Friday, December 12, 2008

Changing Places

Who's coming? Who's going? Who's changing places?

By Mass High Tech staff

Service
Marketing communications agency Seidler Bernstein Inc. has promoted Jennifer A. Nichols to account supervisor, Martha McPartlin to director of creative services, and Kristina Lang to traffic manager. Also the Cambridge-based company has hired Tommy Leon as studio manager and John Gray as production manager. Nichols was previously a senior account manager. She joined Seidler Bernstein from HealthGate Data Corp. Prior to HealthGate, Nichols was a public health and social marketing consultant at Policy Studies Inc. McPartlin was serving as director of traffic. She has a background in account management, project management and operations management, as well as experience as an editor and writer. Lang has moved from traffic coordinator at Seidler Bernstein. Before joining the agency, Lang was an administrator at Tolerx Inc. and a special events manager at Brigham’s Ice Cream. Leon was most recently a freelance designer. Prior to his freelance career, Leon was director of creative services for The Boston Group, studio manager at Bennett Kuhn Varner and creative services manager for TLP Direct. Gray comes to Seidler Bernstein from Modernista, where he was a senior production manager. Prior to Modernista, he was a senior production manager at Timberland and Arnold.

Don Hause has joined corporate real estate firm T3 Advisors as senior vice president, director. Hause will be leading the firm’s marketing efforts for downtown Boston and has opened T3’s new Boston office. Hause brings a diverse background to T3 Advisors from a 26-year career, in which he has negotiated more than 7 million square feet of transactions, valued at over $10 billion. Hause studied architectural design, urban master planning, and structural engineering at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. During his tenure there, he worked for the Carter Administration.


Hardware
Medfield-based Comark Corp., a designer and manufacturer of high-performance computer and display products, has named Jerry Lamothe as manager of corporate quality, responsible for managing the quality and compliance within the company. Lamothe has more than 25 years of experience in quality management in both consulting and industry. Previously he helped develop and implement programs and initiatives for both Lucent Technologies and Ascend Communications.


Software
Waltham’s Oco Inc., a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of business intelligence and data integration, has hired Jeff Barovich as vice president of sales and Steve Morandi as vice president of industrial and manufacturing solutions. Prior to joining Oco, Barovich was vice president of sales at Cymfony, a market-influence analytics company and a division of TNS Media Intelligence. Before Cymfony, he spent six years at Forrester Research. During his 17-year career at General Electric, Morandi held senior-level positions including director of worldwide customer support at Aircraft Engines and he was a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Additionally he was a partner of ServiceEdge Consulting, and prior to ServiceEdge he was vice president of enterprise collaboration solutions for Parametric Technology Corp.


Information technology
Knowledge Management Associates, a Waltham-based IT consulting firm, has hired Sean Megley as a SharePoint architect, focused on enterprise communication, governance, communities and compliance solutions. Megley has 25 years of experience in information technology for the defense, biotech, pharmaceutical, health care, insurance and banking industries. Most recently, he was a solution architect with Concordant, where he supported IT governance and compliance for RBS Citizens NA Basel II Program with SharePoint solutions.

Submit your news and photos of new hires, promotions and board appointments to Rodney Brown at rbrown@masshightech.com.