting interests for sports teams will be the Giants for his mom and the Red Sox for his dad. Darien Crimmin is running the energy efficiency and sustainability efforts for WinnCompanies, the largest manager of affordable housing in the nation. He was invited to attend the White House Solar Summit and Champions of Change event on April 17, held in support of the development of renewable energy as a critical component of the President’s Climate Action Plan. Ryan Snow is the technology integration specialist in the Information Services Department at the Prep. Baby Harrison (pictured on page 28) joined big brother Connor Bradley (5) and big sister Lillian Rose (3) in March.
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Christopher Dent was married last September to Brianne Howe of Denver. In August, Christopher completed his M.A. in strategic intelligence at American Military University. He graduated from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy in December and was appointed to the Nahant Fire Department as a call firefighter. Ben Kenna lives in Beverly with his wife and three-year-old daughter. He played in the Jay High Memorial Golf Tournament in Providence with fellow SJP and Providence College alums Mike Abodeely ’99, Mark Abodeely ’01 and Chris Nabhan ’01. Chris Saldi and his wife, Misty, welcomed their baby girl, Talianna Gale, in February. Tali joins her big brother, Cade (6), in their Marietta, GA, home. Chris is a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers based in Atlanta.
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Ben Martin’s coaching journey has now taken him from his most recent job at Wagner College in New York to the Miami Dolphins. He joined the staff in February as an assistant offensive line coach.
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In December, Jeff Adams opened the Hole in 100 Diner on Frost Road in Tyngsborough. The 50-seat restaurant serves breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Plans are to open an 18-hole mini golf course this spring. Check it out! Jeff O’Brien is now living in Nashua, N.H., and working at the UPS hub in Chelmsford. He is the lead outbound operations supervisor at what is UPS’s fifth largest facility. In his downtime, he plays second guitar in the local/regional jazz fusion band “The Locrian Way.”
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Mark Mancini and his wife, Carolyn, welcomed their second child, daughter Teresa, in November. The Mancinis are living in Beverly. Proud Prep relatives include grandfather Bob Ryan ’72, and uncles Doug Ryan ’04, Nick Mancini ’06 and Greg Mancini ’13.
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Mike Pitt was married in October to Kelly Rebori in Rutherford, N.J. Mike is working at Again Faster, a functional fitness equipment and consulting company based in Boston. Chris Baker was married to Morgan Anne Pendergast last August in Kennebunkport, Maine. He became a chartered financial analyst at the end of last year, and is currently working for Putnam Investments as a product information analyst. He and Morgan live in downtown Boston and are looking forward to spending time in Maine this summer with the new family dog, Tucker.
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Anthony DeBenedictis is on an assignment in Ghana as a project manager for the US-based construction firm he has been working for since earning his degree in civil engineering from Villanova in 2009. Eric Polli is the executive director of basketball operations for Mass Elite AAU Basketball. He reports
Colin Ulen and his wife, Melissa, have purchased a home in Cambridge. Colin has been named director of engineering, hardware for Alarm.com. He started working with them as employee #18 and engineer #3 and the company has now grown to more that 300 employees. They provide connected home awareness and security via cellular technology and have started an international push Anthony DeBenedictis ’05 on the site of his construction project that is keeping him very busy.
A Handy Idea Patrick Cushing ’02 worked in software after graduating from Columbia University and moving to San Francisco. Convinced by his experience in the technology sector that he had a marketable idea and a major demographic of the nation to serve, he co-founded WorkHands in 2012. WorkHands is a networking site that seeks to give skilled trade workers an online identity, one they can be proud of. Inspired by skilled tradesmen like his father and brother, Patrick noticed a void in social networking tools for plumbers, contractors, welders, machinists, and others. Networking and mobility tools like LinkedIn are sorely lacking for blue-collar workers. Pride is a word that Cushing keeps going back to. “I want to help give the little guys an avenue to share their accomplishments: pictures of their craftsmanship, listings of their certifications, anything to help give them an edge and advertise themselves.” The goal for WorkHands is to establish a network that tradesmen can use throughout their careers to gain access to jobs and customers. “We’ve designed a way to make it easy for employers to find quality workers, serving the men and women who do the dirty work without much appreciation.” Cushing’s understanding of the challenges of this sector of America puts him in a position to design something useful for them. “My co-founders and I, despite our fancy degrees, are from the demographic we aim to serve. WorkHands is the soapbox upon which we’ll stand to announce to the rest of the country that this work continues with pride, and that the people who perform it are quiet heroes, even if they’ll never see themselves that way.”
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