Career Moves

Healthy Start has new Latino outreach leader

The N.C. Healthy Start Foundation named Roc'o Anderson head of Latino outreach projects, a job that coordinates efforts to reduce the state's infant mortality rate.

Anderson was born and reared in Quito, Ecuador, and has lived in the United States for 17 years. She most recently was a consultant to the N.C. Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities. There, she provided cultural diversity training and education to health and human services agencies throughout the state.

Foundation Executive Director Janice Freedman said Anderson will strengthen the existing Latino campaign and help the group identify other organizations that serve Latin women through outreach and education.

N.C. Healthy Start is a nonprofit organization established in 1990 to educate the public, influence policymakers and provide technical assistance and professional training.

Anderson lives in Apex with her husband and two children.

In other moves ...

Jim Scarola, vice president of Progress Energy's Brunswick Nuclear Plant near Southport, has been named the Raleigh company's chief nuclear officer. Scarola, 51, will assume his new role Jan. 2. He replaces C.S. "Scotty" Hinnant, 62, who is retiring at the end of the year. Hinnant has been with the company for 35 years.

Peg O'Connell joined the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention in Raleigh as the manager of external affairs.

Douglas L. Edgeton has been selected president of Piedmont Triad Research Park in Winston-Salem. Edgeton also is executive vice president and chief operating officer of Wake Forest University Health Sciences.

Joan Plotnick has been named editor of the Triangle edition of Business Leader magazine.

Florence M. DuPalevich joined McCuiston Law Offices in Cary as an attorney.

Ellie Snow was hired as graphic designer and Kimberly Roche as Web developer and programmer at Flywheel Design in Durham.

Stacey Scirica joined Elite Search Partners in Raleigh as a senior recruiter.

Joe Kinder has been hired as digital media producer at Murphy & Associates, a video and multimedia production company in Raleigh.

Ed Stowers was named a project manager in the Raleigh office of real estate company Crosland.

Meredith Jenkins joined Jennings, a Chapel Hill branding and advertising agency, as a member of its in-house creative team.

Steven G. Luxton has been promoted to supervisor at the City of Raleigh's Inspections Department. He will oversee express plan review in the permit office.

Hank Burns was hired as an intern architect at BJAC, an architectural design firm that has offices in Raleigh and Charlotte.

John Heinrich was promoted to vice president of the health sciences division in RTI's statistics and epidemiology unit. RTI International is a research institute in Research Triangle Park.

Rebecca Cunningham was hired as project manager at Centrepoint Architecture, an architecture, engineering and interior design firm with offices in Raleigh and Wilmington.

Tom Lyon joined law firm Manning Fulton & Skinner in Raleigh. His practice will focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and securities.

Michelle Schultes of Raleigh joined Executive Staffing Group as a junior recruitment manager.

Ron Tredway was hired as vice president of human resources at Onug Communications, a Raleigh company that provides communications infrastructure solutions.

Robert Train III joined the Raleigh office of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein as a staff attorney. His practice will focus on commercial real estate development.

Matt Hobgood was hired as a maintenance sales consultant in the Raleigh office of Piedmont Air Conditioning.

F. Scott McAlexander joined Regions Bank in Raleigh as vice president. He will focus on middle market operating companies with annual revenue of $10 million to $500 million.

Slade S. McCalip and Alan Davis were hired as senior associates at Martin/Alexiou/Bryson, a Raleigh transportation planning and traffic engineering firm. Steve Epley was hired as an associate.

Tammy Fairbanks was named branch manager for Purolator USA's Southeast regional headquarters in RTP. Purolator USA's focus is on shipping to and from Canada and within the U.S.

Victoria Waun was promoted to trust officer at BB&T Institutional Services and will work in the Fayetteville Street branch in Raleigh.

Eli Jordfald of Cary has been named senior major gifts director for the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in the UNC School of Medicine.

On the boards ...

Prudence Bushnell, former ambassador to Kenya and Guatemala and chief executive officer of Sage Associates in Washington, joined Curamericas Global's Advisory Board. Curamericas Global is a nonprofit in Raleigh. Patricia Finn, vice president, global public policy at Cary-based SAS Institute, who lives in Belgium, also joined the advisory board.

Carrie Barbee, associate attorney at Ragsdale Liggett, has been named to the board of the Frankie Lemmon School and Development Center.