Samantha Orme is a graduate of Florida State University and a former steward on Bravo’s reality TV show, Below Deck. She has also worked as the vice president of engineering at one solar energy firm.
Samantha is now married to Bradley Ulmer and they are raising their two kids together. She is also known as Samantha Ulmer.
Who is Samantha Orme?
Samantha Orme was born in 1987 as the second daughter of John and Mary Orme. Her parents are both sea lovers. Her father, John worked as a charter captain who participated in the Cape 2 Rio Yacht Race.
Orme and her sister, Tanya were both raised on and around the water. The Orme sisters grew up listening to the sea stories shared by their parents who had experienced the waters and other cultures as well.
When the two sisters were very young, their parents settled in Tampa Bay Florida where they chartered boats and shared many memories in places such as the Eastern Caribbean Islands and Grenada.
Samantha’s parents divorced in the early 1990s and her mother remarried creative David Ellis in 2000. Nevertheless, Samantha and her sister spent most of their time on the water with their father, who had built a large catamaran.
Her sister went on to work as a crew member on different ships participating in tall ship events, races, festivals, and meet-ups. After that, she went back home and took a job as a cook aboard A.J. Meerwald at New Jersey’s Bayshore Center at Bivalve.
Sadly, in 2009, her sister was killed in a car accident at the age of 24. At that time, Orme was backpacking Europe alongside a friend but returned home immediately after she got the news.
Before her sister passed, she (Tanya) held her first art show in Ozona and admission was $1. 25% of her sales went to the Homeless Emergency Project.
Also, Tanya’s journey of self-discovery is reportedly on display at the Stirling Art Studios in Dunedin. The family believes sharing her artistic works would keep her memory alive forever.
Besides that, Samantha has revealed the death of her sister’s life made her become a yacht.
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What Happened to Samantha Orme after She Left Below Deck
The reality TV star graduated with honors from Florida State University with a degree in industrial engineering. During her senior year at the university, Samantha worked with NASA redesigning the avionics mounting structure for the Ares I Rockets.
Upon her graduation, her mother shared a link to a superyacht crew application with her. Apparently, the application was for Below Deck. She got in and started working aboard the 164-foot yacht Cuor di Leone.
While on the show, Samantha was known as the third stew on Below Deck. She was the first crew member to have a fling on board. She was linked to C.J LeBeau but the duo later claimed there was no chemistry between them so the relationship was quite brief.
After the first season of the show, Samantha left the show and moved to Los Angeles where she worked for three years before coming back to Florida again.
While on the show, she was dubbed an alpha female due to her strong will to get any job done properly and efficiently.
Although the industrial engineering graduate left the show, the TV series went on to produce 10 seasons and 137 episodes. Below Deck also has a number of spin-offs. Among them are Below Deck Down Under, Below Deck Adventure, and Below Deck Mediterranean.
Where is Samantha Orme Today?
The Palm Harbor native does not sail like before but her LinkedIn Profile states that she worked as a senior project manager at the solar energy company, Green Solar Technologies in North Hollywood California.
Of recent, she shared in a comment on a Facebook post that she no longer works in the aforementioned company.
Besides engaging in several fundraisers on social media, Samantha Orme’s Instagram page reveals that she has been married to Bradley Ulmers since 2019 and they currently have two kids: Blake and Molly.
She also goes by the name Samantha Orme Ulmer or Samantha Ulmer now.
The mother of two still enjoys sailing on her father’s 70-foot catamaran Rena. She has also helped her mother, Mary, and stepfather to promote her sister’s post-humous book, Non-Local Flow: Good Chi, the Sea and Me.
