Faculty and Staff

Staff

Abbie Allen

Abbie Allen, Student Services Specialist

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.786.5040
Direct:  503.821.1263

Jose Alvarado, Custodian

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.786.5040
Direct:  503.821.1259

Philip Barrett, Project Manager

Tel:503.821.1293

William "Brit" Britton, Trades Maintenance Coordinator

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.786.5040
Direct:  503.821.1262
Lita Colligan

Lita Colligan, Associate Vice President for Strategic Partnerships

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1247
Fax:503.786.5040

Lita is the Director of the Oregon Tech Portland Campus.  She is responsible for management and operations in Portland.  Lita also leads the Office of Strategic Partnerships at Oregon Tech and represents Oregon Tech in Government Affairs.  Lita is a member of the Oregon Tech Marketing Committee, Administrative Council, and President's Cabinet.

Lita came to Oregon tech after serving over four years as Governor Kulongoski’s Workforce Policy Advisor.  Prior to working in Salem, she was an Economic Development Manager at the Portland Development Commission and has worked for over 30 years to expand career and technical workforce and education programs to address demands in the labor market.

Betzy Fry

Tel:503.821.1145

Trish Hower, Executive Assistant

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1275
Fax:503.533.5190
Trish is the Executive Assistant to the Office of the Associate Provost and Vice President for Reseach and intellectual property specialist for the Office of Innovation and Technology Transfer.
Kathy Hulme

Kathy Hulme, Office Specialist 2

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1245
Fax:503.786.5040

Kathy runs the daily operations of the East Campus.  She coordinates all student files for the Portland Area with Admissions and oversees recruitment and student management software and activities.  

Kathy has worked at Oregon Tech since 1995.  Her first seven years were at the main campus in Klamath Falls.  Kathy worked in Extended Studies and helped coordinate Summer session, High School to College programs, Japanese Student Visitors Program, Distance Ed courses and the one time only Oregon Tech Cruise. Kathy had a short experience in the Admissions Office and later moved to the Provost's office for two years.  She moved to the Oregon Tech Portland campus in 2003.

Anne Malinowski

Anne Malinowski, Office Manager

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1251
Fax:503.786.5040

Anne assists students with registration, class scheduling, and accounts payable for Oregon Tech Portland.

Anne came to Oregon Tech in 1990 as an office specialist. Prior to that, she held positions in banking and human resources.

Brittany Miles, Industry Outreach Coordinator

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1288
Christine Pompel

Christine Pompel, Office Specialist 2

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1255
Fax:503.786.5040

Mollie Rankin, Admissions Coordinator

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1268
Fax:503.786.5040

Stephanie Rasmussen, Admissions Coordinator

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1265
Fax:503.533.5190

Faculty

Mateo Aboy, PhD, MBA, RPA, CLP, Associate Professor (2008)

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.533.5190
Expertise Area: Signal Processing
Education & Licenses: B.S. Physics and Mathematics Minor (2002), B.S. Electrical Engineering (2002), M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2004), Portland State University; Dipl. Ing. Telecommunications Engineering (2003), M.Phil. Telecommunications Engineering (2004), Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (2005), ETSIT-University of Vigo; Exec. Cert. Technical Management & Leadership (2007), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; RPA. Registered Patent Agent (2009) United States Patent & Trademark Office; Prof. Cert. Sustainable Energy Conversion & Storage (2009), Stanford University; M.B.A. International Business (2011), University of London. Registered Professional Engineer, European Union (Spain COIT No. 12684).  Registered US Patent Agent (USPTO Bar Admission No. 64040). Certified Licensing Professional (CLP). 
Jay Bockelman

Jay Bockelman, CSET Program Director & Professor

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.533.5190

Dave Clements, REE Instructor

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.786.5040

Hope Corsair, PhD (ABD), Assistant Professor (2011)

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1252
Fax:503.786.5040
Expertise Area: Energy and Market Modeling
Education: B.S. Fundamental Sciences, Mechanical Engineering Concentration and German Minor (1996), Lehigh University; M.S. Civil Engineering, Renewable Energy/Building Systems Program (2005), University of Colorado, Boulder; M.S. Geography and Environmental Engineering (2010); PhD Geography and Environmental Engineering (ABD); The Johns Hopkins University; EIT (2001), Georgia

Cristina Crespo, PhD, Assistant Professor, EET Program Director & Department Chair (2008)

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.533.5190
Expertise Area: Analog/Mixed-Signal Electronics & IC Test
Education & Licenses: B.S. Physics (2002), B.S.Electrical Engineering (2002), M.S.Electrical & Computer Engineering (2004), Portland State University; M.Phil. Electrical Engineering (2009), Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (2010), ETSIT - University of Vigo. Registered US Patent Agent (USPTO Bar Admission No. 68725)

Teshome Edae Jiru, PhD, Assistant Professor (2011)

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1253
Area of Expertise: Building Energy Simulation
Education: BSc (1995) Chemical Engineering, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; MS (2001) Biosystems Engineering, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; PhD (2006) Building Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Grant Kirby

Grant Kirby, IT & OM Program Director & Associate Professor

Office:Portland West
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.533.5190
Grant is a 1987 Computer Science graduate of Oregon Institute of Technology, worked in the high-tech industry for 16 years before returning to Oregon Tech Portland as the IT Program Director.  His industry career included stints as a network engineer and technical marketing engineer at Intel, and product marketing for home networking, DSL and broadband.  He holds an MBA from the University of Oregon.
Dr. Michael Kirshner

Dr. Michael Kirshner, HI Program Director

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.786.5040

Dr. Michael Kirshner has over 30 years of health care and information systems experience.  Michael founded and became president of Health Select, a health communications company that developed computer aided information and decision support systems. Michael was awarded a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, where he conducted and published health services and medical informatics research. Previously, Dr. Kirshner was the Assistant Director of Medical Informatics for Kaiser Permanente Northwest.

Dr. Kirshner holds a doctoral degree in Dental Surgery from the University of Southern California, a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Washington, and a graduate certificate in Medical Informatics from Oregon Health and Science University.

Dawn LoweWincentsen

Dawn LoweWincentsen, Portland Operations Librarian

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1260
Fax:503.786.5040

Direct:  503.821.1258

Dawn joined Oregon Tech in February 2008. Her education includes a MLIS from Louisiana State University, and a BA in Creative Writing from Linfield College. Previously Dawn has working in the libraries at Florida State University and Louisiana State University. She has a number of articles and presentations centering on leadership in libraries. Dawn is also a co-author of A Leadership Primer for New Librarians: Tools for Helping Today's Early-career Librarians Become Tomorrow's Library Leaders, published in 2009.  She published a follow up to this book in 2011 entiltled, Mid-Career Library and Information Professionals: A Leadership Primer.

Dr. Ryan Madden, General Education Program Coordinator

Office:Portland West

Dr. Geoffrey Peter, MMET Program Director & Assistant Professor

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.786.5040

Direct:  503.821.1254

Dr. Peter is a registered professional engineer (PE) in the States of Washington and Oregon and a registered European engineer (Eur Ing) in Europe. He has extensive consulting experience in the areas of mechanical and manufacturing engineering, metallurgy, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and HVAC.  He also has considerable industrial experience, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom. His research areas include thermal fluid sciences, CFD, nuclear shielding, nuclear criticality, and thermal hydraulics.  His recent employment includes the Department of Energy Site at Hanford in Washington State, at Tektronix in Oregon, and ASML Lithography at Wilton in Connecticut.  Dr. Peter has taught classes at both public and private universities and at a community college.

Dr. Peter has a PhD in Material Science and Engineering, M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering, M.Sc degree in Nuclear Reactor Science and B.S. (Honors) degree in Mechanical Engineering.  He received the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Project Prize for 1979 in the United Kingdom.  Dr. Peter has a US and International Patent in the semiconductor area.

Slobodan Petrovic, PhD, Associate Professor (2009)

Tel:503.821.1250
Expertise Area: Electrochemistry, Energy Storage
Education: B.S. Physical Chemistry (1979) University of Belgrade, Ph.D. Chemistry (1984), Technical University of Dresden

Frank Rytkonen, P.E., Assistant Professor (2010) & REE Program Director (2011)

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.786.5040
Expertise Area: Instrumentation and control systems
Education & Licenses: B.S.L. Physics and Mathematics (1998), Excelsior College; M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2005), Portland State University; Registered Professional Electrical Engineer (2009), Oregon.

Chad Stillinger, PhD, Assistant Professor (2011)

Tel:503.821.1250
Expertise Area: Instrumentation and Controls, Ocean Energy
Education: B.S. Mechanical Engineering (2000), George Fox University; Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011), Oregon State University

Claudia TorresGaribay, PhD, Assistant Professor (2009)

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Expertise Area: Fuel Cells
Education: B.S. Electrical and Industrial Engineering (1996), Chihuahua Technological Institute; M.S. Materials Science (2000), Advanced Materials Research Center (CIMAV); Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering (2007), University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Lawrence Wolf, MS MFG Program Director & Professor

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1250
Fax:503.786.5040

Dr. Lawrence Wolf received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and his DSc in Structural Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He maintains PE licenses in Oregon and Missouri and is a member of the ASME and of the SME.  He is an elected fellow of the ASEE, ASME, and ABET.  From the ASEE he has received the McGraw Award, a Centennial Award, and the Distinguished Service Award.  He is a member of Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Alpha Pi, Epsilon Pi Tau, and the AAUP.  In 2006 he was named a life member of the ASEE.  In 2007 he was elected a life fellow of the ASME, and received an EngineeringVISION Award from Engineering.com. 

He has over 60 publications the most recent being as a contributing author and steering committee member for the newly released ABET 75th Anniversary Retrospective.  ISBN 978-0-9799910-0-4.

Wolf currently serves on the Mechanical Engineering Body of Knowledge Study Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.  He also serves on the Manufacturing Engineering Leadership Forum of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.