On the Move – Business edition

Posted: 6:12 pm Thu, August 12, 2010
By Daily Record Staff

Advertising

Akinyemi (Yemi) Oteyowo has joined Pinnacle Communications, of Baltimore, as a Web developer. Oteyowo previously worked as a Web developer for Canton Group. At Pinnacle, he will develop and program websites for its clients.

Awards

Charles Robinson, a reporter and associate producer for Maryland Public Television, recently received the Media/Communications Award at Black Professional Men of Baltimore’s 17th annual Rays of Hope Awards and Scholarship Breakfast. Robinson has worked in television as a reporter and national correspondent, in radio as news director, political analyst and executive producer, and in print as editor-in-chief of The Sphinx magazine.

Six Southern Maryland businesses and executives received Leading Edge Awards on June 23 at the College of Southern Maryland’s 10th annual event, which recognized individuals and businesses that spur economic growth within the region. The winners were: Brianna Bowling of Zekiah Technologies, CEO of the year; Asbury-Solomons Island, Calvert County business of the year; Facchina Global Services, Charles County technology company of the year; Technology Security Associates, Patuxent Partnership member firm of the year; Briscoe-Tonic Funeral Home, Small Business of the Year; and Naval Air Systems Command, College of Southern Maryland’s Partnership in Education Award.

Jonathan Lazar, a Towson University professor of computer and information sciences and director of the universal usability laboratory, recently received a $5,000 Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award from the National Federation of the Blind recognizing his research to improve Web accessibility for blind users. He has published studies on website compliance to accessibility guidelines. Lazar recently led a project that documented how blind users are unlawfully charged more for airfare when airline websites are inaccessible. A team he leads developed the Human Interaction Proof Universally Usable, an interaction proof that has task success rates above 90 percent for blind and visual users. Lazar is national chair of the Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction’s public policy committee.

Boards

Leonard B. Rus, a CPA and tax partner at Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates, of Baltimore, recently was elected to the school board of Beth Israel Congregation, of Owings Mills. Rus received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Loyola University Maryland and a master’s degree in taxation from the University of Baltimore. Gross Mendelsohn is a full-service CPA and consulting firm.

Kathy Smith has been elected board chair of Community Health Charities of Maryland. She is the executive director of United Marriage Encounter and Marriage Encounter Support Foundation, an international, interdenominational Christian marriage ministry. Smith is founder and principal of Smith Associates. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of Notre Dame and a master’s from Johns Hopkins University. Ron Brown, director of corporate relations and major gifts for Towson University, was elected vice chair.

Stevenson University recently added five members to its president’s advisory council: Eric Brotman, president of Brotman Financial Group, Timonium; Jessica C.Y. Lee, supervising attorney at Murthy Law Firm, Owings Mills; Todd Parchman, partner of Parchman, Vaughan & Co., Baltimore; Gregory Smith, president of Smith Sports International, Baltimore; and Erik G. Wexler, president of Northwest Hospital and senior vice president of LifeBridge, Randallstown.

James G. Gresham, coordinator of assessments, training and test security for Baltimore City Public Schools, has been appointed to the board of trustees of the Community College of Baltimore County. He also serves as executive program director for the New Antioch Baptist Church of Randallstown’s Academic Center for Excellence, where he oversees the ACE Tutorial and Enrichment Programs sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education and the Baltimore County Office of Community Conservation. Gresham has bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from Morgan State University and a master’s degree from Coppin State University.

Douglas Bothner has been elected to the board of trustees of the Contemporary Museum, in Baltimore. He is an associate at Ziger/Snead Architects. His work has won design awards from organizations including the American Institute of Architects of Baltimore and the American Institute of Architects of Maryland. Bothner is also a board member of the Oakenshawe Improvement Association. The Contemporary Museum promotes the art and culture of our time by producing and presenting new works, new thinking, and new practices.

Kyri Jacobs, executive vice president and shareholder of Bonnie Heneson Communications, has been named to the board of Leadership Howard County, a nonprofit organization that empowers leaders to strengthen and transform the Howard County community. Jacobs graduated from Leadership Howard County in 2009. She joined the HC DrugFree board in 2007 and became chair in 2009. Jacobs also serves on the board of the Domestic Violence Center in Howard County. Bonnie Heneson Communications is a marketing communications agency with offices in Owings Mills and Columbia.

Construction

Tom Mawhinney has been rehired by Cianbro to serve as a senior project engineer based in Baltimore.  He will undertake the Big Slackwater Rehabilitation in Hagerstown for the National Park Service, a rehabilitation of the C&O Canal. Cianbro is an employee-owned general contractor that provides construction and service solutions throughout North America.

Education

The College of Southern Maryland received its second National Security Administration accreditation certification through the Committee on National Security Systems for cyber security education at the National Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education reception June 8 in Baltimore. The college plans to apply for the Center for Academic Excellence designation in 2011.

Government

Philip Burdette has been named federal security director for Baltimore Washington International/Thurgood Marshall Airport by the federal Transportation Security Administration. Burdette will be responsible for handling day-to-day operations of BWI as well as managing overall security of the airport. He became deputy federal security director in 2008 and has been acting federal security director since February. In 2006, Burdette was recognized as the TSA’s Employee of the Year and received the Department of Homeland Security’s Award for Excellence for establishing an interagency security program targeting known vulnerabilities across transportation modes. Burdette served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was a counterintelligence investigator at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade.

Health Care

Stephen T. Bartlett has been named to the new position of surgeon in chief of the University of Maryland Medical System. Bartlett, who is a transplant surgeon, has been chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and chief of surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He is also the president of the medical staff of the University of Maryland Medical Center and was recently named the Peter Angelos Distinguished Professor of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Dr. Ursula McClymont, a Baltimore Medical System physician, is one of eight individuals selected for the Practice Change Fellows program aimed at building leadership capacity among physicians, nurses and social workers who have operational responsibility for geriatric care. This national program awards $90,000 and the support of local and national mentors to help fellows develop a new service or aging program in their community. McClymont practices geriatric and family medicine and is the director of Baltimore Medical System’s Orleans Square facility in East Baltimore.

Jessica Kraker, a neurologist, has joined the medical staff of Carroll Hospital Center, in Westminster. She completed her residency at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, where she was co-chief in charge of resident education. Her practice, Carroll Neurology Associates, is in Westminster.

The Health Facilities Association of Maryland and the Maryland Hospital Association announced a proactive partnership to improve quality of care and to reduce the occurrence of pressure ulcers in the state’s skilled nursing facilities and hospitals. In collaboration with the Wound Care Education Institute, HFAM and MHA will offer health professionals an opportunity to learn the latest techniques for the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers, and to become certified in wound care.

Marketing

ADG|Creative, of Columbia, has added four staff members: multimedia developer Jonathan Rossway previously developed Rich Internet Applications for SAP in Philadelphia; Kara Mason comes to the firm as a graphic designer after an internship at Type Image Form in Philadelphia; David Handermann previously designed and developed software capabilities and applications at Omen Inc.; Brandon Antkowiak, a former ADG intern, will support the web development, briefing, and broadcast/motion team.

Carlton (Carl) Doty has been named vice president, enterprise strategy by Merkle, of Columbia. He will focus on marketing programs for Merkle’s health insurance clients. Doty previously was vice president and research director for Forrester Research’s customer intelligence practice, which he helped launch in 2009. Prior to his four years at Forrester, Doty spent nearly a decade as an IT and eBusiness practitioner with Tufts Health Plan. During that time, he served as the chair of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium’s Internet Professionals Forum.

Nonprofits

Michelle Cuebas has joined the Y of Central Maryland as director of the Building Futures Mentoring Program. The Y of Central Maryland was awarded a grant in 2009 from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to, with the YMCA of San Francisco and YMCA of the USA, develop and deliver the Building Futures Mentoring Program to 1,000 youth over a three-year period. Cuebas will launch the program in Maryland and will oversee all activities related to the initiative at Y locations throughout the state.

Volunteers of America Chesapeake has been awarded a two-year Ministry Endowment Grant from the Volunteers of America national office, based in Arlington, Va. This will be used to start a Ministry Service Program with Rev. Sandra Trice Gray as chaplain. She will lead spiritual counseling and development sessions for clients and employees; direct interdenominational worship services; and provide pastoral care training for ministers on staff.

Payroll

Pete Clarke has been hired as an account manager in Payroll Network’s account installation and management team. Clarke previously worked for 10 years for Ceridian Corp., where he was a test engineer. Before then he was a payroll conversion specialist for PayAmerica.  Clarke began his career at ADP. He has a bachelor’s degree from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College).

Public Relations

Kevin Douglass has joined Weber Shandwick’s Baltimore office as a Flash designer on the digital communications team. He previously worked with other corporations in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., providing design and development of websites in Flash and HTML/CSS, along with motion graphics and 3D modeling. Douglass has a bachelor’s degree from Stevenson University and certification in Maya from the Digital Media Academy.

Residential

Cindy Wolf has been appointed director of marketing and sales at North Oaks, a senior living community in Pikesville. She previously was marketing director for the Fox Hill Senior Living Community and for Atrium Village. Wolf has a bachelor’s degree from Loyola College of Maryland.

Christopher Kiefer has been promoted to team leader of the community management team in the Silver Spring office of Legum & Norman. Kiefer joined Legum & Norman as a community manager in 2006. The company’s other regional offices include one on the Maryland shore. Community association management is Legum & Norman’s main focus.

Telecommunications

Brian Ballard has been hired as director of product development by Berico Tailored Systems, a provider of customized 3G/4G mobile technologies in Columbia. Ballard will develop technologies that support the operational and communication needs of the military and first responders. He worked with the National Security Agency for more than 10 years, and as chief technology officer of ARES Systems Group. Berico Tailored Systems is a Veteran Owned Small Business that provides advanced, mobile telecommunications technology, software development and integration for the federal government and the private sector.