“Job” Class Notes

Gregory M. Mullin (Arch ’95) has joined PGAL, an international architecture, engineering and planning firm, as principal of its Atlanta, Georgia, office.

Amy Moore Ring (Col ’91) became the director of planning and zoning for Isle of Wight County, Virginia, on January 1, 2017. With more than 20 years of planning experience, Ms. Ring has been certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners. She earned her master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Virginia Commonwealth University after completing her bachelor’s degree at the University in 1991.

Alex C. Kepley (Col ’89 L/M) is head golf coach at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the team won back-to-back Division I Ohio Golf State Championships in 2015 and 2016. This makes three Division I state championships since 2008 for St. Xavier, the largest Jesuit high school in the country. Mr. Kepley also is vice president at CBT Co., where he has been employed for 27 years. CBT is a leading independent industrial distributor of automation, electrical, power transmission and material handling/conveyor equipment. Mr. Kepley, who dislikes cold weather, lives in Naples, Florida, from November through June and in Cincinnati from June through October.

Andrew B. Stein (Col ’86) has left a successful career in banking to pursue the spirit of philanthropy fostered during his time at the University through the Orphaned Starfish Foundation. Founded by Mr. Stein more than 15 years ago, the foundation is now helping more than 10,000 orphans—victims of abuse, trafficking and poverty in 25 countries worldwide—to escape their cycles of abuse and poverty through education, job training and job placement. Mr. Stein and his foundation were honored in the fall by a three-part feature as part of the CNN Freedom Project.

Van T. Chen (Col ’86, Med ’90 L/M) has been named chief medical director of the rehabilitation hospital division of Vibra Healthcare. Vibra is the fifth-largest provider of rehabilitation services in the country by net revenue. Dr. Chen will advise and work with the company’s leadership about inpatient rehabilitation facilities across the country. He will continue as medical director of Ballard Rehabilitation Hospital, one of the company’s hospitals in San Bernardino, California. Dr. Chen and his wife live in Riverside, California.

David Chambers (Col ’85 L/M) founded and is CEO of Carpamus, a management consultancy in Reston, Virginia. Carpamus leads high-value, complex sales at critical stages (capture, proposals, orals). Mr. Chambers has spent more than 25 years in sales internationally (Europe and the Middle East) and nationally, particularly to the federal government. Previous employers include Deloitte, Accenture, and BearingPoint. At the University, he studied Arabic and Persian for an independent major that helped pave the way for the Middle East Studies program. Having lived and worked in the region for nearly a decade, he continues to use those languages today. He has served as vice president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Alumni Association. Currently, he serves on the community advisory board of the Kennedy Center, the advisory board of the PostClassical Ensemble, and the alumni advisory board of the University’s media studies department.

Renee Hom Neary (Col ’83) is an associate with Boyd Collar Nolen & Tuggle in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Neary will serve clients in a range of family law issues including divorce, division of property, alimony, establishing child support, complex custody litigation and the negotiation of pre- and post-nuptial agreements. She is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia (family law section) and the Atlanta Bar Association, and is a founding member of the Georgia Asian Pacific Bar Association.

Jerome L. Rubin (Col ’66 L/M) has joined the Seattle, Washington, office of Williams Kastner. A leading labor and employment attorney, Mr. Rubin brings more than 30 years of experience to the firm. He will join the firm’s labor and employment practice group. He concentrates his practice in National Labor Relations Board proceedings; union negotiations; equal employment and discrimination claims before agencies and courts; employment at will; Federal Contractor Compliance; wage and hour issues; unemployment and workers’ compensation cases; general personnel management and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

John Sheehan (Law ’08) has joined UPMC as a staff attorney in the Insurance Services Division. UPMC, headquartered in Pittsburgh, is the largest non-governmental employer in Pennsylvania and provides insurance services to over 2 million members. He spent the previous two years as a stay at home parent to his daughters Molly and Kate. John and his wife Alexis previously lived in Austin, Texas where John worked as an associate at Andrews Kurth LLP, a staff attorney on the Third Court of Appeals, and the writer and director of the independent feature film, For Serious.

Benjamin A. Garcia (Grad ’05) was recently promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Garcia’s research involves the development of novel analytical approaches for investigating protein modifications during important cellular functions. He has been the recipient of several awards including the NIH New Innovator Award, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Dr. Robert Arceci Scholar Award and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Michael Todd (Grad ’07) has been named Associate Vice President for Research for the University of North Carolina system.

Kimberly Smith (Col ’91) and A.J. Smith (Com ’92, ’96) are both CPA’s and have lived in the UK for the past 10 years. They have returned to Charlottesville and have started a tax preparation and consulting practice for US citizens living abroad, Vagabond Tax.