The Sarasota construction firm Atlas Building Company recently hired James Pastor as senior project manager. Pastor began his construction career as an apprentice after high school and steadily progressed to positions of project superintendent, project manager, estimator, project executive and vice president of pre-construction services, working in both the public and private sectors. Pastor’s recent project management experience includes the 40,000-square-foot, $4.2 million Manatee School for the Arts and two FedEx office and warehouse distribution centers of 190,000 and 125,000 square feet.