Huntsman Alumni and Friends - Alumni in the News

Michele Louise Sauk – B.S., Marketing, 2005

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MST

The Enterprise
Zions Bank has hired Michele Sauk as a commercial relationship manager. Joining Zions with more than a decade of lending experience, Sauk previously served as a vice president in the Small Business Administration division of US Bank and as a business banking officer. She also worked as a financial advisor for American Express Financial Advisors. Sauk earned her undergraduate degree in business administration from Utah State and has expertise in business acquisition, Small Business Administration financing, and commercial real estate. “It’s important for business owners to have a banker who can help them navigate through any economic climate, and my knowledge base allows me to do just that,” said Sauk. “It’s my goal to help clients develop and implement business solutions
that will take them through the long run.”

Roline G. Artist – B.S., Marketing Education, 1989

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MST

Herald Journal
Pioneer Valley Lodge, Independent Retirement Community, welcomes Roline Artist as their new community outreach specialist. She will represent Pioneer Valley Lodge in and around the valley increasing awareness of Pioneer Valley Lodge’s living option for independent seniors. All inclusive month to month lease includes three chef-prepared meals a day, weekly housekeeping and linen service, event and activity calendar, local transportation and 24 hour live-in managers. Roline has a degree in marketing from USU and sold advertising in the valley for the past three years. She resides in North Logan with her husband Brian and their three children. She can be reached at 435-760-3937 or roline.artist@ holidaytouch.com

Jana Lee Moncur – B.S., Business Education, 1973

Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 MST

Google News Alerts
Utah educators win inaugural Sorenson Legacy Awards for arts education Utah educators from around the state have been selected for the inaugural Sorenson Legacy Awards for Excellence in Arts Education. The awards were funded by a grant from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation, founded by the late James LeVoy Sorenson and Beverley Taylor Sorenson, who died Monday at age 89. The new awards honor those who have demonstrated a commitment to providing arts education in Utah public schools. The 19 educators, administrators and volunteers were honored by the Utah State Office of Education at a ceremony earlier this month. Each individual winner received $2,500, and an additional $2,500 was awarded to each winner’s school. Beverley Taylor Sorenson was recognized in Utah and nationally for the efforts she championed, which include the creation of an innovative integrated arts teaching model. The Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program first received state funding in 2008 and it will reach tens of thousands of students at approximately 130 Utah elementary schools in the 2013-14 school year. The inaugural winners of the Sorenson Legacy Awards, as described at the awards ceremony, are as follows. Alpine School District Don Harvie, music instruction, Northridge Elementary. Harvie’s Northridge Elementary School Choir was the only elementary choir invited to perform at the 2006 National Music Conference, where members shared the stage with a group from the University of Utah. His choir sang a song in four-part a cappella, and performed "The Star Spangled Banner" and a piece accompanied by a string quartet. The choir performs each December and each spring. Cathy Jolley, music instruction, Timberline Middle School. Mormon Tabernacle Choir Director Mac Wilberg, impressed with Jolley’s choral program, agreed to arrange the number "Down to the River to Pray" for students. It debuted in March 2009 at Timberline and the Tabernacle Choir has since recorded it and performs it regularly. Davis School District Martha Avant, music, Knowlton Elementary School. Avant plans an annual music program with each grade’s performance inspired by that year’s curriculum, such as 3rd graders who learned to sing in Chinese. Linda Gold, drama instruction, Creekside and Whitesides Elementaries. Gold helps students write and record engaging school announcements and serves as master puppeteer in a Literacy Night show. She is central to school carnivals, an annual musical, Peace Builder activities and an after school story telling club. She conducts the annual Storytelling Festival, which helps students gain confidence in their public speaking and presentation skills. Duchesne County School District Michele Catten, arts volunteer. Catten expanded a volunteer effort in her child’s class into an arts curriculum for 40 classrooms in the Duchesne County School District. She created a volunteer team of mothers to help teach art in East Elementary School and Roosevelt Middle School. To guide volunteers and teachers, she has written dozens of lesson plans that integrate art with academic objectives in the Utah Core Standards for math, science, social studies and reading. Christine Dye, visual arts instruction, Roosevelt Jr. High School. When a tsunami hit Japan in 2011, Dye saw an opportunity to help her students learn about a different culture and experience the value of giving. Her class began folding cranes, each drawing a $1 donation from the community and a piece of clothing from Osh Kosh BGosh. The project spread to the whole school and more than 2,500 cranes were folded. Proceeds were sent to Kitakami Middle School, attended by many students who were orphaned during the tsunami. Granite School District Cindy McCandless, elementary arts integration, Morningside Elementary. McCandless integrates arts into her teaching in a variety of ways: she leads daily yoga exercises, uses dance in connection with her curriculum and has students demonstrate their learning through art. She culminates each year with an opera performance by her first-graders, who select the topic and write the music and lyrics. Jana Shumway, dance instruction, William Penn Elementary. Shumway reinforces curriculum through dance, encouraging reluctant students and providing a safe haven for learning through movement. Paul Watson, music instruction, Wasatch Jr. High. Watson creates an atmosphere where students want to learn. He tells great stories, he is motivational, and he creates curriculum that inspires students. Iron County School District: Pamela Robinson, administrator of arts education. Robinson, principal of Escalante Valley Elementary, is dedicated to making sure that the children in her school have the opportunity to experience art of all kinds, are proud of their work, and have their work properly displayed for all to see. As a 3rd grader, Robinson was struggling with academics when she was inspired by an art teacher who displayed her watercolor of seahorses clinging to seaweed. "Whatever it is that makes a student feel the way I felt at that moment, we need to provide it," she says. Ogden School District: Bruce Burningham, visual arts instruction, Ogden High School. Burningham places art as the center of student work, which helps to remove social and language barriers that might isolate some students. At Ogden High School, more than 25 percent of students are non-native English speakers and over 65 percent are from low income households. Salt Lake City School District. Hilary Carrier, dance instruction, West High School Carrier helps her peers develop their professional skills, often hosting festivals and symposia, and organized a district dance teachers’ collaborative study group. Patrick Eddington, visual arts instruction, Highland High School. In December, Eddington writes a holiday letter to each of his students, describing their specific strengths and encouraging them to continue developing their talents. He urges students to think about their futures, in college or in an occupation, and helps students apply for schools and scholarships. Budge Porritt, Jr., music instruction. Porritt Jr. first joined the school band at age 11, using a clarinet his father had rescued from a neighbor’s attic. He mastered the clarinet and went on to learn trumpet, trombone, violin, cello, flute, saxophone, French horn, guitar and drums. Nebo School District: Samuel Tsugawa, Springville Jr. High. Tsugawa hosts annually an "intergenerational" concert, where Springville students perform with members of Brigham Young University’s New Horizons Orchestra, comprised of senior citizens. And every BYU secondary music education major takes part in the instruction of his seventh grade string class. Provo School District: Edgemont Elementary School, Exemplary Arts Program. Through the program, art specialists give students a variety of art experiences and teachers use innovative classroom methods. When recent budget cuts threatened to reduce the specialist to a part-time teacher, the community helped raise funds through a car wash and sales of popcorn, baked goods and art by 5th grade students. James Rees, visual arts instruction, Provo High School. Each year for the past 15 years, Rees has organized lectures by guest artists to expose students to different approaches and help them find their own style. The lectures are open to the public. Washington County School District: Ferron Holt, district arts coordinator, Lifetime Achievement Award. Max Rose, the district’s superintendent, calls Holt energetic and innovative. "There is no end to his artistic curiosity and his pure heart of being a leader in our arts community," Rose said. "... He values the members of society who live in the margins and has a great appreciation of ethnic diversity. He has a strong sense that his mission is to lift and inspire people. Ferron knows how to greet each day as an opportunity to be a positive force in the communities in which he resides." Summit Academy charter school, Draper. Molly Neves, visual arts instruction. Neves brings children and families together at an annual Art Gallery Stroll. Classes perform musical numbers, each grade displays student artwork, and other works from the University of Utah Art Museum or other galleries are included.

Imelda H. Armstrong - B.S., Business Education, 1979

Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 MST

The Enterprise
Imelda "Erni" Armstrong, president and CEO of Freestyle Marketing Group, has been named Outstanding Asian Business Owner by the Utah Asian Chamber of Commerce. Armstrong, whose family emigrated from the Philippines to the U.S. when she was 12 years old, received the award at the Eighth Annual Business Award and Scholarship Gala on May 11. The "Outstanding Asian Business Owner" award is awarded each year to successful Asian business owners who have outstanding professional achievements, a history of supporting community and nonprofit efforts and who show creativity, initiative and excellence in how the do business. Armstrong founded Freestyle Marketing Group in 2000 after a long history of working in the advertising industry. "Erni is one of the smartest people I know in advertising," said Jason Harrison, creative director for Freestyle.

Mr. Jeffrey C. Baugh - B.S., Business, 2005; B.S., Physical Education, 2005

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 MST

Herald Journal
Jeff Baugh is excited to have recently joined Dr. Kelly Hubbard and Adrienne P. McMaster at Cache Valley Dermatology. He returns from practicing as a Physician Assistant at West Dermatology in Northern California and considers it a great privilege to "come home to Cache Valley." Jeff begun his formal education at Utah State University where he double majored in business and exercise science, graduating magna cum laude and valedictorian of his class. He then attended Midwestern University in Glendale, Ariz., where he earned his master of medical science degree in the physician assistant program. Jeff's hobbies include cycling, snowboarding, sports, and spending time outdoors with his wife and four children. He is accepting new patients with same day or next day appointments, to schedule call 435-757-5741. Se habla espanol.

Mr. Derald Martin Miller – M.A., Master of Business Administration, 2009

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 MST

The Enterprise
Pacific WebWorks Inc., a Salt Lake City-based software developer, has announced that Derald Miller has joined the company as its new vice president of sales and marketing. Miller has extensive international business experience in sales, operations management and process improvement, most recently at Skullcandy Inc. Prior to working at Skullcandy, he founded Westfahl Devices, a security device company that competes in the home security industry, where he served as CEO. Derald holds an MBA from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

Steven Parkinson – B.S., Biology, 1985; B.S., Business Administration, 1986; M.A., Master of Business Administration, 1987

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 MST

Herald Journal
The Retirement Advisor University, in collaboration with UCLA’s Anderson School of Management Executive Education, has awarded the Certified 401(k) Professional designation to Steven Parkinson of Logan. Parkinson is among the first 75 recipients of this designation in the nation. The Certified 401(k) Professional designation is awarded to financial professionals who complete a rigorous curriculum of more than 50 courses, a proctored examination, write a case study detailing real examples of how they are utilizing knowledge from these courses, and attend an intensive week-long classroom training at UCLA Anderson in Los Angeles. Parkinson can be contacted at 435-752-8504.

Mr. Alan S. Raymond – B.S., Finance, 1988

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 MST

Today, leading global authentication and encryption company DigiCert announced the hiring of high-tech and medical sales veteran executive Alan Raymond as its new Vice President of Sales; the company also has hired security researcher and QA professional Dan Timpson as its new Director of Project Management and Quality Assurance. Raymond and Timpson bring to DigiCert a combined nearly four decades of experience, immediately bolstering the company’s enterprise and channel sales capabilities as well as its product platform performance and security, respective to their individual areas of expertise. “As DigiCert continues to expand its product offerings and outpace the competition in market share growth, we are attracting top-level talent to help us continue to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations,” said DigiCert CEO Nicholas Hales. “Alan and Dan both bring impressive backgrounds and strong expertise within their fields, and we look forward to their numerous contributions in the months and years to come as DigiCert expands its reach internationally and into new emerging market sectors.” With his hiring, Raymond will immediately contribute to growing DigiCert’s impressive enterprise security client base as well as building out its emerging channel sales and healthcare IT markets. Raymond brings more than 25 years of sales leadership experience to DigiCert, including more than half of that as a senior executive for leading software companies. He also has nearly a dozen years’ experience as a top sales manager within the healthcare industry. His achievements have been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Channel Sales Execs” in VAR Business Magazine and he has been featured in Computer Reseller News. In his most recent position as Sr. Vice President of Global Sales at software solution provider Certiport, Raymond was instrumental in forging key alliances, hosting annual partner conferences and driving strong global sales growth. Outside of work, Raymond actively volunteers in the community and enjoys skiing and playing golf. Through research and partnership with DigiCert customers, and assessment of emerging software trends, Timpson plans to contribute his expertise to help his team make DigiCert’s product platforms increasingly robust and secure against evolving threats. Timpson joins DigiCert with nearly 15 years’ experience in software engineering, penetration testing and program management, most recently at Microsoft Corporation. Timpson is familiar with multiple programming languages, has more than a decade of applied Linux experience, and has experience with technical French. He enjoys researching software security issues, and is the co-founder of testingsecurity.com. Timpson is a frequent presenter and has participated in security testing and hacking competitions. In his spare time, Timpson enjoys playing jazz music on the piano and is a USPTA-certified tennis professional. About DigiCert, Inc. DigiCert is a premier online trust provider of enterprise security solutions with an emphasis on authentication, PKI and high-assurance digital certificates. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, DigiCert is trusted by a continually growing clientele of more than 70,000 of the world’s leading government, finance, education and Fortune 500® organizations. DigiCert has been recognized for its excellence in customer support and the workplace, and was applauded for its value-added product features with the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Customer Value Enhancement Award for SSL Certificates. For the latest news and updates on DigiCert, visit www.digicert.com, like DigiCert on Facebook® or follow Twitter® handle @digicert.

Senator Wayne Larry Niederhauser – B.S., Accounting, 1984; M.S., Accounting, 1985

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 MST

Salt Lake Tribune
On Wednesday, one of the state's leading philanthropic families will be honored for its dedication to improving the well-being of Utah families when the United Way of Salt Lake presents its 2013 Celebration of Service awards banquet. The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation will receive the Compassionate Leader of the Year award, joining several other individuals and organizations that will be recognized for their service to the community. The event begins at noon at Little America, 555 S. Main Street, in Salt Lake City. Registration opens at 11:30 a.m. 'The Eccles family name is synonymous with compassion, contribution and service,' said Deborah Bayle, president and CEO of United Way of Salt Lake. 'With the support of the Eccles Foundation for so many years, we have been able to make monumental strides toward changing the odds for Utah children and families.' The Eccles family has been a generous supporter of the University of Utah and other community organizations and causes, and has provided volunteer support for a variety of agencies. United Way of Salt Lake also will honor Cecelia Foxley as Volunteer of the Year; Savage as Corporate Partner of the Year; Granite School District as Promise Partner of the Year; and Utah State Senate President Wayne Niederhauser and Sen. Todd Weiler as recipients of the President's Award for Excellence. Compassionate Leader of the Year » The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation was one of the first organizations to support United Way's new Collective Impact work, making a $100,000 donation for Neighborhood Center support programs. This helped establish the growth of United Way's neighborhood work in Salt Lake, Summit and Davis counties. Last year, the Eccles Foundation also gave $1 million to United Way of Salt Lake's education- related Changing the Odds Campaign. Volunteer of the Year » Foxley served more than 10 years as commissioner of the Utah System of Higher Education, as well as CEO of the State Board of Regents. She also served on United Way's board of directors and as a member of its Women's Leadership Council. She is a member of United Way's Changing the Odds Campaign steering committee, which last year raised more than $14.5 million. Corporate Partner of the Year » Savage, which specializes in supply chain management solutions, contributed $1 million to the Changing the Odds Campaign to support strategies that ensure every child succeeds in school. The company also encourages its employees to volunteer and give hands- on support at United Way. Promise Partner of the Year » Granite School District Granite School Dis- trict has offered academic, health and basic needs opportunities for children and families in the communities of South Salt Lake, West Valley/Granger and Kearns. Superintendent Martin Bates helped in efforts to offer pre- school services to refugee students. President's Award for Excellence » Sens. Niederhauser and Weiler have helped strengthen the state's 2-1-1 system, the information and referral resource for health and human services. They led a task force that drafted a bill authorizing $250,000 toward the 2-1-1 system.

Mr. Eric L. Sorenson – B.S., Business Information Systems, 2002

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 MST

The Enterprise
Arches Health Plan, a non-profit health insurance company and co-op owned solely by its members, has hired Eric Sorenson as its chief information officer and chief information security officer. Prior to joining Arches, Sorenson worked as the information security officer with HealthEquity. Sorenson’s experience includes enacting policies, procedures and safeguards to ensure regulatory compliance around HITECH, HIPAA, PCI and GLBA and instituting a vendor-risk assessment program to identify and mitigate risks posed by third-party service providers.