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James J. Braze (BSME) is an attorney in the San Francisco office of Gordon & Rees and is defending personal injury and wrongful deaths arising out of product liability claims and construction site accidents. Both he and fellow alumnus Richard Grey (BSAE ’62, MSAE ’65, MSME ’71) are planning to help form a Northern California School of Engineering alumni club.
Elaine Iba (MSEE) has put her U.S. Skeleton National Team career on hold and returned to work as the senior principle systems engineer for Raytheon in Fullerton, California. She will aid in the support of the company’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for the Network Centric Systems division. Elaine hopes to return to competition for the U.S. Skeleton National Championships later this season. (See profile on Elaine in the Spring 2003 USC Engineer)
1985 Frank Principe (MSSM) is currently consulting for House for Urban Development (HUD) on a new data management system called MCB. He is also a part-time professor for the University of Phoenix and Learning Tree University. He resides in Mission Viejo, California with his wife Nancy.
1987 Bob DeFeo (MSCENG) has been appointed as Teranex’s new chief executive officer. Prior to joining Teranex as president in April 2002, DeFeo served as president and executive VP of sales and marketing at Optibase. David Jenn (Ph.D EE) was recently promoted to full professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. David’s research interests include microwave antenna design, stealth technology, microwave-powered autonomous unmanned vehicles, and reducing wireless network vulnerabilities in support of Homeland Security. John Ramirez (BSEE) and his wife Darlene are proud to announce the birth of their son John Ryan on February 24, 2003. John is the owner of Digital Image Studios
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1990 Peter Sabido (BSCHE, MSENE ’95) has earned his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College. He is currently an attorney at Kolish Hartwell in Portland, Oregon.
1991 Judith Redpath (BSAE), her husband Steve Redpath and daughter Veronica, happily announce the birth of Carlton Frank on February 27, 2003.
1995 David W. King II (BSISE, MSISE/MBA ’98) and wife Melissa are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Emma Lauren King, on January 12, 2003.
1996
on August 8, 2002. Brian recently moved to San Jose, California and is currently a software engineer for IBM.
1999 Omesh Piryani (MSEE) and Sadhna Jaisinghani were married on April 13, 2003.
2000 Marisela Avalos (BSBMME) returned to school this fall at the University of California, Berkeley where she was awarded a Graduate Opportunity Award. Marisela is working towards a masters degree in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in design. Sally A. Jercha (BSCHE) married Anthony L. Jercha on April 26, 2003 at St. Rose’s Catholic Church in Simi Valley, California.
2001 William L. McGill (BSAE) was recently named ASME Government Fellow for the Department of Homeland Security.
Staff News Bob Calverley was named executive director of communications for the School in October. Bob is also the managing editor of USC Engineer. Margaret Dufford was named senior associate dean of administration for the School on July 1, 2003. She was previously the senior associate dean of administration at the USC Marshall School of Business.
Joyjeet “Bobby” Bhowmik (MSCECS) and his wife Madhumita “Monty”, celebrate the birth of their first daughter, Rituja, on January 14, 2003. Joyjeet is a software architect/scientist with Agilent Technologies.
Kelly Goulis, executive director of the School’s Distance Education Network, and her husband Chris, are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Jiana, on July 18, 2003.
1998
Anna Norville, the School’s executive director of corporate relations, and her
Brian Karl Hiatt (BSCECS) was married