Alumni Updates

‘I’ve always been a workaholic, like to the extreme.

Two Bethlehem startups, 

Civil engineering alum William Bast ’79 ’83G, an accomplished professional civil engineer with more than three decades of structural engineering, forensics, and building envelope experience, has been hired by engineering consulting firm LPI to lead a new office in Chicago, according to a press release. 

Chemical engineering alum Tuneen Chisolm ’88G, a faculty member at Campbell Law School, has been awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor, according to a Campbell University press release.

Industrial and systems engineering alum David Oring ’96 has been appointed manager of J4 Capital, an investment adviser that has developed AI investing software to predict market behavior for liquid exchange-traded securities.

Metallurgical engineering alum Cindy Headen ’90 has been promoted to executive vice president of supply chain services for Domino’s Pizza. She joined the company in 2015 as vice president of procurement and product management and advanced to senior vice president of global procurement and supply chain operations in 2018.

Keep your options open, make as many connections as you can, and put your best foot forward in the classroom.

That’s the advice civil engineering alum Ted Johnson '87 gave Lehigh students attending a presentation on his experience as a black engineer. The September 24 virtual seminar was sponsored by the National Society of Black Engineers' Lehigh Chapter and organized by Michael Osei '21.

Industrial engineering alum John Grubor ’99 is the new executive vice president and chief operating officer for global supply chain operator Geodis.