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O'Brien joins Diversified Project Management as assistant project manager

Callie O'Brien has joined Diversified Project Management (DPM) as assistant project manager. "We're thrilled to have Callie as part of our team," said Phil Leonard, DPM's vice president of operations. Callie's internship experience at Wentworth includes serving as facilities administrator at Pearson in Boston where she collaborated with the planning and construction project team to help manage the budget and schedule of its Boston division's facilities space consolidation project. She also assisted with the coordination of three large relocations involving 295 employees with Pearson's in-house move team. Prior to that, she interned with the facilities management team at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass. where she translated architect's sketches for the respiratory care unit renovation project into VectorWorks drawings and examined all electrical closets and mechanical rooms to ensure they complied with state and federal inspection codes.
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