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Bismarck Aero Center Hires New A&P Maintenance Technician
Brian Barry joins BAC with over six years of aircraft maintenance experience. He began his maintenance career serving in the South Dakota Army National Guard primarily as a Blackhawk helicopter maintenance Spherion Bismarck Brian Barry technician. Brian was deployed Franchise Owner Jill in 2012 to Kuwait where he gained significant experience in maintenance Berg Receives the operations. Company’s Special Since returning from Kuwait, Barry attended Lake Achievement Award Area Tech in Watertown, SD where he completed Spherion Staffing Services, the A&P Maintenance Technician program. During a local recruiting, staffing and Jill Berg his time at Lake Area Tech, he was able to apply his workforce solutions provider leadership skills by representing the school at area backed by the resources of a $2 billion global conferences. workforce leader, recently honored Jill Berg, owner of Barry is originally from the Rapid City, SD area and the Bismarck, Fargo and Minot offices in North Dakota enjoys the small community setting of Bismarck. He and Perham office in Minnesota, with the company’s is looking forward to working at BAC where he will 2016 Special Achievement Award. The annual be in a solid mentorship program and built great award recognizes the Spherion franchise owner who relationships with customers. achieves significant results across all target growth areas, along with an unparalleled commitment to Peterson Name team development and community involvement. Director of CHI Berg and her expert staffing teams carried over St. Alexius Health’s momentum from a successful 2014-15, in which Laboratory she was named the Spherion Owner of the Year, by exceeding their gross profit and revenue goals, CHI St. Alexius Health namely in the direct hire sales practice. announced the naming of Entering her 22nd year as a Spherion owner, Kimberly Peterson as director Kimberly Peterson Berg has expanded her team to include 21 staffing of laboratory services. As the specialists with dedicated expertise in the clerical director, Kimberly is responsible and light industrial markets. Under Berg’s leadership, for directing and coordinating the operations of Spherion has expanded its community presence pathology, phlebotomy and point-of-care services. through involvement in local chambers of commerce Additionally, she will oversee the organization’s and Society for Human Resource Management laboratory programs with CHI St. Alexius Health’s (SHRM) chapters, along with regional branches of the clinics and affiliated acute care hospitals. United Way and American Red Cross. Kimberly received a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Minnesota – Moorhead. Prior to joining CHI St. Alexius Health, she was a community center director with United Blood Services.
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Scheurer Completes Certification in Social Media and Display Advertising
Steph Scheurer, Communications Project Manager at Agency MABU, Steph Scheurer recently completed certification in Social Media and Display Advertising through the Market Motive program. The social media certification course concentrates on various tools and techniques for reaching specific audiences. The coursework included social sharing, blogging, online reputation management and analytics of popular social media channels. Scheurer also completed certification in display advertising which has become one of the most prominent tools to build brand awareness and increase reach among internet and mobile users. The course covered market targeting methods, display ad optimization, best practices of display ad design, selling and buying of display ads, and metrics of campaign success.
Moch Joins Eide Bailly Partnership
On May 1, Katie Moch of the Bismarck office of Eide Bailly LLP, a regional certified public accounting and business advisory firm, was accepted into the firm’s partnership. This brings the total number of partners to 238. Moch is a CPA with more than nine years of public accounting experience providing services to a variety of industries, specializing in governments, nonprofit organizations and small businesses. She plans, performs, supervises and reviews audit engagements for clients. She received her Bachelor of Science in accounting from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minn.