ALUMNI NOTES We love to feature updates from our Indiana Tech alumni. Did you get a new job? Were you promoted? Did you retire? Maybe you’re celebrating a special anniversary, wedding or welcoming a child to your family. We want to celebrate you! Email alumni notes you wish to share to mjbrown@indianatech.edu and you can see them featured in the magazine!
All’s fair in love and lacrosse Carlos and Alexa Matta (Winter)—2016 Indiana Tech graduates and former Warrior lacrosse players—aren’t exactly using their degrees, but they are using their time at Tech, the lessons they learned in and out of the classroom, and their experiences on and off the lacrosse field to build lives in their dream careers. Introduced to one another by criminal justice classmates and lacrosse teammates, Carlos and Alexa were engaged on the home lacrosse field in April 2016 and were married a short time later. After graduation the two spent three years on the golden coasts of California, traveling, coaching and taking in frequent trips to the beach. She, a paralegal with Weitz & Luxenberg, P. C. in Los Angeles, and he, an aerospace engineer assistant at Stravsys, decided it was time to return to the Midwest to be closer to friends and family. In preparation for returning home, they both noticed that Lourdes (Sylvania, Ohio) and Siena Heights (Adrian, Michigan) had openings for fulltime lacrosse coaches. Both applied, thinking, “How little the chances.” Not long after, each heard back with offers from the respective
schools. Both accepted—Alexa is now the head women’s lacrosse coach at Siena Heights University and Carlos is the assistant men’s lacrosse coach at Lourdes. While they won’t be competing against one another directly, they both agree it will be tough playing against Indiana Tech, their alma mater.
Her new role with ABB as Human Resources Business Partner allows her to oversee 350 employees in a company of more than 150,000 stretched worldwide. She was drawn to the company for the growth opportunities, focus training and the ability to strategize and execute in her position.
A funny note of coincidence—Carlos proposed to Alexa following the final home game of her college career. The Warriors’ opponent that evening was Siena Heights.
While she doesn’t love the Arkansas heat, she does enjoy the warmth of southern hospitality throughout. She’s stated that everyone is incredibly welcoming so long as “you cheer for the right football team and can name the church you attend.” She looks to return to the Alumni Board in the future.
Ashley Benvenuti: Adjusting to new role at ABB It is never easy pulling up stakes and leaving a place one has called home for so long. After eight years in Fort Wayne, alumna Ashley Benvenuti recently took a step back from her duties as Indiana Tech Alumni Board president and a step out into a new world to establish roots in her new role at ABB Electrical in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Ashley graduated from Indiana Tech with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration concentrating in human resources in 2015 and completed her MBA from Tech in 2017.
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Rashaam Hill, B.S. in Accounting, 2018, became a staff accountant at Sweetwater in Fort Wayne.
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Emily Streahle, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2016, was promoted to malaria coordinator at Peace Corps.
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Koran Saines, B.S. in Business AdministrationHuman Resources, 2003, was re-elected to his seat as a Loudoun County Virginia Supervisor in the Tuesday, Nov. 5, election.
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