Vermont’s Governor’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities (GCEPD) announces 2016 “Spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)” employer awards and Adam Leonard, Director of Human Resources for the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center is to receive the Spirit of the ADA Award on Wed., Oct. 12th at 1:00 pm at the Sheraton.

CHA Consulting, Inc (CHA) (http://chacompanies.com/) based in Albany, NY, announced that John Hensley has joined the firm as its new Transportation Group Executive. Hensley will oversee CHA’s initiatives to enhance the United States’ transportation infrastructure by providing design and planning solutions for bridges, highways, rail and traffic. Most recently, Hensley served as the Environment Business President at ARCADIS where he held several executive leadership positions throughout a career spanning more than 30 years with the company.

Twinstate Technologies hires Edward Golden, CISSP, CISM, the company announced today. A former Northrop Grumman Cyber Operations Center Manager, Golden was hired to support the increase in demand for cybersecurity services due to the exponential rise in cybercrime. Mr Golden serves as Cybersecurity Specialist and brings more than 20 years of high-level cybersecurity expertise to the company’s Information Security Advisory Team (ISAT).

VHB is pleased to announce that Erica Quallen has joined VHB’s Vermont office as a Transportation Consultant. Erica joins the Vermont office’s transportation group, where she will focus on traffic systems and engineering, transportation planning and project scoping for public and private clients alike. Erica graduated from the University of Vermont (UVM) College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences in 2016, with a BS degree in Civil Engineering.