Herkimer County Community College has appointed JESSICCA J. BACHER as an advisement center specialist. She will be relocating to New Hartford for the position. Bacher graduated from Montclair State University in New Jersey in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies and then continued on to receive her master’s degree in educational leadership and administration in 2020. She previously worked as a program associate in Montclair State’s Academic Success Center. As an advisement center specialist, Bacher will provide academic advisement to Herkimer College students. She will assist new and continuing students in planning their program of study, including counseling them on requests to change majors, helping them understand graduation requirements, assisting with scheduling, and more.

Shumaker Consulting Engineering and Land Surveying, D.P.C. has hired PAUL A. SPERANZA as the division manager for its Environmental Services group. He is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the group and is working from the firm’s Binghamton office. Speranzo’s career encompasses more than 40 years of environmental and regulatory project-management experience in the industrial sector. His expertise includes environmental issues, project management, and problem solving. Speranzo has experience with environmental operations, regulatory reporting and compliance, permits, and interaction with federal and state regulatory agencies such as U.S. EPA, NYS DEC, and NYSERDA. His responsibilities have included environmental programs such as clean water, air, waste, site remediation, groundwater, chemical management, and energy management. Speranzo has a bachelor’s degree in civil/environmental engineering and a master’s degree in environmental engineering from the University at Buffalo. He is a licensed professional engineer (PE) in New York state.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Oneida Health have hired MAYA MATHEW, M.D. as medical director of the Dorothy G. Griffin Radiation Oncology Center in Oneida, part of the Roswell Park Care Network. She comes to Central New York after serving as a radiation oncologist at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi. Mathew will lead a team that includes a Roswell Park medical dosimetrist and medical physicists, along with radiation therapy and nursing personnel, developing evidence-based and peer-reviewed treatment plans that follow the same quality standards as the National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in Buffalo. She earned her medical degree from Kerala University in India and completed a radiation oncology residency at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago.

MMRI has hired HILLARY COTE as development associate data analyst, a new position. She will be working closely with the development team to create an improved analytics system to identify new fundraising opportunities to assist MMRI’s research teams. Cote joins the MMRI from Worcester, Massachusetts, and holds a history degree from Hartwick College and a completed fellowship in nonprofit leadership from the University of Albany’s Rockefeller College. Before joining the MMRI, she worked in fundraising operations at the Friends of Bassett Healthcare Network and as a development-operations manager at Boston Medical Center.