Somerset-based CME Engineering appointed James Thomas May an engineering technician I, Charles C. Ishman an engineering technician III and Andrea Kovalcin-Ray controller. Jamee Boozer was promoted to office manager and Holly L. Hearth and Beth Sube were hired as administrative assistants. Also hired were: Jerry James as a senior inspector, Jason Berzonski and Jerry Neilan as technicians, Nathan Garlitz in the Somerset CAD department, and Randy Younkin as a part-time engineering technician III. Hired in the firm’s Latrobe office were: Frank Donato in the Latrobe CAD department, Bradley J. Fisher as a geologist technician I, and Gerard T. Sossong as a project manager. MANUFACTURING Respironics Inc. named Kathy Dober director, compensation and benefits. She moved to Respironics from Medrad Inc., where she was manager of compensation, benefits and human resources systems. Before that, she was director of compensation and benefits for Consolidated Natural Gas. BANKING/FINANCE Debbie Tawney was named assistant vice president, community development officer for the Pittsburgh region of Bowling Green, Ohio-based Sky Bank. At her new job, she will serve Allegheny, Westmoreland and Washington counties. She had been with Three Rivers Bank for 20 years and has managed several financial centers. Latrobe-based Commercial National Bank appointed Sean E. Swansboro information security officer. He joined the bank in 1998 as a systems operator and served as network administrator and manager, technical information services. He was named an assistant vice president in 2001. The Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers, based in Harrisburg, elected J. Ardie Dillen as chairman for the 2002-03 year. Dillen is chairman, president and chief executive officer of BankPittsburgh. Dillen joined BankPittsburgh in 1986 as a vice president of finance and administration. Before that, he was employed by a national certified public accounting firm as an auditor. ACCOUNTING Pittsburgh-based McCrory & McDowell hired Ilene H. Schwartz as director of marketing. She was director of external relations for the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University, manager of publications for Magee-Women’s Hospital and a marketing communications consultant for Tal Inc. LEGAL Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote hired Derek M. Brondou as an associate. He will work from the firm’s Steubenville, Ohio, office on matters involving toxic tort law and insurance defense. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Canisius College and a law degree from the University of Akron. ADVERTISING/PR The Pittsburgh office of Wenham, Mass.-based Mullen promoted Alex Maurer to account director and Paula DaCosta to account manager, both in the account services department; Leigh Ann Derringer to media supervisor in the media department, and Eric Schutzman to art director in the interactive department. Mullen also hired Pete Waterkotte as account director, Jamie Clarke in the business department and Jamie Bauman as an assistant media planner. Blattner Brunner President Michael Brunner was elected vice president of programs for the Marketing and Advertising Global Network board of directors for the coming year. Magnet, founded in 1946, is a group of non-competing, independently owned advertising agencies in major markets worldwide. OTHER Tracy Myers and Raymund Ryan were named curators of The Heinz Architectural Center. Myers has been at the center since 1997 as an associate curator and before that served as special assistant to the assistant director for public programs at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City. Ryan was co-director of the Urban Design Group, National Building Agency in Dublin, Ireland. He holds a master’s degree in architecture from Yale University and was a practicing architect from 1981-90. The University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business, Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence hired Christine A. Kush as assistant director and Arun S. Ranchod as senior management consultant. Kush, who graduated from KGSB with a master of business administration degree, was a vice president with Droz and Associates Inc. of Pittsburgh. Ranchod, who founded and directed his own consulting firm, also was a product manager at McKeesonHBOC Automated Healthcare. He holds master’s degrees in both biomedical device engineering and business administration, from the University of Pittsburgh and Syracuse University, respectively. Ragnar-Benson Inc. of Pittsburgh hired Rebecca Hamilton as marketing coordinator. She has seven years’ marketing and development experience and a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of Texas, El-Paso. Nemacolin Woodlands Resort & Spa hired Richard Carpenter as pastry chef and appointed Steven Spooner as assistant director of food and beverage. Carpenter was pastry chef at the Registry Resort and Club in Naples, Fla., the Brown Palace in Denver, and Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Spooner was an estate manager for Revlon executive Ronald Perelman, in Palm Beach, Fla., and East Hampton, N.Y. He also was assistant director of banquets at The Breakers in Palm Beach and evening restaurant manager at PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Susan Hockenberry , former O’Hara Township director of administration and finance, was named executive director for the Local Government Academy, a nonprofit training organization for municipal officials and employees based on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Hockenberry was hired by O’Hara Township in 1988 as finance officer and was named director of administration and finance in 1992. The Business Gallery is a weekly listing of promotions, hirings and other personnel moves at area companies. Submitted items should include a contact name and telephone number. Photographs should bear the name of the individual. They may be mailed to: Business Gallery Pittsburgh Tribune-Review D.L. Clark Building 503 Martindale St. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15212 Or sent by fax to (412) 320-7921 Business Gallery Tribune-Review 622 Cabin Hill Drive Greensburg, Pa. 15601-1692 Or sent by fax to (724) 838-5171 Items also may be submitted by e-mail to business@tribweb.com . – Compiled by Matt Hampton

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