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Roland Vaughan was appointed chief executive officer of Rosser International, an Atlanta-based architectural and engineering firm. He has served as chairman of Rosser's executive committee for two years. Prior to joining Rosser, he served as the CEO, president and director of business development for Sherlock, Smith & Adams, an architectural and engineering design firm in Birmingham, Ala.

Barry Compton, Greg Dixon, Bruce Harris, Darrell Stallings and James Wille were named as construction division vice presidents at H.J. Russell & Co. in Atlanta.
Compton was named vice president of H.J. Russell's commercial construction division, Dixon of the multifamily residential division, and Harris the advanced markets division. Stallings is the new vice president of the education construction division, and Wille will oversee joint venture construction.

David Butler was promoted to vice president and general manager of Turner Construction Co.'s Atlanta business unit. He previously served as vice president and operations manager. Butler holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Keith Wulber was named vice president for special projects for Kraft Construction Co. in Naples, Fla. He has more than 30 years of construction industry experience.

John R. Mills, previously vice president and Florida regional manager for Brasfield & Gorrie in Orlando, recently announced his retirement. Mills was responsible for opening Brasfield & Gorrie's Orlando office in 1984, which expects to bill projects in excess of $300 million in 2006.
He worked for Brasfield & Gorrie for 35 years, starting with the company part-time in 1971.

Victor Yue was named managing partner of Dorsky Hodgson + Partners of Fort Lauderdale. Along with this appointment, the firm announced the changing of the firm's name to Dorsky Hodgson Parrish Yue.
The firm also announced that senior partner Cornelia C. (Cee Cee) Hodgson was promoted to president and David Parrish has become a name partner.

Chuck Bendgen was appointed chief financial officer of Suffolk Florida in West Palm Beach. Bendgen has more than 17 years of experience in finance and accounting.
The company also promoted four-year company veteran Dagoberto Diaz to vice president of its education group and Michael J. Beaumier to vice president for West Coast operations in Florida. Diaz has more than 20 years of industry experience. Beaumier has been with Suffolk for more than 12 years.
The contractor also announced the promotion of John Planz to project executive for the special projects group, and Todd Ripley to chief estimator.

Ted Silence was promoted to director of business development for The Beck Group's Florida division, based in Tampa. Silence joined Beck in 1994 and had served as development manager since 2002.

Charles E. Law was named transportation business line leader at MACTEC Engineering and Consulting in Kennesaw, Ga. He will be responsible for business development and supervising regional and state transportation projects.
Also, Dave Briglio was named principal water resources engineer. He will be responsible for business development and supervising regional and state water resources projects.

David Del Brocco was named vice president - commercial for Hanson Roof Tile, working from the company's headquarters in Deerfield Beach, Fla.

Jessica Files was named project manager in HNTB Corp.'s water resources group in South Florida. She will lead water resource and wetland restoration projects and conduct hydraulic and hydrologic model studies.
Files has more than five years of professional experience working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on civil works and ecosystem restoration projects as well as components of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan.
Also, the firm has hired Jimi Mitchell as a transportation engineer in its Miami office. Mitchell recently received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Florida International University. His responsibilities will include assisting the project manager with the traffic studies for the ongoing east/west and north corridor transit projects.

Ron Bowes was named senior project manager for health-care construction specialist Robins & Morton's Orlando division. Bowes has worked in health-care construction for 20 years.

Felix Marrero has joined the Georgia Utility Contractors Association in Forest Park, Ga., as bilingual safety and education instructor.

Robert Borrie has joined the Florida division of Clancy & Theys Construction Co. in Orlando as a superintendent. Borrie, who recently relocated to Florida, has 22 years of commercial construction experience.

Boyken International of Orlando announced that C.G. "Sonny" Jester, Jr., will lead the company's newly created dispute resolution division. This new division will provide expert witness services, mediation and arbitration counsel.

Roberto Archila has joined PBS&J of Orlando as a senior engineer in the architecture engineering division. He will serve as the lead structural engineer for the firm's architecture programs located in Orlando, Tampa and Atlanta.

Thomas C. Steele has joined design firm Niles Bolton Associates of Atlanta as a senior project manager. He has nearly 25 years of experience in design, project management, construction administration and programming.

Thomas "Skip" Hill has been promoted to vice president and division manager of Highwoods Properties' Raleigh, N.C., division. The 19-year commercial real estate veteran will oversee the division's day-to-day operations including leasing, property management and development. Previously, Hill was corporate vice president of leasing.

David Charters has been named a senior engineering manager in the Morrisville, N.C., office of Parsons Brinckerhoff. In his new position, Charters will manage the firm's North Carolina civil engineering operations.

James R. Faria has joined developer Royal Palm Communities of Boca Raton as project executive for Paramount Bay, a high-rise condominium project in Miami scheduled to break ground this summer.
Prior to joining Royal Palm Communities, Faria spent 12 years with Turner Construction.

J. Bill Stinson was promoted to senior vice president for Jacksonville, Fla.-based Elkins Constructors. Stinson joined Elkins in 2002 as a vice president. He will continue to focus on institutional market projects.

Jeffrey Harbour was named assistant vice president in the Raleigh, N.C., office of Environmental Services Inc., an environmental consulting firm. He will oversee ESI's ecology division in North Carolina.

The Rendina Cos. of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., promoted Richard M. Rendina and Gant D. Braley to the positions of vice president, Michael S. Messina to managing director, and Jonathan C. Sajeski to new business development director. Rendina is a medical real estate development company.

William Tim McConnell has joined the Southeast Cement Association in Raleigh, N.C., as cement stabilization specialist for the Carolinas. McConnell has 12 years of experience with the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Randy Bernard was promoted to project executive for Skanska USA Building in Orlando. Bernard, who has been with the company for five years, will oversee multiple school projects in the Orlando area.

Roberto A. Beauchamp was named as an associate, senior project manager for design firm Borges + Associates of Miami. He has more than 25 years of experience

James "Gino" Ginopoulos was named director of project management for general contractor RCC Associates of Deerfield Beach, Fla. He has 26 years of operational management experience and previously worked as vice president of Statewide Plumbing in Boca Raton.
Also, Darlene Murray was named director of new business development. She has more than 18 years of experience in the South Florida construction industry.

Morayma Salas and Stephen Edwards have joined design firm Garcia Stromberg of Boca Raton as project managers.
Salas was previously project manager with Hutton Ford Architects in Denver. Edwards recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture from Florida Atlantic University.

William Shelor has joined Parsons in Jacksonville, Fla., office as design-build business development manager for road and highway operations. Previously, Shelor worked for APAC as a regional manager of business development.

Raja Saoud has joined The Stellar Group of Jacksonville as a construction project manager, and Vimal Guru has joined the company as a design project manager.

Shari Secrest was hired as project manager for H.J. High Construction Co. in Orlando. The company also appointed Harold Shelton to the position of superintendent.

Michael Louis-Rene Saulnier will serve as a senior consultant for the roofing and waterproofing department of IBA Consultants in Boca Raton.

Sid Talsma has joined Hennessy Construction Services of St. Petersburg, Fla., as a senior project manager.

Ellis & Associates, an engineering firm based in Jacksonville, Fla., named Justin Scarberry, Ronald Raulerson, Kyle Stevens and James Roach as technicians working from its Jacksonville office, and Dustin Allen as a technician in the Brunswick, Ga., office. Also, the company hired Melanie Mercer, Faith Kummerlen-Sines and Brenda Murray to administration positions in the Jacksonville office.
Additionally, Allen Crow and Anthony Graves were hired as driller helpers, and David Havener was named to the position of mechanic.

Don Murray was hired as director of planning in the Fort Myers, Fla., office of TKW Consulting Engineers.