ACADEMICS

The Institute of Business and Medical Careers, a local training institution, promoted Melissa Whitten to regional director of the career services department for all area IBMC campuses in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont and Cheyenne, Wyo. Whitten has more than seven years of customer service and professional career development experience. She has worked for IBMC in the roles of associate director of career services, externship coordinator and career services assistant for the last six years. IBMC also announced the hiring of Jill Cherubin and Heather Gaglio as career services coordinators at the Fort Collins campus. The two will partner with local employers to place students into externships and graduates in career positions.


ACCOUNTING

Bartels & Co. LLC Certified Public Accountants of Greeley announced that Rick Abundis joined the firm as a tax accountant. Abundis graduated with a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2008 and is a CPA candidate. He has four years of public accounting experience preparing individual and business income tax returns.


FINANCE

Patrick Varney