2004 Career Conference Participant Profiles

J.J. Carroll ’95 is a Pricing Actuary for Swiss Re Life and Health. She identifies risks, quantifies costs, and designs and negotiates life reinsurance solutions. Swiss Re Life and Health leads the reinsurance market by helping insurance and non-insurance clients to manage capital and risk.

Lucia Cooper ’65 is a Senior Principal Consultant for Hyperion Solutions, a global leader in enterprise software and services for Business Performance Management. Business Performance Management software enables organizations to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution, and provide insight to improve financial and operational performance.

Catie Grasso ’98 is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Michigan Department of Biological Chemistry. She designs experiments and analyzes mass spectrometry data in a proteomics lab, doing geoinformatics research. The Lab does high throughput, identification of proteins in a sample using mass spectrometry.

Erin Hendrick ’00 is a Retirement Consulting Associate in the Professional Development Center for Towers Perrin, which is a human resources and employee benefits consulting firm. She works with clients to analyze and communicate practical and innovative solutions that meet their clients’ retirement benefit needs and overall business and financial objectives. Towers Perrin is among the world’s largest employers of actuaries.

Kalynn Haubert ’97 is an Assistant Actuary, Actuarial Pricing for The Auto Club Group (AAA), an insurance company providing personal lines products. AAA is also a member services company offering travel, emergency road services and financial planning.

Jacob Lessem ’91 is a member of the Teach for America Corps currently employed by Zuni High School in New Mexico. Teach for America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools. There is a particular need for math majors in the public school system. Applications for the 2005 corps are available now at www.teachforamerica.org

Dick McLaughlin ’62 is a retired Technical Supervisor/Software Engineer for Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, which produces switching and transmission equipment for the telecommunication industry worldwide.

Charles Newman ‘64 is President & CEO of ReCellular Inc. ReCellular Inc. is the largest facilitator of the reuse of cellular phones in the world. It collects and processes 5 – 10 tons of cell phones a day in its’ Dexter Michigan and Ft. Worth Texas facilities.

Christopher O’Keefe ’98 is a Retirement Consulting Associate in the Professional Development Center for Towers Perrin, which is a human resources and employee benefits consulting firm. He works with clients to analyze and communicate practical and innovative solutions that meet their clients’ retirement benefit needs and overall business and financial objectives. Towers Perrin is among the world’s largest employers of actuaries.

Sandra Ross ’92 is an Assistant Vice President, Actuarial Pricing for The Auto Club Group (AAA), an insurance company providing personal lines products. AAA is also a member services company offering travel, emergency road services and financial planning.

Benjamin Singer ‘93 is a 3^rd year fellow in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), which means he has completed 2 years for medical school and is now working on his PhD. His work involves using optical imaging techniques to record activity in the brains of experimental animals or in cell cultures, and then using mathematical models based on the data suggest hypotheses and experiments.

Lan Wang ’94 is a Financial Analyst for Ford Motor Company, who handles the pension liability management for non-North American pension plans. Ford Motor Company is a global company with annual sales of $164 billion including worldwide vehicle sales of $6.7 million units through a network of 20,000 dealers. Manufacturing, vehicle assembly, or sales operations in more than 30 countries and employs a diverse global team of 350,000 employees.

*** Please contact the Undergraduate Mathematics Office at 2084 East Hall, 763-4223,

math-undergrad-office@umich.edu to find out more information about available internships at these selected companies.