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Who's What, Where
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Business New Haven
9/18/2000
By: BNH
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Cynthia Brown has joined OR&L as facility manager for the company's facility-management division. Brown previously was facilities manager for Ericsson Wireless Communications and Sun Microsystems in California
Connecticut United for Research Excellence (CURE) has named Gary A. Wilson managing director for scientific programs. In this new position, Wilson will develop and manage scientific components of CURE's strategic business plan, as well as business development involving CURE members and the academic community. He will also direct CURE's K-16 educational initiatives. Wilson has collaborated with CURE for a number of years on a number of projects in his former position as director of science and technology for the Bayer Corp. in West Haven.
William E. Shannon has been promoted to resins operations manager at Cytec Industries' Wallingford plant. Shannon will oversee the manufacturing, engineering, shipping, quality improvement, maintenance, safety and environmental activities of the plant. He has been with Cytec since 1985, most recently as product manager for the coating department of the Global Specialty Resins Business.
Jo Ann Short has been named development director at the Central Connecticut Coast YMCA, with central offices in New Haven and Bridgeport. She has held several past positions with the YMCA, most recently as branch executive of the Milford/Orange YMCA, a position she held since 1993.
Gregory C. D'Andrea has been promoted to process-control manager at Cytec Industries' Wallingford facility. He will be responsible for leading a focused effort towards advanced manufacturing through cost-effective automation. D'Andrea joined the company in 1988 as a chemical research engineer in the Stamford facility, and was promoted to process-engineering manager in April 1998. D'Andrea earned a B.A. degree in chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College; an M.S. in mineral engineering and chemical metallurgy at Columbia University; a doctorate in engineering science, also at Columbia; and an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven.
Also at Cytec, Ted W. Berry has been promoted to production superintendent in the resins department. He is responsible for the production of spray-dried and specialty resins at the company's Wallingford facility. Berry was named operations superintendent in 1993, and in 1997 he was recipient of Cytec's Circle of Excellence Award for his accomplishments in manufacturing in 1997.
Martino & Binzer Inc. of Avon has hired Mark O'Brien as director of public relations. O'Brien will be responsible for implementing formal PR programs for M&B's clients, increasing the visibility, credibility and viability of their businesses by creating strong platforms and receptive markets for their products and services. Before joining M&B, O'Brien owned and operated O'Brien Communications Consulting, working with clients such as Cigna Healthcare, Physician's Health Services and Fleet Capital Corp.
Suzanne S. Hudd has been named associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Quinnipiac University. She will be responsible for the College of Liberal Arts' extensive advising system, scheduling classes, organizing open houses that attract incoming students, and catalog revision. Before coming to Quinnipiac, Hudd was an adjunct sociology professor at Yale University.
Nancy Pruitt has been named director of development for Easter Seals Goodwill Industries Rehabilitation Center of New Haven. Pruitt was formerly employed by Sacred Heart University, where she was development clients coordinator for 18 months. She will be responsible for special events such as the Easter Seals Golf Classic, the U.I. Fantasy of Lights and other events run by Easter Seals.
Elizabeth Monz of North Haven has been named director of the Regional Cultural Plan, currently entering its third year. Monz is presently director of public relations and development for the Creative Arts Workshop and has 12 years' experience in marketing in the corporate sector. She will oversee work toward the plan's goals, with special responsibility for National Arts Stabilization project, as well as marketing and facilities aspect of the plan.
Directors of the Barnum Museum Foundation Inc. have added two to their number: Mark K. Vitelli, executive vice president of credit card services for People's Bank, and Theodore Grabarz, director of construction management services for the city of Bridgeport. A former senior vice president and head of People's U.S. credit card business, Vitelli joined the bank in 1984 as a management trainee. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and history from Yale University and a M.B.A. from Sacred Heart University. Grabarz is also a licensed architect in several states. He holds an M.A. degree in international economics, an M.B.A. in finance, and M.S. in city and regional planning.
Mark D'Antonio has been named media-relations coordinator for Yale-New Haven Hospital. D'Antonio previously served as director of sports marketing for the Long Beach (Calif.) Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, as well as in various capacities in the public relations and marketing departments with the NHL's Los Angeles Kings.
Michael T. Clear has been named assistant director of career services for recruiting programs and graduate and international student services at Quinnipiac University in Hamden. Clear will be responsible for developing career services for graduate students, identifying employment opportunities for students and attracting employers to campus. He will also work with international students to help them adjust to university life.
Regine Lambrech has been named director of international education at Quinnipiac University. She will be responsible for increasing internationalization on the campus and increasing Quinnipiac's visibility abroad. Before coming to Quinnipiac, Lambrech was director of international relations at the École Centrale de Lyon of Lyon, France.
Also at Quinnipiac, Derek J. Zuckerman has been named assistant director of residential life in student affairs. He will serve as liaison between the residential life and facilities departments to ensure that all operational issues in residence halls are handled efficiently. Before coming to Quinnipiac, Zuckerman was area coordinator for new students and programs at Bentley College, Waltham, Mass.
The Greater New Haven Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of New Haven has named Paul Rossi chapter president and president of the board. Rossi is director of energy trading for CNE Development Corp., an affiliate of the Southern Connecticut Gas Co. He has been a member of the JDF board for two years and has served as government-relations chairman.
Six internationally renowned architects will hold visiting endowed professorships at Yale University's School of Architecture during the fall semester. Demetri Porphyrios was educated at Princeton, earning both a master's degree in architecture and a Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture. Among his built projects are Belvedere Village in Ascot (England), Battery Park Pavilion in New York and the New Quadrangle at Magdalen College in Oxford, England. Douglas Garofalo is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Yale School of Architecture and has also studied in the Far East. His firm, Garofalo Architects, in an electronic collaboration with Greg Lynn Form and McInturf Architects, won a Progressive Architecture Citation for adaptive reuse of the Korean Presbyterian Church of New York, which was the first building whose design was ever conceived and executed using digital media. Craig Hodgetts was a founding dean at the California Institute of the Arts and is currently a full professor at UCLA's School of Architecture & Urban Planning. He has been studio critic and graduate thesis advisor at the Southern Connecticut Institute of Architecture since 1984. Ming Fung formed Hodgetts & Fung Design Associates in 1984. Since then, the firm has won numerous distinctions, including the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994 and the Chrysler Award for Design in 1996. The work of the firm of Tod Williams, Billie Tsien & Associates bridges theory and practice and has designed sets and costumes for the Elisa Monte Dance Co. and produced a traveling installation, Domestic Arrangements: A Lab Report (1989-90).
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