SAMANTHA SULLIVAN
New job title: Physician’s assistant
Company: Urgent Care 24/7
Related Experience: Sullivan spent more than 10 years in the Army National Guard after training as a combat medic in 2003. Her career includes a 23-month deployment to Afghanistan in 2007 where she served as a flight medic followed by an assignment with the Arizona State MEDCOM unit.
Education: Sullivan has a bachelor of science and a master’s degree in physician assistant studies from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
WENDY WHITE
New job title: Manager
Company: Trace Backoffice Solutions
Duties: White serves as a liaison with CPAs, attorneys and funding companies and audits and calculates worker’s compensation claims and buy-outs. She also manages client work for Trace Backoffice Solutions.
Related Experience: White began her career as a partner with Hancock Askew & Co. LLP a Savannah accounting firm, where she worked in accounting, taxes and management services.
Education: White earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Georgia Southern University.
CAROLYN L. NEELY
New job title: Vice President
Company: Association Services, Inc.
Related Experience: Neely has been with ASI for 20 years and prior to assuming the role of vice president, she served on the executive team and supervised a team of managers.
Education: She attended Columbus State College, Columbus, Ohio, majoring in business.
MIKE JONES
New job title: Sales associate
Company: Celia Dunn Sotheby’s International Realty, Bluffton
Duties: Jones will specialize in Palmetto Bluff real estate.
Education: He earned a bachelor of science degree in finance and investments from Babson College. He received his law degree from Stetson College of Law and a master of laws in taxation from University of Florida College of Law.
CHRISTOPHER M. CAUDLE
New job title: Senior project manager
Company: Hussey, Gay, Bell & DeYoung
Duties: Caudle will be responsible for project management for all phases of design and construction from design development, construction documents and specifications to construction administration.
Related Experience: Caudle has more than 18 years of experience specializing in the architectural design of health care, higher education, K-12 and municipal-type projects.
Education: He holds a bachelor of architecture degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
ALLISON N. WEEKS
New job title: Human resources manager
Company: Target IW/Fulfillment Center
Duties: Weeks will lead and manage the human resources department.
Related Experience: Weeks joined Target in 2003 as an executive team leader.
Education: Weeks has a bachelor’s degree in business management from The University of West Florida.
JOHN LIOTTA
New job title: Director of Product Support Sales, East Coast
Company: Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.
Duties: Liotta is responsible for maintenance sales to Gulfstream operators in Washington, D.C., and Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.
Related Experience: Liotta served more than four years as Gulfstream’s senior regional sales manager, product support sales, for New Jersey and Delaware. He was also a regional sales manager and a spare parts sales representative for product support.
Education: Liotta earned a bachelor of science degree in marketing from St. John’s University in New York.
ANTHONY GREEN
New job title: Driver of the Month, April
Company: NLaws Produce Inc.
Duties: Green has been employed with NLaws since December 2011.
ARNO FOREHAND
New job title: General manager of component repair facility, Lincoln, Calif.
Company: Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.
Duties: Forehand will handle the daily operations of Gulfstream Lincoln, a 34,000-square-foot/3,159-square-meter operation dedicated solely to repair and overhaul for components, including alternators, converters, generators, avionics and flight instruments.
Related Experience: Forehand was Gulfstream’s senior manager of spare part sales, repair and overhaul sales and aircraft-on-ground expediting. In five years in that role, he oversaw company-wide over-the-counter parts sales, directed spare parts sales teams in Savannah, Dallas and Long Beach, Calif., and supervised repair and overhaul sales in Savannah.
Education: Forehand earned a degree in marketing from the University of Georgia.
BETSY NOLEN
New job title: Director of communications
Company: South University
Duties: Nolen oversees the strategic internal and external communications and public relations initiatives for South University’s campuses nationwide.
Related Experience: Nolen served as assistant director of communications at Georgia Southern University and spent nine years a news anchor and reporter for WJCL/WTGS-TV in Savannah.
Education: Nolen earned a B.A. in journalism and mass communications from the University of South Carolina.
Student earns LEAP Certification
Cynthia Wright has attained LEAP certification, a new program sponsored by the Georgia Southern University Public Relations Advisory Board. Wright is one of five students at GSU to earn May 2014 LEAP certification. Focusing on four key components, the acronym L.E.A.P. stands for Leadership, Experience in Communication, Academics, and Professionalism.
NAWIC inducts new members
Coastal Georgia National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) announces the induction of their newest members, inducted on April 28.
• Candace Forkner, assistant project manager; Pioneer Construction, Inc.
• Sherill Robinson, president/CEO; H2RG Inc.
• Nancy Videon, owner/CFO; Lowcountry Basement Systems
• Debbie Remke, owner; Low Country Permit Expeditors
• Kathy Marshall, national document coordinator; McGraw Hill Construction Dodge Reports
• Tawny D. Mack, associate attorney; McCorkle & Johnson LLP
• Anne Marie Jones, vice president, relationship manager; First Citizens Bank
Davenport House museum service scholarship announced
In 2011, the Davenport House Endowment Directors initiated a scholarship for an outstanding high school student who demonstrates qualities that put the museum and its community in the best light. This year, the recipient is Liana Mosley of Savannah Arts Academy. Mosley will be recognized at the annual Spring Garden Party on June 1.
Vendeville receives chef educator award
Jean Yves Vendeville, department chair at Savannah Technical College, was named the best culinary educator in the Southeast, according to the American Culinary Federation. Vendeville, of Macon, received the ACF Southeast Region Chef Educator of the Year Award at the 2014 ACF Southeast Regional Conference held in North Charleston on April 26-29.
Armstrong professor receives endowment
Ella Howard, an assistant professor of history at Armstrong Atlantic State University, recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to attend the Doing Digital History summer institute at George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History in New Media.