Portland State Magazine Spring 2012

1 PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION '-• an epidemiological tracking service. Kohl is also an advi ory board member and in tructor for the Oregon Small Busi- ness Development Center, a government-to-university parmership that provides educa– tional services ro small business owners. Ruth White MBA '03 is vice president of client services in the Portland office of Monsoon Commerce, an IT company specializing in e-commerce. Ken York '03 is chief operating officer of Ascension Software in Portland. 1his year, York received a Forry Under 40 award from rhe Portland Busi– ness journal. Elizabeth Bain '04 is an attorney specializing in toxic torr litigation with the law firm Foley & Mansfield in Oakland, Ca lifornia. This year, she and a team of co-workers spent a week in Durazno, Guatemala, where they built 10 cleaner-burning cookstoves and supplied local residents with rhe materials to build 30 more. Charlie Devereux MBA '04 is co-founder of the Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom in Hood River. Matt Guilfoyle MBA '04 is manager of Project 2020, a fuel economy program at Daim- ler Trucks North America in Portland. This year, Guilfoyle received a Forry Under 40 award from the Portland Busi– ness journal. Sean Harry MIM '04 is a business advisor with the Small Business Development Center at Portland Community College and director of training and talent management at Career Management Solutions. Christopher Ross '04, MA '06, '11 is director of digital publish– ing at Top Shelf Productions, an independent comic book pub– lisher. He develops intellectual property, designs graphic novels, and occasionally letters speech bubbles. Ross lives and works in Portland. Tyler Russ '05 , MA '10 is serving with the Peace Corps as a math teacher ar a secondary school in Rwanda. Katie-Jay Scott '05 is director of community programming ar i-ACT, a human rights non– profit in Los Angeles. She has visited the Chad-Darfur border region five rimes and coordi– nated several campaigns and i-ACT partnerships. Sarabjeet Waraich MS '05 is an IT project manager with rhe Portland Water Bureau. He is also an instructor and the director of volunteering for rhe Portland chapter of rhe Project Management Institute, an advo– cacy orga nization for project managers. Kerry Bassett '06, MS '10 owns Bully Stop/Hawthorne Press in Portland. She offers training, coaching, and cri is intervention to stop school and workplace bullying, and pub– lished her own book, My Very Own Special Body Book, to help keep young chi ldren safe from sexua l assau lt. Drew Bisenius '06 is a staff accountant with the account– ing firm of Pau ly, Roger and ompa ny in Portland. Michael Endo '06 is an instruc– tor, techn ician, and assistant curator with Bullseye G lass Company in Portland, a manu– facturer of arr glass. He is also an artist whose Et in Arcadia Ego was one of rhe Portland Building's monthly install ations in 201 I. The insrallarion was a full-size shroud of a 1970s-era muscle car resting on industrial and automotive debris. Endo is also an arr instructor ar Port– land Community College. Tonya Hart-Manning '06 is a senior financial analyst in the Portland office oflntel Corporation. Avalon Kalin '06, MFA '09 is an artist and educator whose work has been featured in Portland City Hall and the Yerba Buena Center for rhe Arts in alifornia. Kalin is consider– ing creating a documentary on house music, and he is compil– ing a book of graffiti removal from around the world. Kalin lives in Portland . Albert KoroloffMPH '06 is a public health educator with the Oregon Department of Human Services fmmunizarion Program. Gregory Price '06, MBA '09 is U. . sales manager in rhe Port– land office of Emergya Wind Technologies, a global manufac– turer of wind turbines. He also co-founded New Roots Energy, a Portland-based consultancy for rhe wind industry. This year, Price received a Forty Under 40 award from rhe Portland Busi– nessJournal. Katie Rasmussen '06 is loca– tion manager for the NBC show Grimm. Shor in Portland, the cop drama rakes place in an alternate world where the char– acters of Grimms' Fairy Tales live among humans. Rasmussen has also worked on rhe movies Transformers, Sex in the City, Gone, Untraceable and Extraor– dinary Measures, among others. Jeanie Schwenk MS '06 owns a consulting firm, Software With Design, in Portland. Schwenk is also a fitness instructor with Shure Park Aquatic Recreation Center in Hi llsboro. Kate Simpson '06, MS '08 is a senior coach in rhe Portland office off nsideTrack, a srudenr coaching serv ice. Simpson was a corporate English trainer at goFluent and an assistant for mentor development and train– ing at Portland Stare. Maeve Bartlett '07 is a com– munity education specialist with the Peace orps in Zambia. Parfait Bassale '07 is a Portland-based performer who "sings stories" that inspire youth and adults to resolve conflict. His music and podcasts can be found on parfaitonline.com . Bas– sale is also director of deploy– ment at Rubicon Inrernarional, a Portla nd-based provider of technical education. Myka Brown '07 is a coach in rhe Portland office oflnside– Track, a student coaching service. Foday Darboe '07, MA '10 is a mental health therapist with rhe Oregon Department of Human Services in Portland. Hespe– cializes in conflict resolution. Previously, Darboe was a board member at the Oregon Peace Institute and a teaching as is– rant in rhe Conflict Resolution Program at Portland Stare. Bharath Ganesh MS '07 is a technical lead at Cognizant Tech nology Solutions, a Seattle lT consulting firm . Christopher Hart '07, MPH '10 i vice chair of rhe South– east Uplift Neighborhood Coalition, which provides staff and organizational support to approximately 19 neighborhood associations in Portland. Hart is also an assisranr director in P U Admissions, Records, and Registration. Sam Livingston-Gray '07 is a senior software developer with Renewable Funding, a clean energy financing company based in Oakland, California. Ken Ray MPA '07 is a senior public affairs coordinator for Metro, rhe regional government of rhe Portland metropolitan area. He is also a member of rhe board of governors of the City Club of Portland. SPRING 2012 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 25