The CECS Dean’s Advisory Board meets every spring and fall to provide strategic direction and guidance to the college.
Board Members
Click on a name for biographical information and photo.
- Board Chair Dan Schiappa, ’87-’90, Chief Product Officer, Arctic Wolf
- Angela Alban, ’04, President & CEO, SIMETRI,Inc.
- Tandreia Bellamy ’98, VP Industrial Engineering Supply Chain, UPS
- Grace Bochenek’98PhD, Director, UCF School of Modeling, Simulation and Training
- Jim Brice’90, Senior Space Engineer, Blue Origin
- Myron Brown, CBU Sr. Director Client Executive Engagement, ATOS
- Kevin Cochie, ’94, ’05, Vice President and General Manager, Erickson Inc. Defense and National Security
- Capt. Dan Covelli, Commanding Officer, Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (Orlando)
- Christina Drake’07, Owner and Manager, Kismet Technologies
- Chuck Drake, Vice President, Tetra-Tech
- Phil Dumas, ’05, President, Unikey Technologies
- Jason Eichenholz ’95 ’98PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Luminar
- Jerry Feller, Principal Expert Engineer, Siemens Energy
- Esteban Garcia’99
- George Gilhooley, East Florida Office Leader, HNTB Corporation
- Paul Grimes, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Leidos
- Tim Havel, Director, System Integration, Test & Evaluation, NGAS Manned Aircraft Design Ctr of Excellence, Northrop Grumman
- Mark Heck, Director, Cyber Programs, Raytheon Company
- Sergio Heker, CEO, GLESEC
- Alexander Hoffs, President, PSM, a Hanwha Company
- Brenda Isaza, Boeing
- Kathryn Kinsley, Ph.D., ’79, ’83, Founder of Datawise
- Justin Klocman, General Manager, Workload Planning and Strategy, Florida Power and Light
- Bruce Martinez’84, Regional Director – Southeast Distribution, Florida Power and Light
- Shane Mickey, Vice President of Strategic Planning for OEM Services, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems
- William Miller, Senior VP & CIO, NetApp
- Tom Mirek, VP, Engineering and Technology, Lockheed Martin Deputy, Missiles and Fire Control
- Randy Morgan, ’85, CEO of Preferred Systems Solutions
- Bob Mott, Commercial Systems Division, NASA Kennedy Space Center
- Ross Niebergall, VP/Chief Technology Officer, Harris Corporation
- Ankush Oberai Ph.D, ’83, ’18, Senior Director for Research Development, Synopsys Inc.
- Kumar Patel, Founder, President and CEO, Pranalytica
- Ben Patz, ’85, Entrepreneur
- Janet Petro, Director, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
- Mike Piatek, ’02, ’05, Dir. Design & Engineering Architecture & Facilities Engineering, Walt Disney Engineering
- Zachary Quandt, ’84, Director, GP Strategies Corporation
- Arun Ramaswamy, ’92, ’94, Head of Global Engineering, Nielsen
- Dan Rini,’95, ’97, ’00, President, RINI Technologies, Inc.
- Lesa Roe, ’91, University of University of North Texas System
- Beverly Seay, Trustee, UCF Board of Trustees
- Tim Smith’98, President, Wharton-Smith, Inc.
- Paul Sohl, CEO, Florida High Tech Corridor Council
- Jennifer Szaro, ’06, Vice President of Research and Education, Smart Electric Power Alliance
- Rafael Mercado Ugarte, North America Blockchain Services Leader, Distribution and Industrial Markets, IBM
- Azhar Waseem, Retired VP/General Manager, Qorvo, Inc.
- Robert Williams, VP of Raytheon Global Training Solutions, Raytheon
Resources
Click to access the Members-Only area to see meeting materials, Powerpoint presentations and other resources.
Email Garrett.Preisser@ucf.edu to learn more about the Dean’s Advisory Board.