Jeffrey A. Terosky is a 1995 graduate of Engineering Science, where his work with Dr. Charles E. Bakis on pseudo-ductile reinforcing bars for concrete structures led to several publications and the 1995 award for undergraduate thesis of the year. As a student, Mr. Terosky was active in many organizations including Lion’s Paw, Parmi Nous, and the president of Lion Ambassadors, Penn State’s student alumni corps.

Since graduation, Mr. Terosky worked in the business process and technology consulting industry, initially for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) for which he traveled across the United States and Japan implementing SAP, an enterprise resource planning software package, for multi-national corporations. Working as an independent contractor with his own company for five years, Mr. Terosky focused on streamlining human resources and payroll processing for pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., France, and Germany. He now works with Bloomberg L.P. in the Internal Systems department of their Research and Development group.

As an avid cylclist, Mr. Terosky volunteers as a coach and executive board member for the New York Cycling Club. In addition to cycling, he completed the New York City marathon in 2004 and will compete in his first triathlon this summer. Mr. Terosky mentors and reads with third graders in the Everybody Wins program at the Ella Baker elementary school, and he currently serves the Penn State Alumni Association as the President of the Lion’s Paw Alumni Interest Group. Mr. Terosky and his wife, Dr. Aimee Lapointe Terosky (PSU EDU’95), reside in New York City’s upper west side, and they are expecting their first child, a daughter, this October.

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