People in the News

Construction

DeWitt & Associates Inc. announced two staff additions:

Heath Dawson joined DeWitt & Associates Inc. as construction project manager. Dawson has been involved in local construction for a number of years with projects such as the James River Assembly of God church and the East Sunshine Church of Christ. Heath is a 1999 Southwest Missouri State Univer-sity graduate with a bachelor of science degree in construction management.

Chris Matson joined DeWitt & Associates Inc. as construction project manager. Matson has worked as an assistant project manager at the Hospital Building and Equipment Company is St. Louis. Matson has nearly four years of construction industry experience. Mat-son is ACI-certified as a Level 1 concrete technician and is a certified professional constructor.

Engineering

Harry Price joined the Department of Public Works as assistant director responsible for Engineering and Storm Water Services divisions for the city of Springfield. Price served as district engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation District 8 for 30 years. Price also previously served as assistant engineer in Kansas City, as well as planning and program engineer in MoDOT's headquarters in Jefferson City.

Sales

Tom Elgin joined the staff at Carroll Business Systems Inc. as account representative specializing in retail point of sale solutions. Elgin is re-sponsible for business development in southwest Missouri, northwest Arkansas and southeastern Kansas. His background includes 16 years in the computer field and eight years in point of sale.

Services

Aire-Master of America Inc. an-nounced three promotions:

Greg Parker was promoted to business development manager. His responsibilities include the development of the Essents product line which is sold through janitorial supply distributors and building contractors outside of the franchise systems, nationwide as well as internationally. Parker previously served as telecenter operations manager for Aire-Master, developing the telemarketing program that is available to the company's 60 franchises.

Mike Peterson was promoted to regional di-vision manager for Aire-Master of America Inc. His responsibilities in-clude overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Missouri and St. Louis divisions of the company, including direct supervision of sales and service, and providing support training for the company's 60 franchises nationwide. Peterson previously served as the service manager for the St. Louis division.

Renee Peterson was promoted to national di-vision manager for Aire-Master of America Inc. Peterson's responsibilities include overseeing the Missouri, St. Louis, Oklahoma, San Francis-co, and Oregon divisions of the company as well as coordinating support training trips for the company's 60 franchises nationwide. Peterson previously served as the St. Louis regional division manager.

Michelle Hyatt was promoted to territorial sales manager of Clean, The Uniform Company. In her new position, Hyatt is responsible for maintaining existing accounts and obtaining new accounts in the Springfield region.