Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE) has hired Michael J. Rzeznik, P.E. to be the new Associate Principal. Rzeznik comes to the company with 27 years of experience in all areas of fire protection and life safety engineering.

“We are thrilled to have Mike join us,” stated Carl Baldassarra, manager of WJE’s fire protection practice. “Mike’s nearly three decades of experience and most recent client-side responsibilities provide him with a unique perspective of fire and life safety issues not otherwise available to most consultants.”

Rzeznik will be working out of WJE’s New York and New Haven offices, providing services to current and new clients on the east coast and supporting fire protection and life safety efforts nationally.

Prior to WJE, Rzeznik served as associate director – Fire and Life Safety with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide; and he has led various firms’ fire protection engineering offices in the New York metropolitan market, including in his role as managing director of the New York office of Schirmer Engineering/Aon Fire Protection from 2003 to 2013.