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Victor Vitols has over 40 years of experience directing a broad range of projects, including commercial and retail, industrial, transportation, housing, healthcare and institutional facilities, both new and as additions to and renovations of historic and other existing buildings.

Mr. Vitols joined Samuel Glaser Associates in 1958 and became an Associate in 1964. In 1968 he became a Partner in Samuel Glaser and Partners, renamed in 1975 as the Glaser/deCastro/Vitols Partnership. In 1979 he founded Vitols Associates, later Vitols Associates, Inc., and he has been Principal Architect for every project the firm has completed.

As Partner and Principal he has been responsible for the design of over 15,000 units of new and renovated housing and for masterplanning new residential, commercial and mixed-use communities. He has overseen the design of over five million square feet of office and retail space, numerous healthcare facilities and parking structures for more than 17,000 vehicles.

Mark Major joined the firm at its inception in 1979, was appointed Vice President in 1986 and became a Principal in 1997. He has been Project Architect for numerous housing projects, new, converted and renovated, covering every housing type from luxury residences to low-income, elderly and accessible housing, along with parking garages and commercial projects.

He was Project Architect for more than 670 apartment units in three Gatehouse Group communities: Quail Run in Stoughton, The Preserve in Walpole and Chestnut Farm in Raynham. He was also Project Architect for Carleton Willard Village, an award-winning life care community that was the first of its kind in Massachusetts, with 100 townhomes in six clusters, 43 independent apartments, a 200-bed nursing home and retail and recreational amenities.

Other work includes the St. Elizabeth's Hospital parking garage in Brighton; Belmont Tower in Worcester, a 19-story apartment tower renovation; Bromley Park and Mission Hill Extension in Roxbury, 293 renovated and new apartments; Hyde Park Business Centre, the conversion of a 650,000 sf manufacturing complex; The Essex in Salem; The Residences at Copley Place in Boston; Falls View Elderly Housing in Chicopee; Turtle Creek in Beverly; and Seabury Heights Apartments in Worcester.

Hiroshi Yoneyama joined the firm at its inception in 1979, was appointed Vice President in 1986 and became a Principal in 1997. His experience spans commercial and retail, industrial, residential, public and institutional design. He led the Vitols Associates team to First Place in the Quadraplex Design Competition sponsored by the Greater Boston Real Estate Board.

His commercial work totals approximately 2,000,000 square feet of office, R&D and industrial buildings, including the 500,000 sf masterplanned Hewlett-Packard Workstation Systems Division campus in Chelmsford, a 100,000 sf office building for Cadence Design Systems, and a 180,000 sf headquarters for California Products Corporation in Andover. He has also led multi-disciplinary teams through more than 1,000,000 square feet of retail space across New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, from site selection through construction.

He keeps a professional interest in historic preservation, restoration and rehabilitation. Examples include Charlestown Navy Yard Building 106, a certified historic rehabilitation, and the Converse Memorial Library in Malden, where the art galleries were restored to H. H. Richardson's original design.

Richard Shnider joined the firm in 1995 and has worked as Project Architect specializing in housing, including Wakefield Crossing, the conversion of an existing industrial building plus new construction into a five-building, 130-unit condominium community.

His other housing work includes Wingate Village in Laconia, New Hampshire and Princeton Village in Lowell for Winn Development; Trinity Village and Willow Street Apartments for Weston Associates; and Carleton Place in Lowell for Princeton Properties. Other projects include the Army Family Housing Project in Hudson, the Boston Sand & Gravel headquarters, additions to the Medford Housing Authority office, accessibility renovations at the Linden and Forestdale Elementary Schools in Malden, and retail development in Malden Center.

He has more than ten years of experience planning municipal, religious, recreational, medical and educational facilities.