Alumni Notes

1980s

Anchi Ku, BS 1981, immediate past chairwoman of the UTD Alumni Association
Executive Committee, was one of nine Texas women honored by Women's
Enterprise magazine and the YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas as 2005 Women of
Excellence. The honorees were nominated and selected for their leadership
across the state in business and civic arenas. They were feted at an
awards ceremony and reception in late May at the Women's Museum in Dallas,
Texas. Anchi, a senior paralegal in the Dallas office of the law firm
Hunton & Williams, is a member of Leadership America, Class of 2005.

Jimmy Lai, MS 1981, is director of investor relations for Semiconductor
Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). The China-based
semiconductor company provides foundry and production services at
operations in Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing to integrated chipmakers
around the world. Jimmy moved to Shanghai in 2002 when SMIC was a
start-up. He then was in charge of the company's accounting operation. He
moved to his current position after guiding SMIC through initial public
offerings on both the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges. He is a
Texas-licensed CPA, and he previously was director of financial planning
for AMX Corporation, a Richardson, Texas-based advanced control and
automation techno- logy company. He worked in accounting and finance in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area for 20 years.

John S. Parigi, BS 1984, became chief financial officer of Pekin Hospital
in Pekin, Illinois, in April. The 125-bed community facility employs
approximately 700 people, including more than 170 physicians. John is a
Texas CPA and previously owned Executive Healthcare Services, which
provided interim administrative-level services to for-profit and
not-for-profit hospitals around the country. His wife, Lisa Parigi,
obtained her culinary degree from Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro,
North Carolina, and did an internship at The Mansion on Turtle Creek in
Dallas. She now works at Bittersweet, a pastry shop and cafe, in Chicago.
John and Lisa have three grown children.

Harry S. Storey, MS 1986, is executive director of Hiersche, Hayward,
Drakeley & Urbach, P.C., an Addison, Texas-based law firm dealing in
commercial litigation, estate planning and business law. He oversees the
firm's human resources, accounting, information technology, and practice
management issues. Harry joined the firm in December 2004 after serving as
the chief operating officer of a regional accounting firm in Hartford,
Connecticut. Harry also has a Juris Doctor degree, is a member of the
State Bar of Texas and has been active in the Association of Legal
Administrators, having served on the board of directors of the Dallas and
St. Louis chapters and as president of the Dallas chapter in 1996. Harry
lives with his wife and five children in Plano, Texas.


1990s

Gregory D. Berman, MS 1991, was named vice president, Engineering, of
Hotel Booking Solutions Incorporated, an online hotel management company
based in Atlanta, Georgia, in April.

Greg has more than 17 years of experience in the development, management,
marketing, and delivery of business solutions based on information
technology. He has served as a senior consultant in Information
Engineering for Texas Instruments Incorporated, as a consulting program
manager and solutions architect for global procurement initiatives for the
Coca-Cola Company and as a partner in Albion International, Inc., a
management-consulting firm. He subsequently founded Albion Connect, an
Albion International spin-off company, where he served as the chief
technology officer.

From 2001 to 2004, he worked for Fujitsu in positions of leadership,
including vice president of sales and vice president of global mobile/
wireless enterprise solutions. Immediately prior to joining Hotel Booking
Solutions, Greg worked for PEAK Technologies, a provider of automatic
identification/data collection systems, enterprise mobility solutions and
ongoing services and support.

Greg, who received a Bachelor of Science in Operations Management degree
from Auburn University, will temporarily relocate to Zell am See, Austria,
to assume responsibility for the company's product development operation.

Thomas D. Madonna, MS 1994, was promoted to partner in IBM's Business
Consulting Service Division, in Dallas, Texas. The division specializes in
management consulting. Tom and his wife, Kelly Cathleen Kenney, MA 1990,
MBA 1992, live with their three children in Parker, Texas.

Lenin Adolfo Aguilar, BS 1999, is co-owner with his brother of Atlantic
Financial, a Dallas, Texas-based company that sells life, health, and
long-term-care insurance as well as pension plans for small businesses and
schoolteachers. Lenin lives in Carrollton, Texas.

Lynn M. Davis, EMBA 1999, was named in June as chief executive of Dallas
Children's Advocacy Center. The center is a collaborative effort among
many local public and private agencies in the investigation, intervention
and treatment of child sexual and physical abuse. Participating agencies
include the Texas Department of Family Protective Services, Child
Protective Services (CPS), the Dallas Police Department, the Dallas County
District Attorney's Office and Children's Medical Center. Lynn formerly
was executive director of Dallas Challenge Inc., a prevention and
intervention service for at-risk youths and their families, and is a past
president of the North Texas Prevention Network.


2000s

Sanjay Madhav, MBA 2000, is using his business degree to help market
himself as an actor in Los Angeles, California, where he moved in 2002.
Using his real name as well as the stage name Jay Dylan, Sanjay has earned
numerous film and television credits. He has appeared on such TV series as
8 Simple Rules, Stargate 1, and the ABC soap opera, General Hospital. His
film credits include roles in Transit, True Love and Love in America.

Born in London and raised in Vancouver, Canada, Sanjay earned a bachelor's
degree in 1998 from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia before he
came to UTD. He started acting 20 years ago and stayed involved in the
film industry while in Dallas by advising local filmmakers on marketing
and production. While attending UTD, he also provided e-commerce and
Internet marketing consulting services to The Studios at Las Colinas.

Look for him in the film Material Girls, featuring Hillary Duff, due out
next year. He also is writing a book on marketing for actors, which is due
to be published later this year. In addition, Sanjay actively works with
unions and other advocacy groups to create meaningful initiatives to
enlighten producers and the general public about the under-representation
of South-Asians in media.

He still visits Dallas regularly to see relatives who live in Plano,
Texas. You can learn more about Sanjay at www.sanjaymadhav.com or
www.JayDylan.com.

Mark Renfro, EMBA 2000, became director of techno-behavioral solutions at
Cohen Brown Management Group, Inc. in December 2004. Headquartered in Los
Angeles, California, the company offers consulting and training processes
and programs to the financial services industry. In his new role, Mark
helps banks align their sales efforts to maximize results from their
investment in sales technology/customer relationship management (CRM). He
is based in Plano, Texas.

Mark previously consulted with such banks as Wells Fargo, Chase, Bank One,
Washington Mutual, St. George (Australia), Westpac (Australia), Abbey
National (United Kingdom), First Citizens Bank (Trinidad and Tobago) and
Bancomer (Mexico). He recently spent 20 months in Australia helping a
large bank maximize its CRM investment.

Richie Simmons, EMBA 2000, has been promoted to director of product line
management for Vero Systems, a worldwide provider of telecommunications
management and cost-reduction software. He is based in Dallas, Texas.
Richie formerly was regional sales manager for Vero Systems, which he
joined in 2001.

Chad Richard Hinds, MS 2001, MBA 2003, was promoted in September of last
year to information technology (IT) project manager at Alcatel USA in
Plano, Texas. In his new role, he manages various Class A and B IT
projects. Previously, he did installation costing and pricing for
Alcatel's EF&I department in Plano, and before that, he was the plant
engineer for Ecolab's chemical manufacturing facility in Garland, Texas.
Chad and his wife, Barbara, reside with their dog, Pepper, in Plano.

Barbara G. Whitehorn, Cohort MBA 2001, who moved to Denton, Texas, last
year, now works nearby. She is the accounting manager for the City of
Corinth, Texas. Previously, she worked in Dallas, Texas, for the American
Red Cross and for EmCare, an emergency room management-services company.

Joe M. Gerhart, EMBA 2000, is chief of the Fleet and Transportation
Services Division in the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Created in response to the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the TSA's mission is to protect
the nation's transportation systems by ensuring freedom of movement for
people and commerce. The TSA is probably best known for being responsible
for security at the nation's airports. Based in Arlington, Virginia, Joe
is in charge of the agency's fleet management and transportation programs
at all field locations. His tasks include developing policies, directives
and acquisitions related to the fleet and to alternative-fuel vehicle
programs. He formerly was vehicle program analyst at the Southwest
Regional Office of the U.S. Postal Service. He is co-chair of the
Interfuel Federal Agencies Committee and co-chair of the DHS Fleet
Commodity Council.

Joe also is president of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership North Texas
Corporate Board, which seeks out, recognizes and provides lifelong
leadership learning seminars, workshops and experiences for high school
sophomores in the North Texas area.

Tom O'Connor, MBA 2003, joined Irving, Texas-based Thomas Group, Inc., an
international, publicly traded business-consulting firm, in January. The
firm, which creates and implements customized improvement strategies for
all facets of business enterprise, employs more than a hundred improvement
experts for client projects.

Tom joined as one of those experts. He has 27 years of experience in
production, operations, manufacturing and quality assurance. He has held
positions in the PCB hardware and software, military power supplies, and
manufacturing industries. Prior to joining Thomas Group, he was director
of operations at DNA Computing Solutions and vice president of production
at Varo LLC. He also has held positions at Continental Electronics
Manufacturing Company. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics degree
from Texas A&M University.

Patricia Alcala-Zalce, MBA 2005, joined the Dallas, Texas, office of
Amdocs, an international firm that helps telecommunication companies build
and retain their customer bases. Patricia works as a senior consultant in
a variety of business, technology, operation and business-process
improvement initiatives for major telecommunication service providers.
Patricia, who lives in Plano, Texas, is an avid flower designer.


Mom and Son Graduate Together

Carmen McGee, BS 2005, and Christopher Bob Tinajero, BS 2005, made
graduation a family affair in May. More than 20 family members came from
across the country to see the mother and son both receive undergraduate
degrees in business administration. The family group ate at a local
restaurant after the ceremony and then celebrated at a garden party the
same evening.

Although Carmen and Chris started attending Collin County Community
College in Plano, Texas, at different times and for different reasons,
each eventually transferred into The School of Management.

Chris continued to work full time as a produce manager for Albertson's
while attending college, Carmen says. I decided to pursue my degree
after being laid off from the company I worked at for 13 years, where I
was a product manager.

Mom and son were never in the same class and never had the same professor
for a class. But we did take the same classes in a semester and shared
books, Carmen says. We rarely studied together, she says, as I was in
class during the day and he was in class at night for the most part. We
did discuss the various projects that we had to complete and compared
notes as to teaching styles and assignments.

Chris points out with pride that in order to graduate jointly, Carmen had
to take a 21-hour course load  none of it in easy classes her last
semester.

After graduation Chris continued at Albertson's and was searching for a
position in supply chain management. He also was considering continuing
his education to earn his MBA.

Carmen was working in a training position at Alcatel and started SOM's
Cohort MBA Program this fall.


Obituary

Jack Don Lanham Sr., BS 1986, of Wylie, Texas, passed away August 8, after
a brief battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Employed at UTD for 24 years, Jack
most recently served as coordinator of special projects for the Physical
Plant. Before that, he was the longtime mailroom supervisor. His
employment with UTD began after serving more than 20 years in the U.S.
Navy.

Survivors include his widow, Carol Lanham, also a UTD employee; his
mother, Edith Marie Lanham; ex-wife, Betty; sons, Jack Jr., Dean and Cary,
and their wives; three brothers and their wives; four grandsons and a
granddaughter; three stepsons, a stepdaughter and five step-grandsons; and
countless devoted friends.

Jack cared deeply for children and in honor of his memory, the family
requests that donations be sent to the Abundant Life Church Youth Center,
2021 E. Park Blvd., Plano, TX; 972-424-4846; www.alcplano.org.


SOM Public Relations Director Earns Ph.D.

School of Management (SOM) Director of Public Relations and Marketing
Patricia Schoch doesn't just talk the talk for The University of Texas
at Dallas (UTD). She also has walked the walkÓ twice now  having
recently earned her second UTD degree, a doctorate in humanities.

Dr. Schoch came to work for the SOM in April 1999, a year and half after
completing her Master of Arts degree in the School of Arts and Humanities.
In August, that same school awarded her a Ph.D. after she successfully
defended her dissertation, Translating the Short Stories of Wilfredo
Braschi: A Voice of Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico.

All of us heartily congratulate Pat on this achievement, SOM Dean Hasan
Pirkul, Ph.D., said. Knowing the time and effort she puts into her job,
we recognize what a phenomenal accomplishment this is.    Kris Imherr