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SMG of Alaska has created new positions at the Anchorage convention centers as a result of the opening of the new Dena'ina Center and revitalization of the Egan Center. The company added almost a dozen new full-time managerial and administrative positions. SMG also filled many new hourly and on-call openings and is still hiring. The personnel expansion project includes the recent additions of Peter Fontanez as executive sous-chef, Roxanne McIllwain as concessions manager and Maria Owens as purchasing coordinator in the Food and Beverage department. In operations, Walter Higginson signed on as chief engineer, Jim Furr as operations manager (Dena'ina) and Steve Medina as operations manager (Egan Center). As business grows at the Anchorage convention centers, the company looks forward to contributing further to the local economy by increasing meetings and events business activity and the creation of additional local jobs.

The Alaska Small Business Development Center has named Bryan Zak as director for its Kenai Peninsula center. Bryan is a small-business owner, Alaska Performance Excellence Award, or APEX, examiner, and Homer City Councilman. He is a retired U.S. Air Force officer with a master's degree in counseling from Eastern Washington University.

NMS has announced that Darrel Evensen has joined the NMS team as part of the Camp Services division's business unit, Water Technologies, as chief engineer. Evensen is responsible for permitting, engineering, project management and other key functions within the unit. He is a professional engineer with more than 20 years' experience in civil and environmental engineering. Charles Shaw has been named IT manager. He has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and IT industry. He was previously the director of technology infrastructure with the Alaska Railroad and the product manager for GCI.

Isaac Pearson, project engineer at Bristol Environmental & Engineering in Anchorage, recently passed his Professional Civil Engineer exam. Pearson has been a Bristol employee for the past five years.

R&M Consultants Inc. has hired Luke Ayer, E.I.T., as a staff engineer in the engineering department, and Greg Shearer, E.I.T., as a staff engineer in the construction services department. Ayer initially joined R&M as an intern during the summer of 2008. He graduated from California Polytechnic State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. Shearer previously worked for R&M in the summer of 2005 as a ticket-taker and laboratory technician on a paving project. Shearer graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno in May 2008, with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering.

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