On the Record / December 5, 2008
Hires/Promotions/ Honors
Chiampou Travis Besaw and Kershner, an Amherst accounting firm, named Brandon Dries a staff accountant. Dries is an accounting graduate of University at Buffalo.
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Dopkins and Co. senior accountant Elizabeth A. Pohl and accountants Andrew Reading, Joseph M. Mucha, Meghan D. Crotty, and Christina B. Barone have successfully passed all parts of the CPA exam. Pohl met other professional requirements to earn the CPA designation as well.
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Community Bank appointed John F. Whipple to its board of directors. Whipple is chief executive officer of Buffamante Whipple Buttafaro, with locations in Jamestown, Olean and Orchard Park.
Company items
The PCA Group, a Buffalo technology company serving both Western and Central New York for more than 19 years, completed a network upgrade for Stieglitz Snyder Architecture located at 425 Franklin Street.
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Picone Construction Corporation was selected by Fredonia State College to reconstruct new lavatory facilities in the lower level of the Williams Center on the Fredonia Campus.
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FB Displays and Designs, a Williamsville event marketing solutions provider, recently designed and created a full size display for BlackDog Strategy and Brand, a boutique strategy consulting firm focused on retail and fashion brands located in Hamburg.
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The PCA Group, a Buffalo technology company serving both Western and Central New York for more than 19 years, completed a Lotus Foundations installation for Murak and Associates, a Williamsville management consultant firm. Lotus Foundations is an all-in-one solution that was designed by IBM for small businesses that provides data backup, disaster recovery, fire wall, anti-virus, anti-spam, secure remote access, automated system updates, office productivity, email, calendar, contact database, along with centralized file and print management.
Contributing
The John R. Oishei Foundation awarded a $660,000 grant to the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, to be distributed over three years for recruitment and research expansion.
Patents
Title: “Method and system of monitoring, sensor validation and predictive fault analysis” No.: 7,451,003 Inventors: Daniel, Stephen L. (Williamsville); Fickelscherer, Richard J. (Forestville); Lenz, Douglas H. (East Amherst); Chester, Daniel L. (Newark, DE) Assignee: Falconeer Technologies (Williamsville) Date issued: Nov. 11, 2008
