ANNEMARIE SHUMAN
New job title: Head of Lower School
Company: Savannah Country Day School
Duties: Shuman willoversee all aspects of Lower School.
Related work experience: Shuman comes from Charlotte Country Day School in Charlotte, N.C., where she taught in both the Lower and Middle Schools. Earlier, she spent eight years teaching in public elementary and middle schools in the Carolinas.
Education: Shuman has abachelor’s degree in elementary studies and professional education from Gardner-Webb University and a masters degree in executive leadership studies, also from Gardner-Webb University.
KATIE HART
New job title: Sales associate
Company: Coldwell Banker Platinum Partners
Duties: Hart specializes in new homes and residential properties in Pooler and Savannah.
Education: Hart has a bachelor of science in nursing from the Medical College of Georgia and has experience in pediatrics and surgery.
CATJA BRANDES
New job title: Bookkeeper in the Small Business Division
Company: Hancock Askew & Co. LLP
Related work experience: Brandes has worked for 20 years in the accounting, administrative and IT support sectors in various countries including Germany and the West Indies as well as Florida and New York.
Education: Brandes graduated from IHK (IT Management School) in Wiesbaden, Germany, with a bachelors of arts in IT and accounting and has a bachelor of arts from the Institute for Foreign Languages in Rosenheim, Germany.
KRISTIN POLLOCK
New job title: Engineering and facilities group leader
Company: Target
Duties: Pollock will lead the engineering and facilities team.
Related work experience: Pollock has three years experience as an executive team leader for Target stores.
Education: Pollock has a bachelor of science in business administration from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariz.
Manufacturing group honors DIRTT executive
The Manufacturing Institute has presented Laura Lee Bocade, with Savannah-based DIRTT Environmental Solutions, with the Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Production) Award. The award honors women who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in their careers and represent all levels of the manufacturing industry, from the factory floor to the executive level.
Memorial anesthesiologists
Six anesthesiologists at Memorial University Medical Center recently became board certified in pediatric anesthesiology. There are only 18 board-certified pediatric anesthesiologists in the state of Georgia. They Memorial anesthesiologists include:
• Stephen Miller M.D.
• Hemal Patel, M.D.
• Minh Gia Thai, M.D.
• Larry Corbitt, M.D.
• Stephen Rogers, M.D.
• Joseph Thompson, M.D.
The One Hundred elect officers
At the annual meeting of The One Hundred in January, Carolyn Brown was installed as the new president and Nadine Bothwell as vice president.
Other board members include Gay Morison, Jane Winter, Carol Benefield, Kathy Fritz, Carol Walsh, Peggy Wise, Linda McWhorter, Brenda Marchand, Mary Beth Gaynor, Gayle Burkhardt, Andrea Gartland, Chris Savage, Nancy Sheets, Donna Hardie, Lynne Canham, Judy Crenshaw and Mary Anne Senkowski.
Local contractor judges contest
David Rock, owner of P.C.M. Inc. recently returned from Las Vegas where he was a judge in the masonry skills competition at the World of Concrete World of Masonry.