Project Manager

In hiring an architect and a project-management firm, the Central Bucks school board has started down the road toward timely completion of the district's $12.75 million school-renovations project. With completion targeted for 1990 or, at the latest, 1991, the district needs to have designs of the renovations finished by the end of the year, said business manager Gene P. Abel after the board's meeting Thursday night. To that end, the board unanimously approved the appointment of the Hatfield architectural firm Diseroad & Wolff Inc., and approved a contract with O'Donnell & Naccarato Inc., a project-management firm from Doylestown.

Rufus Clare Rudisill III, 82, formerly of Haverford, a retired senior project manager at National Software Testing Laboratories, died of liver disease Sunday, July 25, at Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square. For more than 20 years, until retiring in his 70s, Mr. Rudisill was employed by National Software Testing Laboratories in Conshohocken. Previously he held management positions for 15 years with Food Fair Corp. in Newark, N.J., Miami, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. Mr. Rudisill graduated from Abington High School and enlisted in the Navy at the end of World War II. He attended radar school in Chicago, where he and all his classmates contracted scarlet fever, his brother, Brantley, said.

Richard Meyers, 60, of Springfield, Delaware County, a project manager for International Business Machines Corp. and a coach, died of complications from surgery Sunday, Aug. 14, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. For the last 15 years, Mr. Meyers had been a project manager for IBM. Before that, he worked in computer maintenance for Total System Services Inc. in New York City and for Automatic Data Processing Inc. in North Jersey. Mr. Meyers grew up in Clifton Heights.

Peter J. Curley Jr., 43, of West Chester, project manager for a construction company and former coach of children's baseball and football, died of cancer Saturday at Barclay Friends, a nursing facility in the West Chester area. Until about a year ago, when he became too ill to work, Mr. Curley was employed as a project manager for Dynamic Building Services in West Chester. He worked there for four years and oversaw the reconstruction of homes and businesses damaged by fire and other causes.

The Delaware County Board of Prison Inspectors has launched a national search for a project manager to oversee a planned $35 million renovation and expansion project at the prison. Also, County Executive Director Edwin B. Erickson said yesterday that the rush to start the prison project would be slowed so that officials could assemble a comprehensive financing package that would cover other projects and expenses. The prison board last week authorized Warden George W. Hill to place ads in local newspapers and in the Wall Street Journal, making the effort to find a project manager "more or less a national search," said board member Charles P. Sexton Jr. Prospective candidates must submit "proposals" five days before the board's meeting next month, said board member Ward T. Williams.

The start of high school will not be delayed even though renovations at a number of buildings are behind schedule, the consultant overseeing the $20 million project told the school board Tuesday night. The report was greeted with a mix of elation and skepticism by the board, and several members questioned the report's accuracy. "It sounds too good," said board member A. Jean McDougall. "I want it blatantly up front - are we going to be dancing to the same tune in September as we are now?"

Of all the horrific accidents that have happened on the crowded and unsafe highway known as Route 41 in Chester County, one in particular stands out in Michael Girwin's mind: Two people were killed while trying to get their mail. Girwin is the Route 41 project manager for the state Department of Transportation. This morning, he is making public proposed alternatives to improve the road's safety and ease congestion. He will address members of the Southern Chester County Organization on Transportation, which is holding its annual meeting at Longwood Gardens.

The school board has chosen an in-house project manager to shepherd the school district through four to five years and up to $100 million worth of renovations. The board voted Monday, 7-0, to allow the district's capital project manager, Robert M. Dettore, to spend up to $530,000 per year to bring in assistants from his Berwyn-based firm to help set overall standards, oversee design and construction, and do clerical work - and anything else that comes up. The board hired Dettore in August to work full time advising the district on construction for $125,000 per year.

Groundbreaking on Chester County's long-awaited and long-debated justice center could happen by June if everything goes according to plan. The commissioners are expected to award bids today for what officials are saying is one of the largest and most expensive construction projects in county history. If that happens and all the paperwork is completed in a timely fashion, a June start date is within the realm of possibility, said Don Thompson, the county's project manager. But first, he said, the lot at 200 W. Market St., now a staging area for the garage being built across the street, has to be cleared.

New floors, new ceilings, fresh paint on the walls. Rehearsal space for the band, a new heating system, and Internet access in every classroom. Nine science labs, a greenhouse, and a gymnasium. Not to mention expansions of the library, cafeteria, and reception area. All this and more will carry a projected price tag of $22.3 million for the Owen J. Roberts High School of the future, according to project architects. While negotiations over a new teachers' contract have ground to a halt until the next bargaining session, scheduled for Sept.

Question: Mike and I met online in December 2010. He is in his 40s, a divorced, childless physician and educator. I am a project manager in my 30s. We are both independent and love our jobs. I also share custody of a 6-year-old son with my ex-husband. My relationship with Mike was great, although sometimes I wanted more time together. We took a few short trips together, accompanying him to his conferences. In the fall, I got pregnant. We were both in shock. We had already agreed we both want kids.

CITY OFFICIALS told Kensington residents at a meeting in late January that if they didn't want about 150 trees planted at McPherson Square Park, then the city would find somewhere else to plant them. Imagine the surprise yesterday morning, when residents found seven young trees plopped onto the grounds on F Street near Indiana Avenue before anyone had a chance to discuss plans for rejuvenating the park. The area is rife with blatant drug activity, and the park - scene of a fatal shooting last month - is dark enough at night without the extra tree cover, neighbors say. Curtis Helm, a Parks and Recreation project manager, said Bustleton Services, a Bensalem-based contracting company, was told that the plan had to be reviewed by neighbors before any trees were to be planted there.

CITY OFFICIALS told Kensington residents at a meeting in late January that if they didn't want about 150 trees planted at McPherson Square Park, then the city would find somewhere else to plant them. Imagine the surprise yesterday morning, when residents found seven young trees plopped onto the grounds on F Street near Indiana Avenue before anyone had a chance to discuss plans for rejuvenating the park. The area is rife with blatant drug activity, and the park - scene of a fatal shooting last month - is dark enough at night without the extra tree cover, neighbors say. Curtis Helm, a Parks and Recreation project manager, said Bustleton Services, a Bensalem-based contracting company, was told that the plan had to be reviewed by neighbors before any trees were to be planted there.

Susan Moen Stucynski, 61, of Malvern, an information technology project manager, died Thursday, Dec. 15, of breast cancer at her home. Mrs. Stucynski became a certified project manager, taking over big projects for software firms and other companies, at a time when few women had that responsibility, said her husband, Steven L. Fresh out of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with an M.B.A. in 1979, she joined Arthur Andersen L.L.P., a now-defunct accounting firm that had an office in Philadelphia.

The City of Philadelphia today posted an Official Notice advising the public that the $50 million Dilworth Plaza construction project is imminent. The notice was issued following the announcement that the Center City District, the project manager, has awarded a general construction contract to Daniel J. Keating Company for the project, which will employ about 800 construction workers and is scheduled for completion in about 27 months. The Official Notice stated: "Be advised that the Permit for Demonstration on City Property issued by the City of Philadelphia effective 10/6/11 expires at the start of the Dilworth Plaza construction project.

For two days, a team of design experts from around the country took a look at Philadelphia's plan to redevelop 11 acres of Delaware River waterfront and had this advice: Make it more about the water. It was a lightbulb moment for the Delaware River Waterfront Corp., whose project was analyzed as part of a meeting here this week of the American Architectural Foundation. The waterfront corporation hopes to make the redevelopment of the Festival Pier and old city incinerator site at Spring Garden Street and Delaware Avenue the centerpiece of its master plan for the central Delaware.

Richard Meyers, 60, of Springfield, Delaware County, a project manager for International Business Machines Corp. and a coach, died of complications from surgery Sunday, Aug. 14, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. For the last 15 years, Mr. Meyers had been a project manager for IBM. Before that, he worked in computer maintenance for Total System Services Inc. in New York City and for Automatic Data Processing Inc. in North Jersey. Mr. Meyers grew up in Clifton Heights.

Michael Rosiak has been promoted to vice president of performance management at Continuum Health Alliance L.L.C. , a Marlton health-care management company. He had been senior director of clinical operations and administration. Beth J. Stewart has joined Merle Gilmore & Associates , a Wynnewood consulting firm, as principal. Stewart most recently was director of the corporate- licensing team at General Electric Co. Mitchell R. Cohen , shareholder and chairman of the alternative and renewable energy practice at Flaster/Greenberg P.C., has been named counsel to the New Jersey Renewable Energy Coalition . Smarter Agent L.L.C.

The apartment complex called Chatham Square was so decrepit and plagued with crime "it would have made sense to cut it off the map and throw it away," Gloucester City attorney John B. Kearney recalls. Instead, the city bought the eyesore, and a Philadelphia developer is transforming it into a "townhome community" called Meadowbrook Mews. With an open floor plan, granite countertops, and other amenities, the first of what will be 50 townhouses for sale looks great. The timing of the project is another matter.

Hello there Bridget, who grew up in Girardville, Schuylkill County, had long been fascinated by Philadelphia's Mummers, but she never made it to a parade. Home from Maryland for the holidays, a good friend from high school, April, suggested they remedy that immediately. And so on New Year's Day 2009, Bridget ventured to Philadelphia and joined the crowds on Broad Street. It wasn't just the sequins and feathers and parasols that struck her fancy; one Mummer wore a hat like none she had ever seen before.