Question: What career was held by the University of Central Florida graduate who was kidnapped in Aleppo , Syria , and held captive by militants from ISIS ?

text: List of University of Central Florida alumni
Notable alumni -- Civic , education , and journalism
Hector Perez
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a metropolitan public research and space-grant university located on a 1,415-acre (5.73 km2) main campus in Orlando, Florida, United States. UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida and is the largest university in the United States in terms of undergraduate enrollment. It was founded in 1963 as Florida Technological University with the goal of providing highly trained personnel to support the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida's Space Coast. After the university's academic scope expanded in the mid and late 1970s to encompass a wider variety of disciplines, the school was renamed The University of Central Florida in 1978. Initial enrollment in 1968 was 1,948 students; as of 2014, the university has 59,770 students from more than 140 countries, all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Since the university's first graduating class in 1970, UCF has awarded more than 250,000 degrees, including 45,000 graduate and professional degrees, to over 200,000 alumni. UCF alumni have made research contributions to optics, modeling and simulation, digital media, engineering and computer science, business administration, education and hospitality management. Among the most notable are Gene Frantz('71), inventor of the Texas Instruments Speak and Spell, and father of digital signal processing. Numerous graduates have gained notoriety in the fields of law, government, and public policy, with alumni including a prime minister, a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, a United States assistant secretary of state, a deputy assistant secretary at the Department of the Treasury, a director of the National Reconnaissance Office, and a director of the Secret Service; in addition to numerous members of the Florida Cabinet, Florida House of Representatives and Florida Senate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts, and numerous officers in the armed forces through a unique partnership between the university and the U.S. military. Alumni have also achieved success as executives in major organizations and Fortune 500 companies, such as Boeing, Busch Entertainment Corporation, Darden Restaurants, Ericsson, Google, NASCAR, the Orlando Magic and Texas Rangers, Sun Sports and Fox Sports Florida, Raymond James Financial, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, and Yahoo! UCF graduates have also made notable contributions in the entertainment industry, including Cheryl Hines, widely known for her role as Cheryl David on the HBO television series Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Daniel Tosh, host of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central. In addition, The Blair Witch Project, which is considered one of the most successful independent films produced, was filmed by UCF students and directed by alumni Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez.
Alumni Class year Notability
Gisele Bennett 1987 ( B.S . ) , 1989 ( M.S . ) Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the GTRI Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory
John C. Bersia 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing , 2000
Olga Calvet 1971 Charter member of the UCF Board of Trustees
Luther Fred Carter 1972 President of Francis Marion University
Isabel Escobar 1991 ( B.S . ) , 1996 ( M.S . ) 2000 ( Ph.D ) United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Science to Achieve Results ( STAR ) Fellow and renowned environmental researcher
Cindy Elavsky 1996 ( B.A . ) , 2001 ( B.A . ) Syndicated columnist
Stuart Fullerton - Professor and entomologist , Founder of UCF 's Bug Closet
Michael Grindstaff 1978 Former chairman of the UCF Board of Trustees
Jim Huber - Sports anchor for CNN Sports Illustrated , and sports commentator for Turner Sports
Jin Kang 1996 Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University
Hector Perez - National commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America , member of the executive board of its National Council , former member of the Florida Board of Governors
Steven Sotloff - TIME journalist
Nancy Yasecko 1997 Educator , filmographer