Alumni

Service is in the nature of David J. Brule, Sr, president and CEO of Northern Star Industries in Iron Mountain. He has served with Friends of Handicapped People, the Interlochen Arts Academy Presidents Council, the Dickinson-Area Catholic School Board, and the Iron Mountain- Kingsford Rotary Club. Additionally, he has served on the board of directors of the First National Bank of Iron Mountain and as director of . . .

A native of Jenison, Michigan, James Parm earned a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1981 and his MBA from Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business. Today, Jim is president and CEO of Stratos Global, a post he has held since 2003. During this time, Parm led the transformation of Stratos from a regionally focused North American company to the global leader in satellite services that it is today. That transformation . . .

Heidi graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a Computer Engineering emphasis from Michigan Tech in 1984. She has been with IBM since graduation and is currently the development engineering manager for their Storage Systems Division, where she is responsible for personnel and project management for two SCSI high performance HDD firmware products under development. She serves as one of . . .

Elio Argentati, a native of Iron Mountain who moved to Iron River, Michigan, graduated from Michigan Tech with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1950, after which he fashioned a notable career. At Tech, he was a member of the Rifle Team, the Varsity Club, and the Air Force ROTC program. He served in the Air Force in Japan and Korea from 1950 to 1953, and then began his career, which saw him go from an . . .