JEFFREY ARMSTRONG has been promoted to Southern New York territory manager at NBT Bank. The area he will manage includes Broome, Chenango, Cortland, and Tioga counties. Armstrong, a resident of Cortland, was previously the bank’s market manager for Cortland and has been with NBT since 2013 as a result of the Alliance Bank merger. He has more than 30 years of banking experience. ANTHONY DANNIBALE has been promoted by NBT Bank to market manager for Cortland. Dannibale joined NBT in 2015 as a branch manager. He has 14 years of experience in banking and retail sales management. In addition to his new role as market manager, he has also been promoted to assistant vice president and will continue to manage NBT’s Cortland Groton Avenue office. In his community activities, Dannibale is president of the Salvation Army of Cortland’s advisory board. 

WENDY BERG has been promoted by Community Bank N.A. to district manager of the Oneida/Herkimer section of the bank’s Lowville district. She has 30 years of experience in the financial industry with most of her career spent in supervisory positions. Berg has been with Community Bank since 2015 when the bank merged with Oneida Savings Bank. She most recently served as VP/ branch manager of the Rome Turin Road and Griffiss Park locations. In her new role, Berg will oversee five Community Bank branches in the bank’s Lowville district, including Westmoreland, Camden, Old Forge, and Rome’s Turin Road and Griffiss Park branches. Berg earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration from SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

Erie Materials, a regional distributor of building materials in New York and Pennsylvania, announced several promotions and new hires. TIM SCULLION has been promoted to territory manager at the Syracuse branch. He joined Erie Materials in July 2006 as a driver at the Syracuse location. In 2011, he left to finish his degree at SUNY Oswego then returned to Erie Materials in March 2014 as an inside sales representative. AARON DRAPER was promoted to operations manager at the Watertown branch. He has been an inside sales representative with Erie Materials since 2015, following a career with the U.S. Coast Guard and experience in the construction industry. WAYNE CHAPMAN was promoted to an inside sales opening at the Syracuse branch. He started at Erie Materials in 2004 and worked in warehouse, dispatch, and inside sales positions. After a brief hiatus, he returned to the firm in 2017 and worked in the warehouse and in the GC/commercial estimating department. ROBERT VITERITTO has been hired as an inside sales representative at the Binghamton branch. He built his career in the building materials industry working in lumber yards in Connecticut before moving to the Susquehanna, Pennsylvania area. KARISSA FIUMARA has been selected as an accounts receivable accountant at the corporate office in Syracuse. She joined Erie Materials in 2016 as the administrator in its Auburn branch.

OWEN MATT has been promoted from foreman to superintendent at C2C Construction Solutions LLC. He previously worked at Charles A. Gaetano Construction Corp., where he worked for more than 12 years as a carpenter. C2C Construction Solutions has also promoted AUSTIN SHIRLEY from carpenter to superintendent. He also previously worked at Charles A. Gaetano Construction. Shirley received his associate degree in construction technology from SUNY Delhi. 

HAYLEY HARRIS has been appointed by Ithaca College as its new VP for human and organizational development and planning. Harris has served since 2017 as the human resources director for Cornell University’s Research Division, a division comprising more than 25 research centers and administrative units. She will begin her new position at Ithaca College on May 6. Since joining Cornell in 2008, Harris has served in progressively responsible strategic human-resources roles. Her previous positions at Cornell have included HR business partner roles in administrative human resources and in the College of Engineering and Computing and Information Science. Prior to joining Cornell, she served for eight years in HR positions in the Yale School of Medicine and in the university’s central HR operations. At Ithaca College, Harris will be responsible for developing an innovative, collaborative human and organizational development division focused on best practices in contemporary human resources, and serve as a strategic partner to the college’s senior academic and administrative leadership. She earned her bachelor’s degree in music from Boston University and master’s degree in philosophy from Yale, and also obtained senior professional in human resources (SPHR) certification in 2006. 

DAVID J. MCCUSKER, JR. has been selected as the next head of school at Manlius Pebble Hill School (MPH), effective July 1. He will be replacing Jim Dunaway, who announced last June that he would be retiring at end of the 2018-2019 school year, at the age of 70. McCusker was previously head of school at the Cardigan Mountain School, where he served for nine years before taking on his current position as director of advancement for school year abroad. Before Cardigan, he served as director of development for two independent schools, St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire and The Park School in Massachusetts. McCusker is a graduate of two of the schools he has worked at — Cardigan Mountain and St. Paul’s. And, he received a bachelor’s degree in history from Dartmouth College.

CHUCK PIETRA joined C&S Companies as its civil CAD manager. His initiatives include integrating design software and technologies such as building information modeling, geographic information systems, and computer-aided engineering into civil-design projects for highways, bridges, airports, and site development. He has been involved with technology implementation and training in the engineering industry for more than 30 years, including owning an Autodesk and ESRI consulting firm and appearing on the Autodesk Channel for 5 years. Pietra holds certifications from Autodesk and is a frequent guest speaker at the local and national level, including presenting at Autodesk University more than 10 times. He most recently worked as the technical applications manager at O’Brien and Gere in Syracuse. Pietra hold a master’s and bachelor’s degree from SUNY Oswego.

CHARLES V. FORD has joined Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York as senior VP, asset liability management & treasury. He will be responsible for providing executive leadership for the insurance company’s integrated asset liability management framework. He previously consulted on asset-liability management and investment strategy for a startup reinsurer. Ford began his career at New England Mutual Life and has since served companies including Phoenix Home Life, Sun Life of Canada, Transamerica, and Fidelity & Guarantee Life. He has led teams on actuarial modeling, investment strategy, governance, and reinsurance. Ford holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics/economics and is a chartered financial analyst.

EMILY CARROLL has joined Drive Research as marketing coordinator. In her role, Carroll will assist the firm with content marketing, social media, and digital marketing analytics. Carroll graduated from SUNY Cortland in 2016, majoring in communications with a concentration in public relations and advertising. She previously worked at Mower and CXtec.