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James F. Byrnes, Jr<\/strong><\/p>\n

James F. Byrnes, Jr. (M.S. Civil Engineering, \u201973) joined the Middletown engineering-services firm AI Engineers, Inc. as senior director for business development and corporate strategy.\u00a0 Byrnes has spent more than 40 years in engineering\/transportation, rising from a Connecticut Department of Transportation engineer to deputy commissioner. From 2002 to his retirement in April 2004, he served as\u00a0the agency’s head.<\/p>\n

Melissa Carserino<\/strong><\/p>\n

Melissa Carserino (B.S. Chemical Engineering, \u201811) joined BioSafe Systems LLC as a research engineer\/project manager.\u00a0 A family-owned manufacturer of biodegradable disease-control products, at BioSafe Systems, Carserino will handle new product development, including vendor relations.\u00a0 Previously, she was a technical sales service engineer and product & market analyst at Chemtura Corporation.\u00a0 Carserino earned an MBA at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n

Lin Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lin Lin (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, \u201904) received the Teaching Award for Middlesex Community College (MxCC), as well as the System-wide Teaching Award for all 12 community colleges in the State of Connecticut.\u00a0 The awards were presented to Lin, assistant professor and coordinator of the Computer Engineering Technology Program and the Engineering Science Program at MxCC, during the April 15 meeting of the Board of Regents for Higher Education for Connecticut State Colleges and Universities.<\/p>\n

Vincent S. Pitruzzello<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vincent S. Pitruzzello (B.S. Mechanical Engineering, \u201985) joined Okay Industries Inc. as director of operations.\u00a0 Prior to Okay, he was vice president and general manager at Capewell Components LLC.\u00a0 Upon graduation from UConn, Pituzzello spent more than 23 years at Stanley Black & Decker.\u00a0 In 1988, he earned an M.S. in Business (Operations Research) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n

Ted M. Taccardi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ted M. Taccardi (B.S. Chemical Engineering, \u201981) has been appointed vice president, Global Customer Care at Carestream Health, Inc.\u00a0 In this role, he will lead the company\u2019s worldwide Customer Care organization and serve as a member of firm\u2019s senior executive leadership team.\u00a0 Previously, Taccardi was chief operating officer of Carestream\u2019s Digital Medical Solutions and chief technical officer of Digital Capture Solutions.\u00a0 He completed a Wharton Executive Education program at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Stay in touch with the School of Engineering.\u00a0 Join our LinkedIn alumni group to share your latest activities and learn what your fellow graduates are doing.\u00a0 You may also send your news directly to Heidi Douglas, Director of Engineering Alumni Relations.\u00a0 We love hearing from you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James F. Byrnes, Jr ’73, Melissa Carserino ’11, Lin Lin ’04, Vincent S. Pitruzzello ’85, Ted M. Taccardi ’81 are all featured in this edition of Alumni News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":222092,"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":[57],"class_list":["post-20763","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":"2026-05-25 19:19:40","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\/20763","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=20763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222096,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20763\/revisions\/222096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/222092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20763"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=20763"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}