Profile of the Week Gwendolyn R. Acker Wood Job: Patent attorney, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott Favorite stock/mutual fund: Baron Growth Fund Someday I want to: Be a member of the chorus line of a hit musical on Broadway (and maybe have a solo act!). Interesting/useless facts about me: I once won first prize in middle school for a pen and ink drawing that I did of George Washington. I used a one-dollar bill as my model. Favorite Movie: "The Wizard of Oz" What inspires you? The amazing inner strength and beauty of people when faced with adversity. Person you'd most like to have dinner with: Other than my wonderful husband (whom I never tire of having dinner with), Barbra Streisand. What do you like about Pittsburgh? The hills, rivers and hundreds of bridges. It's like living in San Francisco and Venice at the same time!

People on the Move

Architecture

JSA Architecture Planning Engineering Interior Design promoted Mark Lighthall, senior associate and Robert Cortopassi to associate.

Associations/Organizations

SMC Business Councils 2007 board members are chairman, Jonathan Hall, Hall Industries, Inc.; chairwoman elect/secretary, Marilyn Landis, Basic Business Concepts Inc.; vice chairman/treasurer, John Kern, Capital Business Forms Inc.; vice chairman/education and human resources, Kurt Miller Thorp Reed & Armstrong; vice chairman/government relations, James Droney Jr., Mt. Lebanon Office Equipment Co.; vice chairman/membership, D. J. Wright, H. C. Harrington Co.; and president, Cliff Shannon, SMC Business Councils. Lois Riske, General Cleaning Inc., is immediate past chairwoman. Directors are Cookie Driscoll, C. Cookie Driscoll Inc.; Susan Endersbe, R. E. Uptegraff Manufacturing Co.; Donald Fazio, Diamond Wire Spring Co.; Philip Goldblum, Goldblum Sablowsky & Zamel; Dennis Hamsher, Aadvantage Insurance Group Inc.; Ralph Horne, Dollar Bank Leasing Corp.; Rocco Pacelli, Pace-Tech Services Inc.; Christopher Parry, Information Technology Inc.; Steve Silverman, General Wire Spring Co.; William Snyder, William Jay Snyder, CPA; Robert Steinbock, Superbolt Inc.; Daniel Van Dyke, Island Ink Jet; Barry Wetzel, Clark Screw Machine Products Co.; and Nancy Wintner, GWN Consultants.

Consulting

Cowden Associates Inc. hired Mary Stasik as a consultant in the health and benefits department.

Contractor, Construction

PWCampbell added Bifford R. Fagan as regional vice president, pre-construction, and John Munizza as project manager.

General Industries hired Douglas E. Mahaven as a senior estimator.

Education

Duquesne University named John P. Plante vice president for university advancement.

Apangea Learning hired Daniel Bolena, director of academic services organization; Brian D. Wallace, marketing communications manager; and Kate Whitmore, marketing programs manager.

Engineering

GAI Consultants Inc. promoted Robert J. Houston and F. Barry Newman to vice presidents.

Government

Michael E. Moreland was appointed director of VA Stars & Stripes Healthcare Network.

Law

Goehring Rutter & Boehm added new associates Joseph W. Gramc, Derek K. Koget and Elizabeth P. Sattler. Mr. Gramc focuses on intellectual property and school and municipal law; Mr. Koget focuses on real estate law, school and municipal law, business law and civil litigation. Ms. Sattler focuses on school and municipal law and civil litigation.

Kathryn M. Kenyon joined Pietragallo Bosick & Gordon as an associate in the Pittsburgh office. She is in the litigation defense practice group.

Manufacturing

Industrial Scientific Corp. said Larry S. Blair was named to its board. He is a member of Metz Lewis, where he practices tax, business, estate and financial planning law.

Professional Services

DHR International promoted Alexandra Hendrickson to executive vice president in the Pittsburgh office.

Contracts

Burns & Scalo Roofing landed the roofing contract award for Norse Dairy, Somerset, Somerset County.

Steelcoast Creative, a Pittsburgh-based graphic design agency, will develop a corporate Web site for Common Plea Restaurant & Catering.

Sewickley Graphics & Design Inc. has redesigned a Web site for Datatel Resources Corp., a local manufacturer that offers wide-Web, high-color and UV print services nationwide.

Carnegie Learning Inc. was named a partner in a three-year, $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant to Southern University in Louisiana, to help teachers and students integrate advanced technology into the teaching and learning of middle school environmental science.

Larson O'Brien Advertising, Public Relations and Interactive was selected to provide a variety of marketing communications services to Lutron in support of the company's EcoSystem product line. EcoSystem digitally addresses controls and fixtures to allow the lighting within an office or a building to manage constants such as time-of-day settings, and other variables,

Wexford Health Sources chose Pipitone Group to develop a strategic marketing campaign, including brand identity development, marketing communications collateral and public relations, to help launch its new line of business, Ballymore Medical Management, which enables nonprivatized correctional systems to reduce inmate health care costs without disrupting staff, operations or quality of care.

Edwin Watts Golf named Blattner Brunner agency-of-record. The agency competed for the $10 million-plus account against three undisclosed firms. Blattner Brunner will initially develop a comprehensive brand campaign for Edwin Watts Golf's 65 stores, the company's catalog business and its e-commerce site.

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