Major Madness event Powerpoint for Rowan University.

2. “Rowan taught me to be
confident in who I am and
what I uniquely bring to the
table – that knowledge is so
powerful, both at home and at
work!”
Brighid Hoempler
B.S. in Chemical Engineering ‘12
Products technical advisor for
ExxonMobil Research and
Engineering

3. Adam is an Emmy-
Awarding winning Visual
Effects Associate
Producer for the popular
HBO show, Game of
Thrones.Adam Chazen
30 | B.A. Radio, Television & Film ’08
Visual effects coordinator, HBO’s “Game of
Thrones”

5. “We’re protecting our soldiers.
We’re protecting our allies. This
isn’t just the United States that is
in the battle. This is a world fight.
I feel responsible for that.” She
says as her job as Deputy
Director of International Apache
Fire Control Programs for
national defense and technology
company Lockheed Martin.
Catherine Ni
38 | B.S. Mechanical Engineering ’00
Deputy director of International Apache
Fire Control Programs at Lockheed
Martin Missiles & Fire Control

7. Currently, he is internationally
recognized as the founder of
Hip Hop Abs and INSANITY
workouts.
Shaun “Shaun T.” Thompson
38 | B.A. Health & Exercise Science ’01
Motivational fitness expert & host

8. “Rowan had the most amazing
and embracing program out of
everywhere I had looked. It
seemed like a place where I
knew I could grow, but it felt like
home.”
Ashley Abdullah
30 | B.A. Spanish ’06
Enterprise marketing manager,
Univision

10. “To me, I’m just living my life.
But I love being able to make
this statement, to make a
difference for people.”
Rebekah Marine
29 | B.A. Advertising ’09
Bionic model

12. “It’s a dream job in so many
ways. It’s just a magical
experience.” Lester says
about his job as Show
Programmer at Walt Disney
Imagineering.
David Lester
28 | B.S. Electrical & Computer
Engineering ‘10,
Show Programmer, Walt Disney
Imagineering

13. Mr. Walker is dedicated to
providing a community service
around the world, Walker has
been engaging in volunteerism
since his Rowan days, when he
worked on a water project in
Bangladesh and later conducted
related research with Dr. Kauser
Jahan in civil and environmental
engineering.
Walt Walker
32 | B.S. Civil Engineering ’05 M.S.
Environmental Engineering ’06
Project manager, Greeley &
Hansen

15. Christopher Lukach
34 | B.A. Communication with a
specialization in public relations ’04
President & Co-owner, Anne Klein
Communications Group
On becoming a president and
owner of a national company in
his early 30s isn’t the peak of his
success, Lukach says. “My title
and role are nice, but I measure
success based on the value and
effect of the work we do with
clients.”

17. At a time when the average
person could scarcely grasp
what the Internet would become,
Jay Gould already was building
Internet businesses in his dorm
room. A few short years after
graduating from Rowan, he
pioneered and sold one of the
first social networks,
RateOrDate, and the first video-
sharing site, Music Video Codes.
Jay Gould
37 | B.A. Law & Justice Studies ’01
Technology entrepreneur/angel
investor

18. Leigh Paynter Martinez
34 | B.A. Communications ’04
Television reporter
“I was grateful for the
opportunity,” says Martinez, who
landed her ‘dream job’ in May as
a general assignment and
breaking news reporter at KTVU
Fox2 in San Francisco—the top-
rated news organization in the
nation’s sixth-ranked media
market.

20. Honored as Egg Harbor
Township’s 2015 Teacher of the
Year, Martrione was a runner-up
for the statewide competition.
Additionally, he was named one
of 10 finalists for the Princeton
University Distinguished
Secondary Teaching Award,
which recognizes the finest
secondary teachers in New
Jersey.
Michael Martirone
32 | M.S. Teaching ’09
High school social studies teacher

22. From Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, but raised largely
in Suriname, a former Dutch
colony in South America,
Soeltan arrived in the U.S. with
a degree from Inholland
University of Applied Sciences
in the Netherlands and, after
completing studies at Rowan,
set out to make her mark in
America.
Nafisa Soeltan
35 | B.A. Psychology ’13 M.B.A.
Management Information Systems ’15
Senior consultant, HighPoint Solutions,
Philadelphia

23. Araujo first explored the concept of
freedom in depth in law and human
rights, an undergraduate course
taught by professor Herbert Douglas.
He got a hard-earned C+. “That grade
probably means more to me than any
‘A’ I ever got. Herb Douglas was
tough. “In that course, I learned as a
law enforcement officer how to treat
someone. I learned how to respect
someone’s constitutional rights. That
background helped tremendously
when I went to the academy. I use
what I learned every day.”
Freddy Araujo
39 | B.A. Law & Justice Studies ’00
Detective sergeant, New Jersey State
Police

25. The licensed professional engineer
has spent the past seven years
traveling to places like Tajikistan,
Nepal, Uganda, South Sudan,
Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama
and Haiti. There, she has
implemented safe water and
adequate waste systems, first as a
volunteer and then full time with the
small nonprofit organization
Hydromissions International.
Caitlin Terry
34 | B.S. Civil Engineering ’05
Director of projects, Hydromissions
International