Alumni news

Will Kenlaw (BS '81) recently published his first book, A Father's Guide to Raising Daughters: Because I Need One, which contains 30 tips for raising daughters, through Trafford Publishing. Each chapter is one to three pages long; the book is a quick 83-page read. A father of four daughters, Kenlaw says he wrote the book "from the heart and from the hip."

Chris Marohl (BS '87), worked as an IE for two-and-a-half years before joining the Air Force and becoming a pilot. He currently is a Major in the Air Force Reserve and an airline pilot for Alaska Airlines in Washington state. Marohl recently has flown often to the Middle-East as a C-17 pilot. He writes: "I like to tell the Washington folks that I went to the real UW and still proudly wear my Badger sweatshirts."

Since earning his IE degree, Paul Sura (BS '91) has worked in the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley. He worked three years as a fab supervisor at Xicor Inc. and moved to Intel Corporation as an industrial engineer in fabrication operations. He has been with Intel for almost 10 years as an engineer and is now responsible for developing capacity and capital systems for Intel's worldwide fabrication operations. He writes: "There are new challenges every day here at Intel and that is what makes my role very exciting. My primary interest since getting my degree has been the marriage of industrial engineering and information systems. This marriage translates into unique agility for such a large company in managing strategic production decision making, accelerating time to market, and controlling a billion dollar annual equipment budget."

David Levin (BS '95) joined Ernst & Young LLP's technology consulting practice right out of school. After about a year working on large-scale information-technology implementations, some of the firm's partners who had heard of his active performance role with ComedySportz, Madison, asked him to create a short, humorous video highlighting a recent client engagement. As a result, he became the minister of comedy (his actual title) for E&Y's consulting practice worldwide. In this role, he directed, wrote and produced numerous broadcasts and communications presented to E&Y audiences around the globe. "It was a unique, utterly fantastic position that led to profiles in Fast Company magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times," he writes. After four years with E&Y, Levin accepted an offer from Jack Morton Worldwide, a marketing communications agency in Chicago, where he is a senior creative director working on a variety of Fortune 500 accounts.

A sales engineer for Textron Fastening Systems, Troy, Michigan, Zachary Leveston (BS '02) recently became one of three sales engineers on the General Motors Focus Team. In his position, he helps GM fastening and design/release engineers design fasteners and fastening points.

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