Talent, you can’t take it away!

10/2/2006 8:19:26 PM

Our technical people translate to a community of skills.

 

 

O. Echevarria, Flies airplanes in his free time; builds five star law office buildings in downtown D.C.                                                                                        mechanical engineer.

 

 J. Ammons, Operations research engineer.  Less than three years out of engineering school, captured a mortgage in D.C.’s hot real estate market.                                                 

  
M. Dawish, electrical engineer. Spreads cellular networks across Nigeria for fun and profit. 
 
M. Sisoon, Finance, Before age 10, moved into the construction trades. Thirty units later, this former Citigroup finance whiz is still going strong upgrading another condo. (i.e. Jakarta dynamo uses power tools, works in engineering specs, etc.)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
D. Miller,microbiologist. Used to wear earrings made from dead animal parts. Now, if a global business network goes “blank,” – call “Destry.”                                              
 

B. Wibisono, electrical engineer. When not doing electrical engineering, did building reconstruction & networked communications for his brick n mortar business. Learning? On the job.. now traveling in Asia playing golf and starting a professional photography company.                                                                                                                                       

 

U. Velauthippillai, sophomore in sciences, Georgetown University. At age 11 was getting A grades in computer classes at Georgetown University. Hand coded HTML-based websites before age 10—between Pokemon episodes.   

 

G. Rupak, physicist. Ph.D. physicist develops business-friendly core algorithm for speedy file compression—after postdocs with Lawrence Livermore, Sandia National, and Brookhaven National Laboratories.                                                                                                                                                                            

 

H. Shimbo, alien. When moving into first apartment in graduate school, built their own furniture. Started Cornell graduate school, age 20—after hydrology thesis, switched to science-engineering, right after graduation.                                                                                                                             

 

M. Velauthippillai, professor.When filling out U.S. graduate school applications, had never seen a computer. Field of study for this mathematician? Computer sciences.  Superstar now has endowed chair in computer sciences, Georgetown University.                                                                            

 

M. Dieter, nuclear engineer. At Tompkins County Community College, got a welding certificate to build an engine into his car. Later that year, his $100 Carmen Gia is his hot wheels for sophomore year, Cornell University.                                                                                                                       

 

A. Noaman, electrical engineer. After a Cornell EE degree, helped build supercomputer at Carnegie Mellon’s facilities. Before age 30,  two startups.                                        
                        
D. Shimbo, petroleum engineer. Learned math probability in front of the TV, watching baseball games, player scores/history, etc. (Age 9).  At age 14, lead tour around Europe and Asia.
 
R. Reynolds, mechanical engineer. Files patent on signature design medical device between scuba trips to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia’s blue waters, and Mexico’s Cancun.            

      

  S. Fujikawa, mechanical & aerospace engineer. Builds R2D2  compact satellites, flies planes he builds – using power from torque of rubber bands.                               

 
W. McConnaughey, solid state physicist. After one optics course, built their own fisheye camera lens for panorama shots of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca, New York