On The Job – Aug. 22, 2014

ACCOUNTING

Scott Miller was promoted to manager of the Loveland office of Lenexa, Kan.-based accounting and consulting firm Kennedy and Coe LLC. An attorney with a background in taxation and business consulting, Miller specializes in corporate, partnership, and international tax; estate planning; and mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations. He also represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service.

ADVERTISING, COMMUNICATIONS

Matt Ingwalson was named creative director at Boulder-based IMM, a full-service interactive branding agency. He most recently served as creative director at Karsh Hagan. In the past decade, Ingwalson has received more than 150 awards, including national recognition from Print Magazine and Communication Arts and local awards from Ad Club Denver and the Art Directors Club of Denver.

ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION

Kyle Chism joined Pete Meyer as a vice president for business development at Fort Collins-based Brinkman Partners, focusing on m Boulder County and metro Denver. Chism has nearly 20 years of industry experience including an extensive construction and development background. He received a bachelor’s degree in architecture and planning with an emphasis on construction management from the University of Colorado Boulder.

BANKING, FINANCE

Dave Armstrong, Anita Kelly, Kelsey Kennedy and Ken Schmidt joined Elevations Credit Union as mortgage loan officers in Fort Collins and Loveland., bringing a total of 80 years of experience.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Vallene Kailburn, owner and creative director of Old Town Media Inc. in Fort Collins, is the Larimer County Small Business Development Center’s 20th and newest business consultant. Since 2007, Old Town Media, a full-service marketing and website design agency, has designed and built more than 550 websites for businesses and organizations.

EDUCATION

Bret Naber was named chief information officer at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. He has 15 years of experience in information management and technology in higher education. He previously served as director of institutional systems and architecture at UNC.

Certified public accountant Audrey Gramling began duties July 1 as chair of the department of accounting at Colorado State University’s College of Business. She came to CSU from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky., where she also chaired the accounting department. She previously was on the accounting faculty at Kennesaw (Ga.) State University, Georgia State University, Wake Forest University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

David Reed began July 1 as faculty director of the Interdisciplinary Telecom Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. He had been associate faculty director in 2013. He plans to continue teaching at a reduced level and conducting research. Reed heads the Center for Broadband Engineering and Economics within ITP, which has received recent research gifts from Google and Comcast. Reed worked at the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Plans and Policy in the early 1990s, and spent nearly 20 years with CableLabs in Louisville, first as chief technology officer and then as chief strategy officer before joining ITP in 2012.

ENGINEERING
Loren Labovitch, an international development and environmental expert, rejoined Broomfield-based MWH Global as director of emerging market growth and partnerships. Labovitch brings more than 20 years of project and policy experience in developing countries throughout Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He previously was director of finance, investment and trade and director of environmental and social performance during eight years at the Millennium Challenge Corp., an independent U.S. foreign aid agency created by Congress in 2004. Labovitch also worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality as a climate-adaptation manager. He previously spent 14 years with MWH in strategic planning and consultant positions. He is based in the MWH office in Washington.

GOVERNMENT

Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed certified public accountant Michael D. Weatherwax of Weatherwax & Associates, PC in Boulder to a four-year term on the Colorado Lottery Commission. Weatherwax will fill the statutorily required CPA representative position on the five-member panel, which is charged with oversight of the operations of scratch and jackpot lotteries conducted in Colorado. Weatherwax has more than 46 years of practice experience in tax and business advisory services and has a long history of local, state and national community, professional and government volunteer service.

Boulder County Commissioner Elise Jones was appointed vice chair of the Denver Regional Council of Governments board of directors for the remainder of 2014. Officer elections for 2015 occur in February.

HEALTH CARE
Dr. Amy Grove joined A Woman’s Healing Center in Fort Collins, an all-women obstetrics and gynecology practice that includes three other board-certified obstetrician-gynecologists. Grove completed her residency at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Conn., has a medical degree and a master’s from Boston University, and a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

HIGH TECH

Alexander Filatov was named chief executive of Niwot-based pattern-recognition company Parascript, replacing Bill Pearlman. Filatov joined the company at its founding in 1996 and most recently was its president and chief technology officer. He previously was on the management team at ParaGraph International. Pearlman, who was CEO at Parascript from 1996 to 2000, then came out of retirement to return to that role in 2010, will continue to serve as a consultant for the company.

Drew Jensen was named vice president for global business development at Longmont-based Sage Electronic Engineering, a provider of open-source firmware solutions for x86 embedded processing and network solutions. Jensen previously was software strategic marketing manager for the IoT Group at Intel Corp.

REAL ESTATE

The Group, Inc., Real Estate, added four broker associate/partners in Fort Collins: Tom Washburn and Lisa Hite in the 375 E. Horsetooth Road office and Brandi Garifi and Eric Hansen at its 2803 E. Harmony Road office. Washburn, a resident of Northern Colorado for more than 25 years, held management and leadership positions with Hewlett Packard Co. for 24 years. Hite, who earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Northern Arizona University, has worked in the fitness and health industry in Northern Colorado since 2004. Garifi worked with national homebuilder DR Horton for 17 years and was recognized as Community Sales Manager of the Year in 2010 and 2011. Hansen was head swimming coach at the University of Wisconsin from 1999 to 2011 and the University of Arizona from 2011 to 2014, and coached the U.S. national team from 1994 to 2014.

After retiring Aug. 9 as vice president for real estate at Loveland-based developer McWhinney, where he had worked for 13 years, Ron Kuehl started an independent real estate brokerage. He will work through RealTec in Loveland and still will list many McWhinney properties.

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