Sam Schwartz Engineering (SSE) has promoted five employees in its firm: John McCormack, P.E., PTOE; Jolene Yeats, AICP; Laura MacNeil; Ileanna Pappas; and Robert Nadramia, P.E. McCormack, has been promoted to vice president. He previously served as director of traffic in the New Jersey office. Yeats has been promoted to deputy director of the traffic engineering department in New York. She will assist Jeff Smithline, P.E., PTOE, director of traffic engineering, with managing the traffic engineering staff and projects. MacNeil has been promoted to senior planner I. She is the director of the award-winning Second Ave. Subway Community Information Center. Pappas has been promoted to co-general manager of pedestrian traffic management, and she is based in the New York office. Nadramia has been promoted to project manager. He works in the traffic Engineering department in the New York office.