BRIEFCASE
BULLETIN BOARD
The National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE), Chapter 80, meets at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Palo Duro Senior Center, 5221 Palo Duro NE. All current and retired federal employees are invited. The meeting includes a potluck. For additional information, call 505-349-4129.
STARTUPS
Amanda Collier has opened 360 Events LLC, a new event production company located in
Las Cruces. Collier’s provides specialized, efficient and friendly event management services to associations, businesses and individuals. She has six years’ experience in the industry and previously worked for Helping Hands Event Planning. Collier has a bachelor’s degree in interior design from Paier College of Art. For additional information about 360 Events LLC, visit www.360eventsllc.com , call 860-877-1964 or email amanda@360-eventsllc.com.
PROMOTIONS
Nicholas Torres, P.E., has been promoted by Chavez Grieves Consulting Engineers Inc. to vice president/ principal and named to the firm’s board of directors. Torres previously was an associate partner and joined the firm as an intern in 2005. He is currently a licensed structural engineer in the state of New Mexico. He has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of New Mexico.
Angelique Maldonaldo has been promoted by the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority (ABCWUA) to water use compliance supervisor. Maldonaldo has worked for the ABCWUA for 12 years, and previously held the positions of research analyst for groundwater protection, water quality analyst, treatment plant operator and a GIS specialist. Lara Wengert has been promoted by the Lovelace Rehabilitation Hospital to director of clinical operations. Wengert previously was the outpatient therapy manager. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and human communications from the University of Denver; a master’s degree in communicative disorders from Arizona State University; and has been a licensed speech language pathologist for over 18 years.
WELCOME
Stacia Jacobi-Garcia, O.D., has joined Southwest Eyecare. Jacobi Garcia has worked as an Albuquerque optometrist since 2006. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Indiana University; a master’s degree in molecular genetics from Purdue University; is a graduate of the Indiana School of Optometry; and did an optometric internship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Hospital and an optometric residency at the Perry Point, Maryland, VA Medical Center. The Cancer Center at Presbyterian has hired two new hematologists/ oncologists, Namrata Shah, M.D., and Yang Wang, M.D. Shah, boardcertified in internal medicine, has a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan; a medical degree from the University of Illinois; and completed an internal medicine residency at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, and a hematology and oncology fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Wang, boardcertified in internal medicine, has a bachelor’s degree in medicine; a medical degree in urological oncology from Tongii Medical College in Wuhan, China; and completed a fellowship in hematology and oncology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo.
Candace Reid, CNM, has joined the Lovelace Medical Group Women’s Health. Reid has been a certified nurse midwife since 2010, and also previously worked as a registered nurse for seven years in both a labor and delivery department and an emergency department. She has a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Colorado; a master’s degree in nursing with a midwifery concentration from UNM; and is a member of the American College of Nurse Midwives and a certified lactation counselor. Laura Machado, MSIM, CPCU, CIC, has joined
New Mexico Mutual as the underwriting manager. Machado has 20 years’ experience in the insurance industry and 15 years’ experience in underwriting, and previously worked as the academic director at the National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research in Dallas; as the small-business underwriting manager at Employers Insurance Co.; and as a commercial lines underwriting manager at Superior Access Insurance Services. Machado has a bachelor’s degree in English from California State University at Fullerton and a master’s degree in insurance management from Boston University. DeAnza Valencia Sapien has joined AARP New Mexico as associate state director for advocacy. Valencia-Sapien is a lawyer with over 18 years’ experience in strategic communications, public policy and community affairs. She previously was the president of a healthcare advocacy consulting firm; the former deputy director of the New Mexico Medical Insurance Pool; a founding partner of The MVM Group; and the executive director of the Regional Coalition of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Communities. Valencia Sapien is also currently the co-chair of the State Bar of New Mexico’s Committee on Women and the Legal Profession; a board member of the New Mexico Women’s Bar Association; and a regional vice-president of the Hispanic Bar Association. She has two bachelor’s degrees from New Mexico State University, a master’ degree from Arizona State University and a law degree from UNM.
Mark Walker, D.O., has joined the Lovelace Medical Group as a licensed family practice physician at the Westside location on Irving Boulevard. Walker has 20 years’ experience as a physician. He has a medical degree in osteopathic medicine from the University of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa.
Edna Frances Sprague has joined Atkinson & Kelsey PA as a family lawyer. Sprague has 14 years’ experience as a practicing attorney and previously was the Deputy District Attorney for the 2nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office. She has a bachelor’s degree in American and women’s studies from UNM, and a law degree from West Virginia University.
APPLAUSE
Six nurses with the University of New Mexico Hospitals (UNMH) were honored at the 2015 New Mexico Nursing Excellence Awards. They are: Melanie T. Garcia, Excellence in Ambulatory Care Award. Garcia has been a staff nurse at UNMH for three years.
Barbara Morrison, Excellence in Behavioral Health Award. Morrison is a staff nurse at the UNM Psychiatric Center. She has 20 years’ experience in the nursing field.
Valerie Barboa, Excellence in MaternalChild/Women’s Health Award. Barboa is a nurse supervisor in the UNMH Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and has 12 years’ experience in the nursing field.
Rosa Matonti, Excellence in Nurse Executive
Leadership Award. Matonti is the senior director of the Center for Digestive Health and Endoscopy Services, and has 31 years’ experience in the nursing field.
Andrea M. Petitto, Excellence in Nurse Management/Emerging Leadership Award. Petitto is a unit director with UNMH and has 10 years’ experience in the nursing field.
Jae-In Cho, Excellence in Perioperative Nursing Award. Cho is an inpatient nurse and has 45 years’ experience in the nursing field.
ETC.
Opera Southwest has elected five new members to the company board. They are
Horst Brakel, owner and president of Protechpharma Career Solutions; Amy
Lapidus, small-business specialist at U.S. Bank; Jeff
Miller, senior software consultant with Quebit;
Sandi Pressley, a broker at Coldwell Banker Legacy; and Christopher Schmitz, a partner at Abacus CPA LLC. Cristina A. Adams, an attorney with Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb PA, has been elected to the board of directors
of the Albuquerque Bar Association. The Associated Contractors of New Mexico (ACNM) has elected new board of director officers and board members for 2016.
New board officers are Vince De Menno - Highway Supply LLC in Albuquerque, president; and Ken Wylie - Amec Foster Wheeler in Albuquerque, vice president. New board members
elected include Dawn
Brazell, AON Risk Solutions in Albuquerque; Cory
Burnett - Constructors Inc. in Carlsbad; Neil
Jackson, Mountain States Constructors in Albuquerque; Tom
Kennedy, FNF Construction in Tempe, Ariz.; Mike
Moehn, Fisher Sand & Gravel New Mexico in Placitas; Joey Perovich, Northern Mountain Construction in El Prado; and Patrick Shaw, AUI Inc. in Albuquerque.
FEDERAL CONTRACTS (ANNOUNCED DEC. 18)
Westwind Computer Products Inc., Albuquerque, won a $136,040 federal contract from the Defense Logistics Agency, Philadelphia, for Tactivos common access card readers.
Honeywell International Inc., Albuquerque, won a $132,782 federal contract from the Defense Logistics Agency, Columbus, Ohio, for hybrid microcircuits. L&J Construction Inc., Anthony, won a $109,992 federal contract from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service for the replacement of boundary fences at the Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
Hydra Aquatic Inc., Albuquerque, won a $76,908.30 federal contract from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation for pole planting services in San Ildefonso.
Powerline Technologies Inc., Gallup, won a $51,177.03 federal contract from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs for intercommunication systems services for the Bureau of Indian Education’s Baca/ Dlo’Ay Azhi Community School in Prewitt.
Teradactyl LLC, Albuquerque, won an $8,576.55 federal contract from the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va., for software maintenance renewal.
(ANNOUNCED DEC. 19)
Maloy Mobile Storage Inc., Albuquerque, won a $245,868 federal contract from the U.S. Army’s Defense Logistics Agency Detachment, Warren, Mich.,
for freight containers.
(ANNOUNCED DEC. 24)
Calculex Inc., Las Cruces, won a $32,500 federal contract from the Defense Logistics Agency, Philadelphia, for disk drive units.
Blue Stone Solutions LLC, Albuquerque, won a $214,200 federal contract from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, Gallup, for the supply of propane fuel.
NativeVet Materiel LLC, Albuquerque, won a $15,826.12 federal contract set-aside for small business from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs for food preparation and serving equipment for the Bureau of Indian Education’s Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Ore.