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Business alum Javier Ortiz joins Peoples’ Self-Help Housing

(September 11, 2009)

By Staff

Local engineers earn registrations

Adam Koble and Heather Gray of Thoma Electric recently received their California registrations as professional engineers in electrical engineering, a top achievement in their field, according to a company spokesman.

“It’s equivalent to an attorney passing the bar exam,” said Bill Thoma, president of Thoma Electric.

The two registrations give Thoma Electric a total of three California state registered engineers in electrical engineering, which Thomas said is an impressive number for a firm outside a major metropolitan area.

Both Koble and Gray graduated from Cal Poly with bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering.

To obtain their registrations, they each completed an eight-hour engineer-in-training exam, practiced for two years under a professional engineer, received four support letters from professional engineering peers and passed a rigorous eight-hour professional engineering exam.

Ortiz joins Peoples’ Self-Help Housing

Javier Ortiz has joined Peoples’ Self-Help Housing as Information Technology Manager, said Executive Director Jeanette Duncan.

He will maintain internal and external network systems at the organization’s corporate offices in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara and 38 properties on the Central Coast.

A certified Microsoft systems engineer, Ortiz holds a bachelor of science degree in information technology, with a minor in accounting, from California State University at Northridge.

A Santa Barbara native, Ortiz previously worked for a private computer consulting firm. He also has worked independently as a computer consultant and for Star Telecom in Santa Barbara.

He lives in Santa Barbara.

For more information, contact the nonprofit organization at 962-5152 or 781-3088 or visit www.pshhc.org.

September 11, 2009

Publication: Santa Maria Times