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CoNGRATuLATIoNS NELSoN (Continued from Page 1) What type of work did you Now that you are retired, To our Fall & Spring do? what do you for fun? Semester Graduating Seniors! McDermott International, Since I retired my life has Inc. is a leading worldwide centered around a new oil and gas service contractor family (I remarried) and my FALL ’14 that designs, fabricates, boat. We spent the majority installs, and commissions of our time on the boat Richard Park Andrew Taylor offshore production traveling throughout the Johns Creek, GA Marietta, GA facilities and pipelines, Caribbean and the west coast Industrial and Systems Industrial and Systems Engineering Engineering primarily for the publicly of Central America. We did a traded or nationally owned Kurt and Carolyn. lot of fshing and diving and, Jackson Chandler Pouria Garrett conglomerates in all the again, saw lots of beautiful Gainesville, GA Roswell, GA Chemical and fossil fuel centers around the new places and people. So Industrial and Systems Biomolecular Engineering Engineering world. I started out as a Field Engineer on their even in my retired life, travel and the sea were frst project in the North Sea. After about a year integral. Currently, my wife Carolyn and I Matthew Heidkamp Lisandro Sagastume I got transferred to Lagos, Nigeria as a Senior are considering a change in direction but are Marietta, GA San Pedro Sula Honduras operations Engineer and then to Luanda, not sure where the good Lord has in mind, we Mechanical Engineering Industrial and Systems Engineering Angola as a Project Manager on a good size remain excited that it will hopefully involve Devon Hathaway contract for Amoco (later to become part of more travel. Duxbury, VT Camilo Espinosa Exxon-Mobil). My career followed a path Business Administration Bogotá, Colombia that wound through New orleans, Singapore, How are you involved with the fraternity today? Austin Delk Business Administration Australia, Dubai, Morgan City, London, and After retirement, my re-involvement with Ga. Johns Creek, GA Houston. I actually lived in Singapore, London Tech and Phi Gamma Delta were somewhat Business Administration and Dubai twice. I preferred my assignments concurrent. I had established a couple overseas because, by their nature, they were endowments to Georgia Tech including one SPRING ’15 more demanding and I got more responsibility. for need-based scholarships to out-of-state I was really fortunate that every time I got the students. urge to fnd another employer, like the norm Austin Poole Cameron Jones Houston, TX Johns Creek, GA today, I was either transferred, promoted, or When The Laurus Group approached me Industrial and Systems Computer Science both. Hence, I stayed with the one company with the program for a new house, I was Engineering for my entire career. immediately drawn to the idea. The safety Dylan Robideaux short-comings of the old house made the need Caleb Appleton Lafayette, LA College Station, TX What did you enjoy most about your time with quite evident, if not compelling. Also, the Biomedical Engineering Nuclear and Radiological Engineering the company? fact that Greg Robbins ’68 was running the My primary sources of enjoyment throughout Capital Campaign made it a “no brainer.” Greg Corey Wesselink Greg O’Neal Houston, TX Duxbury, MA my career came from the extensive travel and was President when I pledged Gamma Tau and Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering the nature of the job…and the people that I knew that with his involvement, the program I came in contact with. The travel offered would be a success…and it was! Kyle Quick Thomas Fulkerson me the opportunity to see many cultures up Austin, TX Marietta, GA close and personal. Not just the sights, but What advice can you share with the alumni Civil Engineering Industrial and Systems Engineering the people, the food, and even the way the brothers and young actives about giving back various societies worked and lived (to this to the community? day my favorite food is Indian). The job was What one does with their money is invariably involvement with the chapter has brought me in always involved with the “oil patch.” By based on two factors. one is your personal or renewed contact with several close friends and, of its very nature, there was a lot of innovation heartfelt connection to the cause and the other late, with my big brother, Rod Parker ’67, and, and challenges involved as we went deeper can be based on a simple fnancial principle in turn, his involvement with a Christian ministry into the sea to develop hydrocarbons. The called “RoI,” or return on investment. In my effort in the country of Niger. Last year he invited commercial aspects of “closing the deal” were case, Ga. Tech and Phi Gamma Delta provided me on a trip there and I found that the needs of that also intriguing, especially when working with signifcant RoI when comparing the cost of ministry are also compelling and super-rewarding. some pretty substantial numbers. those four years with what I was blessed to reap Bottom line: the process of “giving back” can be from them. on a much more personal basis, my an integral part of any full life. Introducing the for available internship/full-time positions in their companies. This fle is organized by major to facilitate the process of locating brothers Chapter Resume Book with relative experience and exposure desired for the available job opportunities. If anyone has any recommendations for me as to possible updates to the program, I am very open to suggestions as this is a brand y name is Jack DiPrete and I am the new idea for the chapter. MProfessional Development chair for the Gamma To review the current list of resumes simply visit www.gtfjigrads. Tau chapter, one of the ideas that I have been working com and click on the LinkedIn site logo (IN) to our Gamma Tau Fiji on implementing since becoming the chair for this position. The link Grads LinkedIn group. The link for the resume book is posted in the posted below contains a “resume book” of all of the resumes of the Promotions section. If you are not a member of the group yet and are a undergraduate members of our chapter. The objective for this resume graduate of Gamma Tau, the administrator of the site, Jonathon Leeke book is for the graduate Gamma Tau alumni to have the opportunity ’05, will grant access once you have registered and have been approved. to search for undergraduate candidates that fulfll the requirements Alumni communication services provided by Te Laurus Group | www.thelaurusgroup.net | 770-903-3987 | @thelaurusgroup