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Spring 2007 • Volume 32, No. 3

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The Chance They Deserve

Reengineering Engineering


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1990s

Tom Fiske, ME’90, of Holden, Massachu­setts, is a member of the automation consulting team at ARC Advisory Group, in Dedham.

Lory Hough, AS’90, of Melrose, Massachusetts, celebrated the birth of her son, Ellis, in 2005. Hough has changed jobs at Harvard University, moving from writing for the Kennedy School of Government magazine to editing the Education School magazine.

Daniel Springer, MA’90, of Harwich, Massachusetts, chairs the fine and performing arts department at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, on Cape Cod. He has taught at the school for twelve years. Springer can be reached at springed@dy-regional.k12.ma.us.

David M. Bizar, CJ’91, of West Hartford, Connecticut, is a partner in the Hart­ford law firm McCarter & English. He specializes in commercial litigation. Before he entered private practice, Bizar served in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps with the First Cavalry Division. He has been the chair of the Consumer Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and received the Pro Bono Award from Lawyers for Children of America.

Cristina Csimma, GB’91, of Lincoln, Massachusetts, is a principal in the Cambridge office of Clarus Ventures, a life-sciences venture capital company. She was formerly senior director of translational research and experimental medicine at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.

Joseph DiGiantommaso, MBA’91, of Walpole, Massachusetts, is the chief financial officer at InterSense, a precision motion-tracking technology company in Bedford.

Jennifer Jahn Larson, GB’91, reports she and her family have moved to Greenville, South Carolina. Larson is the mental-health supervisor for the Greenville County Detention Center. She notes she and her husband, Kurt, are kept busy by Grace, their “energetic preschooler.”

Kelly M. Bonnevie, L’92, of Newton, Massachusetts, was named a 2006 Lawyer of the Year by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Since 1994, she has been litigating a racial-discrimination case on behalf of four terminated public employees. She’s also waging a battle with breast cancer. “[The cancer is] in the early stages and very treatable,” she told Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. “Plus, I have terrific law partners and great support from the broader legal community. And, of course, I have great family support. I couldn’t do it without my spouse, Karen Kaufman, and my kids, Matt and Abby.” Bonnevie also spoke about a defining moment in law school: “In Contracts class first year, [we studied a case where] a judge mentioned the plaintiff’s race in a decision [that had nothing to do with race]. That’s something most of us skipped over when reading the case. But Professor David Hall spoke eloquently about how the person’s race had no bearing on the outcome, yet the judge felt compelled to mention it.” She joined the law firm Wilson, Marino & Bonnevie in 1996.

Tina Cassidy, AS’92, of Boston, is the author of Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born, published by Atlantic Monthly Press last year. The book is a cultural history of childbirth. Cassidy regularly writes for the Boston Globe, where she worked as a staff reporter and editor for more than a decade.

Alan C. Grazioso, AS’92, of Arling­ton, Massachusetts, is an independent filmmaker whose recent credits include a PBS Kids’ Postcards from Buster episode entitled “Your Friend, My Friend.” Produced with his wife, bilingual producer/director Patricia Alvarado, and filmed entirely on location in San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico, the program premiered nationally on PBS in January. For more information, e-mail alan@graziosopictures.com, or visit http://pbskids.org/buster.

Dina (Tenaglia) Mastrocola, AS’92, of Hanover, Massachusetts, and her husband, Paul, celebrated the birth of their third child, Eva Caroline, on November 2, 2006. Justin and Gillian are their older children.

Scott Miller, MCS’92, PHD’97, of Waban, Massachusetts, is the chief scientist for Basis Technology, a Cambridge-based provider of enterprise software for multilingual text retrieval and analysis. Basis Technology acquired Translingual Technologies, which Miller founded.

John D. Rogers, MBA’92, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, is the managing director of the medical-technology investment banking team at Medical Capital Advisors. Previously, he was a senior banker at Brown Brothers Harriman.

Carlos Dominguez, MBA’93, of Caracas, Venezuela, is an assistant professor at Universidad Santiago Mariño. He writes to say he is “looking for long-lost friends who studied with me at the MBA program. I’ve found updated e-mail addresses for the following people: Jesus Rincon (Venezuela), Arturo Brito (Venezuela), Amy Tobin (USA), Allison Wallach (USA), and Tracy Byers (USA). If anyone wants to send them an e-mail, you can contact me at cdominguez12@hotmail.com. If you have up-to-date e-mail addresses for others in the MBA class of 1993, please let me know.”

David Leeson, BPH’93, and his wife, Sandi, welcomed the birth of their son, Holden Robert, on August 24, 2006. The family lives in London, Ontario.

Robert Puopolo, BA’93, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, in May 2006 was elected a partner in the technology companies group of the law firm Good­win Procter. In addition, he was named a 2006 Super Lawyer/Rising Star in two magazines, Law & Politics and Boston.

Wendy (Oliveira) Rogers, BPH’93, and John Rogers, CJ’93, celebrated the birth of their second child, a daughter named Kathryn Page, on July 21, 2006. Alexander is their older child. The family lives in North Attleborough, Massachu­setts. John is an associate in the law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge in Providence, Rhode Island. Wendy works per diem in the physical therapy department at Rhode Island Hospital. The couple says hello to their former teammates on the Northeastern swimming and diving team.

Amanda Willis, L’93, of Greensboro, North Carolina, writes, “I have accepted a teaching position at Tufts University for spring 2007. Subject? Progressive, cutting-edge, and public-interest: Animal law. Speaking of the underrepresented! I’m looking forward to returning to Boston after eight years away.”

Jason P. Caruso, AS’94, of Coventry, Connecticut, is a wholesaler with DWS Scudder. He was previously a vice president with Franklin Templeton.

Erin Daly, BA’94, of Burlington, Massachu­setts, says “hi” to Jodi, Scott, Bobby, and Celine. “I am the director of product development at ITA Software,” she adds. “And would I love to hear from folks!”

Ronan W. Gannon, MBA’94, of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, is the vice president, U.S. marketing, for ZLB Behring. Formerly, he was executive director of marketing for vaccines at GlaxoSmithKline.

Claudia Guzman, BA’94, of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, is an associate research consultant with Forrester Research, in Cambridge. “Happily working in custom research,” she writes. “My new job is great, challenging, and very interesting.” In addition, she is the president-elect of the Boston chapter of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs.

Joe Haynes, P’94, of St. Petersburg, Florida, was recently promoted to pharmacy operations manager at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg. He also writes a biweekly political column for the Tampa Bay Sun and serves on the executive committee of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida, a libertarian organization within the GOP. “I will always cherish the memories of my time at NU,” he writes, “and am glad NU selected me to be part of their pharmacy program.”

Srinath Narayanan, ME’94, of Menlo Park, California, is a principal in the West Coast investment-banking technology group at Canaccord Adams. He was formerly with Kaufman Brothers, where he oversaw media and the Internet, and infrastructure and communications equipment sectors, and was responsible for building the West Coast investment-banking operation.

John O’Herron, CJ’94, of South Weymouth, Massachusetts, is a compliance examiner with the Common­wealth of Massachusetts Division of Insurance. He and his wife, Elizabeth (O’Brien), have a son, Dominick James, born November 18, 2004. O’Herron writes he would love to hear from classmates at john.oherron@massmail.state.ma.us.

Gerald Quirk, L’94, of Sudbury, Massachu­setts, is a vice president and general counsel of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge. Previously, he was with Genzyme, where he was responsible for nonpatent legal services to the company’s oncology, biosurgery, and cardiovascular divisions.

Bob Sansone, BA’94, of Stoneham, Massachusetts, is trying to counter a nearly fifty-year-old instance of intolerance by having a section of Route 28 (Main Street) in Reading named Tolerance Road. In the 1960s, basketball great Bill Russell lived in Reading while playing for the Boston Celtics. Russell’s home was broken into and his property damaged, and a small number of townspeople petitioned against his residency. Sansone conceived the idea for renaming the road while on vacation in Florida last year. As his two young daughters were swimming in a hotel pool, they were joined by about seventy-five members of an African American family reunion. One of his daughters said she was uncomfortable being a minority for the first time in her life and wanted to leave the pool. Sansone persuaded her to stay; she ended up playing and not wanting to leave. “I knew at the time this was something special,” he remembers. “I knew this is a lesson she will never learn in Stoneham firsthand. The footsteps left behind that day were beautiful ones of black and white.” Sansone met Russell at a Red Sox function in May 2006 and was thanked for his efforts.

Joanne (DiGregorio) Smith, AS’94, MS’00, and Edward Smith Jr., AS’95, celebrated the birth of their third son, Bohdin Patrick Smith, on November 15, 2006. Bodi joins his older brothers, two-and-a-half-year-old Camden Thomas and fifteen-month-old Darrey Owen. Joanne, a stay-at-home mom, worked most recently as the senior assistant director for students and young alumni in Northeastern’s alumni relations office. Ed is a vice president at Avenue Auction Sales in Quincy, Massachusetts. The family resides in Norwell.

Trevor Calvey, BA’95, of Milford, Massachusetts, and his wife, Dawn, welcomed the arrival of daughter Ella Grace in July 2006.

Lorenzo Carver, GP’95, of St. Paul, Minnesota, is the owner of bpCentral and the developer of software that allows venture capital partners to perform complex analyses on handheld devices, as well as laptops and desktop computers. Carver says he expected the project to take six months but it stretched into three years.

Allen Margulis, UC’95, PA’97, and Heather Margulis, BPH’96, GB’97, celebrated the birth of their first child, Samuel Malkam, on September 5, 2006. The family lives in Natick, Massachusetts. Allen is a tax attorney in Needham. Heather is the manager of rehabilitation services at Hebrew Senior Life. They can be e-mailed at amlaw14@yahoo.com.

Gary Alexander, AS’96, of Greenville, Rhode Island, has been appointed to serve as the acting director of his state’s Department of Human Services. Previously, he was the department’s assistant to the director. Alexander graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern with a bachelor of arts in political science. He also holds a master of divinity from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Nima Eshghi, L’96, of Somerville, Massachusetts, is a staff attorney with Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. Formerly, she was director of professional development at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. Prior to that, she worked at Harvard Law School’s Legal Services Center, was a litigation specialist with Foley, Hoag & Eliot, and clerked for Chief Justice Herbert P. Wilkins of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Since 2003, she has been an adjunct instructor at Northeastern’s School of Law.

Jennifer (Arsenault) Howe, AS’96, and her husband, Todd, celebrated the birth of their first child, Tyler Michael, on September 21, 2006. The family lives in Huntersville, North Carolina. Howe is the director of communications and public relations at Providence Day School in Charlotte. Her e-mail address is jennifer.howe@providenceday.org.

Wilfred Labiosa, GB’96, is the director of the relapse prevention and outpatient services of Casa Esperanza, a comprehensive holistic substance-abuse treatment program. He writes that he and his spouse have purchased their first home, in Medford, Massachusetts.

Peter Orner, L’96, of San Francisco, is a professor in the creative writing department at San Francisco State University and the author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (reviewed in the Fall 2006 issue of this magazine). Journalist Steve Almond, writing about the book on Salon.com, said, “If it were up to me, Orner would have won both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award. The novel is that astonishing. At the very least, he has joined the first rank of American writers.” The novel earned Orner the Bard Fiction Prize for 2007; as part of the award, he will be the writer-in-residence at Bard College during the spring 2007 semester.

Susan (Sheldon) Quimby, AS’96, MJ’01, and her husband, Scott, celebrated the birth of their son, Jack, in March 2006. The baby’s siblings are Michaela and Brett. The family lives in Massachusetts.

Vikrant Shah, MBA’96, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is the vice president of risk projects and development at Triad Guaranty. He has been with the company since 2002 and was formerly assistant vice president of risk management.

Desmond Bellot, AS’97, of Quincy, Massa­chusetts, is the owner of Dolo Clothing Company. He sells hip-hop clothing lines that include T-shirts, hats, jeans, and sweats. None conveys a criminal message. “I try to stay away from negative connotations. The brand is a reflection of the owner, and my thing is positivity,” says Bellot, who played NU football and is the Huskies’ fifth-best all-time kick returner and seventh-best all-time pass receiver.

Melissa Gentile, AS’97, of Reading, Massachusetts, and her husband, Paul, celebrated the birth of daughter Madeline Rose on November 9, 2006. The new baby joins big sister Audrey. In January, Gentile celebrated the first anniversary of her European baby- carrier sales and importing business, Lemon Balm Essentials; the URL is http://www.lemonbalmessentials.com. Gentile’s friends may write her at meliss@lemonbalmessentials.com.

Scott D. Prince, MBA’97, of Boston, is the vice president of marketing at the Education Resource Institute. He was director of external relations and communications at the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority. Prior to that, Prince worked in the financial aid office at Northeastern.

Dave Hesketh, E’98, and his wife, Shannon, welcomed their first child, Samuel David, on Novem­­­­­­­ber 16, 2006. The family lives in Methuen, Massachusetts.

April A. Abate, AS’99, married Mark L. Adams, SET’01, on June 19, 2005, in Harvard, Massa­chu­setts. “We now live and work in the Salt Lake City area,” she writes. “Mark is employed at Boston Scientific, working as a medical-device research and development engineer. I am a geologist at an environmental consulting company, per­­forming environmental assessments for real estate transactions. We had a baby boy in May 2006, Tyler Lance.”

Robert Andrews, MBA’99, of Syracuse, New York, is the director of marketing and public relations at Axxis Biometrics.

Elizabeth A. Kowal, L’99, of Somerville, Massachusetts, is the associate director for the office of career services at Roger Williams University’s School of Law, in Bristol, Rhode Island. She was previously an associate with Murtha Cullina, in Boston.

Deborah (Yeager) Snyder, E’99, of Centennial, Colorado, and her husband, Logan, celebrated the birth of their son, Tegan, on June 10, 2006. Snyder is a civil and environmental engineer with CDM in Denver.

Brent Wesler, BA’99, of Clinton, Connec­ticut, is the vice president of professional services at Westbrook Technologies. “I run the services side of the software business, consulting, education, and support. We are developing a state-of-the-art service- oriented application document management system due for release in 2007, which will revolutionize our enterprise document management space. I tripled service revenues in the last three years, and I travel extensively throughout the world servicing our 15,000 customers,” he writes. “My wife, Kimberly, and I have two boys, Brayden and Brody, and a beagle named Dakota.”