University of Louisville Magazine

SUMMER 2016

The University of Louisville Alumni Magazine: for alumni, faculty, staff, students and anyone that is a UofL Cardinal fan.

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S U M M E R U O F L M A G A Z I N E | 6 3 A L U M N I L I F E Jason Hook, 08A, and Sarah Ahern Hook, 09A, 11GM, were married on October 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. The couple is pictured with Megan Kessell and fellow Cardinals Sarah Carroll, 13A, Keith Ahern, 07S, 08GS, 11GB, Valerie Parrish, 09E, 11GE, and Megan Bratton, 08E, 12GE. Jason Rand, 09A, 10GE, and Lauren (Ford) were married on June 12, 2015, at the Marcus Lindsey in Louisville, Kentucky. Local engineers, big success Alumni engineers are f nding big success locally, as proven by an alumnus who started his own tech companies and a recent Speed School graduate who launched her own career in engineering and entrepreneurship. Tim Reilly, 86S, 86GS, started his career as a software engineer for Motorola in Florida and Illinois. He founded Stonestreet One in Louisville in 1996 as a one-man contract programming business. In 1999, Stonestreet One shifted its focus to developing and licensing software for Bluetooth wireless technology. Its software is included in millions of devices from companies such as Motorola, Microsoft, Nike, Honeywell, GoPro, Fitbit and many others. Reilly served as president of the growing company, which had some 25 employees when it was acquired by Qualcomm, Inc. in September 2014. Reilly now works for Qualcomm from the Louisville off ce, as do the rest of the former Stonestreet One team, which includes several Speed School graduates. "I am proud to be a Speed School graduate and proud of the fact that we were able to start and grow a successful technology business right here in Louisville, my hometown," Reilly said. "It was also very satisfying to get acquired by Qualcomm, arguably the world leader in wireless technology." Recent graduate Amelia Gandara,14S, also is paving her career path as the newly hired director of commercialization and engagement for EnterpriseCorp, the entrepreneurial arm of Greater Louisville Inc. Gandara is a former engineer at FirstBuild, a collaborative project between UofL, GE Appliances and Local Motors, on the UofL campus. By the end of her freshman year at Speed School, she was able to secure a student research assistant position with the Conn Center. "That early experience gave me context for the theory I was learning in my classes and made me a more desirable candidate when it came to co-op interviews and eventually my f rst full-time job," Gandara said. "Now I help researchers take their expertise a step further to commercialization." In her new role, Gandara will serve as a liaison between local universities and the business community. Gandara "I am proud to be a Speed School graduate and proud of the fact that we were able to start and grow a successful technology business right here in Louisville..." Reilly

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