{"id":203867,"date":"2017-12-17T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=25016"},"modified":"2017-12-17T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:42:14","slug":"alumni-news-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/12\/alumni-news-january-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni News for January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-25041 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/dcavuoto-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"126\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 144px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 144\/126;\" \/>Diane E. Cavuoto (B.S. Mechanical Engineering, \u201887) has joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctsengines.com\/\">CTS Engines<\/a> as senior vice president, Supply Chain. Most recently, she served as vice president, Strategic Sourcing at Honeywell International. In her prior role at Honeywell, Cavuoto led a global commodity team of 150 employees managing $4 billion of direct material spend, and reported directly to Honeywell&#8217;s Chief Procurement Officer. She holds an MBA from Arizona State University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25018 alignleft img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/NDePalermo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"142\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 142px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 142\/142;\" \/>Nick DePalermo, EIT (B.S. Civil Engineering, 16) has joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westonandsampson.com\/\">Weston &amp; Sampson<\/a> as a transportation engineer based in the firm\u2019s Charleston, South Carolina office. A graduate of the Eurotech Program, DePalermo studied at the University of Stuttgart during his year abroad and earned a double major in engineering and German Studies at UConn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25019 alignleft img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/MPoulter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"121\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 178px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 178\/121;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Martha Poulter (B.S. Computer Science &amp; Engineering, \u201988) was named senior vice president and CIO for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/aboutus\">Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd<\/a> (RCL). Poulter most recently served as executive vice president and CIO for Starwood Hotel and Resorts. Previously, she spent nearly two decades at General Electric, including time as CIO of GE Capital. She earned an MBA from the University of New Haven.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay in touch with the School of \u00a0Engineering.\u00a0 Join our <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=153271&amp;trk=hb_side_g\"><em>LinkedIn alumni group<\/em><\/a><em> to share your latest activities and learn what your fellow graduates are doing.\u00a0 You may also send your news directly to <\/em><a href=\"mailto:heidi.douglas@uconn.edu\"><em>Heidi Douglas<\/em><\/a><em>, Director of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/hosting-24072.tributes.com\/obituary\/read\/Thomas-Joseph-McKrell-104871166\">Engineering<\/a><em> Alumni Relations.\u00a0 We love hearing from you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three accomplished UConn School of Engineering alumni are moving up the career ladder at CTS Engines, Weston &#038; Sampson, and Royal Caribbean Cruises. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":23932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-203867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 03:56:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/23932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203867"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}