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Tabitha Thomas (formerly Ary) (ME) currently works as a systems engineer for NuScale Power. In her free time, she enjoys working as a freelance fashion model and traveling with her husband, USD engineering alumnus Noah Thomas. They continue to enjoy the home they recently purchased in Temecula, California, with pup Emma. 2019 Maaron Tesfaye Bea (ME) works as a technical product manager for Dynata, the world’s largest first- party data platform for insights, activation and measurements. She married fellow USD alumnus Nick Bea ’17 in fall 2022.

engineering. Her thesis work focused on in situ laser diagnostics for com bustion applications.

Anya Soloviov (ISyE) continues work ing at Amazon within the Alexa Video and Fire TV team as a senior program manager diving into the tech side. She and her husband live in Tampa Bay, Florida, where they enjoy collecting harvests from their home garden and playing with their dog, Chuck.

She continues to work as an adjunct assistant professor for the computer science and industrial and systems engineering departments within the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering. Kim Woodbury (ISyE) earned her MBA from the University of Wiscon sin-Madison in 2023. She continues to work at Thermo Fisher Scientific and earned a promotion in 2022 when she joined the BioProduction Strategic Portfolio and Project Management team. Woodbury recently moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her part ner, Ari, and their adopted pup, Pongo.

Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Alumni Updates

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2001 Nathan Schneider (EE) retired from the U.S. Navy after 22 years of ser vice. He and his family moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area and he accepted a job as a first officer with American Airlines on the Airbus 320.

MADELINE VORENKAMP MARK SASAKI

2018 Rasem Alrashdi (ME) is a senior ana lyst at the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. He enjoys volunteering with multiple nonprofit organizations and continues working to achieve his part in the Saudi Arabian 2030 vision. Andrew Billigmeier (ME) continues to expand Agrishield, a start-up he launched while at USD. The company designs, manufactures and sells prod ucts for the vineyard and orchard market. In 2022, Billigmeier married his high school sweetheart. Gautam Daryanani (EE) started a new position working for Meta as part of the Silicon team working on AR/VR technologies. He continues to serve the USD community as an advi sor to his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi. Mark Sasaki (ME) started a new posi tion this year as senior process engineer at Clarity Design, Inc. He welcomed his second child, Luke, in May 2023.

ANYA SOLOVIOV MEI-LI HEY

2017 Mei-li Hey (ME) , after supporting the integration and launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in French Guiana, accepted the position of manager of Cryocooler Manufac turing at Northrop Grumman. In Fall 2023, she began her studies at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to pursue a PhD in Environ mental Health and Engineering.

JOE QUIROZ

2010 Matt Leigh (ME) recently won his second Grammy working with Willie Nelson on the album, A Beautiful Time . He and his lovely wife, Katy, welcomed their first child in September 2023. 2012 Jenna Rohrbacker (ME) recently moved to Howell, Michigan, with her fiance, Eric Sampson. She still works for Northrop Grumman as a senior principal systems engineer. Rohr backer and her fiance will be getting married in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in December 2023. 2014 Professor Philip Hoskinson (ME) ac cepted a professorship with Nashville State College in Tennessee and contin ues to develop his real estate portfolio. 2015 Tawni Paradise (ISyE) welcomed her first child, Atlas Edwards, in April 2023 with her husband, Alex Edwards.

KIM WOODBURY

2016 Mike Bagian (ME) and his wife, Lauren ’17, graduated from The Ohio State University. He earned his MBA and is going into consul- ting and Lauren earned her PhD in anatomy and will begin teaching medical students. Keanu Gututala (EE) started a new position as an electronics engineering manager for Northrop Grumman's San Diego office. He recently com pleted a two-week road trip across the country with a fellow USD alumnus. Aimee Slavensky (ME) started a job as a technical project manager for Edisen, LLC. She also started a busi ness, The Baker’s Crate. Slavensky lives in San Diego with her fiance, Allen, and their puppy, Rye.

MAARON TESFAYE BEA

NATHAN SCHNEIDER

Brian Lee (ME) is continuing his work with the Naval Information Warfare Center in developing cutting-edge autonomous ISR systems to enhance the capabilities of the U.S. Navy. Anton Navazo (ME) just completed a year as an R&D engineer at Los Alamos National Labs. Though he misses the beaches of San Diego, New Mexico has a lot of natural beauty and outdoor activities to offer to supplement his time at the laboratory. 2020 Shahad Alkazemi (ISyE) joined the Amiri Diwan of Kuwait as a junior industrial engineer in 2023. The

2002 Sam Hillebrand (EE) started a new position in January 2022 as a systems engineer at Smarsh Inc. in Portland, Oregon, where he has been living for the last 12 years. 2007 Joe Quiroz (ISyE) married Kylie Armstrong at The Immaculata in Jan uary 2022. They welcomed their first child, Norah Kathleen, in January 2023 and shortly thereafter moved their family from San Diego to Phoe nix, Arizona. Quiroz has been serving (now in a remote capacity) as a lead project engineer with General Atom ics Aeronautical Systems based in Poway, California, since 2014.

Rachel Lloyd (ISyE) started a new position this year as a decision ana lytics consultant at ZS Associates in San Diego, California. She also does stand-up comedy around the greater San Diego area. Madeline Vorenkamp (ME) graduat ed from Princeton University with her PhD in mechanical and aerospace