Jack Miller Contractors Hires New Project Manager, Promotes General Manager

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Jack Miller Contractors has hired Thomas P. Giblin as a new project manager and promoted Maureen Namkoong to the position of general manager to continue building a highly skilled management team and provide additional services to an expanding client base.

A total of eight employees handle management of the business with an additional 12 employees working in the field.

Giblin is a certified construction manager with a career spanning almost four decades working with several leading construction management teams in New England. With a broad and diverse portfolio of successfully completed projects, he has extensive residential, commercial, educational, retail, industrial, medical facility and multi-family experience. Giblin offers multiple skills in investment property, tenant fit–ups, hotel construction and destination homes, plus site evaluation, feasibility studies, building and MEP analysis. He is a University Of Hartford certified construction manager with training in OSHA 30 construction safety and OSHA 40 HAZWOPER and is a certified green tradesman and building analyst.

"I am very excited to be a part of this team and am looking forward to making significant contributions to the success of the company," Giblin said.


Namkoong, who has been with Jack Miller Contractors since 2016, has been promoted to the position of general manager. Her background includes 12 years working in nutrition for Everyday Health, formerly Waterfront Media. As director of nutrition, Namkoong managed 10 employees and 30 contract employees working on cross-functional teams to build health and wellness websites, collaborate with partners to bring brands online, support editorial staff and write content. Her project management skills and ability to work through challenges on tight deadlines with high expectations will serve the company well. She has a bachelor's degree from East Stroudsburg University and a masters of science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

"Jack remains focused on solutions and I admire these attributes," Namkoong said. "He is constantly learning and applying new techniques to his work and it is exciting to be a part of his team and help grow his company."

Currently, Namkoong is representing Jack Miller Contractors as a participant in Building Energy Bottom Lines, a peer network program of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. Bottom Lines is a business development program that uses a peer coaching model consisting of six regional peer groups of NESEA members dedicated to sustainability in the built environment with a focus on a triple bottom line: people, planet and profits.

Jack Miller Contractors has recently moved its office headquarters to 77 Water Street, the building formerly owned and occupied by Alton & Westall Real Estate. This relocation immediately follows the company’s new mobile-friendly website redesign as well as Jack Miller Contractors’ recent induction into award-winning Remodeling magazine's Big50.

 

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WCMA: 'Cracking the Code on Numerology'

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) opens a new exhibition, "Cracking the Cosmic Code: Numerology in Medieval Art."
 
The exhibit opened on March 22.
 
According to a press release: 
 
The idea that numbers emanate sacred significance, and connect the past with the future, is prehistoric and global. Rooted in the Babylonian science of astrology, medieval Christian numerology taught that God created a well-ordered universe. Deciphering the universe's numerical patterns would reveal the Creator's grand plan for humanity, including individual fates. 
 
This unquestioned concept deeply pervaded European cultures through centuries. Theologians and lay people alike fervently interpreted the Bible literally and figuratively via number theory, because as King Solomon told God, "Thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight" (Wisdom 11:22). 
 
"Cracking the Cosmic Code" explores medieval relationships among numbers, events, and works of art. The medieval and Renaissance art on display in this exhibition from the 5th to 17th centuries—including a 15th-century birth platter by Lippo d'Andrea from Florence; a 14th-century panel fragment with courtly scenes from Palace Curiel de los Ajos, Valladolid, Spain; and a 12th-century wall capital from the Monastery at Moutiers-Saint-Jean—reveal numerical patterns as they relate to architecture, literature, gender, and timekeeping. 
 
"There was no realm of thought that was not influenced by the all-consuming belief that all things were celestially ordered, from human life to stones, herbs, and metals," said WCMA Assistant Curator Elizabeth Sandoval, who curated the exhibition. "As Vincent Foster Hopper expounds, numbers were 'fundamental realities, alive with memories and eloquent with meaning.' These artworks tease out numerical patterns and their multiple possible meanings, in relation to gender, literature, and the celestial sphere. 
 
"The exhibition looks back while moving forward: It relies on the collection's strengths in Western medieval Christianity, but points to the future with goals of acquiring works from the global Middle Ages. It also nods to the history of the gallery as a medieval period room at this pivotal time in WCMA's history before the momentous move to a new building," Sandoval said.
 
Cracking the Cosmic Code runs through Dec. 22.
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