{"id":22759,"date":"2016-09-26T14:20:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=22759"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:08:26","slug":"alumni-news-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/09\/alumni-news-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sue Mildrum (B.S. Computer Science &amp; Engineering, \u201988) has been promoted to director of engineering at <a href=\"http:\/\/constantcontact.com\/\">Constant Contact<\/a>.\u00a0 In this position, Mildrum manages development and delivery of campaigns including Email, Events, Donations and Coupons.\u00a0 A seasoned manager with experience transforming development organizations, she has been a speaker at the McGill University Women in Leadership conference and Boston-area She Geeks Out. \u00a0\u00a0Mildrum frequently returns to Storrs as an invited speaker.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n Neal Montany (B.S. Mechanical Engineering and Materials Engineering, \u201982) has been appointed chief operating officer at <a href=\"http:\/\/perfumaniaholdings.com\/\">Perfumania Holdings, Inc<\/a>.\u00a0 His career in operations management spans over three decades, including senior management positions at United Technologies Corporation and International Aero Engines. Most recently, Montany served as vice president and general manager at GKN Aerospace in New York.\u00a0 He earned his MBA at Boston University School of Management.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n William Proceller (B.S. Mechanical Engineering, \u201983) has been reappointed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westonct.gov\/\">Town of Weston<\/a>, Connecticut Building Committee; the term ends June 30, 2018.\u00a0 The Building Committee reviews and makes recommendations concerning the planning, design, and construction of town and school building projects.\u00a0 Proceller is a senior vice president, Property Management, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cohenbrothersrealty.com\/#\/about-us\/quality\/\">Cohen Brothers Realty Corp.<\/a> in New York.\u00a0 He holds an M.S. in Real Estate from New York University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n Rebecca Ruitto Hall, P.E., (B.S. Civil Engineering, \u201809) recently earned her Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification from the Institute of Transportation Engineers.\u00a0 A project engineer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tighebond.com\/\">Tighe &amp; Bond<\/a> offices in Middletown, this national certification recognizes Hall mastering the specialized knowledge, skills and abilities required for traffic operations engineering; she is one of only 21 PTOEs in Connecticut.\u00a0 She serves on the Board of Directors for Women&#8217;s Transportation Seminar Connecticut Chapter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Memorium<\/p>\n<p>\n Debess Rogers (B.S. Computer Science &amp; Engineering, \u201978), 60, of Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/ledgertranscript\/obituary.aspx?pid=180714561\">died<\/a> Friday, July 15, 2016 suddenly after tragically being hit by a truck while walking near her home. She excelled in her careers as a senior software engineer and an educator of speech language pathology for persons with special needs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay in touch with the School of Engineering.\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:hdouglas@engineer.uconn.edu\"><em>Heidi Douglas<\/em><\/a><em>, Director of Engineering Alumni Relations.\u00a0 We love hearing from you<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep up with the latest UConn Engineering Alumni news from around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":221918,"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":[36],"class_list":["post-22759","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":"2026-05-20 11:01:07","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\/22759","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221928,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22759\/revisions\/221928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/221918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22759"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=22759"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}