D’Arcangelo & Co., LLP announced a number of promotions and new hires. LANA PALMER was promoted to manager. She is a CPA and a graduate of SUNY Brockport. Palmer has been with the firm since 2010. She is an experienced tax accountant specializing in corporate and individual taxation. JOY GIOVANNONE has been promoted to manager. She is a CPA and a graduate of SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Giovannone has been with the firm since 2012. She has extensive auditing and accounting experience with a concentration in employee-benefit plans and not-for-profits. JENNIFER TAYLOR has been promoted to manager. She is a CPA and a graduate of Clarkson University and Syracuse University. She has been with the firm since 2012 and is an experienced tax accountant with background in corporate, individual, trust, and estate taxation. ZACHARY WOODARD was promoted to manager. He is a CPA and a graduate of SUNY Oswego. Woodard has been with the firm since 2013 and has extensive auditing and accounting experience with schools, BOCES, cities, towns, and non-for-profits. D’Arcangelo & Co. has also promoted CASSANDRA CRISTMAN, WILLIAM OLNEY, SAM SETTICASE, ANGELA IZZO, and JESSICA BABCOCK to senior accountant. The firm has also hired DAVID LANG, COLLEEN CLARK, TOMMY AMUSO (former intern), KELLY GRIFFITHS (former intern), ERIC ARMITAGE, and LINNEA PETTITT. 

Fust Charles Chambers LLP has hired TIMOTHY STITT, health-care consultant, as its newest CPA and member of the firm’s health-care consulting department. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from Syracuse University. 

SWBR has hired ROB PETRIE as senior architectural designer and YANG SONG as architectural designer in its Syracuse office. Petrie has specialized in colleges and universities, municipal, and retail project types for nearly 15 years. Most recently, he practiced architectural and graphic design and illustrations as a sole proprietor for clients nationally. Locally, he helped renovate the Sherwin Inn Tavern and the conversion of the historic Hannum House into a five bedroom boutique hotel in Skaneateles. Petrie has served as a professor/lecturer of architectural curricula at several universities, including Syracuse University. He earned his master’s degree in architecture from Cornell University and bachelor’s degree in architecture from Virginia Tech. Song — originally from Jinan City, Shandong Province in China — is an architectural designer who uses his visualization and design skills on a variety of education projects, with a specific focus on Central New York school districts. He earned a master’s degree in architecture from Syracuse University.

ANN MARIE WARNER has joined AP as a placement coordinator for AP Professionals’ Syracuse office. She has more than 25 years of experience. Warner is leveraging her experience and relationships in the Syracuse market while building upon the company’s roots in the Buffalo and Rochester regions.

CATERINA D’AGOSTINO has joined AP as office coordinator for the Syracuse office. She previously had a career in news and television where she “excelled” in planning, written and verbal communications, and project management. D’Agostino has extensive experience in organizing and executing live and recorded productions, managing a multi-person crew and fleet vehicles, and connecting with viewers for interviews and story ideas.

St. Joseph’s Health has named JOSEPH W. SPINALE, D.O. chief medical officer (CMO). He brings a wealth of experience in business and medicine to the role of CMO. Spinale comes to St. Joseph’s from Kent Hospital in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he was senior VP for medical affairs and chief medical officer. He was employed at Kent Hospital for nearly a decade also serving as director of medical education and chief of cardiology. Spinale earned his doctor of osteopathic medicine from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and his MBA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has served as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award through the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 2014. Additionally, Spinale is a fellow of the following organizations: American College of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, American College of Healthcare Executives, and the American Association for Physician Leadership. 

CATHY OLAH has been named director of respiratory care at the Mohawk Valley Health System. In this position, she is overseeing respiratory services for the system, including the Sleep Disorders Center. She has been with the organization since 1989, serving as a respiratory therapist, consult therapist, and day-charge therapist. Since 2015, she has served as the assistant manager of respiratory therapy at the St. Elizabeth Campus. Olah earned her associate degree in respiratory care from Mohawk Valley Community College and her bachelor’s degree in respiratory care from Boise State University in Idaho. She is a 2015 Aspiring Leaders graduate and is currently enrolled in Quality Academy, pursuing a master’s degree in health administration at Southern New Hampshire University.

Barclay Damon has recently added HODA RIFAI-BASHJAWISH as an associate attorney in its Syracuse office. She represents clients in district and federal circuit courts and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Rifai-Bashjawish has a dual technical background in biomechanical engineering and physics and works on clients’ complex intellectual property cases involving a broad range of technologies. Before joining Barclay Damon, she was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York City. 

The Syracuse Crunch minor-league hockey club has hired MATTHEW THOMPSON as an account executive. He will work with local businesses and organizations to develop relationships through business pack sales and sponsorships. Thompson graduated from SUNY Oneonta in 2017 after previously attending Mohawk Valley Community College.