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Anthony Harris
Born in Chicago, Harris graduated from Purdue University with
honors (Dean's List, Pi Tau Sigma) with a B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering. He went on to attend Harvard Graduate School of
Business, where he received a MBA. With a solid academic foundation,
he began his career working for Standard Oil Company as a project
engineer in 1975. He moved on to Ford and held various positions
including a quality supervisor and production supervisor in
1979. He later started his own entrepreneurial venture, Sonoma
Ford Lincoln/Mercury, where he served as CEO.
In 1992 he became a marketing manager for Pacific Gas & Electric,
Russian River Division. Rising through the ranks quickly he
became the vice-president, marketing and Sales in 1995, and
vice president business customer service by 1996. Currently,
he is the Vice President of National Account Services at PG&E
Energy Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation.
NSBE is still close to Harris, and he sits on the NSBE National
Advisory Board, counseling the current NSBE National Executive
Board with governance issues. He is active in the Society of
Automotive Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
and is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC).
Harris also sits on the Board of Directors of the Oakland Museum
of California, the Santa Clara Valley Manufacturer's Group.
Harris is currently married and resides in California with his
wife Angela and sons Anthony and Alexander.
Brian Harris
Harris began his professional career in 1975 with Amoco
Chemicals Corporation as a project engineer for the engineering
group.
Following project assignments in Houston Texas, he was
reassigned to the corporate headquarters in Chicago,
joining the sales
department as the Midwest regional sales representative.
After five years with Amoco, Harris established his own
firm specializing
in general construction. He is currently a general partner
in Progressive Development & Associates, a construction
management firm and owner of a commercial and residential
painting company.
Harris, a native of Chicago is married and resides in Evanston,
Illinois. The great sense of pride Harris feels being one of
the catalysts of NSBE is surpassed only by the tremendous growth
NSBE has realized.
Harris earned a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Purdue
University,
Edward A. Coleman
Coleman is currently Manager of Wireless Data Strategy and Product
Management for Lucent Technologies.
After graduating from Purdue, he joined Standard Oil
of Indiana as a refinery engineer. Later he joined AT&T
in 1979. Assignments with the company have included stints
with NCR and now, Lucent
Technologies. His responsibilities have included sales
support, project management, product management, and
software development
for various network communications and computer products.
Coleman is also the President of the Board of Directors
of the Hope Fair Housing Center, and is active in other
civic organizations.
He was a founder of the AT&T Horizons program for
counseling high school students. Coleman is married,
father of one
and
enjoys working out, golf and photography.
Born and raised in Chicago, Coleman received a B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering and a MBA from DePaul University.
Stanley L. Kirtley
Kirtley is currently vice President Client Community relations
for ASC Services Company L.L.C. in Chicago. His current responsibilities
include business development corporate communications, marketing
and public relations. ASC is a $160M architectural/engineering
design and construction management firm. ASC manages Ameritech's
construction program.
Previously, Kirtley held various assignments in real estate,
design and construction, and purchasing at Ameritech over 14
years. He also worked at Ford and Procter and Gamble.
He is a member of the International Facilities Management Association
and is on the Board of Directors for the American Kidney Fund
in Washington, D.C. He is also active as a board member of the
Calvary Baptist Church of Glenwood, is an advisory board member
for the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue, in addition to
serving as a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for the
Purdue Chapter of NSBE. Kirtley is also a member of Kappa Alpha
Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Kirtley earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Purdue and a
MBA with Distinction in Marketing from Keller Graduate School
of Management.
George A. Smith
Upon graduating from Purdue, Smith joined General Electric as
a Process Control Engineer. In 1978 he moved to Hewlett Packard
and launched a successful career as a Field Sales Engineer.
By 1985 he had won many awards and was promoted to District
Sales Manager. Smith earned the HP President's Club Award, the
highest recognition offered at HP. The award was presented to
Smith personally by HP founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard.
In 1992, Smith fulfilled a lifelong dream and started his own
business, the Sales Process Consulting Company. His firm studies
the best business practices from Fortune 500 company sales forces,
analyzes opportunities to apply information technology and conducts
process analysis training workshops.
Smith is most proud of the two groundbreaking business improvement
books he authored, Sales Productivity Measurement and The Sales
Quality Audit. Both are published by the American Society of
Quality. Smith received a B.S. in electrical engineering from
Purdue.
John W. Logan, Jr.
John Logan graduated from Purdue with a B.S. Civil Engineering
in 1975. Logan was Vice President at the 1st National Convention.
He was killed in an industrial accident at Amoco Oil Refinery
in Houston, TX in 1986.
Until his untimely death, Logan continued his affiliation with
NSBE by participating in National Conferences and working diligently
to assist Amoco's minority engineering recruitment efforts.
Purdue University's Minority Engineering Program and The Amoco
Foundation established the John Logan Memorial Scholarship fund
in his honor.
His wife Marilyn, son John Wesley Logan, III, mother Martha
and his sister Etelka, survives him.
Dr. Arthur Bond, Ph.D.
Dr. Bond, joined Alabama A&M as Dean of Engineering
and Technology in August 1992 after having served as
Professor and head of
the Electrical Engineering Department at Tuskegee University
since 1989.
While at Tuskegee, he was a member of SYTHESIS Coalition of
eight engineering schools sharing a $15.3 million National Science
Foundation grant to upgrade engineering programs and increase
the number of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering.
Dr. Bond is a tireless advocate for quality engineering education
for minorities. As a result of his efforts, AAMU is the only
university in the country to have a directed verdict that ordered
new engineering programs. The verdict came out of a long running
desegregation lawsuit against the State of Alabama. In May 1999,
AAMU will graduate its first class from the new Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering programs.
Prior to Tuskegee, Dr. Bond worked in commercial industry for
AlliedSignal, Hughes, TRW and Union Carbide in capacities ranging
from electronics research technician through research and development
engineer/scientist.
Dr. Bond received his B.S. MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
from Purdue University. He is the recipient of the ASEE Vincent
Bendix Award, the NACME Reginald H. Jones Award and the Huntsville
Association of Technical Societies as AAMU's Professor of the
Year. He is married to Carolyn Duvall and they recently celebrated
their 30th wedding anniversary.
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