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Chapter News
Chapter President’s Report
together undergraduate brothers and alumni from all 1st place, Homecoming Fixed Body.
Dear Brothers, eras. The goal is to provide undergraduate brothers
with an alumni mentor who will help guide them into
Fall 2015 was a semester of a career path, while making the most of their college
tremendous accomplishment for and fraternity experience. We know that many of our
Alpha Gamma. Our wreck placed alumni have found success and believe it would benefit
first, once again, in the Homecoming our chapter greatly to learn from their wisdom.
Fixed Body Competition. Our social
calendar was highlighted by a semi-formal in New If you are interested in being a mentor to a current
Orleans. We are particularly proud of our graduating undergraduate brother, please contact me at james.
brothers, who accepted positions with Microsoft, mullenbach@gmail.com.
Amazon, Tesla, and other leading tech companies. Yitbos,
In addition, we began a mentorship initiative to bring
James Mullenbach
Undergraduate President

Chapter: David Wang Updates
Spotlight:

Editor’s Note: This edition’s chapter spotlight is on Accepted internship offer with the
David Wang. Born in Benin City, Nigeria, David and KPMG Advisory.
his family moved to Suwanee, GA in 2004. David NavLit App won 2nd place at
is currently in his fourth year at GT, majoring in The Goizeuta Business School’s
Industrial & Systems Engineering, and is scheduled Hack Atlanta (the largest business
to graduate December 2016. As an active chapter hackathon in the Southeast).
member, he serves as both Career Development Chair First place for the Microsoft
and Alumni Relations Chair. David is also heavily BestHack Competition. All of these
involved on campus, as he serves as Director of Public were out of a pool of 35 competitors
Relations for the Undergraduate Consulting Club, from colleges across the nation.
served as Past Vice-President of the Asian American
Student Association, co-founded the Electronic class institute has definitely kept me motivated to
Dance Music Collective on campus, and co-founded go above and beyond.
Start-Up for Adventure. Outside of class and campus What inspired you to create the “NavLit” App?
involvement, David enjoys playing tennis, running,
and his time being a certified PTR tennis coach. Actually this idea stems from two well-
established ideas, Uber and AirBnB. If there are
What led you to join Alpha Gamma? When did you discover a passion for casual citizens who can replace taxis or hotels,
I joined Alpha Gamma because of the diversity electronic music? there’s certainly a system that can be implemented
for professional tour guides. Usually when you
and brotherhood that I saw here. Every brother had I was in sixth grade when I first was intrigued visit a new city and have a friend who lives
different interests and aspirations. Other places by the idea of creating music through a computer. there, you naturally reach out to that friend to
I had rushed did not focus on this aspect, which I was raised playing traditional instruments such take you around. You end up having a great time;
did not align with what I was looking for in a as the piano and cello, so the idea of being able to especially since you both are friends, sharing the
fraternity. A combination of great people, inspiring mimic these instruments by using software was same interests and passions (for the most part).
personalities, and (of course) a persuasive recruiting mind blowing. I started off playing around with a Because of this intrinsic connection, your friend
team ultimately lead me to accept my bid. software called FL Studio and made my YouTube takes you to places that you enjoy. Now imagine
channel to market my tracks. By 11th grade, I
What are some of the initiatives that you signed on to a Dutch record label, “AboveAll”, this experience if you didn’t
are currently leading for the chapter? and released 2 EPs, “Arrival” and “Borealis”. have that friend in this new
After ending my contract, I decided to only and strange place. Unless
Career Development Continuous Improvement: pursue music production as you are the next globe-
As career development chair, my main role is to a hobby and focus more on trekker and have a whole
host career workshops and review resumes. This developing a career. camera crew and event
is all good, but future career development chairs planning team behind you,
will have no idea to what extent these programs How did you get you will have a relatively
had a positive impact. To solve this problem, involved with research inconvenient time finding
I’ve started implementing analytical tracking for the police? the best spots that fit YOUR
of what works and doesn’t. I’ve collected tastes. Navlit strives to fill
both quantitative and qualitative data from the A friend I had met this gap by matching you
brothers about which workshops lead to which through a project in an with casual tour guides (who
result, whether positive or negative. Using this international affairs class are people like you and me)
data, it’s now possible to keep track and visualize was impressed by how well that have similar interests.
what works and what does not, so that future I was able to lead the team After this the tour guide
career development chairs can make decisions to in a group project. One day you match with can create
improve the process. after class, he asked me to a personalized itinerary to
come on-board this newly meet your needs or even take
Alumni-to-Undergraduate Career Coaching: formed research team and you out in person.
Connecting Alumni with current undergraduate I agreed. Impacting the
brothers to form a mentorship program. This campus community in a
program serves not only to provide brothers with positive way using skills
resources for career development but to also fill taught to me by a world

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