JOHN DOMANSKI was appointed to manage Popli Design Group’s electrical team in Syracuse. He comes to Popli Design with 33 years of experience in electrical system design and project management for a wide variety of industries. Domanski received his bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University. 

TYLER J. KOST has joined Delta Engineers, Architects, & Land Surveyors, DPC in its Endwell office as an assistant engineer in the firm’s facilities group. He recently graduated from Clarkson University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and also holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from St. Lawrence University.

KURT J. HAKOLA has joined the firm’s Endwell office as an engineer in the facilities group. He earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2013 and brings prior industry experience working as project engineer and project manager.

CHRISTOPHER S. THOMAS has rejoined Delta’s Endwell office as a project manager in the facilities group. He brings more than 20 years of industry design and management experience working on variety of structures for public and private clients.

BIANCA N. LITTLE has joined Delta Precast in Vernon as an engineer. She recently graduated from Syracuse University with a master’s degree in civil engineering, and also holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Little has one year of industry experience.

GENNIFER HENDERSON has been named manager of compensation and benefits at Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS). She will collaborate with the health system’s total rewards team on existing programs as well as support new initiatives around designing and implementing pay and benefits for the new medical center. Henderson was previously manager of benefits and compensation and human resource information systems at PAR Technology Corp. in New Hartford for nearly 25 years. She attended Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica and has received training in Affordable Care Act reporting, virtual compensation essentials, emotional intelligence, and emergent leader training. 

GHASSAN KOUSSA, M.D., has been named medical director for the intensive care unit at the St. Luke’s campus of MVHS. Koussa works with the MVHS Pulmonary and Critical Care Group and has privileges at Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Medical Center. He also serves as medical director of pulmonary rehabilitation at the Faxton campus and medical director of the respiratory care program through Mohawk Valley Community College. Koussa was previously affiliated with Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New Hampshire, as a staff physician in pulmonary and critical care medicine and medical director of the lung cancer screening program. He earned his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. Koussa completed an internal medicine residency, internal medicine chief residency, and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Albany Medical College in Albany. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon and is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. 

FLH Medical, P.C. has added two new providers. ASHLEY HARRIS has joined C Interlakes Orthopaedic Surgery and ASHLEY PAJK has joined FLH Medical’s Geneva Primary Care.

Starting as a certified nursing assistant in long term care for Finger Lakes Health, Harris advanced to become a registered nurse for surgical services at Geneva General Hospital. She graduated from Monroe Community College with an associate degree in applied sciences and then earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing at the University of Texas at Arlington and received her master’s degree in family nurse practitioner from St. John Fisher College, near Rochester.

Pajk began her career as a nutrition services associate and then a certified nursing associate, before becoming a registered nurse and a student nurse practitioner. In 2007, Pajk graduated from Finger Lakes Community College with an associate degree in applied science. She later earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s degree in nursing in the adult-gerontology nurse practitioner program. 

LEAH ISGAR has joined Bankers Healthcare Group (BHG) as a senior talent acquisition partner. She previously was a dual career and talent acquisition manager at Syracuse University. DEBRA NORVELL and EMILY SALAMONE have joined BHG as accounting clerks. Norvell previously worked as an accounting coordinator with WellNow Urgent Care and Salamone previously interned at Rapid Response Monitoring. VINCENT CUPO joins as an account executive. He has more than eight years of sales experience with technology and telecommunications companies. KEVIN BOND joins as a credit card account executive. Prior to BHG, he worked as a business development consultant at Oracle. AUSTIN HORNA and PRISCILLA THUNDERBERK join BHG as junior account managers. Horna previously worked at Herc Rentals as a territory sales rep and Thunderberk worked at Bank of America. STEVEN WANTZ joins as a salesforce administrator. He has three-and-a-half years of project-management experience and nearly six years of experience with Salesforce. JAMIE KOSECKI joins BHG as a senior manager of technology operations. He has 15 years of experience in the medical industry in the areas of new product development, research & development, sustaining engineering, and system integrations along with two years of experience in the financial industry focused on enterprise integrations of OCR (optical character recognition) and RPA (robotic process automation) technologies.