Alumnotes

GARY ZUPAN (’69) is a software engineer for Lockheed Martin. He has been an independent programmer and a technical manager at Applied Computer Techniques in Indiana. He earned an M.Ed. at Anderson College in 1983.

FRED ARIOLI, JR. (’75) is a software engineer working on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) and the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) programs at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale. Sonoma State provided a solid theoretical background, where I cultivated a liking for the subject.

ARTHUR B. FLYNN II (’76) is a scientist and security team leader with the Dept. of Energy in Albuquerque. He earned his M.A. in security management at Webster University in 1992.

DAVID K. HAWK (’77) is a software engineer at Lockheed Martin in San Jose.

ROY W. HARTHORN (’78) is a building safety and code consultant in Santa Barbara. He recently published a book on methods for the temporary shoring and stabilization of earthquake-damaged historic buildings. He earned a master’s degree in public administration at CSU, Northridge in 1994.

ALAN DeMARS (’78) is principal software engineer with Ericsson Access Products in Santa Barbara, where he works on remote access products. He received an M.S. in scientific instrumentation at UC Santa Barbara in 1980.

ALBERT PLAMBECK (’78, physics & music) is senior marketing manager with KLA Tencor Corp. in San Jose.

RICK KAMEN (’80) recently edited and published a book of heirloom stories by his father.

DAVID GOLDKIND (’82) is a high-tech manufacturing consultant in Grass Valley. Due to the thorough background starting at SSU I was able to attain the senior staff engineer position [at Spectra-Physics] with only a B.A.! I owe a great deal to SSU for the personal attention, fantastic instructors and quality classes which allowed me to be competitive with others with higher degrees.

JACQUES SCHLUMBERGER (’82) is president of Michel-Schlumberger Benchland Wine Estate in Healdsburg. He and his wife, Barbara, also an SSU graduate, recently donated $1 million toward the construction of the new music center at SSU.

FREDRIC BLAU (’83) is a songwriter and musician in Cleveland. His professional name is Johnny Quasar.

DOUGLAS McKENZIE (’83) is an applications engineer with Dillon Force Measurement in Santa Rosa. My physics degree is perfect for my current position at Dillon. I am a problem solver!

JOHN REINECKE (’84) is a technologist working with fiber optics at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa.

MICHAEL BROWN BICK (’85) is a lab assistant, tutor, and graduate student in physics at San José State University.

BENJAMIN BURRESS (’85) is the Education and Public Outreach Coordinator for the Solar B observatory, to be launched in 2004. Based at the Chabot Science Center in Oakland, he was until recently head observer at the Naval Prototype Optical Interferometer Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

MILTON HAGLER (’85) is a partner in VietCAD, the master reseller of Autodesk products in Vietnam.

JOHN REYNA (’87) is a software developer with Lucent Technologies in Naperville, Illinois. Formerly an accelerator operator at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab in Batavia, Illinois, he earned a second B.S., in computer science, in 1995.

DAVID MARSHALL (’88) is an information technology consultant at Humboldt State University, where he earned an M.S. in mathematical modeling in 1998.

KENNETH A. RITLEY (’88) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart, Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Illinois in 1998 with research on single crystal thin films of the rare earth dysprosium.

DANIEL SWEARINGEN (’90) is a senior developer at C-call.com in San Francisco and the principal of PolyWeb Services in San Rafael. He earned an M.S. in physics at CSU, Northridge in 1991 and an M.S. in astronomy at Indiana University in 1997.

DAVID PIAZZA (’91) is a graduate student in science education at the University of Washington. He has taught physical sciences in Japan and at El Molino High School in Forestville since earning his teaching credential at SSU.

MARIE-CHRISTINE RAUDE-ROZET (’91) is teaching science in SSU’s precollege program, helping manage her husband’s catering business, and raising two children.

HARVEY HECHT (’92) is a system support analyst for Napa County.

WILLIAM C. OAKES (’96) is an engineer working on the manufacture of dielectric interference filters for the telecommunications industry at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa. While the courses at SSU offered a great deal of insight into the physical world, the problem solving techniques and methodologies that I learned have been most useful in my career.

DAVID E. MILLER (’96, physics and mathematics) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in physics at Purdue University.

JOHN H. HAYES (’97) is a computer specialist with the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA.

RODNEY G. LEE (’97) is teaching physics and integrated science at Marin Catholic School. He is also a student in SSU’s teaching credential program.

JAMES SNYDER (’97) is an engineer at Deposition Sciences, Inc. in Santa Rosa. The laser/photonics lab and semiconductor labs are applied to my work almost daily. The BA degree has served me well so far.

CHRISTOPHER ADDIEGO (’98) is an engineer at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc., Santa Rosa.

STEVEN BECERRA (’98) is a technician for Teleco in Ventura.