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Oct 07, 2008
Daniel and Stephanie Teo
Daniel and Stephanie are originally from Singapore. They have lived in the US for over 10 years. Daniel is a seasoned Finance (M&A) and Strategic Planning professional. He has worked with energy giant BP. He is currently a Managing Partner for a boutique international consulting firm. Stephanie is a marketing and financial professional with over 15 years of working experience with MNCs such as HP, DuPont and Intelsat. She is currently with UBS Financial Services. Daniel is an alumnus of Cambridge University (UK) and the Stanford Business School, and Stephanie is an alumna of the Curtin University (Australia), and Johns Hopkins University. We have two kids, Ethan and Audrey. Ethan is 7-year old and is currently attending Norwood School in Potomac. Audrey will be turning two in June this year and is excited about joining the St. Francis Episcopal Day School this fall. Due to Daniel's career, our family has lived in different parts of the world during the past 15 years including Singapore, San Francisco, London, Maryland and Beijing. I can be reached at wwsgteo@yahoo.com.
Ruiyue Chen and Fangqing Yu
Ruiyue is from Anhui province, China. He came to US in 2000 and got a Master degree in Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M university in 2003. He is now a physical scientist at a company in Maryland and working on environmental monitoring projects. He is also a Ph.D candidate at University of Maryland and expected to graduate soon. His wife, Fangqing, is from Nanjing, China and got a Master's degree in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2004. Their son, Dylan Chen, is one year old. They are excited to join in OCA and meet with new friends.
Posted by: admin in Members, 2006 on
Oct 07, 2008
Stan retired in 2003 after a successful career as a civil engineer and manager of the airports grants program with the Federal Aviation Administration. Immediately after retirement, he taught English at a university in Jiangxi Province in China for two and a half years. He came to the realization that he owed much of his success and good life to his parents who migrated from Canton to Mississippi in the 1930s. He had always considered himself to be intelligent, but it took a long time to understand the hardships, prejudices, unfair treatment, and sacrifices that his parents and other Chinese immigrants suffered in order that he and other second generation Chinese Americans could enjoy good lives. He wants to make up for this late awakening by being able to pass on this unique history of our ancestors to Americans, Chinese and non-Chinese. He also wants to work to highlight and prevent injustices against Chinese and other minority races mainly because we are not "WASPs." He feels that OCA has these goals on its agenda, and it is his hope that we can all work together to realize these and other worthwhile goals.
Annette Cheng
Annette is currently a representative of the County's Limited English Proficiency (LEP) committee and serves on its advisory board to develop a County-wide policies and regulations. She has also served as the Treasurer for the Montgomery County Asian Pacific American Employees Association (APAEA) for the past 4 years.
In August 2006, Annette was invited by the OCA-DC to participate in the annual convention in Philadelphia and was extremely fascinated with the contributions that OCA has made on behalf of Asian communities. Impressed by the success of this organization and its involvement in community and educational programs, Annette joined OCA-DC in October of this year.
Posted by: admin in Members, 2006 on
Oct 07, 2008
Richard and I are originally from Tianjin, China. We've been in the U.S. for 6 years now. I am working as a professor in computer science at a university in D.C. and he will be relocating to D.C. to join me this month and work as a software engineer in V.A. Our son, Joshua Wang, is a year-and-half old now. Richard and I first met on our first day of college in 1991 in Tianjin, China. We came to University of Nevada, Reno for graduate school in 2000 and both graduated in 2004. This year, we had our fifteenth anniversary of knowing each other and he's been the oldest and the best friend of mine.
I love my career. It's something that I found that I enjoy doing and have a long-lasting passion for. Richard has been enjoying what he's been doing too, and I appreciate him for coming to join me, taking the risk of starting a new career at a new location.
In our lives in U.S., we've been lucky to meet many kind, friendly people who helped us and shared life with us, both in career and in personal life. We are also looking forward to meet more friends at OCA-DC.
