Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt (KHH) recently welcomed a new employee. GREG COTRONEO joins KHH with two years of full-time experience and four years of intern experience as an engineer. He graduated from Stony Brook University with a bachelor’s degree in engineering sciences, specializing in civil engineering. KHH, based in DeWitt, is a design firm specializing in structural engineering, landscape architecture, and building-envelope systems. 

DERON GLICKERT has joined Christopher Community, Inc. — a nonprofit that develops and operates affordable housing for low-income and moderate-income individuals and families — as strategic projects coordinator in its Syracuse corporate office. A graduate of Messiah University with a bachelor’s degree in human-resources management, Glickert’s primary role will be to build both strong internal relationships that enhances Christopher Community’s work environment/culture, and new or existing external relationships that will help foster the organization’s footprint in the communities it serves. Additionally, Glickert will also work closely with the corporate team on various projects and development initiatives. In addition to his position at Christopher Community, Glickert is presently the associate pastor at New Hope Church in Baldwinsville and has many years of previous sales and wealth-management experience in the financial sector.

KELLY SWEET has joined Christopher Community as strategic projects advisor in the Syracuse office. Sweet has more than 20 years of experience in affordable-housing development. “I have dedicated my career to increasing the availability of safe, quality, energy efficient, affordable housing options for our population’s most vulnerable. I learned early in my career while performing energy audits on various housing authority properties across the country, that the energy cost burden to low- and moderate-income persons severely impacts their quality of life,” Sweet said. “The ability to procure necessities like food, medicine, and education was directly impacted by both housing and utility cost burdens, leaving individuals and families to make hard choices. It was a startling and sobering revelation.”

DARRELL PERKINS, an experienced defensive-backs coach who has coached three conference title squads and a pair of New Years Six Bowl participants, has joined the Syracuse football program as an assistant coach. He will oversee the safeties and rovers in the Orange’s 3-3-5 scheme. Perkins most recently spent the 2022 season at UMass, where his unit ranked in the top-10 nationally in passing defense, allowing just 175 yards per game through the air. He has worked much of his career in the Northeast and DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) areas. Perkins served two stints, totaling seven years, at UConn as the defensive-backs coach; three years at Fordham, including a year as the co-defensive coordinator; one year at Maryland as the defensive-backs coach; and one season at Old Dominion, comprising his last 13 years of coaching. A 1990 graduate of Wyoming with a degree in business marketing, Perkins was a three-year letterwinner at running back for the Cowboys. His teams reached the Holiday Bowl in both 1987 and 1988 as a player. Current Syracuse Defensive Coordinator Rocky Long coached Perkins during his freshman season at Wyoming in 1985.