Vita P.

Como

Executive Director, Engineering Career and Professional

Development
Cullen College of Engineering
Vita works with our current students to prepare them for their professional
lives after College either in the practicing engineering community or as
graduate students. She has the privilege of facilitating the communication
between employers and their future employees. Vita also works to identify
and bring human and financial resources to the College and our students.
Vita grew up in New York City, attended the City University of New York for
her B. S. degree, and Columbia University for masters credits. She began her
professional career with the law firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York.
Vita has spent most of her professional career in the area of Corporate
Finance, as director of finance for OXOCO, Inc. and with large law firms in
both Houston and New York City. She is also a Certified Texas Master
Naturalist and a Certified Native Landscape Planner.

Bryan Kung

Project Manager
Shell Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
BSEE, UH 2003

Bryan graduated from UH in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in

Electrical Engineering. He has been working for Shell for the past 11 years in
various roles from downstream to upstream. Bryan started at the Norco
Refinery in Louisiana as a Controls Systems Engineer, and then made it
through all the other 6 Shell refineries in the US in operational and process
safety roles. He left Louisiana 3 years after Hurricane Katrina to move to
Houston, only to experience Hurricane Ike one week after moving. He spent
the last 7 years in Houston working on capital projects in the deep water Gulf
of Mexico with a few short international stints for new technology
development projects. Bryan is currently managing a large team delivering
multiple subsea tiebacks going back to a tension leg platform. GO COOGS!

John Vu

Research Design and Development Engineer

Baker Hughes
BSME, UH 2012
During the summer of his junior year, John was selected for a summer internship
position with Baker Hughes as a Field Engineering Intern in Oklahoma City. He held a
CO-OP position at Halliburton as a Research & Design Engineer for the Sperry Drilling
department in Houston, Spring 2013. The following summer, he again interned with
Baker Hughes, as a Research, Design, and Development Engineering Intern in Houston,
where he currently resides as a full time employee. John also worked as an Office
Assistant at the University of Houston Engineering Career Center. In his senior year,
John was one of four directors of Envir Energy Inc., a company that was created to
compete in the M.I.T. Clean Energy Prize Competition. His team placed in the top 15
among more than 80 candidates. John was also a founding father in the Clean Energy
Initiative organization. In addition to work and school, he is passionate about
automobile modification, traveling, and sports. He is currently training for a triathlon
that is set to take place at the end of September, with the ultimate goal of completing
an Iron Man next year. Mr. Vu is engaged to his high school sweetheart and is set to
marry her in the spring of 2016.