Hickok & Boardman HR Intelligence is pleased to announce its recent hire of Greg Paradiso as its Director of HR Technology. Paradiso will be responsible for running the firm’s HR Technology practice area and implementing HRIS solutions for Vermont businesses.
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Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) announced today that Patricia Loller, Director of Administration, will be retiring from the agency effective July 15, 2014. Concurrently, Maura Collins will be promoted to the position of Director of Administration and Policy.
The Eastman Benz manufacturing team; Karl Benz, Casey Gifford, and Chris Hovious, achieved IPC-A-610, Acceptability of Electronics Assemblies Certification after successfully completing a recent 3-day intensive hands-on practicum and testing workshop. IPC – The Association Connecting Electronics Industries – is recognized as a global leader in industry and certification standards.
The Board of Trustees at Southern Vermont College appointed Marjorie Gregg Swain, Psy.D., as a new board member at its recent meeting. A resident of New York City and Vermont, Swain has a strong history of involvement with non-profits.
The Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (VABVI) would like to welcome the following esteemed members of the community onto our Board of Directors:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, a global book publisher and education company whose roster of authors includes more than 450 Nobel laureates, has announced that it will take over the publishing and book sales of Winthrop H Smith Jr’s book Catching Lightning in a Bottle: How Merrill Lynch Revolutionized the Financial World.
“Dr. Knapp is a welcome addition to Central Vermont Medical Center’s staff,” said Judy Tartaglia, president and CEO. “He has a strong background from the work he did in Wisconsin, which encompassed both inpatient and outpatient psychiatry.”
Two nurses from the southwestern Vermont region, John Green, BSN, RN, of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) and Eileen Rice, Ph.D., RN, Assistant Professor in the Division of Nursing at Southern Vermont College (SVC) have been selected to be Vermont Nurse Leadership Fellows by the Vermont Action Coalition, part of Governor Peter Shumlin’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Nursing.
The Challenge Team representing Legal Services Law Line of Vermont and Vermont Legal Aid raised $3,125, making it the top fundraising team in the business category at the 25th Annual COTS Walk to benefit the Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS). The event was held May 4.
July 1, 2014 marked the 20th year that James Heltz and his wife Grace have owned Green Mountain Video, Inc, a production & post-production company in Williston, Vermont. GMV was established in 1983. James joined GMV as director & editor in 1985. Then in 1994 Grace & James bought Green Mountain Video from Tony & Mike Villanti.
Maggie Eppstein, chair of computer science (CS) at the University of Vermont, was recently awarded a competitive $650K 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), as part of the new NSF S-STEM program (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).
Stephanie Mapes, PF+C’s Captive Insurance Team leader, was elected in June as President of the firm. Mapes has worked at PF+C for 26 years and has helped lead the firm for the past two years as one of three members of the board’s executive committee. Mapes is the first female president in PF+C’s 46-year history.