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A2LA Updates

A2LA Welcomes New Staff

By Lauren Bisson, A2LA HR Generalist

A2LA has welcomed several new                     Ms. Stephanie Reich joined the A2LA             Ms. Ingrid Miller joined A2LA as an
staff members since the last issue of                                       Materials Testing                                Accreditation Of-
A2LA Today!                                                                 Team as an Ac-                                   ficer on the Prod-
                                                                            creditation Officer.                             uct Certification &
Mr. Richard Stonebraker joined us                                           Stephanie recently                               Materials Testing
                            as an Accredi-                                  worked as a mid-                                 Team. Ingrid is a
                            tation Officer on                               dle school math                                  graduate of the
                            the Life Sciences                               teacher in the                                   College of St. Ben-
                            team. Prior to join-                            Frederick County                                 edict located in
                            ing A2LA, Richard
                            served as a Bio-      School district. She also worked as             Collegeville, MN where she received
                            logical Science       the Assistant Track Coach and Head              her B.A. in Chemistry. While pursuing
                            Technician with       Cross Country Coach during her time             her degree, Ingrid spent much of her
                                                  spent with the school district. She re-         time working in the lab allowing her
the United States Department of Ag-               ceived her B.A. in Mathematics from             to explore her passion for chemistry.
riculture, where he taught agricul-               Bucknell University and has been                She also served as a Campus Minister
tural, biological, environmental and              accepted at Johns Hopkins Univer-               during her time at St. Benedict.
microbial sciences to student interns.            sity, where she will pursue her M.S. in
Richard recently received his M.A. in             Computational and Applied Mathe-                Ms. Stephanie Adams joined the
Education with a concentration in                 matics.                                                                    A2LA Calibration
Adult Education and Training from                                                                                            Team, also as an
University of Phoenix. Prior to that, he          Ms. Theresa Bohn joined A2LA as the                                        Accreditation Of-
attended the University of Maryland                                         Controller within                                ficer. Stephanie
Eastern Shore, where he received his                                        the Financial Ser-                               received her B.S.
B.S. in General Agriculture.                                                vices Department.                                in Chemistry from
                                                                            Theresa received                                 Stevenson Univer-
Ms. Megan Deckert recently joined                                           her B.A. in Ac-                                  sity. More recent-
                          A2LA as an Ac-                                    counting, as well
                          creditation Officer                               as her M.S. in Busi-  ly, Stephanie received her M.S. in
                          on the Electrical                                 ness Administration   Biomedical Science from the Brody
                          Team. Megan re-                                                         School of Medicine at East Caroli-
                          ceived her B.S. in      from Loyola University in Baltimore.            na University, NC. While completing
                          Mathematics with        Prior to joining A2LA, Theresa spent            her degree in Biomedical Science,
                          a concentration in      several years as the Controller at Zero         Stephanie served as a graduate re-
                          Secondary Educa-        to Three, a non-profit organization in          search assistant. She also worked
                                                  Washington, DC, which provides child            as a Chemist at Global Laboratory
tion from Towson University. During her           development educational resources               Services, where she was responsible for
time in college, Megan tutored fellow             to parents and professionals.                   instrument maintenance and re-
student-athletes in Calculus I and                                                                pair, analyzing tobacco products,
Calculus II, as well as in Developmen-                                                            and providing training to personnel
tal Math. Upon graduation and prior                                                               on sample preparation and testing
to joining A2LA, Megan worked within                                                              procedures.
the Howard County Public School dis-
trict as a mathematics teacher, spe-                                                              A2LA is pleased to welcome
cifically teaching Advanced Place-                                                                Richard, Megan, Stephanie R.,
ment Statistics and Pre-calculus. She                                                             Theresa, Ingrid, and Stephanie
also served as a coach on the varsity                                                             A. to the growing A2LA family! n
indoor and outdoor track and field
teams.

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