Linda R. FitzPatrick ’68 - Graduate School of Education
B.A. Education
Linda FitzPatrick, retired senior vice president/national director, managed BNY Mellon’s Charitable Gift Services Group of planned giving managers and specialists. In this position, she drew on her career experience in planned giving client service, tax, account administration and operations. Mrs. FitzPatrick joined BNY Mellon in 1998, prior to which she served as the director of planned giving product management for the Fidelity Investments Tax-Exempt Services Company. Mrs. FitzPatrick earned her B.A. in education and English from UMass Lowell, as well as additional B.S. and M.S. degrees in accounting. Mrs. FitzPatrick’s career evolved over time from teaching elementary school and working with not-for-profits, to include a strong foundation built around tax/charitable trust work.

Robert LeFort ’83 - Francis College of Engineering
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Robert (Bob) LeFort was appointed CEO of Ember Corporation in 2006. Prior to that, he was the president of Infineon Technologies North America Corp. with responsibility for all headquarters business activity and key customers. Earlier, Mr. LeFort was vice president of Infineon’s Automotive & Industrial business, managing business development and relationships with companies using Infineon chips for dynamic vehicle management, engine control, automotive safety systems and related applications. Before joining Infineon in 2000, Mr. LeFort was customer manager at Delphi Corporation, a Tier One automotive electronics supplier, and held positions at Cherry Semiconductor (now part of ON Semiconductor), Unitrode Corporation and Analog Devices. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and a B.S.E.E. from UMass Lowell.

Steven DiNoto ’94, ’97 - College of Fine Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
B.S, M.A. Criminal Justice
Steven DiNoto has 15 years of experience in executive-level law enforcement administration, analysis, operations, investigations, technology and project management. At the Lowell, Malden and Lawrence police departments, Mr. DiNoto created and served as the director of the Crime Control Strategy & Analysis Units. He was also a deputy sheriff (reserve) in the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office, assisting on serial violent and property crime task forces and regional hi-tech crime investigations. Mr. DiNoto also served as an adjunct faculty member with the undergraduate and graduate Criminal Justice programs at UMass Lowell and Fisher College, teaching classes about the criminal justice system, law enforcement operations, criminology, criminal courts, crime mapping and analysis and criminal profiling. In 2011, Mr. DiNoto was recruited to Apple Inc. to serve as the manager for the Global Security Operations Center in support of security operations to protect Apple’s people, property and ideas worldwide. He resides in Los Gatos, Calif., with his wife, Lisa; son, Logan (6) and daughter, Ava (4).

Alice Bonner ’89, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.P. 
School of Health & Environment
M.S. Nursing
Alice Bonner has been a geriatric nurse practitioner for the past 20 years. From 2009-2011, Dr. Bonner was the director of the Bureau of Health Care Safety and Quality at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in Boston, Mass. She is currently the director for the Division of Nursing Homes in the Office for Clinical Standards and Quality within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Baltimore, Md. Her research and policy interests include improving nursing home quality, patient safety, culture in health care organizations, safe medication prescribing and management, clinical care models for older adults, fall prevention and improving care transitions across settings.

James Regan ’88 - Manning School of Business
B.S. Business Administration
James (Jim) Regan ’88 learned a lot more at UMass Lowell than accounting and finance. Now the president and CEO of Digital Federal Credit Union (DCU), headquartered in Marlborough, Mass., he remembers his professors stopping to talk with him and always making themselves available with an open door policy. This is a skill he has ingrained into his 23-year management style that propelled him to the top post at the largest credit union in New England. The benefits of his management style are evident both in Mr. Regan’s career path as well as in the growth of DCU. Mr. Regan joined DCU in 1992 as an internal auditor, moving up to vice president of finance and then senior vice president and CFO, until his promotion to CEO in 2008. The DCU board selected Mr. Regan for the top post after considering a large pool of candidates. The credit union has transitioned from serving Digital Equipment Corporation employees to a diversified institution with assets in excess of $4 billion and 367,000 members in 50 states.

 
Richard A. Miner ’86, ’89, ’97 - College of Sciences
B.S., M.S., Ph.D. Computer Science
Richard (Rich) Miner, based in Cambridge, Mass, is a partner of Google Ventures. He has spent the past 25 years growing businesses with innovative communications and interface-intensive applications. Dr. Miner joined Google through the acquisition of Android, a mobile platforms company he co-founded. During his first three years at Google, he helped lead the development of the Android platform and ecosystem. Prior to Android, Dr. Miner was a vice president at Orange, where he led research and development activities in North America and also started and was a principal in Orange Ventures. He came to Orange through the acquisition of another company he co-founded, Wildfire, which made a voice-based personal assistant. He met his Wildfire co-founder when he helped incubate Avid Technology in his University lab. Dr. Miner received the 2009 Innovator Award from the Mass Technology Leadership Council. Dr. Miner is active in a number of professional groups, serving as director and advisor of PhoneSpots, a mentor at TechStars, LLC; the director of SCVNGR, Inc., Trada, Inc. and VigLink and the former director of RadioFrame Networks Inc. Dr. Miner was a featured speaker at the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT in 2009.

Michael Jarvis ’06 - Recent Alumni Award
B.S., B.A. Management/Marketing, Legal Studies Minor
Michael (Mike) Jarvis was born and raised in Lowell, Mass. where he attended Lowell High School and was active in both athletics and the Air Force Jr. ROTC program, earning the rank of lieutenant colonel. Mr. Jarvis received a full Air Force scholarship to UMass Lowell and was honorably discharged from the Air Force in 2002. As an undergraduate, Mr. Jarvis was active both as a member of the Sigma Phi Omicron Fraternity and as a resident advisor. He remains active with his fraternity and UMass Lowell, serving as director of annual events such as Sigma Phi Omicron’s fundraising golf tournament and the Christopher Sullivan Memorial 5K Race to benefit the Wounded Warriors Project. He is also the alumni advisor to UMass Lowell’s Greek Council. Currently, Mr. Jarvis teaches algebra and science at the Lowell High School Freshman Academy with students who have moderate learning disabilities. He also coaches the Lowell High School AFJROTC Armed Exhibition Drill Team, which qualified for the national drill competition in March 2012. Mr. Jarvis received a master’s of education from Fitchburg State University in 2009 and is currently enrolled in a doctorate of education program in academic leadership at Northeastern University.