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Levine Builders announced that Leonard D. Jacob has been appointed vice president of technical services. Jacob will be responsible for interaction with design professionals and clients during the pre-construction process, including pre-contractual bidding work, estimation, and scheduling.

Jacob has more than 30 years of experience in construction. Prior to joining Levine Builders, he was vice president! chief estimator for York Hunter, Inc., where he headed the technical services department. Jacob has worked on a wide variety of projects throughout his career, including multi-story office buildings, nursing homes, and multi-family residential building.

Jacob is a graduate of the City College of New York, with a B.A. in engineering. He is a former member of the panel of arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association, and the former chairman and 13-year member of the Village of Ridgewood Zoning Board of Adjustment.

Cushman & Wakefield announced the appointment of Scott Wegmann as executive managing director, co-branch manager, and co-area leader for the Texas region.

Wegmann was previously executive vice president and co-managing director of Cushman Realty Corp., where he established himself as one of the leading tenant representatives in the United States. In his 20 years with Cushman Realty, he completed transactions comprising more than 15 million SF, on assignments that included office building relocations, renewals, expansions, sales, and build-to-suit ventures. His clients have included Continental Airlines Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., and BMC Software, Inc. In 1997, the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks recognized Wegmann with its "Office Broker of the Year" honors.

Wegmann is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, with a B.A. in business administration. He is a member of several industry and civic organizations, including the Houston Office Leasing Brokers Association, The Children's Fund Inc., the advisory board of the Southwest Bank of Texas, the finance committee of St. Luke's Methodist Church, the board of directors of Boys and Girls Country Inc., the board of Tanglewood Homes Association, and the board of Pavingyourway.com.

GVA Williams announced that Richard M. Warshauer has been named sales manager. Warshauer will supervise the company's team of junior salespeople, focusing on commercial leasing and sales. He will also work with senior management officials on business development and GVA Williams' recruitment efforts.

Prior to joining GVA Williams last spring, Warshauer was manager of exchange operations for a Internet subsidiary of General Electric Capital Corp. He also has served as a tenant representative for a variety of companies, including AMAX, Calvin Klein, and Charter Co. Warshauer brings extensive landlord representation experience to Williams as well, having supervised office leasing for such major property owners as SL Green Realty, Macklowe Properties, and Forest City Ratner. As an agent for Olympia & York properties, Warshauer played a key role in the transaction that brought Dow Jones & Co. to the World Financial Center.

Warshauer is a graduate of Cornell University, with a degree in economics. He is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York and the Young Men's/Women's Real Estate Association.

Ware Malcomb announced the appointment of Jesse R. Ramirez as project manager for the commercial/industrial group in its Irvine office.

Ramirez has more than five years of experience in the architectural field and is experienced in design, project management, and construction administration. He has worked on a wide variety of projects, including residential, healthcare, commercial office, and retail. Prior to joining Ware Malcomb, Ramirez was a project manager for Kaufman & Broad Home Corporation.

Ramirez received his B.A. in architecture from the New School of Architecture in San Diego, Ca. He is a resident of Anaheim, Ca.

Ruth McCoy, a 19-year veteran of the real estate industry, has been named executive director of Brown Harris Stevens' Downtown residential sales division and on-site building representation. McCoy will oversee the firm's Fifth Ave. office and a soon-to-be-announced new office in Tribeca. She will directly oversee all Downtown sales and on-site sales activities.

McCoy has served as executive director of the retail brokerage division of Feathered Nest, a Brown Harris Stevens affiliate, since 1999. Prior to that, she served as director of marketing and sales for Two Trees Management Company, where she was responsible for the highly successful Clock Tower condominium project in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

McCoy also served as vice president/manager at Douglas Elliman.

Gage-Babcock & Associates, Inc. announced that Michael J. Rzeznik, P.E., has been named principal and office manager for GBA's New York office in Armonk, N.Y. His new responsibilities will include full oversight of the office's operations in fire protection, life safety, and security consulting.

Previously, Rzeznik served as project engineer for building code and life safety evaluation at the Dulles Center National Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport and as project manager for the automatic detection and suppression design for protection at the Star Spangled Banner Conservation Laboratory at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

Rzeznik holds an M.S. in fire protection engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in physics from the State University of New York at Albany. He is an active member of the National Fire Protection Association and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, and is an adjunct professor of fire protection engineering at the University of New Haven.