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The 2006 CUTC Team
CUTC's successes can be attributed to the excellent teamwork of it Execs and Team Leads. Of course, the Execs and Team Leads couldn't have done it without their teams as well :)
Chair
Rahul N Bhardwaj
4th Yr Electrical Eng. student
Random Thought: "If I ever got to be 'the Brain', there would be no episode two! ;)"
Hobbies and Interests: Cricket (don’t stare at me, checkout www.cricinfo.com), Hockey (go Red Wings!), Video Games (if only my Mom knew what I do while on a school term) and Military History (someone’s preping for world domination)
SPAIR - Sponsorship, Academic and Industry Relations
SPAIR consists of two teams: Sponsorship and AIR.
Academic and Industry Relations (AIR)
AIR's task is to get awesome, inspiring, insightful, super-cool <insert more adjectives here> speakers to the conference. So we start off by figuring out the current trends in the industry, and then go out and contact people who are creating those trends.
 Dmitriy "Dima" Mitchev
AIR/SE Lead
3rd Yr Sofware Engineering
Random Thought: "I wish I had some fish and chips right now ..."
Hobbies and Interests: Computers, software, business, management, fitness, music, clubs, history, doing the work Rahul was supposed to be doing
Gaurav Jain
AIR Lead
3rd Yr Sofware Engineering
Random Thought: "Are we going to publish this somewhere? I hope not!"
Hobbies and Interests: Cricket (I know what you are talking about Rahul), following my favorite NBA and NHL [surprise, surprise!] teams, MSN (okay, I don’t have a life) and definitely cool technology!
Stephen Chan
AIR Lead
4th Year Electrical Engineering and Economics
Random Thought: "I’m so tired..."
Hobbies and Interests: All sports especially basketball, badminton, volleyball, rock climbing, skiing, hiking, snow boarding. Photography, art, food criticism, travelling, reading, writing poems, gadgets and technology, biomedical sciences, chinese calligraphy, music, cars…too much to list here.
Sponsorship
As you can imagine, running a conference of this size cannot be paid for by just the fees delegates pay. Sponsorship works round the clock to raise approximately 80-90% of the funds we spend on organizing CUTC.
Vikas Singla
Sponsorship Lead
3rd year Software Engineering
Random Thought: "Never lose hope"
Hobbies and Interests: Cricket, computer gadgets, travelling, cars, music, robotics
 Kevin Li
Sponsorship Lead
2nd Year Systems Design Engineering
Random Thought: "Money isn't everything, but it is for sponsorship :)"
Hobbies and Interests: Gymnastics, Breakdancing, anything that looks "cool"
Finance
Mark "Willy" Wilson
The Money Man
2nd Year Mechanical Engineering
Random Thought: "you ever tried crossing the road on your hands after a night out?... don't!!!"
Hobbies and Interests: Muay Thai Kickboxing (and I'm white :P), Sailing, Money, Food, Biking, music -as in drums, tennis and sitting on a couch with a cold one
OPS & Logistics - Operations, Registration and Logistics
The OPS & Logistics team is the ultimate showcase of our technical and organizational skills. While the Ops team works to assure that the backend of CUTC's web and other technical services work smoothly, Logistics is always checking the list twice to make sure we have everything we need for an outstanding conference.
Philip Lee
Logistics Lead
2nd Year Systems Design Engineering
Random Thought: "when do i get to eat next?"
Hobbies and Interests: volleyball, tennis, golf, rock climbing, plus everything related to athletic activity… cooking, playing music, making movies
Kerri Lai
Logistics Lead
4th yr Electrical Engineering
Random Thought: "Work like there’s no tomorrow"
Hobbies and Interests: Eat, sleep, sing, write, chat, hanging out with friends, did I mention EAT?
Garmond Luong
Ops Lead
4th Year Electrical Engineering & Economics
Random Thought: "nope I don’t own an Ipod..I am still resisting"
Hobbies and Interests: Basketball, Electronic gadgets and cars I can’t afford
Katherine "pixelMonkey" Chiang
Webmaster
4th Yr Enviromental Chemical Engineering
Random Thought: "mmm…caffeinated beer..."
Hobbies and Interests: Web/Graphics Design & CG Art (in case you haven’t noticed), Stained Glass, Hockey (Go Leafs Go!), Building Computers (not necessarily using them –_–b), Anime/Manga, Crazy Dark-Themed Movies...
pixelMonkey for hire. Will work for: beer, starbucks coffee, food, money, computer/body parts, software, or all of the above.
PR - Public Relations
It is the core of CUTC marketing. The liaison between the conference and the media.
Aly Masud
Public Relations Lead
Engineering
Random Thought: "Never be average"
Hobbies and Interests: Cricket, Hockey, Basketball, Gym, trading
Amanda Schulze
Graphics Exec
2nd year Systems Design Engineering
Random Thought: "When you wear green and red, you look like Christmas"
Hobbies and Interests: Music/shows/concerts, crafts, poker, guitar, reading , golf, food =]
SE - Special Events
The Special Events team comes up with and plans all the coolest events that happen at CUTC. They organize events such as the Tech Expo, Tech Show and all the fun events that happen "after-hours".
 Sheel Shah
Special Events Lead
2nd Year Systems Design Engineering
Random Thought: "sleep is for the weak"
Hobbies and Interests: Cooking, Home Theatre Equipment, Video Games, Running
Kimberly Luu
Special Events Lead
3rd year systems design engineering
Random Thought: "Even if I wasn’t mechanically incline, which I am. Even if I didn’t like the money, which I do. Even if I didn’t want to start my own business, which I’m planning to do. I’d STILL be a trades person!"
Hobbies and Interests: Hating Sheel
Dmitriy "Dima" Mitchev
AIR/SE Lead
3rd Yr Sofware Engineering
Random Thought: "I wish I had some fish and chips right now ..."
Hobbies and Interests: Computers, software, business, management, fitness, music, clubs, history, doing the work Rahul was supposed to be doing
SR - Student Relations
CUTC is for students and by students! In order to take care of our most important people (students!) we have the Student Relations Team. SR oversees the Ambassador efforts of the promotion of CUTC and the gathering of subsidies, as well as actively working to bring as many and as diverse a group of people together for the conference.
Shruti Satsangi
Student Relations Lead
3rd Yr Computer Engineering student
Random Thought: "Vote for Pedro"
Hobbies and Interests: Reading, Cooking and Squash
The Executioners - Game Day Team
This team is comprised of organizers who only assist in the Conference Execution Process. Game Day is the elite force responsible for making the conference run during its show time.
Maria Arshad
Lead Executioner
2nd Year Mech Eng
Random Thought: "Life is beautiful, you just have to see it from the right point of view"
Hobbies and Interests: Reading(if I have time) Cooking, Student run organizations, Soccer.
CUTC Spirit Team
Geeks know how to be cool.....right :) The Spirit team's purpose is to raise the spirit of CUTC and make sure everyone's having a blast at the conference. Their projects include Videos, Pranks and Events that add to the already stellar cultural experience that is CUTC :)
 Matt Strickland
Spirit co-Lead
4th Year Electrical Engineering
Random Thought: "Man, I love cookie dough."
Hobbies and Interests: Random freewheelin'.
 Hiro Dozono
Spirit co-Lead
1st year Arts and Business
Random Thought: "Crabjam"
Hobbies and Interests: Computers, Fighting crime, Karate, Hockey, Flying, Guitar, Capes (but not tights), Dancing, Free pizza, Sleeping in, Talking to people.
Spec Ops - Special Operations
The backbone of Gameday facilitators, Spec Ops is an elite unit of CUTC whose job is to act as "the contingency plan". They fill the holes, close the gaps and fix problems that can't be fixed. They're our version of the MIB :)
 Patrick Chan
Spec Ops Lead
3rd Year Civil Engineering
Random Thought: "could someone cut my milk?"
Hobbies and Interests: Magic, debates, mooting, baseball
Rohit Gupta
Spec Ops Lead
3rd year Telecommunication Engineering, Minor in Business
Random Thought: "One’s motivation, lies within"
Hobbies and Interests: meh, anything goes
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