Techie Hour's strategy team come from international cities in Latin America, Asia, Middle East, SE Asia,U.S., and Africa. The members are engineers, scientists, IT professionals, and the like. Each founding member weighs in at less than 56.09 kilos.

Founding members are engineering-science researchers from Cornell. H. Shimbo, has worked in areas of hydrology, computer science, medical studies on Alzheimer's disease, and chemical pesticides - health impacts in the Department of Entomology. H. Shimbo has an advanced technical degree, but then built a platform of science-engineering skills while doing research projects with Cornell. This person developed a business plan for this panel. Here, statistics are used to profile companies and sectors in White papers, with quantitative data from business cards collected at events. B. Wibisono has an advanced degree in electrical engineering, and he has done research at Harvard's Department of Chemistry. He has performed technical consulting in power engineering and radar protection. He is an avid golfer and tennis player. K. Sunidja is a network and software techie, who studied with B. Wibisono in Cornell's Department of Electrical Engineering. He's now in Sydney, Australia doing technology -driven finance projects.

New additions to our team are O. Echevarria, who has an advanced degree in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. He's built office complexes in Washington, D.C.'s downtown district, as well as worked in the MIT Lincoln Labs. Right now, he's finishing up a new floor of his home.. "hand made' by Oscar! In his spare time, he uses his pilot license and is aloft in the skies. J. Ammons is a senior consultant with an ORIE background. He's doing supply chain analytics for both private and public clients with a Fortune 500 consulting firm. He is active in multiple sports, and has a Can Do attitude! To start the New Year, 2006, a techie helper, Usha has been added to our group. At age 11 she was getting A-grades in computer classes at Georgetown University. When not playing Pokemon games, at age 9 she was already coding HTML websites. Usha is a science major at Georgetown University.

One of our team is Mohamad Darwish, a co-lead from Lebanon; now he's busy spreading celluar systems across Nigeria email

UBC Services, Executive Vice President; M.Eng. ORIE Cornell University '04

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