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Alumni in the News Mortgage Originator magazine selected Joe Siau (BSISE ’86) to represent the U.S. lending industry as the most successful loan officer in September 2002. Candidates had to personally close at least 120 loans and $10 million in volume over a twelve-month period. Joe Siau closed 148 loans with a dollar volume exceeding $25 million from June 2001 to June 2002. Siau paid his way through engineering school at USC by selling books and bibles door-to-door. He made 30 sales presentations per day, six days a week. “As I look back, that was one of several pivotal moments toward my career success,” says Siau. “It taught me to be 100 percent service-minded and to focus on the customer.” After graduating with a degree in industrial and systems engineering, Siau worked in his family’s importing business. Before becoming an originator, he worked for the Department of Defense, served on a credit union mergers and acquisitions team, sold real estate, prepared taxes, and was an engineer and manager for IBM and Hewlett-Packard. 1982
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Marco A. Papa (MS, PhD CSCI ’88) is the deputy director at the Superior Court of California and manager of the Case Management Systems Application Group. He is responsible for management, systems development and maintenance of all case management systems (such as criminal, civil, juvenile, traffic, etc.) for the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Chrisann Travlos (MSEE) married Michael Torrelli on December 8, 2002.
1985 David C. Miller (MSSM) recently joined NCI Information Systems Inc. as the director of Air Force business development. NCI Information Systems Inc. is one of the fastest growing information technology organizations in the U.S. Dean Tateyama (BSEE) lives in Escondido, California and is an infrastructure technologist for San Diego Gas and Electric.
1989 Eric L. Tanezaki (BSME) is a patent attorney and was recently named a principal of Stetina, Brunda, Garred & Brucker, P.C., which is an intellectual property law firm in Aliso Viejo, California.
1990 Mark Harold Russell (MSEE) is a senior management specialist for the Boeing Company in Anaheim, California.
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Keno Wai-Ki Yeung (BSEE) is the senior staff design engineer at Broadcom Corporation in Sunnyvale, California. His daughter Emily was born on April 10, 2002.
1995 Shamus Russell Carr (BSBME) and Elisabeth Montgomery Dial were married on March 1, 2003 at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
2000 Brianne Gibson (BSENE) lives in Redondo Beach, California and is an assistant engineer for Waterstone Environmental. Sangram Jadhav (MSCSCI) lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, and is a consultant for Deloitte Consulting in New York City.
2001 Trina Henry (BSCSCI) lives in Encino, California and is a business and development assistant for the Center for Early Education.
Staff News Annette Blain (BFATHAC ’94), director of alumni relations in the engineering office of External Relations and editor of USC Engineer, along with her husband Marc Blain and daughters Margaux and Ella, celebrate the birth of their son Joseph Philip on March 22, 2003. This edition of class notes includes updates received between October 2002 and March 2003.
Our Apologies: From November ’02 to March ’03 there was a technical error with our on-line update form. If you tried to update your contact information or send a class note during that period, we apologize for the inconvenience and hope you will visit our site again and re-submit your information. Please keep us informed of your
Phit Simahawong (MSEMT) lives in Bangkok, Thailand, and is a department manager for Merck Limited.
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Alex Soriano (BSBME) will be graduating this spring from the MBA program at the University of Michigan. After graduation, he will be a product manager for Guidant Corporation’s Cardiac Rhythm Management Division.
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1996 Joe A. Tellez (BSISE, MSSAE ’99) was promoted to software project manager of Sempra Energy in August 2002. He has been an adjunct professor for the University of Phoenix since March 2002. Joe married Danielle Ybarra in December 2002.
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