reading about what your former classmates are doing. Even more impor-
tantly, we hope you will take a moment to drop us a line and tell us what
George D. Gal, ’99, founded an information
security consulting firm, Virtual Security
Melinda Kramer, ’83, is the chief technology
officer for a fast-growing investment
management firm in Chicago. When not
working, she spends time with her husband
and two young boys. She manages the
publication of the boys’ elementary school
yearbook and co-chairs the Midwest
chapter of Hedge Funds Care, a charity
organization dedicated to the prevention
and treatment of child abuse.
Catherine Bilotta-Lucia, ’86, is a 19-year
employee of Raytheon and is currently
director of the Enterprise Solutions Center,
reporting to Raytheon’s CIO. Her team,
based in Garland, Texas, and Billerica,
Mass., deploys enterprise-wide application
solutions across Raytheon. She lives in
Andover, Mass., with her husband and two
children and is an enthusiastic member of
Red Sox Nation!
Chris Martha, ’86, is director of product
management and strategy at TIBCO Software
in Palo Alto, Calif. He has been at TIBCO for
14 years and gets to work on fun projects
with companies like Yahoo, eBay, Cisco
and Google. He lives in Palo Alto with his
wife, Joyce, and two children Katia (6)
and Akira (4). Chris is a certified instructor
in ChiRunning (www.chirunning.com).
ChiRunning helped him run the 2007
Boston Marathon pain free.
Chetan Mepani, ’86, is a senior analyst at
Fidelity Investments. Organizations he
supports include the Pine Street Inn, Walk
for Hunger, March of Dimes, and the CCIS
alumni network. He is married with two
children, Amol and Anokhee, and lives in
Westwood, Mass.
you’ve been up to in your career and personal life. Please send an e-mail to Aileen
Kent-Yates, External and Employer Relations, at a.yates@neu.edu.
Research, in 2004. George leads the
firm’s application security practice.
He and his wife, Cindy Gal, Bouvé ’00,
reside in Winchester, Mass. George
is also currently enrolled in the CCIS
master’s degree program and is expected
to graduate in spring 2008.
Preshanth Nair, ’99, is a senior team
leader at The MathWorks, doing GUI test
automation. The MathWorks is known for
its two flagship products, MATLAB and
Simulink. Prashanth and his wife, Leena,
live in Natick, Mass.
Josh Seadia, ’99, is an investments
representative for Fidelity Investments,
helping clients with their financial goals.
He lives in Brookline, Mass., and enjoys
playing acoustic guitar and learning
new foreign languages.
Tony Iosifidis, ’00, is a systems analyst at
Upromise, a Newton, Mass., company that
helps families save for college. He acts as
a liaison between the business side and the
technology side. In January, he completed
his MBA. While at NU he was part of the
NU Judo Club, and continues to be active
in the club by keeping students in touch
with alumni. He also was a member of
the NU Hellenic Society and is now a
member of the Hellenic Business Network.
He and his wife live in Boston, close to the
NU campus.
Jeff Ladino, ’00, is managing the quality
team at Pyxis Mobile in Waltham, Mass.
He is leading initiatives to improve software
quality and team productivity through test
automation, continuous integration, and
agile processes. He also runs the company’s
co-op program, through which four former
Northeastern co-op students have been
hired full time. Jeff and his wife, Colleen,
have two children, Brian and Kathleen.
They reside in Dedham, Mass.
Eric Penetar, ’04, is a senior software
engineer for Urix, a health care software
company that specializes in predictive
modeling software. He is in charge of one
of the company’s software releases, and
manages a team of three people on the
project. His hobbies include traveling,
running, and playing in a kickball league.
Eric lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Roman Feldman, ’05, is a software
developer at Nevo Technologies, a small
consulting company in Cambridge, Mass.
He specializes in web application develop-
ment using ASP.NET. In his spare time he
is trying to start an alumni mentoring
program at CCIS.
Andrea Grimes, 05, is in her third year
of the human-centered computing PhD
program at Georgia Institute of Technology
in Atlanta. Her research focuses on
designing systems that promote healthy
eating habits in low-income, urban
neighborhoods. She spent the past two
summers working at Microsoft Research
in Redmond, Wash., and Cambridge, UK.
Cathy Swenton, ’05, is a software develop-
ment engineer at Microsoft. She works
in a team of nine developers in the SAP
group where she develops and supports
the web services that Microsoft runs its
business on. She recently became engaged
to Kevin Sullivan, ’05. In their free time,
they love to hike, camp and ski the
mountains of Washington.
Jonathan Mitman, ’07, works for General
Electric and is on his first rotation in its
Information Management Leadership
program. This is a two-year program,
split into four six-month rotations, where
employees mix coursework with work
assignments to gain exposure to IT within
GE. Jonathan is currently stationed in
Atlanta, where he is on rotation with the
Oracle ERP Center of Excellence, a group
focused on providing expertise in setting
Oracle ERP vision and strategies across
GE Infrastructure businesses.