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The Gray Card
resurrected in digital form! This time it is based on snippets of feedback resulting from the "permission requested" mailing. To see a listing of all the grads who sent in feedback about permission to keep them on the listing of grads follow this link. Not all notes came with tidbits of juicy news so not all are included here but at least a representative sampling for perusal can be found below! In case you were wondering the department faculty these days comprises Glenn Miller (always colorful), Steve Diehl (nature natural), Nitin Sampat (computer imaging, ,IDL and digital stuff), Nanette Salvaggio (Materials and Processes plus this year Systems Design) and Andy Davidhazy (Explosives). In addition we have capable assistance from several adjunct instructors. Paul Schwartz is taking care of Intro to Research, Photographic Chemistry and Historic Processes as well as lending nanette a hand with M&P as needed. Don Lehmbeck, covers Sensitometry and Tone Repro., Leo O'Neil looks after Optics. Terry Kessler does Holography and Don Drake offers and looks after the SEM and Don Cochran helps with Photo 1 when needed. BTW, the program has attracted the largest group of 1st year students in probably 15 years. There are 20 eager minds waiting for a challenge. Never fear! They will be challenged for sure. Just like you all were!! But we'll also have social events of various kids. Maybe even another trip to Niagara Falls and a ride on the Maid of the Mist. BTW, there is a Facebook site for Imaging and Photo Technology aka Technical Photography at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9777612068 In addition there is a Tech News page at: http://www.rit.edu/cias/photo/ipt-news.html - here you can see some photographs of guilty parties from yore! And keep those mails and updates coming ... along with pictures!! we LOVE pictures. mostly they are proof of the replenishment of the human population on Earth! LOL - weddings, babies, on-the-job, travel, fun shots, in short ... pictures galore!! And experiences of all kinds!! Not sure who will deal with the deluge of responses you will be sending though! Hope again you all are well and have positive possibilities on your horizon!! andy Developing details from Joy Cwynar Gray: 1996 Grad Joy Cwynar (now married - Joy Gray) joy@joygray.com Self-employed graphic design professional since 2002. Clients include the Kodak Gallery (of all places), Fair Trade USA, Mountain Hardwear and Montrail. (www.joygray.com) Dave Gallagher in few words says: Happily remarried and increased the size to 5! Opened a second office in South Beach last year. And looking for a salesman in the So. Florida area! Life is good. Dave Gallagher, President, Capture Integration, http://www.captureintegration.com - Phase One, Canon, Apple, Profoto, Eizo, & More - Atlanta (404) 522-7662, Miami (305) 534-5701, National (877) 217-9870, Cell (770) 846-5223 Read Latest Newsletter <http://www.captureintegration.com/our-company/newsletters/> Donna Felsenheld says: On a subject more related to your issue, and the interference of the "powers that be" - the students in the MLS program where I am now started their own Ning to share information. It was just started at the end of the Spring term, and now over half of the enrollled students are using it. The administration isn't too keen on sharing information in a timely fashion, even good news about students winning awards, grants, & fellowships. The Ning has been a great way to keep up with student issues, including comparing responses from our administrative offices regarding issues (cut and paste email responses), and alumni networking, which previously has been nonexistant. We have even conducted our own student satisfaction surveys, which are quite different than that ones that the adminstration designed. (They didn't use open ended questions). This is now the best source for information about all elements of the program from the upcoming conference schedules to which classes to take, and where the next happy hour is being held. Best of luck, Donna Mike Lange has some insight to share: I'm sorry to say that Okidata is most definitely not hiring at this time. The market contraction for color laser printers has been especially dramatic as the fortune 500 companies look to their own reserves. From what I hear we have maintained our market share and even picked up some share, with respect to the other major players. However, the entire market is down more than 30% gross revenue. I will let you know when the buisness outlook improves and we look to increases in personnel. Best regards, Mike Lange Gary VanDeMortel chimes in with his and Joy's details from Washington, DC: 1. (Gary) ATK Spacecraft Systems & Services in Beltsville, MD - Pricing Manager (gvandemortel@comcast.net) 2. (Joy) ITT Space Systems Division in Vienna, VA - Supervisor, Project Engineering (joy.vandemortel@itt.com) Joy left Kodak after 26 years and reinvented herself for the aerospace industry! Anthony Tanbakuchi went to grad school on Arizonma and says: As you may or may not know, I finished my PhD in Optical Sciences this spring (my dissertation describing the first confocal microlaparoscope used in humans is at http://bil.arizona.edu/Publications_files/2009_TanbakuchiDissertation.pdf). I'm happy to say that I was lucky enough to land a great job at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque NM. My position is a Senior Member of The Techincal Staff in Optical Engineering for the Optical Payload Design and Realization Group. Hope you are doing well. - Anthony RicK Tuttle from Walla Walla, WA says: It's going to be hot in Walla Walla this week! No significant updates except we went Florida and saw Atlantis go up. Rick Zach Schreiber went to the Netherlands in search of love, fame, fortune and it seems he is doing all right according to this note: I recently moved to Nieuwerkerk a/d Ijssel (small town between Rotterdam and Gouda) and finally have some peace and fresher air. I’ve been busy for the last 6 months, on the weekends, with restoration work on the house since it was build in 1906 and was in need of some tender loving care. I’ve changed jobs since my last job as the European manager for DFI was not challenging me enough. I work now for a completely different company Thermen Holiday. It’s a local company which has really helped perfect my Dutch. I’m working in the IT department as system engineer and am responsible for pretty much everything that is digitalized, from the security system to writing new software programs. There’s always a new challenge so it defiantly keeps it interesting for me. Good luck with everything and if you do find yourself in the Netherlands or anywhere in the area let me know and maybe I (or you) can swing by for a visit. Zach Frank Richo says: I am a Digital Retoucher at Conair Corporation (2007-present) Stamford, CT and I also live in Stamford, CT! and Brian Elder: I'm not really supposed to discuss the specifics of my work or anything that goes on in our facilities with folks from the outside. If you could maybe just alter my description to read something like "-at Dayton T. Brown Inc. in Bohemia, NY doing test photography for a Boeing project" that would be great. Brian Elder Hmmmm ... Dave Murphy moved from NYC and went to V+Boulder as follows: 2005-2008: Catalog Publishing Coordinator for Victoria's Secret in NYC 2008-present: Business Development for InfoPrint Solutions Company in Boulder, Co. Thanks, Dave Karen Dirkse has been been promoted from Associate Project Manager to Project Manager at Bissell Corp. :) Taek Kim started working as independent consultant after HP. Currently he is providing service to local engineering firm. Meredith Payne Stotzner adds: I have found the listing to be valuable for networking - I don't mean job searching, but company-to-company communications. I am always willing to be contacted by a prospective student, current student, or RIT grad. Photo Tech rocks. Meredith Payne Stotzner, Adobe Systems, Adobe Certified Expert - Photoshop Dan Axelrad who went to England for a Masters quips: As an aside, I just saw Michelle Hill (Perham) who's in Atlanta for a type conference (she's currently working for Microsoft in Seattle... doing type work for them). She's planning to go out to "Jazz Night" at the Georgia Aquarium Friday night with my wife and me. And, on another funny note, Mike Lange and I just discovered (thanks to facebook) we have a mutual friend here in Atlanta; a girl who when o high school with Mike is a very good friend of my wife from her undergrad years at Virgina Tech. Small world eh? And finally, I had a slight correction for my entry on the grad page. I still work for Kaiser, but I'm technically working out of the HQ in Oakland, CA. However, I live in Atlanta, GA (as my wife was here when we met and has her ties here). I mostly telecommute, but travel back and forth to Oakland also from time to time (less now given the current economic situation). Hope all is well, cheers! Dan :-) From Massachusetts Eric Sciacca adds: As for grads looking for positions, Goodrich in Chelmsford, Massachusetts has at least 3 jobs listed which might be of interest to people from the Tech program. If anyone is interested, I know several of the hiring managers. Interested candidates can contact me at Eric.Sciacca@Goodrich.com . Check out the career section of www.goodrich.com or CareerBuilder.com. -- Eric Sciacca - PPHT 1991 From Adobe, Michael Orts says: If I run into any job possibilities I'll absolutely send them your way! Things are amazing at Adobe. The new-guy jitters are mostly gone, and I'm having a blast working with all of the incredible people on the Photoshop team (including the fellow tech alumni, of course!) Andy, keep us informed ;-) From the BIG SKY countery Ian Grob comments: So odd, to have graduated as a tech and be a photographer/videographer/editor as work and have no TV, no text messaging, no twittering, no myspace, not web site, no facebook. my friend has allowed me to join once a kid is born. (not planned right now) BUT....after 37 years....I will be getting married next month!!! Small wedding on vancouver island (no reason other than it sounded nice, and looked appealing to both of us) a bid is in for an 1880's farmhouse out here....which may mean the selling of cars/bikes as i transition into the next 'hobby'. 1972 VW bus, 1957 Nash metropolitan, and 2 1960's Honda Dream motorcycles if you are looking for some other headaches beyond RIT admin. got my first charter flight today. 9am - depart for redding, CA....back by 10pm. i should have some images showing up throughout Glacier National Park in 2010 as they celebrate the 100th ann. of the park. I was up last week redo-ing more of the Osborne Photo-Transit images last week. So far 6 peaks have been reshot, and I will try to get to at least 3 more this year. Olympic NP and Grand Tetons have been eyed as the next locations. So far i have been working at glacier and yellowstone pro-bono, but anything after this year, i am going to have to get the national park system to start kicking in some money...i do not think the (future) wife will be wanting all my vacation time spent on top of mountains. hope all is well out east. Ian Nicole Walters Cotton is with InPhase Technologies in Longmont Colorado. Kevin Burke who was at Kennedy Space Center says: moving back to Cleveland in August, still with InDyne will send note and newer contact info soon. Interesting bit of Tech Trivia (LOL) from Steve Marchinado: For anyone who needs to know, RIT Tech Photo grads make up 30% of the NASA/United Space Alliance Photo/TV Mission support and crew training team. Steven Marchiando , United Space Alliance, Johnson Space Center, Mission Operations Directorate , ISS Photo / TV , 281-244-8371 And from NYC Monica Kurpiewski hollers from the trapeeze: I embarked on two new careers in the last year. I started last October as the Director of Business Development for the New York Academy of Sciences here in NYC. I am responsible for the corporate and industry support efforts. Its been a tough year but we just keep pushing along. My second career is as a mommy. My husband Bob and I had a surprise baby in March. I was training for a flying trapeze show and didn't know I was pregnant until my 2nd trimester (one of my trapeze trainers told me he thought I was pregnant because I was "flying heavy and flipping slow"), and then the baby was born 5 weeks early. I tell everyone I had the worlds shortest pregnancy! Ethan Thaddeus Kilcullen was born on March 4th. He is now happy and healthy, and at almost 5 months, is trying to stand and loves to be upside down, a very proud fact for his trapeze flying mommy. So life is quite busy. Between work, baby and the new 80lb Old English sheep dog puppy we have, life is a bit chaotic! I love getting the updates! Cheers, Monica Kurpiewski Vrooooommmm, vrooommmm ... from Harley Davidson Steve Tardiff roars: Things are going pretty good here at harley. I have been traveling a lot for product liability as a videographer for there inspections. Plus I have been doing lots of thermal imaging at a wind tunnel close to us. That is lots of fun! Steve and Tracey Kear from Wine Coutry USA says: I left Noritsu in November 2008. Noritsu cut their sale staff in half the end of last year. I had no success finding employment in the photo bizz. I have found a new career opportunity that I think I will enjoy very much - hospitality. I live in a great place for hospitality - the Wine Country. I am working at a resort in Napa called Meadowood. I had to start at the bottom but I think there is a career path for me. I also work part time as an innkeeper at a small hotel in Sonoma. I hope to be able to use my sales and customer service experience to build a new career. Tracey well, that is it for now for my feeble attempt to bring you all up to date on the latest news that is fit to print. I hope any questionable statements have been sanitized to an acceptable extent but if you want me to remove or alter anything please forgive me and just let me know what to change, delete or embellish and it shall be done or my name is not Bob.! have a good day y'all andy |