Steven is a graduate of Stanford University, where he earned a BS in Computer Science with a minor in English. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering society, and he won Best in Show awards from IBM and the Stanford Computer Science Department for his senior programming project. Steven was also a research intern and a residential computer consultant while at Stanford.

Since his graduation, Steven has worked with Microsoft's Windows Division as a software design engineer in test, and with NVIDIA Corporation's Modular Diagnostics Team as a systems software engineer. He is also a marathon runner and an Eagle Scout, and he enjoys international travel.

January 3, 2008
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Mike Stubna to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Mike joins us from Cornell University, where he earned a PhD in Engineering and Applied Mathematics. His thesis was an analysis of cardiac tissue using differential equations and computational models. Mike also earned a BS in engineering from Penn State University, where he was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow.

Following his graduation from Cornell, Mike has taught at several universities, including the University of New Mexico, Penn State, and, most recently, the Philadelphia University School of Engineering and Science. He has also served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ohio State University Mathematical and Biological Systems Institute, and as a consultant with both Pfizer, Inc./Ohio State University and RAM Industrial Services, Inc.

Outside of work, Mike enjoys reading, playing chess, and training for and competing in elite level bicycle races.

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October 26, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Gregory Haislip to our staff as an Analyst.

Gregory joins us from Princeton University, where he graduated Cum Laude and earned a BA in Astrophysical Sciences. He wrote his senior thesis on finding red-sequence galaxy clusters in Cosmic Evolution Survey. In addition, Gregory conducted research on the dynamics around a supermassive black hole and determining properties of active galaxies. He was also awarded the Pyka Prize for excellence in freshman physics.

Outside of work, Gregory enjoys golf, books, and fencing, and he is a die-hard Yankees fan.

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October 17, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Anthony Foglia to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Anthony joins us from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he earned a PhD in physics, with a concentration in theoretical condensed matter. While at California, he conducted original research on plasticity theory involving numerically solving systems of nonlinear differential equations. Anthony also earned a BA in Physics and Engineering from Dartmouth College, where he graduated Magna cum Laude and was a Golden Key International Honor Society member. He has worked as a lab assistant at the Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories, as well as the webmaster for two comic websites.
Anthony enjoys cooking, comic strips, and swing and salsa dancing.

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September 20, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Yehuda Snir to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Yehuda joins us from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned an MS and is a doctoral candidate in Physics and Astronomy. As a graduate student, he was awarded a dissertation fellowship and was an invited speaker at both ICMENS and the APS March Meeting. Yehuda earned a BS in Physics and Mathematics, both with honors, from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Mu Epsilon. He also served as an undergraduate research assistant at both Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, and he was a summer intern for IBM at the T.J. Watson Research Facilities in Yorktown, New York.

September 20, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Tracy Eddy to our staff as an Administrative Assistant.

Tracy comes to Princeton Consultants from Rutgers University, where she earned an MA and is a doctoral candidate in American Political History, with a minor in the History of Technology, Health and the Environment. She also taught undergraduate courses at Rutgers in US history, political history and World War II. For four years, Tracy was also a graduate assistant at the IEEE History Center, where she conducted research, trained new assistants, and contributed articles for IEEE publications.

Tracy also earned a BA from Rutgers, where she graduated with High Honors and History Department Honors. As a Henry Rutgers Scholar, she was awarded a Harold Poor Prize for her senior thesis, and she received Dean's List recognition for every semester attended.

While not working on her dissertation, Tracy enjoys following the Philadelphia Phillies and Philadelphia Eagles, and she is a diehard New Jersey Devils fan.

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August 29, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Jonathan Wall to our staff as an Associate.

Jon joins us from the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his MS degree in Electrical Engineering, and BS in Engineering and Applied Science with Honors. Jon also graduated with a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Occidental College.

While at CalTech, Jon co-founded his own company, BlueSky Robotics, which developed for NASA's JPL the world's first robot capable of walking in zero gravity. Jon's work also includes the design of a humanoid robot for work with autistic individuals.

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August 22, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Wontaek Shin to our staff as an Associate.

Wontaek joins us from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Wontaek served as a Research Engineer at the university's Robotics Institute, working on many projects including web service design for the MAX Rover deep-sea work vehicle. Other research included circuit design to increase the efficiency and life span of Ni-Cad batteries, software development for GPS navigation devices, and development of a peer-to-peer wireless communication net that enabled robots to retrieve items from a maze as a team.

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August 22, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Dylan Semler to our staff as an Associate.

Dylan joins us with a B.A. in Physics from Mcalester College with honors. Most recently, Dylan has been studying and working at Columbia University in the Astrophysics department, where he has published several papers based on analyses of photometric data gathered at the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has required him to write programs to manage large quantities of raw information and streamline the data reduction process.

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August 16, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Matthew Hansen to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Matt joins us from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he has worked as a Research Assistant in the area of Theoretical Astrophysics, following his Ph.D. Matt's doctoral research into the escape of photons from the violent early phase of galaxy formation sparked interest with top observers at the Hubble Telescope Science Institute, causing them to conduct new experiments using the Hubble Telescope. For this work he was honored with a research award from NASA. Matt's undergraduate degrees are from Reed College, where he majored in Physics and Mathematics.

Matt enjoys sports, playing on UCSB's volleyball and squash teams, most notably as the college's squash champion. He also competes regularly in Go tournaments.

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July 23, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Matthew Wright to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Matt comes to PCI with a PhD in Atomic Physics from The University of Connecticut. He recently returned from Austria where he was a Marie Curie Fellow, doing laser physics research for www.ultracold.at at Universität Innsbruck. Matt's undergrad work was done at Westminster College in his home state of Pennsylvania, graduating cum laude with a BS in Physics.

Matt actively enjoys many sports such as baseball, football, basketball and running. He also teaches advanced swing dance courses.

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July 23, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Tibérius Bonates to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Tibérius recently earned his PhD in Operations Research at Rutgers University. His dissertation was titled Optimization in Logical Analysis of Data. A native Brazilian, he completed his BS and MS degrees at the State University of Ceará and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, respectively. Tibérius is an active member of INFORMS, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, participating in talks at their annual conferences and seminars. He has also completed an internship at Dash Optimization in NJ, and served as both a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant.

Tibérius enjoys spending time with family and friends, and playing racquetball, bowling, and chess.

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July 16, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Ivan Rankenburg to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Ivan joins us from Cornell University where he recently earned his PhD in Physics. His undergraduate work was completed in his home state of California at UC Davis, where he double majored in Physics and Mathematics. At both universities he served as a Researcher as well as a popular Teaching Assistant/Lecturer. Ivan's research topics have included the packing of regular polyhedra in two dimensions, iterative search algorithms, diffraction microscopy, and protein conformation energy minimization. For his PhD, Ivan created software that predicted the native structure of proteins.

Ivan enjoys running, playing Ultimate Frisbee, and is a talented jazz pianist.

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July 9, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Pavel Sherman to our staff as an Associate.

Born in Moldova (formerly part of the USSR), Pavel came to America at age seven. A recent graduate of Rutgers University, he holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a Minor in Mathematics, and was distinguished as a member of the university's Outstanding Scholars Program. His scholastic achievements also include Phi Beta Kappa membership, a National AP Scholar award, and Dean's List recognition for every semester attended. As an intern, Pavel did web development for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute.

Pavel speaks fluent Russian, intermediate Spanish, and enjoys a good game of chess.

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July 9, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Elizabeth Tozour to our staff as an Analyst.

Fresh from the Rutgers University Honors Program, Elizabeth holds a B.S. in Physics and has completed one year of graduate studies. While in college, she was active with the High Energy Experiment Group, contributing (from NJ) to work on the CMS Detector at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider. Elizabeth is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Sigma Iota (foreign language) Honor Societies, served as Senior VP on the Society of Physics Students, peer mentored for three years, and earned multiple scholastic awards and three scholarships.

Additionally, Elizabeth sang Alto in the Voorhees Choir, and actively participates in community theater.

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July 9, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Adam Kaplan to our staff as an Associate.

Adam comes to PCI from Amherst College with a B.A. in Physics. His senior honors thesis was on Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers, or VCSEL's, and he served as a Professor's Assistant for several semesters. In 2004, he also completed a summer research fellowship at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

When not super-cooling Rubidium-87 atoms, Adam was involved in extracurricular activities such as swim team, water polo, and the school's program board arranging entertainment bookings.

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July 9, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Heath Hevlow to our staff as an Associate.

Heath joins us from Tulane University with a B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in computer game development, and a minor in mathematics. He's worked on many game projects including such titles as The Ways, Memoria, and Bumper Bash, and is a member of the International Game Development Association. Awards include the Tulane University Distinguished Scholar's Award.

As a point of interest, Heath was uprooted early in his senior year at Tulane as an effect of Hurricane Katrina. He became an academic refugee at the University of Missouri-Rolla for an entire semester. Additionally, he studied the French language for six years and Japanese for one.

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June 25, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Adrian Sindile to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Adrian comes to us from The University of New Hampshire, where he earned a PhD in Physics and an MS in Computer Science. His undergraduate degree was earned in his native Romania at Bucharest University. Since receiving his PhD, Adrian has been busy working as a Research Scientist II developing software for the MRI science program at UNH, in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). He has authored numerous publications regarding the finer points of magnetic imaging and nuclear physics.
In his spare time, Adrian is also an assistant instructor in the martial art Takeda-Ryu, and a student of Ninpo-Taijutsu.

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June 25, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Ben Stromsness to our staff as an Analyst.

Ben is a recent graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, with a B.S. in Computer Science. His main interest within that Major lies in math oriented courses such as Analysis of Algorithms and CS Theory. He comes with work experience from two paid internships, one at Brandon Associates developing HVAC software to update compatibility with various communication protocols, and one at Compendium Research Corp developing an MFC application.

Additional interests of Ben's include reading, fishing, video games, and an interest in the Japanese culture and language which led him to a ten-week study abroad program at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology in the summer of 2004.

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June 11, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Tyler Hone to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Tyler comes to us with a Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from The University of Utah, having done extensive research in the area of molecular dynamics (his thesis title was "Centroid Molecular Dynamics Studies of Many-Body Quantum Systems"). Most recently, Tyler's work as a Post -Doctoral Fellow at The University of Texas has led to significant improvements in the efficiency and accuracy of simulation methodologies in the area of quantum dynamics, as well as several multi-institutional publications. His undergraduate degree is from Weber State University, and he has excelled in many positions such as Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, receiving multiple academic honors and awards.

When he isn't simulating the behavior of supercritical helium, Tyler can often be found hiking, kayaking, or exercising. Other interests of his include world events, politics, and sports.

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May 5, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Michele Belfort-Mihalyi to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Michele joins us from University of Pittsburgh, where she has performed observational and theoretical research in extra-galactic astrophysics. Michele defends her Ph.D. thesis, "Investigating the Nature of Damped Lyman Alpha Galaxies" in August. Michele earned an M.Sc in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.Sc. with honors in Physics and Mathematics from University of Miami.

Michele's field work has led her to observatories from Mauna Kea in Hawaii to Kitt Peak in Arizona. At Pittsburgh she served as the President of the Association of Graduate Students and the Chair of the Graduate Expo Organizing Committee. Michele is a native French Speaker, fluent in English, conversational in Swedish and Spanish, and has knowledge of German.

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March 8, 2007

Todd Gibson to speak at the Third Annual SOA Teleunderwriting Seminar

Todd Gibson, Director of Princeton Consultants TeleUnderwriting Practice Area, will be speaking at the Third Annual SOA Teleunderwriting Seminar in Phoenix on March 8th, 2007. Based on his expertise in implementing teleunderwriting, Todd's presentation, "Its More Than a Phone Call: Transforming the New Business Process with Teleunderwriting," will address the impact of introducing teleunderwriting including cost, technology and organizational changes. Download the seminar brochure.

January 29, 2007
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Jeremy Urban to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Jeremy recently graduated from Cornell with a PhD in Physics (his dissertation title is Optimized Superferric Wiggler Design for the International Linear Collider Damper Ring). While working at the Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Jeremy performed computer simulations and hardware experiments on the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, and lead a team of undergraduate students in designing and executing experiments. His undergraduate degree is from Bucknell, and Jeremy spent a summer at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab as an undergraduate intern in particle physics, where he characterized the performance of particle detectors for a neutrino physics experiment; and a summer at the Indiana U Cyclotron Facility, working independently to maximize beam intensity for a nuclear physics experiment.

Other than physics, Jeremy's passion is rowing. At Bucknell, Jeremy was a member, then President of the crew team and continues to serve on their board; at Cornell Jeremy was President of the Dragon Boat Club, managing a competitive event for 100 racers and tripling club membership. He additionally designed and executed a publicity campaign for the club, and served as a coach, leading regular paddling clinics.

Jeremy is an Eagle Scout, a tour guide at the Cornell Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, and was on the executive board of the Physics Grad Society at Cornell. He crews almost daily, in addition to roadbiking and other exercise.

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January 15, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Patricia Randall to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Moving to New Jersey with her husband Robert, a fellow Princeton Consultanter, allowed Patricia to put her newly-minted degree to work as an Operations Research Analyst. Patricia developed and maintained an agent-based simulation using Swarm to evaluate the effects of potential business policies on long-term revenue, member attrition and inventory utilization.

When she is not working, Patricia enjoys reading, making crafts, and spending time with her family.

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January 12, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Carlos Oliveira to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Until recently, Carlos was an assistant professor at Oklahoma State, where he has been working in the field of logistics, operations research, and combinatorial optimization. Carlos earned his PhD in operations research from the University of Florida, working with Sr. Panos Pardalos to develop methods for the solution of higher dimesional assignment problems. A native of Brazil, his undergraduate and master's degrees in computer science were awarded from the University of Ceara.

Logistics and telecommunications with Operations Research applications is Carlos' primary area of research, and he was recently chosen as a national officer for the INFORMS telecommunications specialty area. Carlos has contributed to projects at Halliburton, ConcoPhillips, Raytheon, and Cingular Wireless, developing and implementing optimization for these Fortune 500 companies.

When he is not working, Carlos enjoys reading and working out.

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December 20, 2006
Princeton Consultants sends out its annual holiday letter.

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November 21, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Steve Charbonneau to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Steve grew up in Montreal and together with his wife recently relocated to New Jersey. He received as BS in Computer Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and has eight years of experience in software development and design.

At Loto-Quebec, Steve designed and developed lottery games, optimizing existing applications by improving performance and resource usage. Using C++ and Java, Steve developed archiving and data warehousing applications; tools such as Rational Rose aided in the documentation and creation of software models. In his work as a software designer and team leader at Gemplus Canada, Steve developed three security applications in C and Java for smartcards (embedded systems). His team applied digital signature and symmetrical cryptography concepts to the encryption process.

Steve enjoys walking his dogs, reading technology websites, and working out.

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November 20, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Cathy Keene to our staff as an Administrative Assistant.

Cathy recently joined the administrative staff at Princeton Consultants. A recent graduate of St. John's College, with its unique Great Books curriculum, Cathy worked there as both a Student Aide to the Assistant Dean, and a Communications Office Student Assistant. She was also Editor-in Chief of the College newspaper, and spent the summer of 2005 in Tibet, becoming educated about its people, culture, and current political situation.

At school, Cathy was additionally on the crew team, the fencing team, and a tutor at the St. John's Observatory/Planetarium. She comes to Princeton Consultants extremely well-read and with extensive administrative skills.

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November 20, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Phil Sim to our staff as an Assistant Systems Engineer.

Phil recently joined our IT department as an Assistant Systems Engineer. A recent graduate of Rutgers, with a dual degree in Computer Science and Psychology, Phil worked for both Flare Technologies and Jade Eastern Trading before joining Princeton Consultants. At Jade Eastern, Phil was the EDI/IT Administrator; at Flare Technologies he was the Web Hosting Support Technician.

After hours (we hope), Phil enjoys taekwondo, judo, kickboxing and ground wrestling.

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November 6, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Miriam Friedel to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Miriam recently completed her PhD in Physics at UC Santa Barbara; her research focused on using simplified computational models to study protein folding. To keep things fun, Miriam served as a teaching assistant for the UCSB Physics Circus, an outreach program aimed at introducing physics to grade school students. Miriam's work at SCSB on surface tethered proteins was published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

As an undergraduate at Brown (BS Physics), Miriam co-founded Brown's first tap dance ensemble and was selected for the Brown Repertory Company. In the summer following her junior year, Miriam worked as an undergraduate researcher at UC San Diego, as part of a 15+ member team that worked on a NASA-funded EarthKAM project. She debugged and refined algorithms to improve the targeting of pictures from the space shuttle. One of her advisors was Dr. Sally Ride, and she was later invited to participate in a space shuttle launch.

During a break in academia, Miriam worked for a small telecommunications start up as a marketing specialist. Her responsibilities included the production of marketing collateral, product testing, and management of the corporate website. She enjoys yoga, hiking and backpacking.

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November 6, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Ragnar Karlsson to our staff as an Associate.

Ragnar recently completed a master's degree (Discrete Mathematics) from the University of Iceland. His thesis, Strip Graphs and Related Scheduling Problems, was the first student paper to be published and presented at an international conference. He also worked as a Research Assistant at the university, researching topics in graph theory and process scheduling, focusing mainly on approximation and efficient exponential algorithms for hard scheduling problems.

Ragnar's earned a BS in Integrated Mathematics: Computer Science at the University of New Hampshire, where he was a Resident Assistant and served on the Hall Council.

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October 30, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Andrew Szilva to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Andrew joins us from the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University, where he has worked for the past three years as a visiting student research collaborator; his research has included developing software to efficiently analyze the electron structure of molecules.

Prior to Princeton, Andrew earned a PhD in Physical Chemistry (and a theoretical chemistry specialty) from UCLA. Andrew's PhD research allowed him to approximate a solution to the Schrodinger equation that scales favorably with increased molecular size. He was the sole recipient of an Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics fellowship and has presented at numerous seminars and workshops for IPAM, including Modeling and Simulation for Materials and Quantum Computing. Andrew also holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MS in Chemistry and Biochemistry from UCLA.

Having completed four marathons, Andrew continues to train regularly, at school he started a marathon running club. He also practices Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. He enjoys cooking and spends several hours a week experimenting with new recipes.

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October 11, 2006

On October 11, 2006, Clark Troy, Senior Consultant, addressed the Harvard Private Equity Roundtable at the Harvard Club on the topic of "Hedge Funds: in Search of New Frontiers." Clark's talk addressed the strategies hedge funds have had to take to adapt to their dramatic rise in popularity and visibility over the last few years. Download the presentation

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October 3, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Helen Ross to our staff as an Associate

Helen most recently worked for Lockheed Martin, developing speech recognition software and engaging in neuropsychological research. At the Center for Human Computer Recognition in Oregon, Helen designed and executed a multimodal study on the effects of physical exertion on multimodal recognition; for the Oregon Department of Human Services, Helen developed upgrades to a database used to track HIV cases, allowing for audit compliancy.

Helen attended Carnegie Mellon at the age of 16, having completed high school in three years. She has a BS in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon and a Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from Oregon Health and Science University. For two summers during school Helen worked at the MITRE Corporation, conducting defense research into computer-supported collaborative learning.

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September 22, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Will Bastian to our staff as an Analyst

Will is a recent honors graduate of Skidmore College, with a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science. At Skidmore he was the Unix Server Administrator, providing remote maintenance of 10 machines across a G5 cluster. He additionally designed and implemented a parallel computing system utilizing MPI, and, while working at the Center for Information Technology Services, provided technical support for students and faculty, and repaired and implemented OSX images for public labs.

For several months in the Fall of 2004, Will worked for America Coming Together, canvassing and campaigning for the Democrats in several districts in Florida (his home state). He was nominated as 'group leader' on a 30 day Outward Bound course, and enjoys hiking and backpacking on a regular basis. Will also plays a mean blues guitar.

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September 22, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome David Johnson to our staff as a Senior Associate

David comes to Princeton Consultants with a PhD in Physics from the University of Texas, Austin. He also completed his undergraduate studies there and worked as a tutor for college athletes, a quantum optics researcher (with support from a Navy grant), and a TA. More recently, David worked as a math teacher at St Timothy's Boarding School, and taught engineering design principles at the John's Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Summer Programs.

David enjoys reading sci-fi and historical fiction and exercising.

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September 22, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Robert Randall to our staff as a Senior Associate

Robert comes to Princeton Consultants from Clemson University, where he recently obtained a PhD in Industrial Engineering. His dissertation "Single and multiple objective scheduling methods for rail yards with earliness and tardiness concern" was presented at the 2005 INFORMS annual conference, and is designed to improve the lives of railroad engineers by giving them a better idea of when their trains can be taken from the rail yard. Robert developed multiple Mixed Integer Programming Models for his research, including a new methodology for multiple objective genetic algorithms.

While at Clemson, Robert participated in a large-scale optimization project for a major utilities company. He created a Mixed Integer Programming model for maintenance call response, and developed a database of personnel to be used in this model. He was also selected to TA or teach a course each semester, a departmental honor.

Robert was raised in a small, rural southern town and grew up on his grandfather's farm. He played football, baseball and golf in high school, and still enjoys playing golf.

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September 11, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Thomas Moore to our staff as a Senior Associate

As a Senior Research Associate for the past 5 years at the BaBar Experiment, located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, Thomas conducted research together with over 600 physicists studying the matter/anti-matter asymmetry of the universe. He produced the world's best published result on the rate of very rare decays of the B meson, which involved the development of discriminating variables and optimization of selection criteria to search for ~50 signal events within a background of over 1 billion. The results were presented at international conferences, and Thomas performed studies to evaluate the discovery potential of future experiments.

Thomas also spent time at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), where he was the coordinator of the software package that describes the geometry of the Muon Spectrometer, one of the largest and most complex detector systems ever built. He received a BS in Physics from Furman University, and a PhD in Experimental High-Energy Physics from Yale.

Thomas is additionally artistic and has always drawn and painted (and received a scholarship to an arts college). An audiophile as well, he enjoys listening to music and exercising (sometimes simultaneously).

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August 14, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Joe Goodstein to our staff as an Associate

Joe is a Harvard graduate with a BA in Government and significant coursework in Abstract Mathematics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory and Rhetoric. At Harvard, he was involved with the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, serving as a liaison to the globalization fellow (a self-described anarchist); authoring an affirmative action speech for delivery by the Director of the Institute of Politics, and debating national and campus issues of concern at the Harvard Political Union.

Joe took a break from Harvard for a year and worked at Indasea, a software development company in Kula, Hawaii. Indasea is a software development company on contract with the Pentagon to design a computer system called the Cultural Simulation Model, which interprets news and other events in the context of cultural behavior expressions to better understand and anticipate terrorism. Joe conducted Excel data analysis and curve plotting, complex mathematical modelling, and compiled code and batch process; composed design specifications for new software modules and features; and designed a method for natural-language search traversals and associations in stochastic analyses and simulations.

Joe has also tutored, and worked for a strategy consulting company in Los Angeles. He enjoys acting, puzzles, and playing on his computer.

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August 1, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Greg Stevens to our staff as an Analyst

Greg is a recent graduate of Colgate, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a double major in Psychology and German. At Colgate, Greg was on the University Cheerleading Squad for four years and served as a delegate to the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. He spent a semester at the Freiburg University in Germany, and took advantage of his location by traveling throughout Europe.

While at Colgate, Greg worked for SOURCe as a System Analyst Supervisor, responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of five computing labs, training new staff, documenting procedures and communicating with multiple academic departments. Greg also worked one summer as a Lotus Notes programmer at ATMI, creating and modifying Lotus databases and training employees in the use of Lotus Notes.

Greg enjoys exercising, reading, woodworking and cooking.

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June 27, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Jonathan Kieliszak to our staff as an Associate

Jonathan recently graduated from the University of Michigan with an MS in Electrical Engineering Systems. He is additionally a graduate of Princeton, having earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering. At Princeton, Jonathan ran Varsity Cross Country, Indoor Track and Outdoor Track. He was also a Disabled Students Services Assistant, and worked with the Special Olympics on three occasions assisting athletes with special needs in track and field events.

Jonathan and a fellow student at U of M started a Digital Media Company that included a popular Facebook parody site and a web resource for Spanish-speaking newcomers to the US. He worked for three summers at Fidelity Investments in Boston as a Network Engineer, Firewall Manager and Systems Coordinator, and interned an additional summer at a tax consulting firm, learning accounting and tax principles.

An avid runner and biker, Jonathan also enjoys reading and web design. He is a proud member of the Princeton Redheads Club, and was valedictorian of his high school class.

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May 22, 2006
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Octavian Teodorescu to our staff as a Senior Associate

Octavian, who grew up in Romania, has until recently worked there as consultant with SoPolEc, helping clients navigate Romania's rapidly-improving business environment to ensure a successful entry in or expansion to a new market. His work experience in Romania additionally included a stint at Rosia Montana Gold Corp, where he provided technical assistance to the Chairman and Managing Director, and as a Deputy Chief of Staff in the Prime Minister's Office.

After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Bucharest, Octavian continued his studies at McGill University, obtaining a PhD in Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics. He conducted research at both the Centre for High-Energy Physics Foster Radiation Lab in Montreal and the Brookhaven National Lab under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy. He then went on for a year of post-doc work at Cornell studying Bioinformatics in their Department of Computer Science, and another year at Cornell's Weill Medical College, researching computational biophysics and microbiology.

Octavian has been published more than a dozen times and participated in conferences throughout the U.S and Europe. In 1991 he earned the Silver Medal at the International Physics Olympiad in Havana Cuba with over 40 countries participating. That year he was also the first ranked in the admission competition at the University of Bucharest Department of Physics.

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May 7, 2006:
Jon Crumiller plays 20 board chess simul, then three board blindfolded simul for local charity event

Princeton Packet Article

April 17, 2006:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Peter-Mark Verwoerd to our staff as an Associate.

Peter-Mark was most recently a software developer at GoldTier Technologies, a financial software process management company; he designed and developed a testing framework and process to decrease manual testing and to fix bugs. A graduate of U Penn, Peter-Mark holds a BA in biology and theater arts, and an MS in computer information technology.

While at Penn, Peter-Mark served as the Technical Director of the Quadramics Theatre Company, managing three full theater productions, including a technical staff of thirty. He directed plays by O'Neil, Ionesco and Shakespeare and performed in various student theater groups. As an intern at GlaxoSmithKline, he independently designed, developed and beta-tested an information management tool that enables unprecedented access to extensive biomedical knowledge databases within the firm, and ultimately reduced the search time for biomedical information by 75%.

Growing up, Peter-Mark lived in eight cities in seven countries on four continents (among them Canada, Switzerland, Colombia and Saudi Arabia) and as a result is pretty adaptable. He enjoys playing and creating his own video games.

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March 16, 2006:
Steve Sashihara moderates an AMCF Executive Forum.

Steve Sashihara is moderating a session for leaders of the top Consulting Firms on the topic of Decision Making on March 31 in New York. Visit the AMCF website and link to the event.

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March 6, 2006:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Michael Albert to our staff as a Senior Associate.

Michael comes to Princeton Consultants from a 10 year career in academic research. While at Thomas Jefferson University, Michael was a published researcher specializing in medical physics. He implemented a tool to facilitate retrieval of patient studies from the department Picture Archiving and Communications System by film librarians and a GUI tool to allow radiologists to interactively register exams for entry into a teaching file.

At U Penn, Michael implemented a configurable tomograhic reconstruction server for an experimental mammographic diagnostic device, and designed a GUI interface which allowed the rapid ranking of
a large collection of radiographic cinegraphs acquired in a study comparing radiographic contrast agents. He also consulted on the study of calcified lesions by coherent scattering.

Michael holds a BA in chemistry from U Penn and a PhD in physics and astronomy from U Penn. His PhD work was in high-energy physics studying the properties of neutrinos; as part of this project he also wrote the real-time data acquisition trigger. He enjoys model-rocketry, reading and hiking.

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March 13, 2006:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Adam Adamczyk to our staff as an Analyst.

Adam was until recently a researcher at Temple University where he conducted optical studies of Eu doped nano/microparticles for the possible use as hardware in future (presently non-existent) quantum computers. He was also involved with Nuclear Forward Scattering Tests at Argonne National Lab and Pulse Laser Deposition for the creation of Eu doped nanoparticles. His work may lead to gamma ray lasers, or the next generation of hardware that one day may be used in quantum computers.

Adam additionally worked at Temple as an adjunct physics professor, a TA, and a research assistant while completing his masters degree there in physics. He was president of Temple University's Physics Society and an ambassador to new students in the Department of Physics.
He holds a dual physics/computer science degree in the BS Honors Program at Temple.

In his spare time, Adam plays in a band, sculpts, creates digital art and enjoys video games.

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January 17, 2006:
Matt Diamond takes second place in the Original Mac Games
(OMG) Cup 2005!

As reported on computer game industry website Gamasutra,
Senior Consultant Matt Diamond has won second place in the Original Mac Games (OMG) Cup 2005. Contestants were required to create an innovative Mac OS X game in only six weeks. A panel of industry-leading professional game developers, artists, and software engineers selected the three winners based on a combination of gameplay, originality, and overall presentation.

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December 1, 2005:
Steve Sashihara named to the board of the Association of Management Consulting Firms.

Steve Sashihara, CEO of Princeton Consultants, has been named to the board of directors of the Association of Management Consulting Firms (AMCF). Founded in 1929, the AMCF is the leading not-for-profit organization for the global management consulting industry, serving to promote knowledge and professional standards worldwide. Steve was also named Chairman of the Americas and a member of the Executive Committee.

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October 17, 2005:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Attila Mihalyi as a Senior Associate.

Attila has recently completed a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Wisconsin, following a BA in Physics, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania.

While earning his Ph.D., Attila has worked as a Research Assistant, which required him to develop advanced software models at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. At U. Wisconsin, Attila also served as a T.A., conducting lectures, labs, and supervising the work of 50-60 physics undergraduates. While an undergrad himself, Attila worked with U. Penn's High Energy Physics Engineering group, where he designed and implemented computerized performance testing sequences for microchips to be used in physics experiments. Attila joins our firm with a strong background in mathematical and statistical analysis of data and significant modeling experience in C++ on very large sets of data (e.g., a recent model need to work with over 200 million entries). In addition to English, Attila speaks Swedish, Hungarian, and German.

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September 19, 2005:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Rajneesh Sudhakar as an Associate.

Rajneesh comes to us from having just completed his MSE in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State, where he also worked as a Research Assistant at the school of Information Science and Technology. Rajneesh earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering with honors from Bangalore University.

Between degrees, Rajneesh scored a perfect 800/800/800 for his GRE generals.and worked as a Systems Engineering the R&D division of WIPRO in Bangalore.

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September 12, 2005
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Michael Priscott as an Analyst.

Michael Priscott is close to completing his Masters of Engineering at Cornell in Computer Science. Earlier, Michael earned a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell with distinction.

Between degrees, Michael has traveled and worked various jobs including web designer and a high school math/science teacher. Michael is a Sun Certified Programmer for Java.

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September 9, 2005:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Maria Pekin to our staff as an Analyst.

Maria joins us having taught in the Computer Science Department of Haifa University (Israel), where she graduated with a computer science degree. Her final project involved the symmetry measurement and morphing of human face images. While completing her degree, Maria worked as a software engineer for an armament development company, implementing data ciphering algorithms for various architectures and mathematical algorithms in C and ASM.

As part of her compulsory service in the Air Force, Maria was the software administrator of a logistic database, working as part of a team to access hardware and software needs of a multi-layered system.

Maria came to Israel from Russia and now makes her home in New Jersey, adjusting to her third language and the habits of a new set of crazy drivers.

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August 29, 2005:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Amanda Evison to our firm as an Analyst.

Amanda is a honors graduate in Sociology from Harvard University, where she earned the John Harvard Scholarship for academic achievement and the Adams House Arms Award for service and leadership. Supplementing her major were a wide range of courses including Computer Science and Statistics. Amanda worked for Harvard University Computer Services where she started as a User Assistant, and was promoted to Student Supervisor, responsible for management, second-tier held-desk support, and training. During summers Amanda also worked with multiple groups on web site design and deployment, including the group that developed a Harvard course website.

Since graduation, Amanda has spent a year working for Teach For America in New York City, having been selected from more than 13,000 applicants nationwide to join this national corps of recent graduates who teach in under-resourced public schools. By coincidence, Princeton Consultants selected Teach For America as the charity it supported last year (December 2004) in our annual Holiday mailing.

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August 22, 2005:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Brian Lyons to our firm as
an Associate.

Brian recently graduated from Amherst with a triple major - Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy. He was awarded the "Computer Science Prize" for outstanding achievement in computer science and the Porter Prize for astronomy - all while playing varsity football for three years. His senior thesis, utilizing a 1000+ line Java framework, was entitled "Predicting Chaotic Time Series Using Genetic Programming."

Brian showed an early interest in astronomy and served as a summer research assistant at the Smith College Astronomy Department, where he developed a procedure to process Hubble Space Telescope images to create simulated images of extremely distant galaxies.

At Amherst, Brian worked for the physics department as a research assistant, and developed a suite of software modules to control a cryogenic chamber and super-conduction magnet in the research lab. He also served as a TA for both physics and astronomy classes.

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August 18, 2005:
Todd Gibson quoted in an Inside Consumer-Directed Care article on HSAs and the end of the pharmacy transition rule.

Todd Gibson, Director of Princeton's Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) Practice, discusses the possible impact on consumers and employers when prescriptions are subject to healthcare savings account deductibles. The dialogue on the pros and cons of HSAs, highlighted in this August 5, 2005 article, will undoubtedly continue.



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July 15, 2005:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Tom McGrath to our staff as an Analyst.

Tom recently completed grad school at Temple, where he earned an MS in Computer and Information Science. At Temple, Tom taught several undergraduate computer programming courses, and was selected as Outstanding Undergraduate Laboratory Instructor of the year for two years. This honor was awarded by the Computer Science faculty at the ACM awards. Tom's undergraduate degree is also from Temple, a BA in Computer and Information Sciences.

Tom enjoyed working directly with students, helping them gain mastery of the subject matter he taught. He also worked as project team leader for a senior software engineering course, leading his team to first place in a judged competition. To hone his skills, Tom tested, proofread and corrected all code for the book "Objects, Abstraction, Data Structures and Design Using Java" by Koffman and Wolfgang.

Tom enjoys soccer, tennis and basketball.

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July 8, 2005:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Melalite Ayenew to our staff as an Associate.

Melalite recently graduated from Rutgers with an MS in Computer Science, following four years at Smith culminating in a BA in Computer Science. At Smith, Melalite was a web developer and designer of several departmental and extracurricular web sites. She has interned at ETS (Educational Testing Services), where she set up an environment for online testing for TOEFL candidates, and managed a processing office to accept, process and inventory candidate data and test results.

Melalite also interned at the University of Edinburgh, Institute for Neural and Adaptive Technology, where she assisted in developing an interface for C++ NeuroML modules, and generated equivalent NeuroML data classes and methods in C++ to match a Java modules interface prototype. She also found time to participate in the University of Edinburgh Highland Dance Society, and demonstrated ceilidh during the summer festival in Edinburgh.

Raised in Ethiopia and South Africa, Melalite has adjusted to life in the US, including understanding "American English" and navigating Jersey jughandles. She enjoys running and rock climbing in her spare time.

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July 8, 2005:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Omar Alexandres to our staff as an Analyst.

Omar is a recent Rutgers graduate, with a BA in Information Technology and Informatics and a minor in Economics. During both high school and college, Omar played tennis competitively, training and competing with top international athletes. He has been ranked at the state, national and international level, winning many professional tournaments and collecting numerous trophies.

In addition to playing tennis, Omar worked as a private tennis instructor for three years, including summer camp stints, and enjoyed seeing the progress of his students from season to season. He also provided IT tech support for the Institute for Arts and Humanities Education in New Brunswick, maintaining their network and trouble-shooting software and hardware issues as necessary.

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June 10, 2005:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Scott Stein to our staff as an Associate.

Scott was the co-founder and CFO of Smiling Screens, a company dedicated to developing user-centric software, including SimpleC, a software application providing novice computer users with an easy-to-use operating environment. As CFO, Scott procured technology development contracts with customers, and secured and managed private equity financing. Scott supervised a team of more than two dozen engineers and graphics designers, and managed all of the corporation's internal and external financial activities.

Scott saw SimpleC through its entire developmental arc - he was instrumental in the coding of the software and its design, user testing, customer support and, later, upgrades. He also served as product manager, system architect, interface designer, quality assurance manager and technical writer for SimpleC and other software projects.

Scott graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Management and Technology program: -earning a BS in Engineering, and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School. While in high school, Scott was co-captain of the New York City Champion Moot Court Team, and was a New York state debate finalist.

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 June 2, 2004:
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Michael Harris to our staff as an Associate

Michael has recently graduated with degrees in Computer Science and Supply Chain Management from Lehigh.While at Lehigh, Michael worked as a paid intern at Chatham Systems and at GSI Commerce, writing software in C++ and Java. In addition to serving as an SAT Prep Teacher for pay, Michael has generously volunteered his time for the SCEEP Program, tutoring young underprivileged children from Newark NJ in math and English, and assisting young mentally handicapped children at the Children's Hospital in Martinsville NJ.

April 26, 2004
Princeton Consultants is pleased to welcome Hubert Chan to our staff as an Associate.

Hubert recently received an MS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell, while his undergraduate degree is from the University of Michigan. Hubert's Master of Engineering Project was the Predictive Model for Software Development Process which was selected for a Poster Presentation at the Engineering Graduate Research Symposium. Hubert's group developed a QA forecasting tool for the client's development process, and correctly predicted the risk level of one of the software components on release.

At Cornell, Hubert also designed and implemented a price bot to maximize profits under monopoly and duopoly environments, and an ambulance services simulation, which sought to determine optimum locations for parking ambulances. At Michigan, Hubert implemented a routing protocol to advertise routing information between adjacent routers in a network environment, and designed a multiplayer game with a chat group manager.

Hubert was raised in Hong Kong and came to the States to continue his education. He enjoys reading and programming at home.

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Eugene graduated Columbia cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Greek and Latin, and participated in the New York Classical Association. Following graduation, Eugene worked as an employee benefits consultant for Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in San Francisco. He enjoys running at least 6 days a week, and rollerblading and mountain biking.