People in the News – May/June 2006

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Durrant hired Steve Allendorf as business development manager. He will be responsible for marketing efforts for criminal justice facilities and other government projects. Allendorf has 29 years of law enforcement experience, including 19 years as sheriff in Jo Daviess County, Ill. He is a member of the National Sheriffs’ Association, Illinois Sheriffs’ Association, International Association of Chiefs of Police and Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police. Allendorf is also a past president of the Illinois Sheriffs’ Association and a past chairman of the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Board.
















         
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Maher Z. Labib, P.E., was promoted to executive vice president of STV Group and director of the firm’s national buildings and facilities division. STV is an engineering, architectural, planning, environmental and construction management firm. Labib joined STV in 1996 as senior vice president and manager of the Mid-Atlantic facilities region. He has more than 40 years of experience in marketing and managing multidisciplinary facility and building design, engineering and construction projects. He will direct more than 500 employees.


Richard R. Olson has joined Galen Capital Group LLC, a merchant-banking firm, as senior adviser. Olsen also serves as chief of correctional programs at CONMED Inc., a Maryland corporation that provides inmate health care services. Olson previously worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons for 10 years. He initially served as a physician assistant there before becoming infectious disease coordinator.


Grant G. McCullagh was appointed chief executive officer of The Facility Group, a consulting, design, engineering and construction management company. In 1988, McCullagh co-founded McClier Corporation, an integrated design/build firm. He served as vice chairman from 1996 to 2004 when the company was acquired by AECOM before serving as chairman and CEO of Global Integrated Business Solutions.


A.B. Robinson has joined Skanska USA Building Inc. as corporate senior vice president of health, safety and environment. Robinson is responsible for leading the company’s health, safety and environmental programs and he will execute strategic planning and expansion of Skanska’s Injury-Free Environment initiative. Robinson has more than 27 years of construction industry experience and was previously employed by the Fluor Corporation, where he served as vice president.


MANUFACTURERS


Somnia Inc., a supplier of outpatient surgical services, appointed Mark T. Munroe as vice president of business development. Munroe will be responsible for overseeing all business development initiatives, including continuing Somnia’s expansion into the corrections market. He has more than 10 years of experience in business development and previously served as vice president of iLLIANT Corporation, an outpatient technology and management services provider.


Tom McMillan was hired as director of corrections armor sales at Pride Business Development Holdings Inc., a manufacturer of personal protective clothing for the corrections and private security markets. Before joining PBDH, McMillan was employed from 2000 to 2005 at Protective Apparel Corporation of America. He previously worked for the Georgia Department of Corrections.


In addition, PBDH hired Tom Wilson to lead the armor design department of the company’s body armor division, Bodyguard Inc. Wilson will be responsible for designing a new line of tactical and military body armor. Prior to joining the company, he was in charge of tactical armor design, corrections armor design and military armor design at Protective Apparel Corporation of America.


A new integrated safety and security division at Detroit Door & Hardware will be headed by Michael Thomas, who was appointed general manager of the division that will incorporated electronic and security systems into the company’s products to improve safety. Thomas previously served as access control sales consultant. He has 16 years of experience in access controls and has worked on projects including President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas; the Department of Interior in Washington; and the Brentwood Postal Facility, which is also in Washington.


In addition, Robert Lenderman joined the integrated safety and security division. Lenderman is an Eastern Michigan University alumnus with more than 10 years of sales experience in technologies integration.


Charles C. Foster was named director of business development, homeland security at CDEX Inc., a developer of technologies for detection and validation chemical substances. Foster has nearly 30 years of experience in law enforcement, sales and security technologies business development. He started his career as a police officer in Delaware. CDEX specializes in technologies that identify explosives and drugs, and validate substances for anti-counterfeiting, brand protection and quality assurance.


Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced that as of April 3 president Craig Martin will also serve as chief executive officer. Noel Watson, who served as CEO and chairman before Martin, will remain executive chairman of the company. Martin has more than 30 years of experience in the technical professional services industry. He joined Jacobs in 1994 as the result of an acquisition and served as senior vice president of operations. Prior to being named CEO, Martin served as vice president of global sales. Jacobs has more than 40,000 employees and revenues exceeding $6 billion, according to the company. It provides technical, professional and construction services globally.


Daniel T. Darcy has joined Environmental Interiors as director of product development and senior project manager. Darcy has 25 years of executive experience in custom ornamental metals, ornamental metal railing systems and ornamental metal landscape finishes and furnishings.


FACILITIES


After serving as director of the Ohio Department of Corrections since 1991, Reginald A. Wilkinson will leave from the position April 30 to pursue another career path. Wilkinson, 55, is leaving the post to assume the role of executive director of the Business Alliance on Higher Education and the Economy, a nonprofit group that serves a catalyst, mediator and advocate of the use of higher education to increase economic growth.


Jeanne S. Woodford was named acting secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation following the abrupt resignation of former-secretary Roderick Hickman, who was featured in “Q&A” in the September/October 2005 issue of Correctional News (see related story). Woodford previously served as undersecretary of the department.


The Florida Department of Corrections is being led by Interim Secretary James McDonough following the resignation of former secretary James Crosby, who is the subject of a criminal investigation, according to reports. McDonough has made several staffing changes since he took office (see related story, page 9).


Ted D’Amico, medical director at the Nevada Department of Corrections since 1998, retired from the post April 1. As medical director, D’Amico oversaw a $30 million budget and about 325 employees, who provided for about 9,000 inmates in state prison. As of press time, no replacement was named by the department.


North Carolina Secretary of Corrections Theodis Beck named William N. Stovall deputy secretary of the prison system. In his new position, Stovall will oversee the department’s central engineering section, correctional enterprises and the safety office. He was previously the Department of Corrections’ chief engineer since 1990 and managed more than 115 employees in the department’s central engineering section. Stovall was proceeded by Fred Aikens, who retired from the deputy secretary position in January.