On the Move, 10/15: Project PLASE’s Slicher honored

Posted: 6:47 pm Thu, October 14, 2010
By Daily Record Staff

Mary C. Slicher, executive director of Project PLASE since 1987, will receive the Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Award on Oct. 21. She was one of the founders of Project PLASE, which since 1973 has provided transitional and permanent housing, and supportive services, to homeless adults in Baltimore. Slicher has been a member of many boards of directors, including: National Coalition for the Homeless, 1984-1996; At Jacob’s Well, 1988-1997; Students Sharing With the Homeless, 1984-1996; six years each, Maryland Food Bank and Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce; and, currently, My Brother’s Keeper. Slicher was the first president of the Women’s Housing Coalition. She has served on the Peace and Justice Commission of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s group on homelessness and was a charter member of Maryland’s original Community Planning Group on HIV Prevention Planning.

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Accounting
Ellin & Tucker has promoted Bryan C. Porter and Jason F. Grove to managers in its audit, accounting and consulting department. They provide financial reporting, tax compliance and management advisory services to clients in the manufacturing, construction, wholesale distribution, service and not-for-profit industries. Grove also works on employee benefit plans.

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Awards
The Baltimore City Public Schools system received the 2010 Council of Urban Boards of Education Annual Award for Urban School Board Excellence on Oct. 2. The council was established by the National School Boards Association to help urban school boards find solutions to challenges at the local level.

Oasis Design Group, a landscape architecture and urban design firm in Baltimore, has earned a 2010 Brick in Architecture Award from the Brick Industry Association for its Justison Landing project in Wilmington, Del. The 33-acre brownfield urban redevelopment won a Silver Award in the paving and landscape architecture category. Scott C. Scarfone, a principal at and founder of Oasis Design Group, was to present a session, “Rooftop Healing Gardens Benefit Hospitals and Sustain the Environment,” Oct. 14 at the Best Practices in Healthcare Construction Design conference in Washington, D.C. He was to discuss the firm’s design of the Barbara Truland Butz Healing Garden, a new rooftop healing garden at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville.

Lois Profili, president/CEO of First Eagle FCU, has been honored as the Maryland and DC Credit Union Association’s 2010 Professional of the Year, and Herman Williams, chairman of MECU of Baltimore, has been named Volunteer of the Year. Profili started as a bookkeeper of her credit union in the early 1980s. She became CEO in 2001. Profili is a longtime Baltimore Chapter volunteer. Williams became a credit union volunteer in 1990, and chairman in 1992.

Surinderpal Sodhi, director of the chronic ventilator unit and attending physician for the Medical Care Clinical Center at Perry Point Veterans Affairs Medical Center, has been named Preceptor of the Year by the 2010 class of physician assistant students at Anne Arundel Community College. As part of their two-year curriculum, the students are assigned to accompany a preceptor for five to eight weeks in a clinical rotation. Sodhi has been teaching physician students for more than 10 years at the college after doing it for 25 at George Washington University.

Renegade, a marketing communications company, of Hunt Valley, received five bronze awards during the 31st annual Telly Awards. The awards were for: two business-to-consumer campaigns; a sports video; a documentary about a visit by Cal Ripken to China; and an e-instruction video. The Telly Awards honor local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, video and film productions, and work created for the Web.

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Banking
William R. Talley Jr. has been promoted to chief operating officer in addition to his duties as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Frederick County Bancorp and Frederick County Bank. Talley, who has been with the bank since its inception in 2001, has over 30 years of financial management experience in public and private accounting and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Mount Saint Mary’s College. Talley is treasurer for Rotary International District 7620, treasurer of the board and chair of the finance committee of the Frederick Community College Foundation, and a member of the board of trustees of the Record Street Home for the Aged.

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Boards
Maryvale Preparatory School has elected five new members to its board of trustees: Cindy L. Davis, division director for Visual Sound and Kunz AV; Tracey H. Ford, director of development at Towson University; Tony G. Moag, executive vice president for The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.; David A. Schroeder, vice president of operations for Bacchus Importers; and Paul A. Tiburzi, Baltimore managing partner at DLA Piper LLP.

Gerald Kasunic has joined the board of directors of Voices for Quality Care. After 19 years of working smaller-scale health and mental health agencies he is senior manager of the District of Columbia AARP’s Legal Counsel for the Elderly DC Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. Kasunic supervised two federally granted programs within a pro bono law firm, Legal Counsel for the Elderly. He has also served as federal liaison for the National Association of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs. Voices for Quality Care is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization of people who need long-term care, and their families and friends, family councils, resident councils, advocates, and concerned citizens in Maryland and Washington, D.C.

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Construction
Joseph Samek has been hired as senior vice president, director of government services by Wilhelm Commercial Builders, of Annapolis Junction. Samek has worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and DOD Acquisition. He received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Samek also is president of Academy Construction Enterprises, a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that has formed a strategic teaming relationship with Wilhelm Commercial Builders. Wilhelm is a general contracting company specializing in interior tenant construction and high-security environments.

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Consulting
The Hunt Valley office of URS Corp. has made several leadership changes: J. Brian Jarboe, vice president, has been promoted to operations officer.  Richard H. Nau, vice president, has joined the office as transit business line leader. Michael L. Brown has been hired as electrical engineering department manager; he is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. M. Wayne McFall has been promoted to lead the civil engineering group. Mark T. Mosko has been promoted to architectural department manager. Michael P. Pizza has been promoted to aviation civil engineering manager. Jennifer M. Lutz has been promoted to lead the aviation planning and environmental department. The office develops designs for transportation systems and facilities.

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Marketing
Molly Netherton has been promoted to the new position of results specialist at Brave New Markets, of Baltimore. She had been marketing coordinator. Netherton will focus on customer acquisition, retention and growth for clients. Before joining the firm, Netherton held positions at YRC Worldwide. Brave New Markets serves BtoB and BtoC clients nationally.

Brendan Foerster has been promoted from junior associate to associate at Warschawski, a branding, marketing, public relations, advertising and interactive agency in Baltimore. In his new role, Foerster will handle media and client relations and day-to-day account management for agency clients. He joined Warschawski in 2008 as an assistant associate.

Matthew Anthony Chullin has been hired as an assistant account executive by Weinberg Harris & Associates, of Baltimore. Chullin has held several internships in the music industry. Much of his focus will be on production marketing, public relations, sponsorship coordination, outreach and fulfillment for foundations, associations and special events.

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Nonprofits
Robert Ensinger recently assumed the position of chief operating officer of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, based in Silver Spring. He had served as senior vice president, director of brand development and communications since September 2005. Ensinger previously worked for the Paralyzed Veterans of America. The NFCC, a national network of community-based nonprofit credit counseling agencies, provides financial counseling on budgeting, debt, housing concerns including foreclosure prevention and reverse mortgage, and mandated pre-filing counseling and pre-discharge education associated with bankruptcy.

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Public Relations
Illiah Manger has been hired as an account associate by SPIN, a marketing and public relations firm in Baltimore. She will be responsible for account management and graphic design services for clients in the built environment. Manger worked for three years as marketing director of G&G Outfitters, in Lanham. She is a graduate of University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Erica Mechlinski has been promoted to group manager in Weber Shandwick’s Baltimore office. Mechlinski joined the office as senior account executive in 2006. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Hood College in Frederick.

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Real Estate
George “Beau” Pearce IV has joined the Maryland team of Liberty Property Trust, of Columbia, as a director of leasing.  He had served as vice president of the Washington, D.C., office of CB Richard Ellis, overseeing a portfolio of office space.  Before that he worked for Equity Office Properties Trust as a leasing representative. He previously established a residential home-improvement business. Liberty Property Trust owns and manages more than 3 million square feet of office, flex and industrial space in Maryland.

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Research
Dr. Peter Swaan, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences and director of the Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery of the University of Maryland’s School of Pharmacy, in Baltimore, has been appointed to a state task force that will study the possible benefits to Maryland in promoting nanobiotechnology research and development.

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Residential
John Beyer has been named senior manager for social work and pastoral ministries for Riderwood, a continuing-care retirement community on the Montgomery County-Prince George’s County border. For the past 11 years, Beyer had been director of adult evaluation and review services for Anne Arundel County. Before that he worked for 10 years as director of social work for Genesis Eldercare, a long-term care and short-term rehab facility. Beyer is a  LCSW-C licensed social worker who earned his master’s degree from University of Maryland.

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Telecommunications
Brian J. Poe has been hired as vice president of operations by Berico Tailored Systems, of Columbia. Poe, a West Point graduate, recently retired from the Army after 20 years of service. He served as a military intelligence officer specializing in signals intelligence at the National Security Agency and the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command headquarters. In fall 2007, Poe was named the signals intelligence adviser for the XVIIIth Airborne Corps, then served in Iraq from December 2007 to February 2009. He has been awarded  the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, and the Knowlton Award for excellence in military intelligence. Berico Tailored Systems is a Veteran Owned Small Business that provides advanced mobile telecommunications technology, software development and integration for the U.S. government and the private sector.
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Ventilation
Trane Commercial Systems has made two leadership changes in its Maryland/Pennsylvania District Office in Hunt Valley: Mike Cassino has been named environmental health & safety manager. Ross Kladakis, previously building automation system sales leader in the Pittsburgh office, is now BAS operations/equipment fulfillment leader in Hunt Valley. Trane provides heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, building and contracting services, parts and advanced controls for homes and commercial buildings.