Tamara had her first-ever paper presentation in Seattle, the hometown of Microsoft, where she actively participated in the prestigious 2008 American Control Conference. The title of the paper was “Matrix-Based Approach to Sequence Analysis in Multiple Reentrant Flowlines” where a method for extension of matrix model of manufacturing system was presented in order to provide an efficient tool for analysis of systems with various dispatching sequences of shared resources. After she broke the ice, we expect from Tamara to continue with her successful work.