PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

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		Profile of the Week Steve Tello • Job: Vice president/general manager, FSN Pittsburgh and member of the Sports Task Force for the Conventions and Visitors Bureau • Age: 55 • Ambitions: On the job at FSN Pittsburgh, we are striving to provide Pittsburgh sports fans with the most complete coverage of the teams they love. On the personal front, I dream of hitting a home run at PNC Park. •  First job: Working a TV switchboard at a television station in Miami. •  Hardest job/why?: Being a parent, because of their Dad's DNA. • Biggest work challenge ever: Having to balance corporate goals while motivating and meeting employee expectations. • Favorite stock/mutual fund: Home Depot • Away from work I: Have been busy exploring Pittsburgh as I just moved to town this winter. Think spring! • Dream vacation: Hitting golf balls on the moon with Richard Branson. • Favorite book: "Franklin & Winston" by Jon Meacham and "While Mama Had a Quick Little Chat" by Amy Reichert. • If I won the Lottery, I'd: Start a golf academy for inner-city kids.

Malin, Bergquist & Co. named Rebecca Payne marketing coordinator.

Advertisting

Marc USA hired Rob Merritt as EVP/director of public relations.

Architecture

Weber Murphy Fox Inc. promoted David M. Thal to senior associate in the Cleveland office.

Banking, Finance

National City announced that Jada Grandy Barnes, small business banking officer, will be responsible for the North Side and East End neighborhoods.

Communications

FSC Marketing Communications promoted Sarah Walluk Swartz to art director and hired Judy Antantis as senior copywriter and Anne Arndt as proofreader/editor.

Consulting

H.B. Maynard and Co., Inc. hired Brian Allan as a technical support analyst, and Alaina Hill, Lauren Horstman, Kim Marsteller and Rachael Streich as associate consultants.

Contractor

Martin Taube joined DGI-Menard as director of business development.

Education

The Allegheny Intermediate Unit hired Jennifer Westgren as an evaluation system specialist.

Engineering/Consulting

Cardinal Resources Inc. hired Ronald Cross as a project engineer.

Health and Medicine

Dr. John L. Happel was appointed to the medical staff at Monongahela Valley Hospital. He specializes in cardiovascular surgery.

Investment Services

The Fragasso Group Inc. hired Joy Holden as marketing department administrative assistant.

Law

Patrick O. Regan has joined Rothman Gordon as an associate in the real estate department. He focuses on commercial, residential and industrial development.

Ryan J. Miller was promoted to patent agent at The Webb Law Firm.

Buchanan Ingersoll said that Martin S. Gates joined as a shareholder in its financial services section, Cleveland, Ohio, office.

Manufacturing

Cattron Group Inc. appointed Thomas H. Vaughn vice president of engineering.

Koppers Inc. appointed Tim Basilone plant superintendent for the carbon materials and chemicals plant in Clairton and promoted Heath Huschak to corporate environmental resources manager at the Pittsburgh headquarters.

Nonprofit

Mark Weitzman was appointed to the FamilyLinks board of directors. He is a disciplinary counsel in the Pittsburgh office of the Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sales

Tube City hired Thomas Beaulieu as a customer technical service engineer and Michael Scott as a senior trader.

Sports

The Pittsburgh Pirates hired Brian Chiera as senior director, marketing.

Telecommunications

TelCove appointed David Thomas regional vice president of its Southeast region.

Elsewhere

LandDesign, Charlotte, N.C., hired Pittsburgh native Allison Tooley as a landscape designer.

BUSINESS NEWS

Business Notes

Sonic Pictures, a Pittsburgh-based independent multimedia company, purchased the Pittsburgh franchise of Hotcards.com. Hotcards.com, based in Cleveland, Ohio, has eight offices nationwide.

Development Dimensions International has launched the Leadership Masters Series at Falling Rock at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. The Leadership Masters Series is a development program that incorporates DDI's leadership training with Falling Rock's sporting clays shooting, equestrian and Hummer off-road driving course facilities.

Paetec Communications Inc. has completed its purchase of American Long Lines Inc., a Horsham, Montgomery County-based privately owned telecommunications company. In August 2004, Paetec acquired the assets of Bucks County-based Covista Communications Inc., a long-distance provider.

Alcoa said that Suralco, which is owned by Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals, completed the expansion of its alumina refinery in Paranam, Suriname, at a cost of $65 million. Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals is an alliance between Alcoa and Almina Ltd. in which Alcoa has a 60 percent stake.

LOI Inc. recently completed the successful start-up of a Slab Extractor on No. 1 Reheat Furnaces located at the 80" Hot Strip Mill of ISG Burns Harbor, Ind. This is the first of three extractors that will be installed at this location. Additional improvements include new roll tables with individually driven rolls and a new combustion system in the Soak Zone.

Leases

Grant Street Associates Inc. announces a new lease signing for WordWrite Communications at Town Center, 10475 Perry Highway, in the Wexford Flats area of McCandless.

New Business/ New Offices

The Pittsburgh office of Synergy Real Estate Corp. relocated to Synergy Building, 803 East Smithfield St., Greenock.

Levy MG, marketing communications firm, has established China Trade Consultants Inc. (CTC), a business development firm with offices in Pittsburgh and Shanghai. CTC offers product sourcing, market analysis, industry-specific sales representation and cultural training to manufacturers, distributors and trade consultants throughout southwestern Pennsylvania and the eastern United States who want to sell their products in China, or buy intermediate or finished goods from Chinese suppliers.

GSP Consulting, government affairs firms, announced the opening of an office in Ann Arbor, Mich. The office will be led by Marc Jordan.

Contracts

Jack Horner Communications Inc. was selected to provide public relations services to Pittsburgh Mills, a $270 million mall under construction in Frazer. In addition to public relations and media relations services, JHC will handle marketing activities for the July 14, 2005, grand opening.

Celli-Flynn Brennan was commissioned to design a $24 million renovation to the Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh. Following a re-roofing by the firm, design will include all new stacks, group study areas, special collections and government documents, seating for 1,300, new elevators, a sustainable plaza garden and two-story glass curtain wall entrance.

CarneyFireman has been hired to design a Spanish-language Web site for Pittsburgh-based Asset Auctions, a company that sells industrial equipment for corporate clients and government entities with ongoing asset recovery needs. CarneyFireman created Asset Auctions' English-language site in 2004. CarneyFireman will work with Asset Auction's team in Mexico to ensure correct translation and information that resonates with the targeted Spanish-speaking audiences.

Grants/Loans

The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania's winners of its second round of 2004 demonstration grants include: The Pennsylvania Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at Chatham College to support a "Lobbying Boot Camp" for young women in the region to learn skills and strategies to become informed and effective advocates. The Women's Law Project to support marketing and legal advocacy efforts to ensure that area teenagers and young women are aware of and able to practice their legal reproductive rights. The YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh, to conduct two "Run, Baby, Run" candidate training workshops -- one at their Downtown location and one at their Homewood location -- to encourage and train more African-American women to run for elected office.

The Midwives Center to increase marketing and outreach of their women's health services to lower-income community members, to ensure that every woman regardless of socioeconomic status is able to experience pre- and post-natal care and the delivery of her child in a safe and nurturing environment. Pittsburgh New Voices to support a new program called "Sistah Speak," aimed at increasing young African-American women's participation in the reproductive rights movement. Young Men & Women's African Heritage Association Inc. to support their "Don't Give It Away Girl" program focused on educating young girls at their North Side location about safe and responsible relationship and birth-control practices to help them avoid unintended pregnancies and the transmission of STDs. The program encourages young girls to consider the educational and economic opportunities that will result from delaying motherhood till their adult years.

Awards/Honors

Terrence Trasatti, an employee at Alcoa's Global Business Services unit on the North Shore, is one of 15 Alcoa employees and contractors worldwide selected as an Earthwatch Institute fellow. The employees will participate in scientific research expeditions around the world as part of Alcoa's conservation and sustainability efforts. Trasatti, of Bentleyville, Washington County, will assist scientists searching for evidence of early human life in Spain's Guadix-Baza basin.

Brady Communications' 2003 Boy Scouts Annual Report entry won an Outstanding Achievement award in the annual report category of HOW Magazine's International Design Competition. The 2003 annual report will be published in How's International Design Annual, the April 2005 issue.

In it's February issue, Advanced Imaging Pro Magazine awarded the 3-D modeling of the Tyrannosaurus Rex at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History it's Imaging Solution of the Year. The project was conducted by Maglev Inc. in association with Leica Geosystems of Heerbrugg, St. Gallen, Switzerland, MetricVision of Newington, Va., and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

Elias/Savion Advertising, Inc. received two first place awards at the 39th Annual Printing Industry Association of Western Pennsylvania (PIAWP) Awards' Luncheon, held recently at the Westin Convention Center. The PIAWP's awards recognize "excellence of achievement, effort and talent" for productions ranging from annual reports and capabilities brochures to creative die-cutting or pop-ups. Elias/Savion Advertising earned first place in the brochure category for the viewbook designed for Shady Side Academy. In the booklets and pamphlets category, Elias/Savion received first place for the giving brochure also created for Shady Side Academy.

Garrison Hughes recently won best sports radio advertising at the 2005 NSF Achievement Awards for its work on the Pittsburgh Passion campaign entitled "Passionate About Football." Its campaign titled "Women's Pro Football" beat out close to 100 other campaigns submitted from all across the sports industry to take home the top award in both categories. The NSF ADchievement Awards are presented annually to the team/organization with the top sports advertising campaigns in television, radio, print, out-of-home and alternative media.

The Communications and Marketing Department of the Community College of Allegheny County has received two awards in the 20th annual Admissions Advertising Awards, sponsored by Admissions Marketing Report. The college received a gold award for the public relations campaign promoting the six-week "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" exhibit at Allegheny Campus last fall. CCAC also received a merit award in the national competition for its Fall 2004 series of television commercials. Admissions Marketing Report is a national publication covering marketing for higher education.

Warhola Video Productions won the Award of Distinction by The Communicator Awards for two of their recent projects. The one a training video to administer a specific blood test for a national pharmaceutical company based in Washington, D.C., and the other a marketing piece for a Maryland headquartered medical transportation company. The Communicator Awards is an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding work in the communication field. The Award of Distinction is awarded for projects that exceeded industry standards in production or communication skills.

The Rivers Club honored six members for their civic achievements by naming them Rivers Club Champions. They are: Carl Cooper, chief diversity officer, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham; Will Cross, teacher, Pine-Richland High School; Dr. Barbara Mistick, professor, Carnegie Mellon University's H.J. Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management; Scotti Mulert, chairman emeritus, The Rivers Club board of governors; Karen Puchalsky, cofounder of Innovative E-Commerce Inc.; and Gregory Spencer, CEO of Randall Enterprises.

Sisterson & Co. said that Kimberley Miller, associate, and Erica Monaco, senior associate, achieved the designation of certified public accountant.

Mark F. Pittman, director, investments of Pittman, Priola & Associates Wealth Advisory Group of Wachovia Securities, was selected as a new member of "The National Register's Who's Who in Executives and Professionals" for 2005-2006. The National Register admits those professionals "who have reached a level of recognizable success in their respective field."

Making a Difference/Doing Good

Fort Pitt Capital Group, an independent investment advising firm, has pledged $50,000 to Penn State McKeesport to establish an endowed scholarship. The Fort Pitt Capital Trustee Scholarship Fund at Penn State McKeesport will provide aid to students with the greatest financial need.

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