1986 WISE ALUMNI
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Lisa Gardner Bullard: I'm on the Chemical Engineering faculty at my alma mater, North Carolina State University. I teach several undergraduate course and serve as Director of Undergraduate Studies. My husband Michael works for an environmental consulting firm here in Raleigh. We have a nine year old daughter, Meredith Grace, who is already an avid Wolfpack fan. (4/04)

Tom Cisewski is the President of Cognagora. He served as Director of Credentialing for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City and the 2004 G8 Summit. He was also the Manager of Olympic Family Accreditation for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He has consulted for five other editions of the Olympic Games: 1998 (Nagano), 2000 (Sydney), 2004 (Athens), 2006 (Torino) and 2008 (Beijing), for the International Olympic Committee and on other international sporting events. Mr. Cisewski has also worked for UPS Worldwide Logistics, CAPS Logistics and his own firm as a supply chain engineer and consultant. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Georgia and Bachelor of Industrial Engineering and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).  (07/05)

Tracy Shillenn Daly has a new position as Research Supervisor for Performance Chemicals. (11/98)

John Feltz is living in Fairborn, Ohio.  (10/04)

David Gibby:  After working in Utah, Washington, Tennessee and Oklahoma I have settled with my family in Idaho. I manage an Environmental Compliance organization at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. The INEEL operates world's premier high-flux test reactor. I have three sons and one daughter. We enjoy spending time in the mountains and recreating in the snow. (12/02)

Updated: Tim Holmes, CMRP: Like Tracy, I hired on with Dupont after graduation. I spent 18 years at the New Johnsonville, TN white pigments plant in maintenance & reliability engineering, including 2.5 years as a Six Sigma Black Belt. In September 2005, I joined our corporate Maintenance & Reliability Systems group, where I am Senior Consulting Engineer for techniques like Reliability-Centered Maintenance, Root Cause Failure Analysis, Statistical Reliability Analysis, Uptime, and creating Maintenance Plans in SAP PM. My wife Lisa and I have four children, ages 18 (USCG in Puerto Rico), 14, 11, and 5. We still live west of Nashville, are active in our church, and have home-schooled our kids for 13 years. (2/07

Robert Margolis, P.E.: Currently I work at FPL at St. Lucie. The family is enjoying the warmer weather. (Previously Robert worked for Dominion and for ABB-Combustion Engineering in Connecticut as a safety analyst and project manager in the non-LOCA transient analysis group, which involved frequent travel to South Korea to support the Yonggwang nuclear power plants during their startup.) (Posted: 10/06)

Dennis Shields reports he "is on the short list for Dean of the School of Agriculture at Wellesly College. In the meantime, he is Economic Editor of Agricultural Outlook magazine, published by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture." (8/00)

Jeff Varick received his MBA from the Wharton School in 1991. He has a new job at Integral, Inc., a product development and innovation management consulting firm, and will start an automotive sector. (11/98)

Gary White reports -- During my WISE internship in 1986 I focused my research on the role of the American Society of Civil Engineers in international development. This research stemmed from my interest in finding a way to turn my civil engineering degree towards helping people in the developing world, particularly those in need of safe drinking water. My experience in the WISE program was one of the factors that led me to co-found the non-profit organizations, WaterPartners International. I am currently the executive director of WaterPartners. I thought that you might want to highlight our work in the WISE newsletter or web site for two reasons. First, as I mentioned, my WISE experience was one of the factors that led to the formation of WaterPartners. Second, Jeff Varick (WISE '86) and my roommate during the our internship has also recently taken an active role in the organization. Jeff's extensive business and management experiences are making a great difference to us through his role as one of our leading board members. Jeff and I would be glad to answer any questions you may have. You can also find extensive information about WaterPartners International on our web site at www.water.org.  (5/00)

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