D’Arcangelo & Co., LLP recently announced several promotions and a new hire.

CHRISTIAN GIARDINO, promoted to manager, is a graduate of SUNY Polytechnic Institute and has been with the accounting firm since 2013. He has extensive auditing and accounting experience with schools, BOCES, not-for-profit organizations, and other governmental audit clients.

MARIANNA THAYER was promoted to manager. She is a graduate of Le Moyne College and has been with D’Arcangelo since 2013. She has extensive auditing and accounting experience with schools, BOCES, employee-benefit plans, nonprofit organizations, and other governmental audit clients.

NICHOLAS JOHNS, promoted to manager, is a graduate of Siena College and the College of Saint Rose and has been with the firm since 2013. He has extensive auditing and accounting experience in employee-benefit plans, schools, and not-for-profit organizations.

CASSANDRA CRISTMAN, promoted to manager, is a graduate of SUNY Polytechnic Institute and has been with the firm since 2014. She has extensive auditing and accounting experience with schools, BOCES, for-profit and non-for-profit organizations, and other governmental audit engagements.

ABIGAIL DRUMM, CPA, is a new hire as manager. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. She is an experienced tax accountant with concentration on federal and state income-tax compliance and consultation. She serves a variety of clients, including corporations, partnerships, and individuals.

MELISSA KERWIN has joined Mower as strategist for paid search and paid social. She and her team are responsible for providing strategy and executing paid search and social efforts. Kerwin previously served as an associate media director with Cardinal Digital Marketing and as an ecommerce, direct response account manager at adMixt in the Atlanta area. She attended Georgia State University.

RICHARD MERRILL has joined Mower as account director. His experience includes overseeing advertising, branding, creative and content, digital and app development, event promotions, partnership marketing, strategy, and TV/radio/video production. Before joining Mower, Merrill served as a director of marketing with NASCAR. Prior to that, he was an account supervisor with J. Walter Thompson. Merrill earned his MBA degree from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University.

LISA LAZZARO has rejoined Mower as director of web development. Lazzaro, who originally started at Mower as a senior interactive developer in 2009, rejoins the agency after serving as a software engineer with Osmose Utilities Services, Inc. An experienced back-end developer with a background in information, architecture, and training, her new role includes setting coding, QA, and process standards for Mower’s development work. A graduate of Binghamton University, Lazzaro also holds a master’s degree from SUNY Oswego.

MATTHEW LUPIANI, Syracuse office manager and project manager at SWBR, has been promoted to senior associate. Since joining SWBR in 2011, he has designed and managed all project types, with a particular focus on K-12, higher education, housing, industrial, and restaurant clients, including Auburn ECSD, Pastabilities Restaurant, Rescue Mission, and Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services. He has an associate degree in applied science in architectural engineering technology from Alfred State College, and a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in architecture from Tulane University.

TRACI MASSO has been promoted to assistant VP at NBT Bank. Masso has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial services industry and currently serves as branch manager for the bank’s Binghamton Northgate office. Prior to joining NBT Bank, she worked as branch manager for Citizens Bank’s Endicott office. Masso graduated from Union Endicott High School.

ADAM COOTER has joined the counter sales team at Johnstone Supply’s 835 Canal St. location in Syracuse. He shares his HVACR (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration) service-technician experience with the wholesale distributor’s contractor and facilities-maintenance customers.

CATHERINE CROSS has joined Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central New York as a fundraising and development associate. She is responsible for assisting in coordinating the organization’s major fundraising events, including the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central New York Golf Invitational and the annual Many Hearts One Home Celebration. Cross was previously the development manager at Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. She has a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Buffalo.

CRYSTAL MURFITT has joined Ronald McDonald House Charities of CNY as office coordinator. She is responsible for managing the day-to-day functions of the administrative office and providing support on Ronald McDonald House programs, guest services, events, and bookkeeping. 

STEVE TAYLOR has been appointed director of the program management office at SRC, Inc. In this role, he will work collaboratively across the company and within the quality team to improve project preparation, communication, planning, and execution. Taylor has worked at SRC for eight years. He previously was SRC’s director of electronic warfare mission intelligence programs, providing business operations leadership for many Department of Defense customers, including the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and the intelligence community. Before joining SRC, Taylor worked as a technical director at Lockheed Martin and as a software engineer at General Electric. Taylor earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the SUNY Plattsburgh and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from SUNY Polytechnic Institute.