Class Notes

Name: Mike Heinecke

Class Year(s): 2000

Note: Mike Heinecke MS ’00 joined OpenAI as a member of the Program Staff, working on AI and robotics.

Submitted on: April 24, 2025

Wedding Photo for Christa Harvey BS ’16 and Eddie Shealey BS ’17

Name: Christa Harvey

Class Year(s): 2016

Note: Christa Harvey BS ’16 and Eddie Shealey BS ’17 were married on August 25, 2023.

Submitted on: April 9, 2025

Douglas Alexander MS ’02 moderating a panel discussion next to congressman Langevin

Name: Douglas Alexander

Class Year(s): 2002

Note: Douglas Alexander MS ’02 has been the director of the Institute for Cybersecurity & Emerging Technologies at Rhode Island College for nearly a year now, working to advance workforce development, build a community of practice, and influence legislation and policy. Former congressman, Jim Langevin, is their distinguished chair, and they have been building an IBM Cyber Range, very similar to RIT’s - in fact, they have been in touch with that group and gotten advice from them! It’s incredibly rewarding to take his MS in IT from RIT and apply it to building the Institute for Cybersecurity & Emerging Technologies.

Submitted on: April 8, 2025

Marissa and Allister’s Wedding

Name: Allister Warren

Class Year(s): 2015

Note: Marissa Maugeri BS ’15, Women’s Hockey, and Allister Warren BS ’15, Men’s Lacrosse, were married on October 19, 2024 in Toronto, ON. They met at RIT and 10 years later, had the good fortune of celebrating their wedding with over 30 alumni in attendance.

Submitted on: April 1, 2025

Leonardo / MIT Press

Name: SCOTT RUMMLER

Class Year(s): 1990

Note: Congratulations to Scott Rummler MFA ’90, who published an article called, Scalar Wave Paintings, in the latest edition of Leonardo / MIT Press that might be of interest. The paintings appear white to the naked eye, but emit frequencies that disrupt digital cameras, transforming them into rainbow hues when photographed. As each photograph looks different, the work transforms the relationship between object and representation that is at the heart of much of art and technology theory. https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article-abstract/58/1/50/124508/Scalar-Wave-Paintings-A-New-Approach-to?redirectedFrom=PDF -Scott

Submitted on: March 24, 2025

Name: Ethan Feldman

Class Year(s): 07

Note: Ethan Feldman BS ’07 was recently promoted at Northwestern Mutual to engineering test lead.

Submitted on: March 24, 2025

John Bero BS ’15, MS ’18 and Elizabeth (Bruen) Bero BS ’15, MS ’15 welcomed their firstborn son, Dylan Bero.

Name: John Bero

Class Year(s): 2015, 2018

Note: John Bero BS ’15, MS ’18 and Elizabeth (Bruen) Bero BS ’15, MS ’15 welcomed their firstborn son, Dylan Bero, in October 2024.

Submitted on: March 17, 2025

Influence Your Luck: An Employee’s Guide to Building a Successful Career cover

Name: Fred DeBolt

Class Year(s): 1991

Note: Fred DeBolt MS ’91 just published a career guidebook entitled, Influence Your Luck: An Employee’s Guide to Building a Successful Career. Over the last 25 years of Fred’s working life, Fred began counseling colleagues who sought advice to help them with their careers. Over that time, Fred kept a journal of notes, phrases, quotes, anecdotes, strategies, and messages, not knowing what to do with them one day. With encouragement from Fred’s wife, Fred finally pulled all that mess together in a published book. Influence Your Luck was a phrase Fred used constantly with people to help them understand all the things they could do to positively impact their career growth and trajectory. Fred thinks it can help anyone regardless of what phase of their career they are in, whether just starting out, or in the sunset, of an already successful career.

Submitted on: March 10, 2025

Kayla, Matthew, and fellow RIT Tigers

Name: Kayla Nussbaum

Class Year(s): 2019

Note: Kayla Nussbaum BS ’19 and Matthew Mokary BS ’16 first crossed paths at RIT through the Society of Software Engineers (SSE). What began as a shared passion for technology soon turned into something more, and before they knew it, they had fallen in love. Their journey together recently reached a beautiful milestone as they tied the knot on January 5, 2025, in New Jersey. Surrounded by their closest RIT friends and past colleagues, they celebrated the next chapter of their lives with joy, love, and a touch of Tiger pride.

Submitted on: March 7, 2025

Tim Wallenhorst BS ’09, marketing director, DiGiorno and California Pizza Kitchen

Name: Tim Wallenhorst

Class Year(s): 2009

Note: Tim Wallenhorst BS ’09 was recently named marketing director at Nestle USA. Tim is responsible for growing the DiGiorno and California Pizza Kitchen brands. He lives in Cleveland with his wife and three kids and loves getting to eat and sell pizza for a living.

Submitted on: March 7, 2025