Departments 
Alumni Notes

1970s

Linda Dunkel, MA 1976, is chairman of the board of Interaction Associates 
in Dallas, a Boston-based consulting company specializing in organization 
dynamics. She conducted a seminar on team charting and team building for 
UTD EMBA students in September.

Gerald Hubbard, BS 1977, MS 1981, is the vice president of e-business at 
MasterCard International in Arlington, Virginia, where he is responsible 
for the Mideast, Africa, and Asia Pacific regions.

1980s

Karen Jensen Spigler, BS 1980, MA 1986, MBA 1990, has opened a general law 
practice in Plantation, Florida.

John J. Raymond, BS 1986, recently promoted to auditor for the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services in Austin, Texas, was named a 
board member of the Austin chapter of the Associates of Certified Fraud 
Examiners. He earned his certified public accountant certification in 
1999.

Gary M. Kunkle, MBA 1988, MA 1988, is the managing director of the 
European office for the State of Maryland in The Netherlands, where he 
manages Maryland's European economic interests. He also represents the 
City of Rotterdam through an office in Baltimore.

Jason J. Park, MS 1988, is the southeast manager of TRW Systems in 
Fairfax, Virginia.

1990s

Jay G. Cone, MBA 1992, was one of the speakers at a September seminar for 
UTD EMBA students. He is employed in the Dallas office of Interaction 
Associates, a Boston-based consulting company specializing in organization 
dynamics.

Douglas O. Wickey, MA 1992, is now in the management consulting business 
after having worked several years with the Image Bank of Eastman Kodak. He 
is currently working with the North American group of Lexion Consulting, a 
firm which specializes in senior management issues, whose home office is 
in the United Kingdom. 

Latricia Rutledge, BS 1994, was selected to be the UTD Alumni Association 
spokeswoman at Spring 2001 commencement ceremonies. She urged new 
graduates to support and become active in UTD alumni activities. A 
licensed realtor, she is vice president of Alliance Academy, a Dallas, 
Texas, real estate and mortgage school, and she has also been working as a 
consultant in the call center and customer service industry. She is 
currently working on her MBA at UTD and expects to graduate in May 2002. 
She lives in Dallas.

Randall Mills, MBA 1995, is the incoming chairman of the UTD Alumni 
Association's executive board. 

James B. Strand, EMBA 1995, is vice president of financial operations for 
Avnet, Inc., a global technology, marketing, and service provider in 
Dallas, Texas. He is responsible for financial operations in the Americas.

John M. Fowler, EMBA 1996, was featured in the June 4, 2001, issue of 
Dallas-Fort Worth TechBiz. His Richardson, Texas-based company, Gold Creek 
Technologies L.L.C., was scheduled to release the personal computer 
version of the reality-based game, Survivor, The Australian Outback, this 
fall.

Ann K. Utley, EMBA 1997, is chief executive officer of TextOrder in 
Austin, Texas. TextOrder created the EMAT online order and inventory 
management system that has been used by the Texas Education Agency and 
each of Texas' 1,100 public school districts since1998. Two of the largest 
school districts in California and Colorado recently purchased the 
TextOrder solution, marking the first sales of the product outside the 
state.

Robert A. Huskerson, BS 1996, MS 1998, is the director of marketing and 
owner of Century 21 LoneStar, a real estate company in Garland, Texas.

Ellen H. Magnis, BA 1996, MBA 1998, was promoted to director of strategy 
and partnerships for the American Stroke Association, a division of the 
American Heart Association in Dallas, Texas.

Christina B. Martin, MBA 1999, is the director of product marketing at 
Lasso Innovations, a provider of geometric trading solutions that work to 
help communities, corporations, and online businesses realize exponential 
value from existing business operations, in Dallas, Texas.

Stephon C. Payseur, MBA 1999, is a consultant with Accenture, a provider 
of
management and technology consulting services and solutions, in Dallas, Texas.

2000s

Claudette Petitjean Germano, MBA 2000, recently married and is living in 
Dallas, Texas. She works as a researcher and consultant on human resource 
benchmarks for the hospitality industry at People Report in Dallas.

Erin C. Burress, BS 2001, is the data-marketing manager for The Container 
Store in Dallas, Texas.


Houston-based Alums Gather
School of Management graduates, Nancy, BS '80, and Chuck Davidson, MS '80, 
hosted other Houston-area alumni at a reception at Vargos, a local 
restaurant, on September 13.  UTD President Franklyn Jenifer and SOM Dean 
Hasan Pirkul joined the Davidsons in welcoming former students and 
providing them an update on the good news happening in The School of 
Management.  Dr. Jenifer unveiled plans for a new state-of-the-art 
building made possible, in part, by a challenge grant from the U.T. System 
Board of Regents.  For more information on the School's new building, see 
Building for the Future, page 4.