Dean’s Advisory Board

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• 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’07PhD, 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’79, ’83PhD, Founder, Datawise
• Justin Klocman’06, Director, Storm Hardening, 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 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