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Andy Rudin ’79 (Master’s in MIT ’05) has accepted a position as adjunct faculty for National-Louis University and will teach two undergraduate classes in IT strategy. He recently published an article on the Association for Competitive Technology’s Web site on the topic of discovery processes in selling. The article focuses on how to build question sets that enable insight for successful sales outcomes. Andy also presented a sales discovery program for entrepreneurs at three e-business incubators in Virginia in May and June 2006: the Korea Business Development Center, George Mason University Incubator, and Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology.

Vicki (Wingate) Wilkes ’79 and husband Craig joyfully announce the adoption of their daughter, Susannah Kate, born May 9, 2005, in Russia and adopted April 24, 2006. The Wilkes also have a biological son, George, now 3. They reside in Columbia, S.C.

Peter Dunne ’80, President of Franklin/Trade Graphics and a member of the McIntire School’s Advisory Board, announces that, for the second year in a row, Franklin has been honored by South Florida Business Journal as Business of the Year in the General Business Services, $10-$25 million category.

Marc Brenner ’87 celebrated the seven-year anniversary of the opening of his law firm in Morristown, N.J. He resides in Randolph, N.J., with his wife, Anne, and three children, Lexi, Phoebe, and Ross.

Ann M. Funge ’87 joined Cozen O’Connor’s West Conshohocken office as a Member in its Family Law Practice Group. Before joining the firm, Funge was an Associate with Wilder & Mahood in Pittsburgh. Funge’s practice focuses on all facets of family law, dealing with complex matrimonial issues at both trial and appellate court levels. While practicing law in Pittsburgh, Funge served as a council member, the program committee’s co-chair, and an opinions committee member for the Allegheny County Bar Association’s (ACBA) Family Law Section. She is past president of Pittsburgh’s Matrimonial Inn of Court and a former portside rower for the ACBA’s Women’s Bar Association’s crew team. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts and lectures frequently on various family law-related topics.

Kevin Snow ’88 and his wife, Alexandra Jarislowsky, welcomed twin boys, Stephen Henry and James Robert Snow, born Jan. 5, 2006. Snow is the Director of Marketing and Sales for Lime Brokerage LLC, in New York, which caters to high-volume and hedge fund trading. The family lives in New York City.

Dodge N. McCord ’89 and Wendy Rockafellow McCord ’90 (Law ’00) welcomed their second child, Lucas Elijah, born Nov. 15, 2005. Dodge, Wendy, Max, and Luke live in Evergreen, Colo. Dodge is a Vice President at AIMCO, working in capital markets, and Wendy is an Attorney at the Denver law firm of Ducker, Montgomery, Aronstein & Bess P.C., specializing in corporate transactional law.

Tony Neal ’89 accepted the position of Director, Global Operations Center at Discovery Communications, in Silver Spring, Md. He still resides in Gaithersburg, Md., with his wife, Chris; son, Sammy (4); and twin girls, Bella and Emma (2).

Lena Eagon ’91 (Master’s in Accounting ’92) and her husband, Scott, joyfully announce the birth of their son, Aiden Rush, born June 3, 2006. He weighed in at 9 pounds, 0.4 ounces and measured 21 inches.

Luke and Mia Boudouvas.

Panos Boudouvas ’95 and his wife, Cate Kelly, are pleased to announce the birth of their second child, Luke Matthew, born March 19, 2006. Luke joins older sister, Mia.

Andrew Lineweaver.

Brian Lineweaver ’95 (Master’s in MIS ’96) and his wife, Kerrie Lineweaver ’97, celebrated the birth of their son, Andrew Harry, born March 20, 2006.

Jennie Gromel Hodges ’96 and her husband, Burt, welcomed their second son, Henry Miller, born Dec. 31, 2005. He joins his 3-year-old brother, Marshall. Jennie earned a master’s of teaching in 2000 and is job-sharing as a third-grade teacher in Charleston, S.C. The family lives in Mt. Pleasant, S.C.

Ronde Barber ’97 and Tiki Barber ’97, currently playing in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New York Giants, respectively, were featured in a May 18, 2006, Roanoke Times article headlined “Barbers Named to Virginia Prep Hall.”

Stephanie Rhoads Fruchter ’97 and her husband, Shawn, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Colin Emery, born Jan. 17, 2006. The family resides in Charleston, S.C.

Stephanie (Barben) Albright ’99 and her husband, Jason, welcomed their daughter, Ella Elizabeth, born Dec. 31, 2005. She joins her brother, Jack, who is 2 years old. The family resides in Zieglerville, Pa., where Stephanie is an independent contractor with Dell.

Noah Kaufman, with the Maryland Terp.

Noah Kaufman ’99 works for CGI Federal as a Consultant. In May 2006, while working for CGI, he received his M.B.A. at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, with a concentration in information technology. Noah lives in Vienna, Va.

Jeremy Somers ’00 and his wife, Tomiko, welcomed their first child, Isabella Chiyoko, born May 27, 2006, in Philadelphia. Their beautiful daughter weighed in at 6 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 19.25 inches. In addition, Somers graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with his M.B.A.  in May 2006. Somers and his family move to Los Angeles in July 2006, where he will work as an Associate at UBS Investment Bank.

Brian Woodall ’00 recently completed his M.B.A. at the University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management, concentrating in technology management and entrepreneurship. He is now an Associate with Gael Partners, a new venture capital fund in Davis, Calif., that focuses on late-stage investments in California’s Central Valley.

R. Kennon Poteat III ’01 graduated first in his class, summa cum laude, from the University of Richmond School of Law May 13, 2006. He will serve as Law Clerk to Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Norfolk for the 2006-2007 term. Thereafter, he will serve as Law Clerk to Judge Edith Brown Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans for the 2007-2008 term.

Jennifer Casarotti Troch (Master’s in MIT ’01), after nearly five years in the IT organization at Cisco Systems Inc. in Research Triangle Park, N.C., accepted a position in Cisco’s Customer Advocacy organization as a Project Manager on the U.S. & Canada Service Supply Chain Delivery team. Says Troch, “The move gives me an opportunity to work on the business side of Cisco, in the group responsible for logistics, parts and service delivery, asset recovery, and order management in all of the United States and Canada. Soon after joining the team, I was asked to lead the theatre-wide organizational transformation to integrate Service Supply Chain Delivery and the Technical Assistance Center under one operation. For this effort, I’m finding my experience in McIntire’s M.S. in MIT program to be a great complement to my other degrees from the great Commonwealth of Virginia (B.A. from JMU and M.B.A. from VCU). It’s also helpful in my effort to keep these rabid NC State, Duke, and UNC-Chapel Hill fans in check!” Troch and her husband, Jeff, also recently moved to a new home in Wake Forest with their two boys, Gabriel (4) and Carson (2).

Jeff Diamond ’02 married Helen Blair White ’03 in September 2005. The couple lives in the Richmond, Va., area. Jeff is a Senior Accountant with The Brink’s Company.

Heather Mills ’02 will marry Scott Mitchell Sept. 8, 2006, with Noah Egge (A&S ’03) serving as a reader at the wedding. Heather also recently graduated with a master’s of research from the University of Connecticut and now does public policy research for UConn.

Anne Forster (Master’s in MIT ’04) accepted a new position with the federal government in the Office of the Under Secretary for Management at the Department of Homeland Security. Anne works in the Business Transformation Office, which is responsible for guiding the coordination and integration of the functional lines of business (finance, procurement, technology, human capital, administrative services, security) across the department. Anne’s primary objectives for 2006 are to improve financial and management reporting across the department and provide an integrated implementation plan with identified critical dependencies for the department's efforts. Anne got the under secretary’s attention as a technology finance consultant from IBM, working on the DHS IT Infrastructure Transformation Program for the DHS CIO. Anne credits the McIntire M.S. in MIT Program for giving her the ability and confidence to communicate complicated technology issues in terms that executives and financial managers can understand.

Chris Reichert ’04 is entering his third year as a Contract Specialist for the Naval Sea Systems Command. The co-founder of Convoy Skateboards LLC is also enrolled in George Mason University’s M.B.A. program and is an assistant coach for Vienna Post 180 American Legion baseball.

Luckson Hove ’05, an accounting concentrator who transferred from Piedmont Community College, in Charlottesville, Va., to the University after receiving a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarship, is quoted in a March 6, 2006, Inside Higher Ed article headlined “$27 Million for Community College Pipeline.”