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Mentors & Teams
| Team 2: Sheldon W. Buck |
sheldon.buck @comcast.net |
not available |
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| Team 6: Vanessa A. Chioffi |
vchioffi @sloan.mit.edu |
617-387-0308 |
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| Team 7: Yolanda Fan |
yolanda @mit.edu |
410-858-3784 |
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| Team 3: Todd Harland-White |
todd @alum.mit.edu |
410-757-8020 |
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| Team 89: Bob Gurnitz |
rgurnitz @alum.mit.edu |
508 627 3882 |
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| Team 2: Hal Gustin |
hlgustin @structint.com |
720-320-6722 |
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| Team 7: Kathy Hess |
kmhess @mit.edu |
617.918.1487 |
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Team 1: Allan Kent
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alrkent @comcast.net |
508-381-0582 |
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| Team 4: Alfredo Kniazzeh |
alfredok @alum.mit.edu |
781-891-9937 |
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| Team 10: Bob Kusik |
bkusik @alum.mit.edu |
978.369.3240 |
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| Team 4: Mike Leis |
Mleis @alum.mit.edu |
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| Team 5: Keith MacKay |
quisp @alum.mit.edu |
617.695.1935 |
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| Team 3: Burc Oral |
burcoral @alum.mit.edu |
339-221-2419 |
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| Team 89: Joseph Pedlosky |
jpedlosky @whoi.edu |
508-289-2534 |
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| Team 89: Dr. Jorge Phillips |
jp @alum.MIT.EDU |
919-676-1144 |
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| Team 1: Mary Schumacher |
mschumacher @whoi.edu |
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| Team 6: Priyanka Sundareshan |
priyaz @alum.mit.edu |
617-645-2090 |
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| Team 5: Johnny Yang |
jtyang @sloan.mit.edu |
781-810-2100
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Sheldon W. Buck
sheldon.buck @comcast.net Phone: 781-235-9585
Occupation: aeronautical engineer
MIT year: 1958
Education: Bachelors
I was a mentor for Mission in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and
2006.
I am an Aero/Astro grad class of 1958. Worked at the MIT Instrumentation
Labatory 1957 to 1973 followed by The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
1973 to 2000 when I retired. I was assigned to the Earth and Planitary
Science Department for 5 years 1968 to 1973 working with Prof.
Frank Press and Prof. Nafi Toksoz. I was Technical Director of
the Lunar Traverse Gravimeter experiment which flew on Apollo
17 and was a member of the lunar surface EVA team at mission control
during the flight.
Designed stable platforms for inertial guidance systems. Designed
seismic monitoring systems for earthquakes and underground expolsoins.
Designed gravimeters for lunar exploration. Designed special purpose
instrumentation for submarines and oceanography.
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Vanessa A. Chioffi
vchioffi @sloan.mit.edu 617-387-0308
Associate Director of Policy Planning
MIT year: 2003 Education: Masters
My current work is to provide quantitative and written analysis
and strategic advice on policy development and institutional
planning as it relates to the physical development of Harvard
University s Cambridge campus. Because I am the only person
on this team with a business and policy background (I work with
architects and urban designers), I am often taking what has
been done and presenting it in a whole new way for senior administrators
and the public. The planning issues are complex (projecting
10 to 20 years into the future), as well as sensitive to the
community in and around the University. I hope to contribute
real-life experience from other large and complex physical development
projects that are highly scrutinized both in the design and
capital expenditure at least by the local and regional community,
but are also emulated by national observers. I would be happy
to provide information resources or co-mentor with another alumnus,
combining skills for greater value to the students. I have a
MBA from Sloan, and was a Sloan Fellow. I also have a Master
in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School
of Government. I have been working for 16 years, and currently
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Yolanda
Fan
yolanda @mit.edu 410-858-3784 website: www.davenforth.com
Occupation: Occupation: Entrepreneur / Real Estate Investor
MIT year: 2002
Education: Bachelors
I very much enjoy giving back to MIT and mentoring. As an entrepreneur,
I employ "creative solution strategies" on a daily basis.
Born and raised in Hawa'i, our oceans have always been important
to me. I would love to be involved in the Mission 2011's quest
to Save our Oceans.
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Bob
Gurnitz
rgurnitz @alum.mit.edu 508 627 3882 until November 239 393 0956
from November
MIT year: 1966
Education: PhD Bob Gurnitz has been a mentor for the last five
Missions. This year he will also be assisting Sam Bowring in
working with and providing support for the other mentors.
Experience:
* 1997-2001 Envirosource, Inc., Horsham, PA - Chairman
* 1991-1997 Northwestern Steel and Wire Co., Sterling, IL -
Chairman and CEO
* 1988-1991 Webcraft Technologies, Inc., N. Brunswick, NJ -
President
* 1985-1988 Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bethlehem, PA - President,
Shape and Rail Products Division
* 1984-1985 Rockwell International Corporation, Troy, MI - Vice
President/General Manager, On Highway Axle Division;
* 1980-1984 Rockwell International Corporation, London England
and Troy, MI - President, Body Components Division; 1978-1980
Rockwell International Corporation, Troy, MI - Vice President/General
Manager, Supply and Mass Transit Div.
* 1977-1978 Rockwell International Corporation, Troy, MI - Vice
President, Business Development;
* 1974-1977 Rockwell International, Pittsburgh, PA Senior Engineering
Executive, Corporate Staffs.
* 1973-1974 President's Executive Interchange Program U. S.
Government, D.H.E.W., Washington, DC Director, Office of Management
Technology
* 1966-1973 Rockwell International, Canoga Park, CA Manager,
Physical and Engineering Sciences, Rocketdyne Div.
Education:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA: S.B. 1960
Chemical Engineering; S.M. 1961 Chemical Engineering; Ph.D.
1966 Chemical Engineering
Hobbies include sailing, skiing, fishing, traveling, and reading.
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Hal
Gustin
hlgustin @structint.com 720-320-6722
website: www.structint.com
Occupation: Engineer
MIT year: 1973
Education: Masters
Topics would like to share: Stress analysis, fracture mechanics,
some materials/metallurgy
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Todd
Harland-White
410-757-8020 (home) todd @alum.mit.edu
410-260-5180 (office) todd.harland-white @ngc.com
Todd Harland-White's career since MIT (XIII-C, '76) has involved
designing and building manned and unmanned systems operating in
the deep sea for Northrop Grumman Undersea Systems, where he is
now Chief Architect. Projects have included design of deepsea
research submersibles and mini-subs, participation in teams designing
new submarine and surface ship classes, developing underwater
robotic systems, and working with optical and acoustic sensors
and sensor networks for probing and mapping the underwater space.
All of these efforts have been highly inter-disciplinary not only
in the breadth of technical issues but also in the politics and
budgeting required to initiate and complete the projects - as
is typical of most real problems.
This is Todd's seventh tour of duty as a 12.000 mentor, having
served for Missions 2005 through 2010. Todd also serves as an
MIT Educational Counselor possibly responsible for some of you
being there at MIT to begin with!
Todd has managed to visit one or two of the classes, but usually
he will have to do everything long distance from Annapolis MD
via email and website review. |
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Kathy
Hess
kmhess @mit.edu 617.918.1487
Environmental Scientist
Office of Inspector General
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
I have just spent the last 1.5 years conducting an evaluation of
Chesapeake Bay restoration with a specific emphasis on developed
and developing land decisions. Another area that I could mentor
would be ground-water discharges to the coast, as this was one of
the areas I worked on at the USGS prior to moving to the EPA Office
of Inspector General.
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Allan
Kent
ARKent @alum.mit.edu 508-381-0582
Topics: problem elucidation, solution proposals, system analysis
& design, testing, user support for systems involving water treatment,
space medicine, computers and communications, etc.
In addition to mentoring 12.000 for the last three years, I have
been helping with seventh and tenth grade classes at Hopedale
Jr.-Sr. High School. |
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Alfredo
Kniazzeh
alfredok @alum.mit.edu 781-891-9937
Occupation: scientist, retired
MIT year: 1959
Education: Doctorate
35 yrs product development at Polaroid: Mechanical Eng, Physics,
Chem. Eng, Materials, 13 patents. Previously NASA and US Army.
Travels: Oaxaca, Baltic capitals, Turkey, Costa Rica, W Europe,
B Virgin Islands, Bogota. Visited Nawlinz. Hobbies: ballroom
dancing, Arg. tango, biking, choir singing, cooking.
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Bob
Kusik
bkusik @alum.mit.edu
1970 SM in Course 6
Phone: 978.369.3240
Bob has participated in 12.000 since Mission 2008. He has recently
become interested in challenges and opportunities that global
warming present to the population of planet earth. It seems that
this may be the single greatest opportunity to achieve global
unity. If we're forced to come together to deal with a real threat
to all of humankind, it just may force us to find a way to live
together in peace. Now, wouldn't that be nice byproduct of seeking
survival.
Bob is a retired software executive. His professional career has
ranged from an information retrieval research in the Electronics
Systems Lab at MIT, to advanced development of online financial
systems, to computer aided design of VLSI chips and computer systems,
to nonlinear video editing systems, to telemedicine (plus a few
more stops along the way). He received an SM in Course 6 in 1970.
He has also attended advanced management programs at Stanford
and INSEAD.
Since Bob lives in Concord, interaction on campus or by eMail
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Mike Leis '61 BSEE, MSEE
Mleis @alum.mit.edu
I have just retired as a fellow from the hard-drive industry,
having worked for Digital, Quantum and Maxtor for about 35 years.
I was a project engineer, electronics architect, director, lecturer
and coach. I have a background in analog electronics, signal processing,
logic, storage architecture, servos and have more then 25 patents.
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Keith
MacKay
617.543.5644 fax: 617.695.1935
email: quisp @alum.mit.edu
website: http://www.villagesoft.com
Occupation: Managing Director, Software Company
MIT year: 1997
Education: Bachelors
Originally class of 1990, I took several years off to explore
various interests, including: participating in a band, consulting
to various corporations and the U.S. Dept. of Energy, traveling
in Great Britain, Japan, and throughout the U.S., spending a semester
in a political science program at the University of London, writing,
etc. When I decided to return and finish my MIT degree, I first
circled everything in the Course Catalog that seemed interesting,
and Brain and Cognitive Sciences was the best fit...so I wound
up graduating with a B.S. in B&CS. While at MIT before my
hiatus, I was in a fraternity (served as Steward, Alumni Chair,
President), on the gymnastics team, and in the Logarhythms. After
my break, I was working fulltime and going to school fulltime.
Much of my professional life has involved exploration of systems
problems of one sort or another. I worked in a restaurant in high
school, and was always fascinated by how it was necessary for
all of the individual components to be functioning for things
to run smoothly. During my time off from MIT, I spent time at
Lawrence Livermore National Lab in the Earth Sciences department,
developing expert systems software to analyze seismic events to
help decide if events were earthquakes or underground nuclear
tests. I have modeled industries (offshore oil-drilling industry,
aluminum smelters) and various financial systems (options models,
investment simulations, etc.) for customers including Harvard
Business School, Mercer Management Consulting, and many others.
My current role as Managing Director of Village Software requires
keeping a lot of balls in the air, and organizational systems
thinking is a key skill to make this (almost) manageable <g>.
I spent last year serving as President of the MIT Club of Boston,
which required learning an entirely different set of technical,
political, and management skills--and integrating information
received from many quarters to develop plans that would best serve
the 17,000+ MIT alumni in the Greater Boston area.
These experiences have all contributed to my diverse worldview,
which I have found is often as important to problem-solving as
specific domain knowledge. I believe that this is especially true
when approaching complicated problems that are as-yet unsolved
(after all, if domain knowledge alone was enough, current subject-matter
experts would have the problem--whatever it is--licked). Instead,
complex problems require creative thinking, productive collaboration
with many parties (to increase the knowledgebase and idea pool
as large as possible), a realistic understanding of the political
realities of the situation, and flexibility enough to adapt the
solution as new information is received.
I'm looking forward to working with all of you as we explore this
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Burc
Oral
burcoral @alum.mit.edu 339-221-2419
Occupation: Sr. Technical Architect
MIT year: 1994
Education: Doctorate
Would like to share topics: Information technology Data acquisition,
processing, storage; Geophysics Web Technologies Social Networking
to build consensus and awareness.
I am a graduate of course 12, where I studied geophysics and
worked on plate tectonics using GPS. My interests shifted to
information technology over the years. Currently, I focus on
at enterprise architecture through the lens of service-orientedness.
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Joseph
Pedlosky
jpedlosky @whoi.edu 508-289-2534; fax: 508-457-2181
Occupation: Oceanographer
MIT year: 1959
Would like to share topics: Theory of the Ocean Circulation Stability
of Oceanic Currents
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Dr.
Jorge Phillips
jphi @mit.edu (preferred)
jp @alum.mit.edu (alternate) Ph: 919-676-1144
MIT year: 1972
Education: Doctorate
* High-tech entrepreneur, with substantial experience in Silicon
Valley, Atlanta, Research Triangle and abroad, with several technology
patents.
* Academic background in computer architecture, artificial intelligence
and management.
* Extensive management consulting experience in strategy and execution
in information and telecommunications technology, financial, health,
corporate management, and manufacturing sectors.
* Substantial policy making experience at highest levels in government
and multilateral organisms. Cabinet-level and Presidential advisory
experience in several countries in social, scientific and technological
policy formation.
* Interests:
- self-referential and closed systems and chaotic behavior as
exhibited in nature, closed ecologies, sustainability
- system modeling and analysis
- multilateral and national social and scientific policy-making
- very complex problem solving in undefined and ambiguous spaces.
My experience mentoring 12.000 in the past has been very rewarding.
I find this educational experiment well ahead of its time in preparing
students to deal with the globalized and interconnected world
of the 21st century. As an MIT graduate that has been a few years
in the real world, I know for a fact that we didn't learn much
about how the real world works, although we acquired well tuned
and precise problem solving capabilities. Yet, the problem solving
that is needed to deal with global issues needs to deal with extremely
complex and ambiguous situations, where social, political, economic,
and financial constraints define solution viability, well over
technological considerations, and where optimal does not have
the analytic meaning it has in the classroom. 12.000 strives to
bridge this needed gap at the earliest point in student's careers.
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Mary
Schumacher
mschumacher @whoi.edu
My background is in political science and I conduct research
and policy analysis at the Marine Policy Center of Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
My own areas of concentration are in international law/environmental
management, international organizations, and land-based marine
pollution (particularly as an issue for international cooperation
and management).
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Priyanka
Sundareshan
617-645-2090 priyaz @alum.mit.edu
Occupation: Management Consultant
MIT year: 2006
Education: Bachelors
I graduated in 2006 with chemical engineering and a minor in environmental
policy; I am currently consulting in the government and defense
arena and have experience in data analysis and project management
metrics. I am highly interested in energy policy and am pursuing
ways to become more involved in that area.
I am an alum of Mission and Terrascope! |
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Johnny
Yang
jtyang @sloan.mit.edu 781-810-2100
Class of 2004, SB, Course 15
Johnny was one of the first guinea pigs to participate in 12.000:
Solving Complex Problems. As a student in Mission 2004 (Mars),
he was a member of the "Mission Control" team, and later took
part in writing and editing the mission's final paper. Because
he loved 12.000 so much, he joined the staff for the class, serving
as a Undergraduate Teaching Fellow (UTF) for Mission 2005 (Ocean)
and Mission 2006 (Amazon). Due to class conflicts, Johnny was
not able to return as a UTF for Mission 2007 (Alaska); however,
the powers that be snuck him in as an alumni mentor.
After graduating with a Course 15 degree in 2004, Johnny has returned
to be a mentor for Mission 2009 (Tsunami), Mission 2010 (Ocean),
and now returns again as an alumni mentor for Mission 2011 (Oceans).
He currently works for an early-stage software company in Waltham,
MA.
Personally, Johnny enjoys traveling (to the extent his pocketbook
allows), reading (anything and everything under the sun), and
"wining and dining." He looks forward to working with his team
and the entire class as a whole. |
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