Stremick hired

Nicole Stremick has been hired as a credit analyst by Starion Financial. Located at the downtown Bismarck bank, she analyzes commercial and agricultural loan requests for decision making by the bank's loan review committee. She has nearly three years of experience in the banking and lending industry and holds a bachelor of accountancy degree from the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks.

Training finished

Nancy Moilanen, NCLMT of Synergy Massage, finished training in Core Sports & Performance Bodywork. This course focused on deep myofascial release along with balancing relaxation techniques with deeper therapeutic treatments.

1 hired, 1 promoted

Stephanie Ebach of eLendingNow was promoted to vice president of loan operations for North Dakota and South Dakota. She will be in charge of quality control of underwriting standards, ensuring the flow of loan closings, hiring and training practices, while staying involved in home loan originating.

Tammy Lardy recently joined the team at eLendingNow as a loan processor. She brings with her more than 14 years of customer service. Lardy will be responsible for building and maintaining client relationships.

Jensen awarded

Securian Financial Advisors of ND, Inc., says Jim Jensen was the top producer for the month of April. Jensen is located in the Valley City office and has been affiliated with Securian Financial since December 2003.

Pope hired

Jordan Pope joined the Nexus Innovations staff in Bismarck as a business analyst. His responsibilities include software testing, SharePoint training and business analysis. Pope graduated from the University of North Dakota with a bachelor's degree in business management.

Sandy joined

Prudential Financial Inc. announced that Blair Sandy has joined Prudential's Midwestern Agency as a financial services associate. New sales professionals begin their training in the Financials Services Associates program. Sandy has attained his Life and Health licenses and NASD Series 6 and 63 registrations.

Davis hired

American Bank Center has hired Ashley Davis as a teller. Davis is from Dunseith and a graduate of Dunseith High School. She attended Northland Community College in East Grand Forks, Minn.

Bahmiller joins

Randall "Randy" Bahmiller joined Job Service North Dakota as a computer and network specialist in the Bismarck central office. He replaces Len Wall, who was promoted.

Bahmiller brings three and a half years experience from AmeriCredit in Arlington, Texas, where he was an enterprise desktop administrator.

Powell selected

Brandi Powell of Bismarck has been selected the Business and Professional Women's "Young Careerist" for the state of North Dakota. She will travel to Atlanta in July to represent North Dakota in the national speaking and interview competition.

Powell works as the political reporter at KFYR-TV in Bismarck. Prior to KFYR, she lived in New York City and worked at MSNBC doing production and producing.

Burt promoted

Aetna promoted Carrie Burt to senior project manager for the shared services team. Burt started her career with Aetna as a customer service representative in 1994 and since then has held positions of increasing responsibility including service consultant, team leader and project manager.

Air news

Makenzie Hennessy was hired by Executive Air as the charter sales-coordinator. Hennessy brings to the company five years of customer service experience and recently received a bachelor's degree from the University of Mary.

Kyler Hellekson recently joined the team at Executive Air Taxi as a professional flightline technician. Since his hiring, Hellekson has completed the NATA Safety First Certification Program.

Rita Wright was hired as an upholsterer for Executive Air Taxi's new interiors division. Wright has more than 25 years of experience in the upholstery industry and lives in New Salem.

Darin Klocke was recently named as the new flightline supervisor at Executive Air Taxi. Klocke, a graduate of Underwood High School, has nearly five years of customer service and line experience.

Barthel joins

Jon Barthel has joined Dakota Avionics as an avionics technician. He is originally from Mott and has more than 20 years experience in the aviation field.

Course completed

Sheila Link of Link's Virtual Office has successfully completed Tame the Publishing Process, a three-week intensive training course tailored for experienced virtual assistants wanting to become author's assistants. The course covers manuscript creation tasks, self-publishing tasks, and book marketing tasks.

Goldsack promoted

Bridget Goldsack has taken a new position as niche publications coordinator for the Bismarck Tribune.

She has been employed in the advertising and marketing departments of the Tribune for three years. In addition to working full-time at the paper, she has been working toward her bachelor degree through Dickinson State University. Goldsack will be selling advertising for Chamber Connection, Business Watch, and Fine Living Review magazines.

Meeting attended

Dr. Lynne Peterson, rheumatologist at Medcenter One, and registered nurse Linnette Adamski recently attended the Rheumatoid Arthritis Symposium and Rheumatoid Arthritis Investigational Network annual meeting.

RAIN is a group of almost 50 rheumatologists and nurse-study coordinators located across the Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Oregon and California.

Ressler news

Ressler Chevrolet-Subaru has established a business development position in an effort to better serve area consumers. Dot Frank, former marketing director, has been promoted to fill the post. Frank will utilize the latest customer relationship management technology and trends to work with niche markets.

Shaneille Gustafson and Dava Ralph joined the Ressler staff May 1 and 5 respectively. Gustafson joined Ressler-Chevrolet as marketing director. Her duties include coordinating advertising, promotions, public relations and media buying.

Ralph, a recent graduate of the University of Mary with a degree in computer information systems and a minor in business administration, joins Ressler as an Internet technician.

Ralph will monitor, maintain and modernize dealership technology including network, Web site, PCs, printers and fax machines.

Training complete

Bob Simmers of Aircraft Management Services Inc. has successfully completed a three-day Cirrus Standardized Instructor Program Training. The certification enables Simmers to conduct initial, upgrade and recurrent training in the new cirrus aircraft.

Mike Aarestad of Aircraft Management Services recently completed factory maintenance training on both the Piper Cheyenne and Cessna Caravan.

Each training was a two-week course and included in-depth training in analysis and repair of the aircraft systems, understanding structural design and systems related to turbine engines for the respective aircraft.

He received a flight safety certificate for Caravan I (208) Series Maintenance and Piper Cheyenne Factory Maintenance Training.