Bloomberg Deputy Heads to Development Firm

A Manhattan developer hires Marc Shaw from the New York City mayor's office. Also, New Jersey gets a new head for its department of transportation.

NEW HIRES

Marc Shaw, most recently a first deputy mayor for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has joined Extell Development, a real estate developer based in New York, as executive vice president for strategic planning.

Mark Maljanian has joined Butler Rogers Baskett, an architectural and interior design firm based in New York, as studio design leader.

Alma Smith has joined Hill International, a construction consulting firm based in Marlton, N.J., as vice president in the project management group.

Kris Kolluri was named commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation by Gov. Jon Corzine, replacing Jack Lettiere, who retired. Kolluri had previously been Lettiere's chief of staff but most recently was an attorney at Parker McCay in Marlton, N.J.

Robin Stout has been named president of the Moynihan Station Development Corp., a subsidiary of the Empire State Development Corp. that is overseeing the conversion of the James A. Farley Post Office building near Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan into a new $818 million transit station.

Eugene Colonese has been appointed administrator of the Connecticut Department of Transportation's Division of Rail Operations.

Tucker Reed has been named executive director of the newly formed District Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass business improvement district.

Joe Amicone has been named counsel on energy issues for New York Gov. George Pataki.

Paul Curcio has been hired as director of utility engineering at BL Cos., an architectural and engineering firm based in Meriden, Conn. The firm also recently opened a new Hartford, Conn., office at 150 Trumbull St.

Achille Niro has taken the post of vice president at DMJM Harris, an engineering and construction firm based in New York.

Jerrold Dinkels has joined STV Inc., an architectural, engineering, planning, environmental, and construction management firm based in New York, as vice president and eastern region manager of projects in the company's buildings and facilities division.

Arthur Spitalnick has joined the Kaufman Organization, a real estate owner and manager based in New York, as managing director.

David Wisotsky has been hired as site and civil division chief at McLaren Engineering Group, an engineering firm based in West Nyack, N.Y., while Jay Reichgott has been promoted to marine division chief.

PROMOTIONS

Brian Sitzman has been promoted to associate principal of Cannon Design, a planning and design firm based in Grand Island, N.Y.

Roderic Ellman has been named partner at Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, a foundation engineering firm based in New York.

Paul Moyer has been named executive vice president at the Pike Co., a construction firm based in Rochester, N.Y. The company also promoted Gilbert DiMaio to vice president of eastern region general construction and William McMordie to vice president of eastern region construction management.

Shawn Marren has been named senior associate and Joshua Keay has been named associate at daSILVA Architects, an architectural, planning, and consulting firm based in New York.

Robert Harlow has been promoted to senior associate at Brennan Beer Gorman Architects and Brennan Beer Gorman Monk Interiors, a New York-based architecture and interior design firm. It also promoted Max Petersen, Liza Morales-Crespo, and Marcelle Irving to associate.

Mark Witek and Mazher Usmani have been promoted to senior associate at Dewberry, an engineering firm based in Fairfax, Va. Witek works in the civil engineering department at the company's New Haven, Conn., office and Usmani is in its Bloomfield, N.J. office.

Patrick Orrico has been promoted to chief architect at Beyer Blinder Belle, an architectural firm headquartered in New York. The firm also has promoted Yetsuh Frank, Joseph Gall, and Carolyn Straub to associate and Margaret Kittinger, Neil Kittredge, Elizabeth Leber, Richard Metsky, and Michael Wetstone to partner.

Joseph DiBernardo has been promoted to executive vice president for business development at Ginsburg Development, a residential real estate developer based in Valhalla, N.Y. The firm also has promoted Pat LaBracio to regional vice president of GDC Homes in Rockland County, Richard Mancuso to director of acquisitions and development, Glen Moran to regional vice president of GDC Homes in Connecticut, Dan Mulvey to executive vice president of GDC Homes, and Jack O'Connell to acquisitions and development project manager.

Timothy Quinlan has been named a partner at Quinlan Development Group, a New York-based real estate development company.

Scot Bini has been promoted to manager of the education business line at the New York offices of URS Corp., a planning, engineering, and construction management firm based in San Francisco.

Joseph Lopardo has been promoted to account executive of Aragon Construction, a New York-based general contracting, construction management, and consulting firm.

Jerry Fioriti has been promoted to director of technology at AERCO International, a supplier of commercial boilers and water heaters based in Northvale, N.J. It also has promoted Neil Pilaar to director of global sales, Mark Croce to director of marketing, Mohamed Mehdi Doura to senior product engineer, and Ken Banuls to senior lab technician.

David Terry and Thomas Cusack both have been promoted to vice president and principal of Leggette, Brashears & Graham, a groundwater and environmental engineering services firm. The firm recently relocated its Connecticut headquarters to 4 Research Dr. in Shelton.

Steve Klempa has been promoted to head the construction services group of the Thomas Group, an architectural and engineering design firm based in Ithaca, N.Y. Matt Monaghan has been appointed general manager of the firm's Albany office.

HONORS AND
APPOINTMENTS

Arthur Rubinstein of Skyline Steel, based in Parsippany, N.J., has been elected president of Allied Building Metal Industries, an association of New York City-area metal construction contractors.

Joseph Zeller, director of accounting and audit services at Anchin, Block & Anchin, a financial services provider to the construction industry, has become one of only 300 Certified Construction Industry Financial Professionals in the country.

Anthony Lifrieri of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts-World of Disney New York has been named president of the New York chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association. In addition, Angelo Grima of Grubb & Ellis Management Services has been named vice president and Edward Fallon of Brookfield Properties has been selected as secretary. Kenneth Wentworth of Western Management will stay on as treasurer.

Louis Coletti, president of the Building Trades Employers' Association of New York, has been appointed to the New York State Apprenticeship and Training Council.

James DeCuzzi, CEO of the Sapir Organization, a New York-based real estate holding and development company, has been appointed to the board of governors of the Real Estate Board of New York.

Donald Newell has earned accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design professional. Newell is a senior project engineer with Trimech Corp., a subsidiary in Pompton Plains, N.J., of EMCOR Group, a mechanical and electrical systems manufacturer and installer based in Norwalk, Conn.

James Purcell, vice president and branch manager of Medina Consultants, an engineering, design, and construction management firm based in Hackettstown, N.J., has won the 2005 Engineer of the Year award from the Mercer County chapter of the New Jersey Society of Professional Engineers. Medina also announced it has opened a new office in New York.