STEAM Career Exploration Night
March 24th 7:00-9:00p.m.
Medea Creek Middle School
Program Guide
Industry Sector
Arts, Media and
Entertainment
Table
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1
Career Field
Job Description
Production and
Managerial Art
a) Chris Hayden: Assistant Director, Television programs, films, TV commercials
b) Adam Sandler: Director/Producer, "The Price Is Right" on CBS.
c) David Zweig: Creative Design
Arts, Media and
Entertainment
2
Visual Arts,
Game Design
a) Jeff Purves: Artist, animated films, comic books, children's books,
theme park design and live action films,
b) Lee and Susan Cummings: Creative Director / Executive Producer, design and produce
video games.
Arts, Media and
Entertainment
3
Director, Film Editor
a) Michael Lavine: Director/Writer/Editor, Directed numerous dramatic and action television
shows as well as an independent film, editor of reality television shows.
b) Rob Stone: Producer/Director, Vienna Productions, which specializes in documentaries and specials.
Credits include Blue Angels, Around the World at the Speed of Sound, Thunder Over the Pacific,
One Vision, as well as multiple episodes of the History Channel’s Modern Marvels .
Business and Finance
4
Business management;
Financial Services
a) Susie Harris: Certified Public Accountant, Audits financial statements of public and private companies,
prepare financial statements; provide any other financial information requested by the CEO or CFO.
b) Amar Nadig: Product Manager, Data Science Engines, Analyzes collected data and helps organizations
make meaningful decisions with it.
Business and Finance
5
Business Management
Engineering
6
Environmental
Engineering
a) Ryan Schnobrich: Management Consultant, Chief Financial Officer of a $2.4 billion real estate
management organization. MBA Principal Broker, Property & Casualty Broker-Agent
a) Dan Cooper: Independent biologist specializing in the flora and fauna of the Los Angeles region. Works
on environmental impact reports and does surveys for a wide variety of clients.
Engineering
7
Engineering Design
a) Bill Folette: Program Manager, development of technologies including clean energy, hypersonics,
rockets, artificial intelligence, underwater drone propulsion, and automotive propulsion.
b) Carleen Wilson: Electrical and Rocket Engine Engineer, Space Launch System for deep space
exploration. Launched astronauts into space with Space Shuttle Main Engines, designed electronics for
International Space Station batteries, designed electro-optics for Boeing 747, designed interface to Cray
supercomputer.
a.) Lisa Harris: Clinical Psychologist, works with people who have problems with anxiety, depression,
relationships, and stressful life situations.
b.) Michael Green: Neuropsychologist, Clinical research at UCLA and the Los Angeles VA, cognitive and
social neuroscience, Professor at UCLA in clinical neuropsychology.
a) Stacey Fine: Physician and Surgeon, Women's health physician and surgeon.
b) Janice Ferran: Registered Nurse, direct care to critically ill patients with cardiovascular deficiencies in the
Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Los Robles Hospital
a) Stephen Madhavan MD MPH: Head, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Division, Occupational
and Environmental Medicine, Family Practice and Preventive Medicine. Public Health Emergency Officer
providing guidance on humanitarian aid to victims of bioterrorism.
b) Ashish Toor: Ophthalmologist, medical doctor who specializes in diseases of the eye.
a) Carl Schnurr: Video Game Engineer, Designer, Artist, and Producer
b) David Cortes: Sr. Software Engineer, Software Engineering applied to audio
Health Science
8
Mental and Behavioral
Health
Health Science
9
Patient Care
Health Science
10
Patient Care
Information and
Communication
Technology
Information and
Communication
Technology
11
Games and Simulations
Software Engineer
12
Software and Systems
Development
University
Science/STEM
Education
13
Professor of Planetary,
Earth and Space
Sciences
Manufacturing and
Product Development
14
Manufacturing and
Product Development
a) Sam Farhat: Senior Product Engineer, Develop new materials for Boeing, SpaceX, NASA, JPL, and
Google. Innovative chemistry, these materials are able to withstand high temperatures, fire, radiation,
and other aggressive environments and protect sensitive systems in aircraft, radar, submarines, and
drones.
Marketing, Sales,
Services
15
Marketing, Entrepreneur
a) Falgun Patel: Optics engineering degree, MS and PhD in laser physics, R&D in telecom, defense, and
high tech companies, manager engineering projects, and marketing and business development.
b) Ron Laughton: Computer programmer turned into technology entrepreneur. Leads a fast growing, selffunded start up. Learn what it is like to start your own technology company.
Marketing, Sales,
Services
16
Marketing, Technology
Software Engineering
a) Tim Hennessey: Senior Account Executive for Pandora, Software and web development, music
operations, playlist engineering, scientist engineering, infrastructure, analytics and QA engineers.
a) Dhaval Shah: VP, Quality Assurance, Computer Scientist with 20+ years of experience in Software,
Wireless, Networking, Internet Industries. Experience in Computer Science, Software, Wireless, Internet
Industries; Network Security, Information Security Specialist.
b) Christopher Schafer: Information Security Specialist, Computer and network security
a) Kevin McKeegan Professor and chair of the Dept. of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA.
Research in cosmochemistry, meteoritics and planetary science, and geochemistry/geochronology, Coleader of several NASA missions.
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
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