PSU Magazine Spring 2006

ALUM NOTES Stephanie (Hixson) Somanchi MBA '03 has a radio coaching segmenL on 105.1 FM (The Buzz) The Nelson & Terry Show, at 8 a.m. Thursdays. Somanchi also owns a life coaching prac– tice. She lives in Beaverton. Clark Benight is director of operations at Portland Bio– science, LLC, a biotechnology firm in Portland. Maria Jaramillo is an adminis– trative specialist with Washing– ton CounLy Health and Human Services in Hillsboro. Suphakit Saengsin MS works in Ac Changket, a family owned tractor shop business in Sawankkalok, Thailand. Jeffery Williams is a transition leader in marketing at Chevron Corporation in San Ramon, Cal– ifornia, the energy company's headquarters. Steve Flunker MBA was named supplier compliance director for theJCPenney Company. His department manages floor-ready, transportation and packaging requirements with nearly 2,000 suppliers. In October, Flunker was named 2005 retail industry innovator of the year by the Vendor Compliance Federation for his work on supplier educa– tion and collaboration. He lives in Frisco, Texas. j. Michael Garvison writes, "In December of 2005 , I was pan of a seven-member delegation sponsored by the American Council of Young Political Lead– ers to travel and meet with our counterparts in the Palestinian Territories and within Israel. This was also an official U.S. State DepartmenL sanctioned delegation. It was an amazing experience." Garvison is a Ska– mania County auditor in Stevenson, Washington. Kanaan Kanaan is an instructor at PSU and teaches courses in interactive media, including Web design and computer 34 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 2006 graphics. Kanaan is finishing a master's of fine ans program through Warnborough Univer– sity in the United Kingdom. His nine-piece tile series called "The Pulse of Spirituality" was dis– played at Portlands Providence St. Vincent Medical CenLer in January. Hannes Knopf MS i.s an electri– cal design engineer at SMA Technologie AG, a renewable energy systems technology com– pany in Niestetal, Germany. Jennifer Larkin is an art teacher at St. Joseph ElemenLary School in Portland. She also is a free– lance artist and has painLed scenic props for plays and concerts. Anne Cohen MPH '02 is a dis– ability and health policy consul– tant at Disability Health Access. Cohen lives in San Francisco. Austin Whipple is co-owner at Pinball Publishing, a full -service print shop, creative resource cenLer, and headquarters for Eye-Rhyme, a journal of new lit– erature. He lives in Portland. John Lewis MPA is develop– ment director al the California Budget Project, a nonprofit policy-watch group in Sacra– menLo, California. Audrey Luna won first prize in the Eleanor Lieber Awards, which provides cash awards for singers who are working toward professional opera careers. Luna, a soprano, earned a masters degree in voice and an artist diploma in opera from Univer– sity of Cincinnati in Ohio. She will be joining the Pittsburgh Opera CenLer in September. Terry Pinnell is principal and owner of TAP Resources, a human resources consulting company in Portland. Pinnell also works part time as the human resources manager with the city of Troutdale. She is a member of the PSU alumni board of directors and chaired the PSU Weekend Committee in 2005. Sittisak Maneeruttanaporn MS is manager at Hahong Steel Company, Ltd. , a steel pipe manufacturer in Samutprakarn, Thailand. William "Bill" Schildbach MEd is a principal with the Lower Yukon School District in Emmonak, Alaska. Schildbach lives in a remote fishing village located near the Yukon River and the Bering Sea with his wife, Diana, and two children. { Barbara Forty is an accounting supervisor with Albensons, Inc., in Boise, Idaho. Todd McConachie MBA is vice president and commercial lend– ing officer with the Bank of the Cascades. He also is an adjunct faculty member in accounting and finance at PSU. Jennifer (Kapfer) Morgan is a PhD graduate research associate in the environmental science graduate program al Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Kelly Wright is the assistalll director of special events al St. Marys Academy in Portland. ' Andrew Essreg MEM '04 is a management consultant for Five Winds lnLernational, an envi– ronmenLal management consult– ing firm with offices in the U.S., Canada, and Germany. Essreg is working with Holland America/ Windstar Cruise Lines, advising their executives and training their captains, engineers, hotel directors, chief and environmen– tal officers onboard. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. Denise (Oakley) Laird is a sales and marketing representa– tive with KitchenAid/Whirlpool and lives in Hillsboro. She got married on a Jamaican beach in October. Jennifer Porter MURP is a con– servation program specialist with the city of Portland. Tiffany "T.j." Shimabukuro is manager of s heduling al Fox Sports Net and oversees pro– gramming and scheduling for all of FSN's regional networks. Shimabukuro has been with the company since 2003. She lives in Los Angeles. Fara Tucker MSW is a studem and family support specialist with Portland Impact, a social services agency in Portland. LL Pareena Arsirawajana MS is a government relations supervisor at Thai Oil, PLC, a refinery in Bangkok, Thailand. Erica Hoagland MS '05 is a special education teacher al Whitford Middle School in Beaverton. Hoagland is marry– ing Sterling Humphrey '03, a first-year medical studem at Oregon Health & Science Uni– versity, on July 22. Mila Le was appoinLed commis– sioner Lo the state of Oregon's Commission on Asian Affairs by Gov. Ted Kulongoski. Le is the imernational and natural resource programs coordinator at the Executive Leadership Institute in PSU's Mark Hatfield School of Government. Junghan Lee is president at eo-lnformation Systems Com– pany, Ltd., a mobile wireless system company in Seoul, Korea. Victoria Otto is pursuing grad– uate studies at Pepperdine Uni– versity in the marriage and family therapy program. Nicholina Terzieff is campaign manager for Oregon Rep. Larry Galizia (D-Tigard). ' ~ Alissa Alexander is campaign manager and legislati e assistalll LO Oregon Sen. Richard Devlin (D-Tualatin). Oksana Andrejeva-Zukova is a coordination specialist al IRCO, a nonprofit agency that provides services throughout Portland for newly arrived refugees and immigrants. Kathryn Bassett is a service manager at Wells Fargo Bank in Beaverton. Doug Baumgartner is a junior civil engineer at PACE Engi– neers, Inc., in Oregon City.