Notre Dame Football Enters 2018 Season with 27 New Players

Michael Attea serves as a data and business intelligence analyst with Cendyn in Boca Raton, Florida. He joined the company in 2012 after earning a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from The University of Alabama. Michael Attea remains connected to both institutions as a supporter of the schools’ football teams.

The University of Notre Dame football team will enter the 2018 season with over two dozen new players on the roster. Along with the rest of college football, Notre Dame welcomed its new group of young talent in early February as part of National Signing Day. The Fighting Irish’s 2018 recruiting class comprises 27 players from across the country. Standouts include Under Armour All-Americans DJ Brown, Houston Griffith, and Jack Lamb.

Notre Dame Coach Brian Kelly is now working to prepare the new recruits, as well as the rest of the team, for the 2018 season, which will begin with a home game against the University of Michigan on September 1. Other highlights of the season will include nationally televised games against Vanderbilt, Stanford, Pittsburgh, and Florida State.

Video Platform Wins 2017 Net Impact Pitch Competition

The recipient of an MBA from the University of Alabama, Michael Attea is a market research professional who serves Cendyn as a data intelligence analyst. Also a freelancer for Massachusetts-based Sermo, Michael Attea is a member of Net Impact.

A global community consisting of students and emerging leaders from a variety of professional sectors, Net Impact encourages new generations to drive widespread environmental and social change. One of the ways the organization encourages innovation is through its annual Pitch Competition, which rewards a team or individual for their transformative ideas, products, or platforms. The winner of the 2017 Pitch Competition was Asha Lannin, a student at the USC Marshall School of Business who developed the social enterprise platform Bridget.

Working from the idea that the average teenage girl has a difficult time imagining herself holding a high-earning position within a professional setting, Lannin coordinated partnerships with socially conscious corporations to provide skill-building interactions and experiences for young women. The program will launch with a cohort of fifteen girls who will each visit one of Bridget's partner corporations. In return, each girl will detail her insights by filming a corporate social responsibility commercial for the company she visited. The videos will be available on Bridget's website, and every time one is played, the corresponding partner corporation will donate money back to Bridget programming.

Cendyn Receives Nominations for Two Technology Awards

Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Michael Attea serves as a data intelligence analyst for Cendyn, an Internet cloud marketing agency serving the hospitality and tourism industry. In his role at Cendyn, Michael Attea employs complex data analyses to provide revenue-producing results for clients. 

Cendyn recently received two nominations for World Travel Awards 2017. In contention for the World’s Leading Hotel CRM Technology Provider 2017 and the World’s Leading Data-Driven Marketing Agency 2017, the company has been honored with nominations four years in a row. 

The company’s CRM database platform helps to improve the user experience for customers by gathering real-time data and creating specialized communications for each guest. It's also a marketing tool that can be used across all departments and can reveal useful analytics such as specific changes in the composition of the company's revenue streams. The digital marketing platform allows hotel leaders to gather and utilize a wide-range of client data to tailor their products and services to meet clients’ unique needs and wants and provide optimal customer service.

Notre Dame Alumnus DeShone Kizer Named Cleveland Browns Starting QB

Drawing on over seven years’ experience in market research, Michael Attea serves as a data intelligence analyst with Cendyn as well as a freelance analyst and consultant for Sermo. Prior to earning his MBA from the Manderson Graduate School of Business at the University of Alabama, Michael Attea completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Notre Dame. He continues to support Notre Dame by following its athletic teams. 

For the past two seasons, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team has been led at quarterback by DeShone Kizer. During those two seasons, Kizer recorded a combined 47 touchdowns while throwing for 5,805 yards on 422 pass completions. That performance earned him the attention of National Football League (NFL) teams, particularly the Cleveland Browns, which selected him 52nd overall in the 2017 NFL Draft.

Prior to the draft, Kizer defined his skill set as a mix of Tom Brady and Cam Newton, arguably two of the league's best quarterbacks. Although the accuracy of that claim remains to be seen, he won the Browns' starting quarterback position out of training camp. In the first start of his professional career, Kizer completed 20 of his 30 pass attempts for 222 yards and recorded one touchdown and one interception. He also rushed the ball for 17 yards and another touchdown.