Christina Sherry
| Job Title: |
Research Fellow |
| Company: |
University of Michigan |
| College: |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Division of Nutritional Sciences, PhD/RD, Champaign, IL
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| High School: |
Grand Blanc High School, Grand Blanc, MI
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I am responsible for investigating the mechanisms and reasons why obesity has a negative impact on health leading to metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and insulin resistance and ways to lessen the adverse health effects of obesity.
Gerry Callison
| Job Title: |
Electrical Engineer |
| Company: |
Commonwealth Associates |
| College: |
University of Tennessee, Masters Degree, Electrical Engineering, Knoxville, TN
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| High School: |
New Berlin West High School, New Berlin, WI
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I build computer models of power grids and then analyze their performance under varying scenarios. This involves evaluating power delivery capabilities, power routing, power plant coordination, and grid and substation protection and fault recovery.
Jessica Black
| Job Title: |
Facility Supervisor, Parks and Recreation |
| Company: |
City of Ann Arbor |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, College of Business, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor, MI
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I supervise the Customer Service office for Parks and Recreation services as well as all rentals and events within City parks and parks facilities. I spend lots of time working with the public and non-profits to create wonderful opportunities for events in our Parks.
Jessica Ray
| Job Title: |
Research Technician |
| Company: |
University of Michigan |
| College: |
University of Michigan, Bachelor Degree, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Grand Blanc High School, Grand Blanc, MI
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At the University of Michigan Medical School, I am just starting to do stroke research and am in the process of creating my own project.
Brian Backer
| Job Title: |
Senior Consultant |
| Company: |
CFI Group |
| College: |
University of Georgia, , Athens, GA
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| High School: |
Marist High School, Atlanta, GA
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I am an experienced researcher and consultant in customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, and utilizing customer feedback programs to drive process improvement and market innovation initiatives. I have a strong background in satisfaction and loyalty measurement as well as in business intelligence and process improvement methodologies including Lean and Six Sigma. My principal responsibilities include research project design, management, and providing consulting on the integration of research findings with operational and financial metrics.
David Ascroft
| Job Title: |
Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist |
| Company: |
University Of Michigan Health System |
| College: |
Carnegie Institute, , Troy, MI
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| High School: |
Oxford High School, Oxford, MI
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I assist in the procedure of invasive diagnostic and emergent cardiac catheterizations at the University of Michigan Hospital.
Kela Green
| Job Title: |
Human Resources Consultant |
| Company: |
University of Michigan |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, B.S. Psychology, M.S. Human Resources & Organizational Development, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Buena Vista High School, Saginaw, MI
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I am responsible for the day to day administration of policies, recruiting, training and development, compensation and benefits, employee and labor relations, and organizational effectiveness.
Tom Phillips
| Job Title: |
Assistant Director, Graduate Career Services |
| Company: |
University of Michigan |
| College: |
Colorado State University, Master of Education, Counseling and Career Development, Fort Collins, CO
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| High School: |
Gardner High School, Gardner, MA
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As a career counselor I help students and adults through the career development process including assessing their career interests, strengths, and values, locating organizations in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors that might be a good fit, and coaching them on marketing themselves through application materials (resumes, cover letters), interviews, and social media tools.
Stephanie Normann
| Job Title: |
Marketing Coordinator |
| Company: |
University Musical Society |
| College: |
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, College of Arts & Communications, Whitewater, WI
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| High School: |
Kettle Moraine High School, Wales, WI
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I am part of a 4-person marketing team responsible for promoting up to 75 performances per season including dance, theater, jazz, world music, orchestras, chamber ensembles, and recitalists. My main job responsibilities include designing and creating all HTML e-mails (approximately 250 annually) sent to various UMS audience constituencies, as well as reviewing, editing, and updating all content on the dynamic pages of the UMS website. I also oversee and manage all UMS student programs, including the UMS Student Committee and Arts & Eats. It is incredibly exciting and rewarding to work for an organization with such a long and distinguished history of bringing the best in performing arts from around the world to Ann Arbor!
Eric M. Szuch
| Job Title: |
Design Engineer |
| Company: |
Aernnova |
| College: |
Univeristy of Michigan, College of Engineering, Department of Aerospace, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Lake Orion High School, Lake Orion, MI
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My company is a global aerospace engineering company with offices in Spain, The US and South America. We engineer, design and manufacture aircraft structures for our customers. My company has allowed its employees to travel around the US and various countries in Europe. It is full of great opportunities and has a very enjoyable work environment. My job is to design aircraft structural parts for various types of aircraft. I take information from the stress department and apply it to the various parts I am designing. I have to make sure the parts can be manufactured and follow all the design requirements that are set. I also present various designs at design reviews to be evaluated in order to decide which design should go forward. Thus far I have been able to go on assignment in Spain to acquire further training and knowledge.
Bethany Michowski
| Job Title: |
Registered Nurse |
| Company: |
University of Michigan |
| College: |
Grand Valley State University, Kirkhof College, Nursing, Allendale, MI
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| High School: |
Lincoln High School, Ypsilanti, MI
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I am a registered nurse on the adult inpatient rehabilitation unit at University Hospital. Rehab nursing includes providing direct patient care to patients with a range of physical limitations, and mutually establishing goals with the patient to promote independence and improve quality of life. I function as part of an interdisciplinary team, forming a link between patients and their families and the rest of the rehab team.
Jennifer Lee Sai
| Job Title: |
Guest Services Agent |
| Company: |
Graham's Hotel System Inc. |
| College: |
Michigan State University, Advertising-- Public Relations, Parks and Recreation Commercial Recreation and Tourism, East Lansing, MI
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| High School: |
Lincoln Consolidated High School, Ypsilanti, MI
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I am in charge of registering guests into the hotel and for the duration of their stay offering concierge services. I am also responsible for marketing the hotel to potential and current clients, managing visitor profiles and billing.
Paul Robinson
| Job Title: |
Assistant to the President |
| Company: |
Published Daily |
| College: |
Oakland Community College, Michigan Highland Lakes, , Waterford, MI
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| High School: |
Home Schooled, White Lake, MI
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As the assistant to the president, my work is finding up-to-date technology to keep Published Daily fresh-faced and running smoothly. Here at Published Daily is a fresh, new, innovative idea with a solid team of leaders.
Maureen Elkins
| Job Title: |
Executive Assistant to the CSE Chair |
| Company: |
University of Michigan |
| College: |
University of Phoenix, Business Administration, , Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Lakewood High School, Lakewood, OH
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As the Executive Assistant to the Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the College of Engineering I maintain the calendar (includes heavy meeting scheduling, maintain recurrent meetings, personal appointments, conflict resolution), coordinate travel arrangements, and write and maintain confidential reference letters, correspondence, and candidate offer letters. In addition, I maintain the public schedule for booking conference rooms, maintain an extensive electronic filing system for the administration office, and coordinate Distinguished Dow and Professorship Lectures. I also am in charge of purchases and reconciliation as well as coordinate CSE Excom meetings, CSE Faculty meetings, Adcom meetings, CSE Faculty Retreat, EECS Faculty Recognition Dinner, Holiday Party, and Retirement parties.
Laila Gislason
| Job Title: |
Exhibit Expert - Marketing, Design and Sales |
| Company: |
Lindsay Exhibit Group |
| College: |
University of Michigan, Industrial Design, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Dexter High School, Dexter, MI
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We design and build 3-dimensional marketing spaces for companies who participate in trade shows across the country and the world. I work with these companies to pinpoint their marketing and sales objectives and then create appealing exhibits that represent their brands and achieve their goals.
John Hostetler
| Job Title: |
Owner |
| Company: |
H Brothers Inc. |
| College: |
University of Michigan, Bachelor of Business Administration, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Mona Shores High School, Muskegon, MI
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I generate traffic for my websites. When I was living in Poland I noticed that there were a lot of small airlines that flew all over Europe, but that they couldn't be found on the popular websites like Orbitz and Expedia. When I came back to the USA I created AirNinja.com with my brother to show these airlines. Since then we have developed a handful of other websites.
Greg Grossmeier
| Job Title: |
Copyright Specialist, Open Education Specialist |
| Company: |
University of Michigan Library |
| College: |
University of Michigan, MSI, School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Hannibal Senior High School, Hannibal, MO
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I hold two positions at the University of Michigan. The first, Copyright Specialist, is at the University of Michigan Library's Copyright Office. At this position I work closely with faculty, staff, and students to provide expertise around copyright matters (publishing, teaching, reuse, etc) but also work with those same individuals to promote and support Open Access Publishing. With my colleagues at the University of Michigan Press (now a part of the library) and the Scholarly Publishing Office I am working to provide greater faculty and researcher support when publishing in Open Access journals and when creating Open Textbooks that are free of charge and remixable by others.
The second position, Open Education Specialist, is where I work for the Open.Michigan initiative to help faculty and students to maximize the potential of their educational content. My time is spent communicating with faculty and student groups on campus where I provide education and assistance to those who want to provide their teaching and learning content as Open Educational Resources (commonly abbreviated as OER). Much of this education and assistance revolves around technical infrastucture (hosting the material) and copyright/other legal issues. These OER materials are made available to the public free of charge and free to reuse and remix.
Richard Frazin
| Job Title: |
Research Scientist |
| Company: |
University of Michigan |
| College: |
University of Illinois, Department of Astronomy, Urbana, IL
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| High School: |
Deerfield High School, Deerfield, IL
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I am a scientist at the University of Michigan, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, and my job centers around using images and movies of the X-ray Sun taken by satellites to the determine the 3D structure of the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, called the corona. (to see some of the types of images go to: http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/TRACEpodoverview.html) Working for the U of M gives me the opportunity to do cutting edge research and work with excellent students and faculty in science and engineering. In addition, there is a lot of fun travel!
Ross Johnson
| Job Title: |
Chief Executive Officer/Chief Creative Officer |
| Company: |
3.7 Designs |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, Social Science, Business, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Community High School, Ann Arbor, MI
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I manage the daily operations at 3.7 DESIGNS with a heavy focus on account management and website strategy. I work with a small team that is primarily based in Michigan through telecommuting, despite having a brick and mortar office on Main Street. This allows us to utilize top talent around Michigan with out being confined to immediate proximity. Most of my day is spent researching and identifying the needs of my clients and developing a strategic plan that will address those needs and objectives.
Our clients are forward thinking and understand that simply having a website is ineffective and that in order to achieve maximum return on investment you need to focus on the strategy of the website itself. This includes research and profiling target markets, performing competitive audits, developing common user paths, identifying branding needs and establishing site objectives and measurement requirements.
Molly McFarland
| Job Title: |
Marketing/Business Development |
| Company: |
Hobbs+Black Associates, Inc. |
| College: |
Tulane University, Newcomb College, English Major, New Orleans, LA
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| High School: |
Fryeburg Academy, Fryeburg, MI
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Ann Arbor has almost every quality I sought when considering places to live and start my career. I wanted a city I could walk around, with a younger, hipper community, an abundance of natural beauty and a balance between professional opportunity and fun. When I found a job I love with Hobbs+Black, a well established architecture firm in downtown Ann Arbor, it solidified my decision to stay here and I haven’t regretted it. How could I complain? I get to work, shop, eat, live and play all within a couple of miles of home.
Alicia Thomas
| Job Title: |
HR Coordinator |
| Company: |
City of Ann Arbor |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, B.B.A. Business Management, M.S. Human Resources and Organizational Developlment, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor, MI
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I am in charge of supporting the compensation and employee development functions of HR for the City of Ann Arbor.
Debra Molitor
| Job Title: |
Development Director |
| Company: |
Salvation Army |
| College: |
Univeristy of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts, Communications, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Detroit High School, Detroit, MI
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As the Development Director my job is to increase volunteerism utilizing social media outlets, and create and continue substanitial donations to sustain the Salvation Army of Washtenaw County.
Christine Brown
| Job Title: |
Marketing Program Manager |
| Company: |
Infor |
| College: |
Grand Valley State University, Seidman College of Business, Marketing and International Business, Allendale, MI
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| High School: |
Franklin High School, Livonia, MI
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I manage the creation, strategy and execution of marketing campaigns while keeping aligned with a business development team to drive lead generation for our Supply chain management software solutions.
Pieter Kleymeer
| Job Title: |
Open Education Specialist |
| Company: |
Open.Michigan |
| College: |
University of Michigan, B.S.E.E., College of Engineering, M.S.I., School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Petoskey High School, Petoskey, MI
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I work on a new initiative (Open.Michigan) at U-M that's focused on helping faculty and students maximize the potential of their creative work by sharing it with the world using public copyright licenses. My work involves anything from leading technical web & data projects to managing students as they learn about copyright and open sharing. Most of my effort is spent on copyright issues & policy development and web & user experience design. At the moment I'm working with some developers to create a new content management system using the open-sourced Drupal platform. This repository will hold all of our educational resources and allow anyone in the world to download U-M learning content, remix it, and redistribute it--free from fees and free from copyright restrictions.
Michelle Eleby
| Job Title: |
Senior Staff Associate |
| Company: |
University Of Michigan Health System |
| College: |
Univeristy of Michigan, School of Public Health, Health Service Administration, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Marquette Senior High School, Marquette, MI
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As a Senior Staff Associate, I provide staff support to senior administration as well as various executive and administrative groups within the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers. This includes, coordinating the development, implementation and administration of programs, projects and operations related activities. My job gives me many opportunities to work with and serve as a liaison to many departments across the Health System, University of Michigan campus, as well as external civic and community organizations.
Amit Verma
| Job Title: |
Oracle DBA Consultant |
| Company: |
HealthMedia |
| College: |
Bachelor of Science, Engineering, Technology, India,
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| High School: |
India High School, India,
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I am part of a team of 2 DBA's that monitor, maintain and support all databases for HealthMedia. This includes providing 24X7 support for our Production, Development, Testing, UAT and QA databases and setting up new fault tolerant Highly Available databases. We also support a Data Warehouse database that is used for reporting and Business Intelligence purposes.
Stefen J. Welch
| Job Title: |
Community Outreach Coordinator |
| Company: |
Molina Healthcare |
| College: |
Oakland University, Communications, Journalism, Rochester, MI
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| High School: |
St. Martin de Porres High School, Detroit, MI
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As a Community Outreach Coordinator, I establish and maintain relationships and partnerships, develop and establish multiple channels for service activities, and actively participate in Provider and Community Based Organizations functions, health fairs, etc. I also develop new strategies and ideas for community outreach, achieve net growth goals by assigned Provider and Community Based Organizations, and measure and track productivity and results.
Jenna Drudi
| Job Title: |
Hair Designer; Bumble and Bumble Network Educator |
| Company: |
Salon Vox |
| College: |
David Pressley School of Cosmetology, , Royal Oak, MI
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| High School: |
Howell High School, Howell, MI
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I currently am employed at Salon Vox as a Senior Stylist and Network Educator for Bumble and Bumble. I am also involved with two film projects currently happening in Michigan. ??I am responsible for continuing my education throughout several resources and educating the staff through monthly classes taught in the salon. I love my job for allowing me the opportunity to also maintain a full clientele throughout the week consisting of color, cut, and styling services.?
Alina Verdiyan
| Job Title: |
Financial Advisor |
| Company: |
Investment Solution Services |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, College of Business, Computer Information Systems, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Protvino High School, Moscow, Russia
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We help people achieve their vision of success through comprehensive financial planning. Services we offer include but not limited to: 401k rollovers and analysis, IRA services, college planning, retirement planning, estate planning, asset and wealth management, and insurance.
Joe Kramer
| Job Title: |
Assistant Vice President - Commercial Lending |
| Company: |
TCF National Bank |
| College: |
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, BBA in Finance, Financial Planning, Whitewater, WI
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| High School: |
Marquette University High School, Milwaukee, WI
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As a commercial lender, I help clients obtain financing for real estate and corporate transactions, primarily in the local market. My clients own student rentals, apartment complexes, office buildings, retail shopping centers, medical offices, and self storage facilities. Most of my clients and prospects have borrowing needs of $1 to $10 million. I also offer deposit solutions including business checking, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, remote deposit capture, lockbox and a number of other products that can be tailored to meet each client’s individual cash management needs.
Kristen Cochran
| Job Title: |
Loan Processor |
| Company: |
Ann Arbor Mortgage Company |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, Bachelors of Science, Social Science, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Ann Arbor Huron High School, Ann Arbor, MI
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I work closely with the loan officers and the borrowers to gather all the necessary loan documentation prior to submitting their loan to our underwriting dept. I pride myself in my hard work and determination to make it a smooth process from beginning to end.
Zachary Moen
| Job Title: |
Attorney |
| Company: |
Zachary V. Moen Law |
| College: |
Loyola University Chicago, School of Law, Juris Doctorate, Chicago, IL
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| High School: |
Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, WI
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After spending my entire career as an attorney at two of the largest law firms in Chicago and Michigan, I started my own law practice in Ann Arbor to provide sophisticated yet affordable legal services to businesses, entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, writers, fine instrument dealers, and more. My practice areas include litigation, dispute resolution, corporate, contracts, copyrights, and trademarks. My goal is to combine the quality and sophistication of a large law firm with the personalized service and affordability of smaller law firm.
Ellie Falaris Ganelin
| Job Title: |
Marketing and Operations Manager |
| Company: |
Kerrytown Concert House |
| College: |
University of Maryland, School of Music, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, College Park, MD
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| High School: |
The Tatnall School, Wilmington, DE
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I get the word out about the Concert House and help run day-to-day operations. A typical day could include designing posters for upcoming concerts, putting together electronic and paper newsletters, taking ticket reservations, and actually managing concerts. It's great because I'm surrounded by live music all the time and have the opportunity to interact with some very talented artists, as well as members of the community on a daily basis.
I am also the Marketing and Public Relations representative for Saagara LLC (www.saagara.com). I promote this new company based in Ann Arbor that develops holistic health programs for the iPhone, as well as through a web-based subscription service. I enjoy working for Saagara because I get to wear many different hats: designing visual elements, writing content for Web site and iPhone apps, and doing PR work. We had a party celebrating the launch of our first iPhone app called Pranayama in December, which was a lot of fun. It's great to see cutting-edge ideas grow in this new business.
Karen Jenks
| Job Title: |
Operations Assistant |
| Company: |
Kerrytown Concert House |
| College: |
Univeristy of Michigan, Master of Music, Violin Performance, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Shaker Heights High School, Shaker Heights, OH
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I am one of two operations assistants at the concert house; because KCH maintains such a small staff, I basically do anything that needs to be done. On a typical day, I could go from speaking with artists about their bookings to changing the toilet paper - it's exciting, it's unpredictable, and I love it. Not only am I exposed to all kinds of music on a daily basis, but I get to provide the personal touch that really makes the Concert House what it is. KCH is a lynch pin in the Ann Arbor community - especially in the Kerrytown District - and I am so proud to be able to be a part of this organization.
Nicholas Borth
| Job Title: |
Associate Product Manager |
| Company: |
Infor |
| College: |
Canisius College, International Business, International Relations, Buffalo, NY
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| High School: |
St. Joseph Collegiate Institute, Kenmore, NY
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I research the market to provide added value to our business software solutions. This includes working cross-functionally to ensure that the majority’s needs are met, in terms of functionality, as well as guiding the product through development, early testing, and eventual launch into the market. It is essential to use foresight in predicting general market trends along with macro-economic direction to maximize revenue and benefit to our target markets.
Chris Clayson
| Job Title: |
Manager, Insights & Analytics |
| Company: |
TheCaringSpace.com |
| College: |
The University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, Masters of Business Administration, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
North Farmington High School, Farmington Hills, MI
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I am responsible for better understanding the needs of our customers and working to implement those insights into site and service improvements. I am also utilizing web analytics to streamline our marketing efforts as well as forecast future growth and revenue.
Tracy Lynn-Irons Underwood
| Job Title: |
Membership Assistant Manager |
| Company: |
Sam's Club |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, Psychology, Health Administration, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Bedford High School, Temperance, MI
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I work with large and small businesses and share information on membership with Sams Club, showing the member the value of the membership and the merchandise that Sams carry to help out small and large businesses. I am responsible for special benefits for personal and business memberships and offer special deals for companies.
Ryan Elizabeth Davis
| Job Title: |
Director of Development |
| Company: |
American Heart Association |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, Masters Degree, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Ann Arbor Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor, MI
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At the American Heart Association, I am responsible for fundraising for Washtenaw County.
Rebekka Kuhn
| Job Title: |
Freelance Graphic Designer |
| Company: |
Rebekka Kuhn Communications Design |
| College: |
Syracuse University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Communications Design, Syracuse, MI
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| High School: |
Manhasset High School, Manhasset, NY
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I'm an ideas person with two feet on the ground. I design materials like this for companies and individuals: Invitations and announcements; Brochures, Pamphlets & Publications; Packaging; Logos/Identity Systems, Stationery & Collateral; Marketing Materials; Environmental Signage; Website Design.
Emily Williams
| Job Title: |
Associate Product Manager |
| Company: |
Infor |
| College: |
University of Missouri-St. Louis, , St. Louis, MO
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| High School: |
Freeburg Community High School, Freeburg, IL
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I work on a team with other Product Managers to help define content for future releases for a specific product line.
Steve Skripnik
| Job Title: |
Project Engineer |
| Company: |
Limno Tech |
| College: |
University of California, Civil and Environmental Engineering, , Berkeley, CA
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| High School: |
Forest Hills Northern High School, Grand Rapids, MI
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As a project engineer, I provide environmental engineering support for a wide range of water issues including stormwater control, watershed management, water quality modeling, and water quality regulations.
Kathy Mycek
| Job Title: |
Cytotechnologist |
| Company: |
University of Michigan |
| College: |
SUNY Geneseo, Biology, Geneseo, NY
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| High School: |
Caledonia-Mumford Central Highschool, Caledonia, NY
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I am responsible for diagnosing benign and malignant conditions from gynecological and non-gynecological specimens. As a Cytotechnologist, I play a key role in patient care. I assist on fine needle aspirations (FNA) to perform onsite patient evaluations. Primarily, our lab team screens for cervical cancer. Our lab is currently implementing new molecular diagnostic testing which will change the face of Cytology.
Audrey Wong Chung
| Job Title: |
Business Owner & Entrepreneur |
| Company: |
Beliza Design |
| College: |
Rutgers University, Rutgers College, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
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| High School: |
Northern Valley Regional High School, Demarest, NJ
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I am the CEO of Beliza Design. Beliza Design designs, manufacturers, markets and distributes luxury goods, corporate and marketing gifts, fashion jewelry, and collegiate licensed products. Beliza Design is the manufacturer of alternative metals jewelry (stainless steel, titanium, tungsten, ceramic, machined-silver).
Danielle Green
| Job Title: |
Owner & Instructor |
| Company: |
Vixen Fitness |
| College: |
ITT Tech, Computer Networking, Canton, MI
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| High School: |
Plymouth Canton High School, Plymouth, MI
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I am the owner of Vixen Fitness. We have two locations Ypsilanti and Detroit, MI. Vixen Fitness offers exciting alternative fitness & dance classes for women only all shapes sizes and fitness levels. Our classes are provided in a comfortable and supportive atmosphere and great for women not motivated by the typical gym setting.
Noah Harden
| Job Title: |
Attorney |
| Company: |
Ferguson & Widmayer, P.C. |
| College: |
Georgia State University, Juris Doctorate degree, Atlanta, GA
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| High School: |
Saline High School, Saline, MI
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In 2008 I joined Ferguson & Widmayer, P.C., which is a law firm in Ann Arbor. Our primary emphasis is on estate planning, compensation planning and business succession planning for closely-held businesses. My primary focus is on estate planning, estate and gift taxation, business succession planning and probate. I work with individuals and families to plan their estates in a way that will help accomplish their wishes and also prevent problems from developing in the future. This includes anything from drafting wills and trusts, to naming guardians of minor children, to more complicated estate tax planning designed to pass assets in a tax efficient way. We also frequently establish charitable trusts and foundations for clients with philanthropic goals who also want to obtain significant tax benefits.
Kimberly Mortson
| Job Title: |
Communications Liaison, Community Services Area |
| Company: |
City of Ann Arbor |
| College: |
Central Michigan University, Journalism, Marketing, Mt. Pleasant, MI
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| High School: |
John Glenn High School, Westland, MI
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I worked as a reporter/editor for about a decade after college. I then worked as a corporate communications/marketing officer for a healthcare system in metro Detroit. I was responsible for employee communications, executive visibility opportunities, CEO/COO speech writing, etc.
Now, at the City of Ann Arbor, I provide communication, marketing and graphic design support for the Community Services Area. This includes Planning & Development, Community Development and Parks & Recreation. I create everything from marketing plans and press releases to brochures, posters and flyers promoting our programs and services.
In the past few months I've been excited to help debut several social media tools including Twitter for Parks & Recreation (www.twitter.com/a2parks) and Community Development (www.twitter.com/annarborcd) and a Facebook page for Parks & Recreation (www.facebook.com/annarbor.parks). These are fantastic tools to continue the conversations we have with customers, promote our activities, inform visitors/citizens about special events/news in real-time. I'm also excited to be using photo storytelling Web sites such as Whrrl.com and animoto.com for Parks & Recreation.
I've definitely been able to combine my experience as a journalist and photographer with skills in marketing, graphic design and internal communications to work on some really great projects. I launched the branding campaign for Parks & Recreation: "Life's more than a walk in a park." I'm always looking for new and different ways to promote Parks & Recreation in Ann Arbor and all of the wonderful ways we're able to enhance people's quality of life in the parks.
Andrea Smith
| Job Title: |
Web and Graphic Designer |
| Company: |
Ann Arbor Arts Center |
| College: |
Concordia University, Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Design Concentration, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor, MI
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I am a Web and Graphic Designer for the up and coming Ann Arbor Art Center, Gallery Shop.
Jason Williams
| Job Title: |
Manufacturing Production Technician |
| Company: |
Dexter Research Center |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, College of Business, Bachelors of Business Administration with a concentration of Management, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Father Gabriel Richard High School, Ann Arbor, MI
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My job responsibilities include applying lean manufacturing principles and engineering theory to problems of industrial layout or manufacturing production, under the direction of Management and Engineering Staff. My daily tasks are to study and improve performance of production, preventative maintenance, and other worker operations for such purposes of improving efficiency. I also help with the coordination and design of new processes along with making changes to existing processes to improve production methods. I have been trained in the Six Sigma Green Belt techniques, leading Kaizen events and 5S implementation along with ISO 9001 internal auditing to help with improving overall performance to make Dexter Research the growing competitive business that it is today.
Brett Lantz
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Analyst/Programmer |
| Company: |
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health |
| College: |
University of Notre Dame, College of Arts and Letters, Sociology, Notre Dame, IN
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| High School: |
Mason High School, Mason, MI
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My job is to provide analytical support on a number of health related research projects. Specifically, this includes writing SAS and SQL code to prepare, analyze, and model data, writing reports, and keeping up with other published results.
Dheeraj Sanka
| Job Title: |
Web Developer |
| Company: |
Rentlinx |
| College: |
University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Delhi Public School, New Delhi, India
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As a software engineer at RentLinx I am responsible for developing new software products for the RentLinx customers (landlords and property management companies). In addition, I also work on maintaining existing products and providing customer support as necessary.
Erica D'Angelo
| Job Title: |
Account Manager |
| Company: |
ZF Steering Systems |
| College: |
Lake Forest College, English and Politics, Computer Science, Lake Forest, IL
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| High School: |
Canton High School, Canton, MI
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I manage the commercial relationships with GM, Chrysler, and other automotive start-up companies. I work with these customers to acquire and maintain business that will utilize the steering products offered by my company, such as electric powered steering. I enjoy the challenges of working in an industry that is changing everyday! In particular, I find it exciting to work at a company that brings latest technology products to the market which will advance the products of my customers and benefit the end-consumer in ways like improving fuel economy.
Chrysta Cherrie
| Job Title: |
Entertainment Producer/Copy Editor |
| Company: |
AnnArbor.com |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, Electronic Media, Film, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Rootstown High School, Rootstown, OH
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I am responsible for executing what is seen in the Entertainment section of AnnArbor.com and its twice-weekly print edition, including but not limited to: copy editing; creating, editing and producing onsite multimedia content; scheduling photo and video shoots; and securing multimedia content from third parties. I contribute some writing to the site with short posts about upcoming events and other local entertainment-oriented news, and aggregating content from regional websites, blogs, tweets, etc. I also manage the AnnArbor.com Entertainment feed on Twitter, post entertainment-related updates to the AnnArbor.com Facebook page, and recruit community members to contribute to AnnArbor.com's Entertainment section as bloggers.
Karolynn Schofield
| Job Title: |
Realtor |
| Company: |
Keller Williams Realty |
| College: |
Washtenaw Community College, Computer Science, Data Processing Associates, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Eisenhower High School, Utica, MI
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Real estate investment is a very personal and emotional decision. As a buyers agent, I will share my knowledge and guide you through the entire process from the very beginning stages of getting your pre-approval with a mortgage lender all the way through closing. I do my very best to make the home shopping process stress free. I welcome every opportunity to help.
Anna Coster
| Job Title: |
Project Manager |
| Company: |
Prime Research |
| College: |
Michigan State University, College of Communications Arts & Sciences, Advertising, PR and Retailing, East Lansing, MI
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| High School: |
Pembroke High School, Adelaide, South Australia
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I work with PRIME to offer a comprehensive and integrative 360° research system, which allows our clients and their organization to react immediately to upcoming topics and issues, manage their day-to-day communication activities align their communication targets and generate and demonstrate value and return-on-investment. I work on media image reports, special reports, surveys etc. for existing clients as well as project designs for potential clients.
Wendy Tingley
| Job Title: |
Account Executive |
| Company: |
Michigan Radio |
| College: |
Ferris State University, , Big Rapids, MI
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| High School: |
Big Rapids High School, Big Rapids, MI
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I manage corporate accounts for underwriting support of Michigan Radio. I present and propose support to new and existing accounts. I also write copy for the on-air spots, finalize underwriting schedules and write the agreements.
Paul Nucci
| Job Title: |
Communications Coordinator |
| Company: |
Eastern Michigan University |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, , Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
East Detroit High School, Eastpointe, MI
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I promote and execute programs for the Center For Entrepreneurship - both curriculum-based and for the Michigan Small Business Development Center (MI-SBTDC) - that are focused on entrepreneurship and small business development. Small business development is essential for Michigan to rebound and EMU and the SBTDC are leading the way to that recovery.
Suzie Heath
| Job Title: |
Business Owner / Graphic Designer |
| Company: |
Color Bar Creative |
| College: |
Wayne State University, Fine Arts, Detroit, MI
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| High School: |
Divine Child High School, Dearborn, MI
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As owner and founder of Color Bar Creative, I work mainly with local and out-of-state brides to create custom designs for all things paper for their wedding. I also design websites and other custom products for baby and other special events.
Mark Holt
| Job Title: |
Director of Information Technology |
| Company: |
Cayman Chemical |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, College of Business, Computer Information Systems, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Plymouth Salem High School, Canton, MI
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The Cayman IT department is a service organization providing technology solutions for all of our offices including our global headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan as well as locations in Estonia, Czech Republic, and Australia. Running this global service department as the Director of IT at Cayman, I drive all the technology solutions of the business. This has many responsibilities including strategic planning as a member of the Executive Team, managing budgets, partnering with consulting houses across the globe, negotiations with IT equipment resellers, managed print solution providers, telecommunications vendors, infrastructure purchasing, etc. as well as analyzing, defining, and managing significant web and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems development and deployment projects.
Jon Lieberman
| Job Title: |
AdWords Account Strategist |
| Company: |
Google |
| College: |
Univeristy of Michigan, Computer Science, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Community High School, Ann Arbor, MI
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At Google, we organize and change around our users and customers. Google's Advertising Sales team embodies that pursuit: We're devoted to finding relevant solutions that meet our clients' changing advertising needs. In that regard, Advertising Sales does more than simply make money for our company. Our efforts focus on the ways that Google technology enables the world's biggest advertisers to enjoy immediate and accountable communication with the consumer. Advertising Sales team members work hard to identify our clients' business challenges, to collaboratively shape solutions that drive their strategic initiatives, and to keep them educated and informed in the ways that current and future Google products can enhance their online and/or offline presence.
Christine Laughren
| Job Title: |
Editor and Partner |
| Company: |
Ypsilanti Citizen |
| College: |
Eastern Michigan University, Arts and Sciences, English, Ypsilanti, MI
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| High School: |
Lincoln Consolidated High School, Ypsilanti, MI
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I help with the day-to-day operations of running a small business, coordinate assignments to employees and interns as well as, write stories, take photos and produce video for the Ypsilanti Citizen.
Bree Koehler Brouwer
| Job Title: |
Site Coordinator |
| Company: |
Eastern Michigan University |
| College: |
Kalamazoo College, Mathematics, Kalamazoo, MI
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| High School: |
Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills, MI
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As the Site Coordinator for Eastern Michigan University's 21st Century Collaborative Learning Community, I coordinate an after-school program at Wayne Memorial High School. The program provides a wide variety of after-school programs for high school students. We have academic programs and fun programs based on student interest, including an online reading fluency program, homework help, cake decorating and drop-in football. We see between 25 and 70 students per day. It's a new program--it is my job to develop the program, hire and train staff, recruit students, and run the daily program. I used to teach high school math, but I prefer working with students out of the classroom, so this is a good fit for me.
Rochelle Pribyl
| Job Title: |
Unit Secretary |
| Company: |
Federal Bureau of Prisons |
| College: |
University of Nebraska, Bachelor of Science, Criminal Justice, Omaha, NE
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| High School: |
Ralston High School, Omaha, NE
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I will still be a Unit Secretary which is something I enjoy doing. It's definitely never the same day twice. I am a part of what is called the Unit Team which consists of the Unit Manager, 2 Counselors, 2 Case Managers, and myself as the Unit Secretary. Each member plays a crucial part in helping each other do their job. The Counselor works with the daily problems inmates may have while inside, while the Case Manager handles an inmate's case as far as preparing for releasing and what they are doing to help themselves while in prison. The paperwork filters down from each and I do a little bit of everything to help make their jobs easier. As the Unit Secretary I am tasked with completing the releasing inmates paperwork, any transfers (medical, or institution), filing, running rosters (basically to see when an inmate is releasing), routing of any and all paperwork, handling routine inquiries, checks reports for errors, create inmate central files and maintain strict accountability of central files until transfer, or release from a halfway house. Any employee for the BOP is also responsible for the security of the institution as we are all seen as Correctional Workers first.
Jennifer Lill
| Job Title: |
Creative Director |
| Company: |
Dental Consultants, Inc. |
| College: |
University of Phoenix, Master of Arts, Education, Detroit, MI
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| High School: |
Big Rapids High School, Big Rapids, MI
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I am in charge of the web and print publication as well as all digital marketing (SEO, e-blasts, social networking, etc.). I also teach for the Graphic Design Technology Department at Washtenaw Community College. I teach both Photoshop Graphics and InDesign for Print Publications.
Amanda Borgsdorf
| Job Title: |
Senior Healthcare Consultant |
| Company: |
Karlsberger Healthcare Consulting |
| College: |
University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Paw Paw High School, Paw Paw, MI
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KHC does strategic and operational planning for hospitals, on both the business and facilities side. KHC helps clients define their vision, outline performance criteria, establish targets, and create an action plan for improved operational performance. At the strategic level, we work with organization leadership to evaluate the alignment of the entire organization, identify opportunities to balance the operational model and discuss strategies that drive brand positioning – community perceptions, physician attraction, and staff recruitment and retention. At a department or service level, we help clinical leadership identify ‘gaps’ within their current operations that impact efficiency, satisfaction, and financial performance. Our exploration and solutions are based on current best practices within the industry - and beyond, where appropriate - and are balanced to address our clients’ unique culture, context and community expectations.
Michael A. Mottes
| Job Title: |
Financial Representative |
| Company: |
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network |
| College: |
Northern Michigan University, Walker L. Cisler College of Business, Marquette, MI
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| High School: |
West Iron County High School, Iron River, MI
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I am a representative with the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. The mission of the Network is to develop enduring relationships with clients by providing expert guidance for a lifetime of financial security. I work with clients to identify their definitions of financial security and then focus on solutions that can help make those financial goals a reality. I help find the right solutions for personal, family or business needs. For additional information, visit my website at http://michaelmottes.nmfn.com/.
Christopher Myers
| Job Title: |
Director of Product Development |
| Company: |
SimuQuest |
| College: |
University of Michigan- Dearborn, Masters Degree, Software Engineering, Dearborn, MI
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| High School: |
Notre Dame Preparatory School, Pontiac, MI
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SimuQuest is a small, fast-moving embedded systems company full of fun and interesting engineers that are the best at what they do. Our office is right on Main Street and close to the Washtenaw Dairy. This means ready access to great lunches and even better donuts! Ultimately, our goal is to support the design of embedded systems in a whole new way using graphical models instead of implementing them by hand. It's a powerful technology that we truly believe will revolutionize the way this type of software is designed and implemented for automotive, robotics, aerospace, medical devices, and beyond.
I lead the effort to design and evolve SimuQuest's growing product line. I am responsible for turning customer needs into new products and new features within existing products, delivering them to market on time, and aiding in designing a pricing, sales, and marketing strategy to promote these new capabilities.
The best thing about my job is the wide range of responsibilities that constantly challenges me to keep growing as a professional. I spend time on the road and at home in front of prospective customers and leading training sessions. Some days, however, the team and I are all in front of whiteboards figuring out what is going to be developed, by whom, by when, and what it's going to look like. Occasionally, you might even find me working on new artwork for our products. I also participate in sales and marketing activities and am involved in developing new business relationships.
Scott Wachtmann
| Job Title: |
Junior Account Manager |
| Company: |
eSearchVision |
| College: |
Western Michigan University, Haworth College of Business school of Business Management, Kalamazoo, MI
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| High School: |
Washtenaw Technical Middle College, Ann Arbor, MI
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As a Junior Account Manager, I work with client groups to maintain and develop advertising portfolios. Client campaigns are run across several search engines and content streams. The Account management team works to ensure that their clients get the most return on every dollar spent on their campaign.
Rebecca Gill
| Job Title: |
President |
| Company: |
Web Savvy Marketing |
| College: |
Central Michigan University, Accounting, Mt. Pleasant, MI
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| High School: |
Grayling High School, Grayling, MI
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With the launch of Web Savvy Marketing, I am able to focus entirely on leveraging the Internet to help small and mid-market businesses (SMB) achieve the same exceptional sales growth. Web Savvy Marketing is a boutique Internet marketing and public relations firm that specializes in search engine optimization, social media campaigns, pay-per-click management, affiliate marketing coaching, and website design, analysis, and reporting.
Ben Leonard
| Job Title: |
Information Architect |
| Company: |
Afia |
| College: |
University of Michigan, School of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Troy High School, Troy, MI
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Afia Inc. is an IT services firm with a relentless focus on healthcare. I work with clients to turn ideas into real-world healthcare IT tools. I am responsible for the entire life cycle of a project including gathering requirements, working on the design, and performing training to ensure adoption of system changes. I work with primary health care, community mental health, and other health providers to find ways to improve patient care. Our projects range from designing electronic records, to data warehousing, to IT assessments with road maps for improvement. Afia's mission is to partner with healthcare providers to implement tools, techniques, and strategies that will dramatically improve patient outcomes
Katherine Kudyba
| Job Title: |
Manager of Content Development |
| Company: |
TheCaringSpace.com |
| College: |
Univeristy of Michigan, Literature, Science, and Arts Honors College, Psychology, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Northville High School, Northville, MI
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TheCaringSpace.com is an online resource for connecting families of the elderly and disabled with independent caregivers in their area. We are currently seeking to expand the resources available to people who utilize our website, careseekers and caregivers. My position includes content development and organization, management of content development assistants (4 university students and a member of Fresh Start Clubhouse), as well as search engine optimization for a resource library of issues relevant to our users.
Joseph Malcoun
| Job Title: |
Associate, Strategy and M&A |
| Company: |
DTE Energy |
| College: |
Univeristy of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Master of Business Administration, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
Grosse Pointe North High School, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI
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DTE Energy Resources is a non-regulated business that is wholly owned by DTE Energy with operations that range from on-site commercial energy solutions to energy trading to greenfield energy project development. As a member of the MBA Rotational Program, I have the opportunity to experience several different business units over a two year period. My first assignment is in the Strategy and M&A group, which acts as an internal consultancy for the broader DTE orga