Roohan Realty announced that Conner Roohan of Saratoga Springs has joined the company as a real estate salesperson.
Conner has pursued a business administration degree from Saint Michael’s College. He has also been involved in the home improvement industry through his work with Granite & Marble Works of Wilton.
Aside from his interest in business, Conner also studied Spanish in college and played lacrosse for three years.
Seeley Office Systems announced that Megan Reising was named marketing director.
She will be cooperating with the management team to lead new business and marketing strategies, and maintain current relationships with local clients.
Reising brings a background in marketing and advertising, including pharmaceuticals, nonprofits and retail. She was previously employed at the Patient Experience Project and Franklin Community Center in Saratoga Springs.
She received her B.A. in marketing at Bryant University in 2007.
Randall DeFranco, AIA joined C.T. Male Associates
Engineering, Surveying, Architecture & Landscape Architecture,
D.P.C. as a senior project architect in its Architecture & Building
Systems Division.
DeFranco earned a Bachelor of Science degree
in architecture from New Jersey Institute of Technology and he is
licensed to practice architecture in New York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey. His work has won American Institute of Architecture awards in
research and design categories. Honored work includes projects for
commercial, industrial, and educational clients.
His previous
experience includes conceptual design, project management and
construction administration. As a facilities planning consultant, he led
a team of professionals in the development of an innovative methodology
for facility condition assessment and long-term capital planning.
Saratoga Performing Arts Center has announced that Edward J. Lafond is the group’s new chief financial officer.
He replaces Richard Geary, who is retiring after 17 years with SPAC.
Lafond,
a CPA, will manage SPAC’s annual operating budget, and oversee all
administrative systems and processes including financial, accounting,
legal, information technology, human resources and contract
administration.
Lafond has nearly three decades of financial and
management experience, the last 17 of those at UHY LLP, a national
certified public accounting firm.
Ballston Spa
National Bank announced that Rich Ryan, retail loan servicing
supervisor, received the bank’s 2014 SUMMIT Employee of the Year award.
Ryan
was recognized for his outstanding dedication to customer service and
for supporting the bank’s core values of teamwork, respect,
accountability, integrity and leadership, bank officials said.
Ryan, a Queensbury resident, joined BSNB in 2012.
The
following monthly SUMMIT Award winners were also recognized for their
contributions and commitment to the bank’s customer service objectives:
Heather O’Shea, Yvette MacHattie, Christopher Jordan, Gene Bik, Marcy
Liquori, John Chandler, Cindy Brazee, Jenifer Marten, Noelle Kahler,
Matt Hosek and Mike Serencsics.
Roohan Realty announced that Rebecca M. Hoey joined the company as a graphic designer and photographer.
She
worked at SUNY Oneonta for five years as the multi-media specialist and
has owned and operated RMH Photography for 10 years.
She holds a
B.S. in business economics with a concentration in photography from
SUNY Oneonta. Hoey teaches fitness programs in the community.
Saratoga
Construction and Saratoga Modular hired Dominic Tocco as sales manager.
Tocco has 23 years of new construction experience, as well as six
years’ experience in windows and home improvement. Originally from
Cooperstown, Dominic has been a Saratoga County resident for the past 18
years.
Col. James Pabis, a veteran of the Iraq War
and a Saratoga Springs resident, was selected to serve as deputy
commander of the 53rd Troop Command, one of the two New York Army
National Guard commands headed by a general officer.
Headquartered
at Camp Smith Training Site near Peakskill, the 53rd Troop Command is
responsible for about 4,300 National Guard Soldiers in military police,
engineer, transportation, signal, and logistics support units.
Pabis
is president of Saratoga Source, LLC, a professional recruiting firm,
and currently serves as the commander of the 153rd Troop Command
headquartered in Buffalo.
Saratoga Casino and Raceway is pleased to welcome Peter James (“P.J.”) Iovino as the new race secretary.
Iovino replaces Don Hoover, who is retiring after serving as Race Secretary for Saratoga Harness for 12 years.
Iovino,
of Brooklyn, started in the industry in 1997 when he began as a program
editor and chart-caller at Sports Eye, a Long Island based publishing
company that produced multiple harness racing publications. He returned
to his roots as a chart-caller and race office assistant at Freehold
Raceway in 2006. He was promoted to assistant race secretary in 2008.
Iovino also served as a freelance correspondent for the Daily Racing
Form.
In his new role, Iovino will be responsible for creating the racing programs at Saratoga Casino and Raceway.
SaxBST announced that Kimberly Wright, a manager in the firm’s tax department, recently passed the CPA exam.
Wright has been with the accounting firm since 2008.
The firm also announced that Bethany Lillie has joined the accounting and auditing team as an associate.
She
previously worked for a New York City firm and recently relocated to
Cobleskill.
She has a master’s degree in accounting from Syracuse
University, and a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Hartwick.
The
Saratoga Foundation for Innovative Learning (SFIL) awarded a grant to
Albert Pickens, a music teacher at the Geyser Road Elementary School, to
fund materials and supplies for a Geyser Road Apple Orchard. The amount
of grant was awarded was $1890.
The Geyser Road Apple Orchard
project is expected to begin during the 2014-2015 school year. It will
teach elementary students the science behind how to grow and even clone
apple trees. Students will design, plant and maintain a small apple
orchard to benefit the entire school as well as those in need.
SFIL
is a non-profit organization, comprised of community members that share
a common goal of fostering forward-thinking and creative opportunities
in the Saratoga Springs City School District.
Maria
Billis, a natural lifestyle educator with Young Living Essential Oils,
achieved a prestigious Platinum Award, for sales in the top 10 percent
in her company.
Young Living is deals in essential oils and
natural wellness products, renowned for its essential oils and oil
blends, oil- infused nutritional supplements, bath and body products,
skin-care solutions, and natural preparations for the home.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Southern Adirondacks hired Audrey Shaw as its new fundraising development coordinator.
Shaw
most recently served as the director of fundraising and outreach for
House of Grace of the Adirondacks, and before that was involved in both
fundraising and the patient and family services programs for the
American Cancer Society’s Queensbury office.