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Linda Biernacki
Linda Biernacki, president of Fire Tech Systems, was recently named the Shreveport Women's Business Council's Athena Award recipient.
The Athena Award is given to a woman for her professional accomplishments, community involvement and efforts to create leadership opportunities for women.
Biernacki opened Fire Tech Systems in 1990. By 1993 her company had grown to 17 employees with sales of $1.3 million. She purchased a 5,000-sq.-ft. building, which she remodeled in 1996 to accommodate the company's growth to $2.6 million in sales.
In 2004, with $5.4 million in sales and 45 employees, the company built a new 6,500-sq.-ft. building in Ashley Ridge Business Park.
While growing her company, Biernacki was on various design-build teams that worked on designing, constructing and scheduling projects that included Harrah's Casino and Hotel, Louisiana Boardwalk and Shoppes at Bellemeade.
She was previously selected as one of the 100 Women of the Century by Shreveport's Women's Business Council, an affiliate of the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce for the development of local businesswomen.
Daniel Zito
Daniel Zito has joined Smith Tipton Bailey Parker Architects of Baton Rouge as senior studio director. Zito is an LSU graduate with 25 years of architecture experience in New York.
He returns to Baton Rouge at a time when Louisiana and neighboring communities look toward rebuilding and redeveloping.
Zito received his bachelor's degree in architecture from LSU in 1977 and worked with a local firm on projects in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. He left for New York in 1980 to attend graduate school at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
During the past 12 years as senior associate at Perkins Eastman in New York, Zito has concentrated on healthcare and multi-use facilities within New York City and the surrounding areas.
"Dan's character and value systems are a natural fit for our firm," said Ken Tipton, CEO of STBP Architects.
Merle Glaser
Merle Glaser, Wausau Window and Wall Systems' regional marketing and sales manager, has expanded his territory. He will continue to work closely with Wausau's architectural representative Ken Carpenter to service the southeastern states of Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and the Florida Panhandle.
Part of Wausau's regional sales management team for 16 years, Glaser directs and supports the company's representatives providing glazing contractors, general contractors, architects, consultants and building owners with commercial window and curtainwall systems for new construction and renovation projects.
Wausau's products can be seen on such projects as North Carolina's new Mecklenburg County Courthouse, Alabama's Jackson Hospital and hurricane-resistant applications across the southeast including Florida Hospital Waterman.
For nearly 50 years, Wausau has worked closely with architects, building owners and contractors to realize their vision for aesthetic beauty and lasting value, while striving to maintain the highest level of customer service, communication and overall satisfaction.
Michael Romano
Earth Tech Inc., a business unit of Tyco International Ltd. and a global provider of consulting, engineering, construction and operation and maintenance services, has named Michael Romano director of business development for the company's International Asset Management Division in the U.S. Gulf Coast region.
Romano will be responsible for developing and managing major projects requiring ultrapure water treatment technology, wastewater treatment technologies and outsourcing services for refineries, petrochemical facilities and power plants throughout the southern United States, including Texas and Louisiana.
Romano joins Earth Tech from another Tyco company, Tyco Plastics and Adhesives, where he held a similar role serving clients in the refinery and petrochemical markets. He brings to the position more than a decade of business management experience.
Earth Tech Inc. is a provider of engineering, construction and operations services to the global water/wastewater, environmental, transportation and facilities markets.
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