Renee Butler, BIE 1996, MSOR 1999, Ph.D. 2003, has joined the University of Central Florida in Orlando as an assistant professor in the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department.

Jennifer Cistola, BIE 1981, has been named vice president of CableLabs in Louisville, Colorado. CableLabs is a nonprofit "think tank" and certification testing lab for the cable industry.

James C. Edenfield, BIE 1957, and Martin Neil Kogon, BIE 1962, have been named to the World Congress Center Authority in Atlanta by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue. Edenfield currently serves as president and chief executive officer of American Software, a company he co-founded. Kogon is manager of Pull-a-Part, an Atlanta auto parts retailer.

Alan Nager, BIE 1982, co-founder of Operations Associates in Greenville, South Carolina, has sold his firm to the James N. Gray Company in Lexington, Kentucky. Nager will remain president of Operations Associates. The combined firm will offer integrated process design, facility master planning, engineering, and construction for manufacturing and distribution clients. Nager, his wife Rhonda, and their two sons live in Greenville.

Harold Reynolds, BIE 1982, has been reappointed to the Georgia State Board of Technical and Adult Education by Governor Sonny Perdue. Reynolds is chairman and chief executive officer of Citizens Union Bank. He and his wife Lesley have two children, and the family resides in Greensboro, Georgia.

Randy J. Thayer, MSIE 1980, has been named plant manager of General Motors' future Lansing (Michigan) Delta Township assembly plant. The plant is schedule to begin production in the fall of 2006. Thayer has been the plant manager of Lansing Fabrication for the GM Metal Fabricating Division since 2002. He began his career at GM as a Purdue University co-op student in 1973.

Marriages

Lorianne Williamson, BIE 1999, married Reed Rawson on September 27, 2003.

Births

Brynn Runkle Conover, BIE 1987, announces the birth of Erin Grater, born March 26, 2003, joining sister Alyson. Conover is president of Radical Logistics. The family resides in Athens, Georgia.

Faculty

John Langley Jr., ISyE professor and director of The Logistic Institute's Supply Chain Executive Forum, has been named to the board of directors of UTi Worldwide, an international, non-asset based supply chain management company.

Assistant Professor Joseph T. Wu has been named a Distinguished Cancer Scientist by the Georgia Cancer Coalition.



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