Embry-Riddle Future Amazonians - Bios

Embry-Riddle Future Amazonians - Bios

Interviews with Potential Future Amazonians – Outstanding Current Embry-Riddle Students

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Tim Christovich Junior / Computer Science (Cybersecurity) Jacksonville, Fla. Jeremiah Lantzer Junior / Software Engineering Port Orange, Fla. Winners of the global Thales Arduino competition.

Tim Christovich and Jeremiah Lantzer are still undergraduates at Embry-Riddle, yet they’ve already shown they have what it takes to succeed in industry. In addition to leading a statewide, 24-hour programming challenge called the “HackRiddle,” Lantzer and Christovich, with their colleague Kyle Cochran, recently took the worldwide prize in the Thales Arduino competition. Their winning entry – honored at an event in Paris, France – was a drone landing and charging station that featured a protective shell and used radio-frequency identification for signaling. Christovich, a junior whose major is computer science with a concentration in cybersecurity engineering, said he is passionate about developing his skills in three key areas: web-based software applications, mobile applications, and the Internet of Things. “My goal once I graduate from Embry-Riddle is to continue to make a difference in the Central Florida technology community and help it to grow with regard to the different industries that are becoming more and more prominent in the area every day,” Christovich said. “The University connects me to all these different companies … It’s amazing to see all the ways that companies will reach out to our University for our students and our candidates because they know that we have what it takes.” Christovich has so far completed two industry internships, working with a healthcare technology firm based in Jacksonville, Fla., and with Thales Engineering in Melbourne, Fla., developing Android applications for in-flight entertainment.

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Jeremiah Lantzer, a junior at Embry-Riddle and a back-end developer who recently completed an internship with Lockheed Martin, said he hopes to work with “either cloud- computing someday, or doing research and development with quantum computing.” *** Christovich and Lantzer are only two of the many exceptional students and future industry leaders at Embry-Riddle. ___________________________________________________________________________ Courtney Thurston Junior / Computer Science + Computational Mathematics (Physics) Des Moines, Ia. Former high-school valedictorian Courtney Thurston, a junior, Google CodeU scholar and three-time Microsoft software engineering intern, is currently double-majoring in computer science and computational mathematics (physics track) in Embry-Riddle’s Honors program. An undergraduate research assistant within the ASSURE Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center at Embry-Riddle, Thurston is a web developer in the Women’s Engineering Institute, a founding member of the on-campus Hacker Club, an Adobe Student Representative, a SpaceX University Ambassador, and a member of the Society of Women Engineers. In addition to her work with Microsoft, Thurston interned – beginning at age 15 – at Carnegie Mellon University on projects for NASA Langley, the Office of Naval Research, and Aurora Flight Sciences. Specifically, she said, “My team became the first to fly an autonomous helicopter through a canal. That was a really exciting accomplishment for me and that was when I really realized I wanted to be in software.” From there, Thurston worked with Northrop Grumman on systems engineering for the company’s high-altitude, long-endurance suite of unmanned systems. In particular, she implemented a new weather-tracking feature on the Global Hawk UAV. She then moved on to SpaceX, where she designed a mechanism for the Falcon 9 rocket. Now, she’s working with Microsoft on its big->Page 1 Page 2 Page 3

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