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Fernandez

By Staff Reports
Published: 11/1/2009 2:24 AM
Last Modified: 11/1/2009 6:06 AM

Architecture/ Engineering

Crafton Tull Sparks promoted Shane Fernandez to executive vice president and leader of the company's architecture division.

Fernandez works in the Tulsa office.

Also, the company has named Matt Crafton as president and CEO. Tom Hopper, the firm's former president and CEO, will retain the role of chairman of the board.

Financial

Century Bank of Oklahoma has named Marlon Goodwin as a senior vice president at its Tulsa office, while John Linhardt was named a vice president.

Goodwin has 10 years of financial and banking experience. He most recently served as senior vice president of commercial lending for an Oklahoma bank.

Linhardt has 10 years of banking experience, and more than two decades in the sales and marketing fields. He most recently served as director of business development at another bank.

At the company's Pryor office, Darren DeLozier has been promoted to senior vice president, while Travis Willhour and Mia Shives have been promoted to vice president, Shaun Barrett has been promoted to banking officer and Paula Moore has been promoted to assistant cashier.

DeLozier has more than 16 years of experience, primarily in the farm, ranch and agriculture lending and investment areas.

Willhour has more than five years of banking and credit experience. He will specialize in commercial and consumer lending, credit analysis and compliance.

Shives has more than 26 years of banking operations

experience. She also serves as cashier.

Barrett joined Century more than a 1 1/2 years ago, and has four years of banking experience, primarily in new accounts, mortgages and loan collection. Moore has more than six years of banking experience.

First Fidelity has announced the election of Robert Brearton to the bank's board of directors.

Brearton currently serves as vice chairman, chief financial officer and treasurer of American Fidelity Corp., reportedly Oklahoma's largest domicile insurance company.

Communications

The Association for Women in Communications named Tulsan Judy Arent-Morency national chair at its recent annual conference in Seattle.

Arent-Morency has been a member of the Tulsa chapter of AWC for 34 years, and is a past president. She is the marketing director for Quality Equipment Design Inc.

Information services

Magnir Group has named Rhonda Hazelrigg as an auditor.

Hazelrigg previously worked as a customer service representative for Chrysler Financial Corp., and later became a field auditor and created audit procedures and schedules for 30 automobile dealership floor plans in a three-state area.

Legal

McAfee & Taft has named Sharolyn C. Whiting-Ralston as an attorney in its Tulsa office.

Whiting-Ralston is a trial lawyer whose practice is primarily focused on labor and employment law and general civil and business litigation.

Before embarking on a legal career, she worked as a commodity trader and product manager for Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Barber & Bartz has named Kenneth E. Crump Jr. as a member of the law firm, and Roger Gassett, Kelsey Pierce and Kurtis Eaton as associate attorneys.

Crump began practicing law in 1986. His trial experience involves contract disputes, employment issues, construction law, business torts and family law matters.

He serves as an adjunct settlement judge for the United States Federal Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and on the panel of arbitrators for the National Arbitration Forum.

Gassett earned his law degree from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2009. He will focus his practice in the areas of domestic law and collections.

Pierce also earned his juris doctorate in 2009 from the TU College of Law. His practice will focus in the areas of business and commercial transactions, corporate securities, business organizations, real estate transactions and intellectual property law.

Eaton earned his law degree from the Oklahoma City University School of Law in 2008. He will focus his practice in the areas of business and commercial transactions, real estate transactions and corporate securities.

Manufacturer

Matrix Service Co. has named Desi West as risk manager of its Tulsa-based office.

West has more than 20 years of experience in insurance and risk management, having worked for international brokerage firms Marsh USA Inc. and Aon Risk Services Inc.

Most recently, she served as assistant vice president at Marsh in Tulsa.

Real estate

Tennessee-based Crye-Leike Realtors has named Norm Carnett as a Realtor at the company's new Grove office.

Carnett previously sold real estate in Midland, Texas.

Technology

LaBarge Inc. has named John Wagner materials manager for its Tulsa manufacturing facility.

Wagner has nearly two decades of supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment. He was most recently materials manager for Yuba Heat Transfer LLC. Previously he was employed as managing director of western hemisphere supply management by Hilti Inc., and was general manager of supply management for the Lone Star Steel Co.

Information for this feature should be submitted to: Business People, Tulsa World, P.O. Box 1770, Tulsa, Okla. 74102, or by e-mail at business@tulsaworld.com. JPEGs are required. All photographs will be considered and used on a space-available basis. Photos should be identified, and cannot be returned. By Staff Reports

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