Jan 18, 2012

Sparling

Damschen

Rose

White

Bahner

Janof

Sparling, a Seattle technology consulting and electrical engineering firm, promoted Timothy Janof to principal, Spencer L. Bahner to associate principal and Michael W. White, Scott Rose and Tara Damschen to associate. Janof is an electrical engineer with more than two decades in the industry. He focuses on data centers. Bahner has 30-plus years of radio system experience and a background in wireless data technologies, trunked radio systems, simulcast, paging, microwave networks, radio signaling, internal reradiating systems and telemetry. White is an electrical project manager for health care, educational and commercial projects, with 19 years in the industry. He works out of Portland, and his projects include Sacred Heart Medical Center. Rose is director of business development, focusing on California and the Southwest. He has 20 years of management experience and works out of San Diego. Damschen is a project manager with more than eight years of experience in consulting on architectural acoustics, mechanical systems noise control and environmental noise assessments. She works out of Seattle, and her projects include University of Washington's Paccar Hall.

Hewitt

Purba

Adams

Hewitt hired staff architects Russ Adams and Sony Purba. Adams has 13 years of experience in design and sustainability and will work on Third and Cedar, a high-rise residential project. Purba has 14 years of experience in mixed-use design. He is working on Green Lake Village, with apartments, a grocery store and retail. Hewitt is a Seattle-based architecture, landscape architecture and urban design firm.

Brown and Caldwell

Thomas

Brown and Caldwell hired Heather Thomas to oversee marketing in Washington, Western Canada and Alaska, and support offices in Idaho, Hawaii and Guam. She will be based in Seattle. Thomas previously was at Alexandria Sanitation Authority, where she was communications manager for a wastewater treatment plant in Virginia. Brown and Caldwell is an environmental engineering firm.

Art Anderson Associates

Hoynes

Duncan

Art Anderson Associates, a Bremerton engineering services firm, named Ralph E. Duncan vice president of marine and Sean M. Hoynes vice president of facilities. Duncan, an engineer, will lead the naval architecture and marine engineering programs. He has 30 years of experience in the marine industry and is supervising shipyard support for extension of Kitsap Transit's Admiral Pete and design of a new Admiral Pete sister ship. Hoynes will lead the facilities architecture and engineering practice. He is a mechanical engineer with 30 years of experience. He is leading a number of projects that support U.S. Navy strategic missile facilities.

Jan 11, 2012

KMD Architects

KMD Architects hired Rob Swartz as principal and market sector leader for corporate architecture with the aim of expanding its corporate practice. Swartz will work primarily in Seattle and San Francisco. He was previously at NBBJ as a principal leading business development in Europe, the Middle East and India. He has been a broker and real estate advisor on leasing and dispositions. In architecture, his projects have included Reebok International Headquarters in Canton, Mass., and the Starbucks World Headquarters in Seattle. KMD provides architectural services for health care, academic, commercial and corporate sectors.

DCI Engineers

DCI Engineers promoted Brian DeHaan to design manager in the structural division, and Justin Hancock and Jason Peterson to senior structural CAD designers. DeHaan's projects have included Fairchild Fitness Center in Airway Heights. He manages teams on projects involving conveyor equipment and mining crusher stations. Hancock oversees drafting production and is working on the WSU Martin Stadium expansion. Peterson has 13 years of experience in computer aided drafting. His projects have included Gonzaga University's McCarthy Athletic Center in Spokane. DCI is a civil and structural consulting engineering firm headquartered in Seattle.

SRG Partnership

SRG Partnership promoted Cheryl Harmon and Eric Wilson to principal, Stan Jaworowski and Aaron Pleskac to senior associate, and Nathan Messmer to associate. Harmon, the firm's business manager, has 27 years of experience, including a background in public accounting and private industry. Wilson has 22 years of experience that includes higher education projects, including the Washington State University Veterinary Research Medical Building. Jaworowski has 14 years of experience that includes higher education and community college work, such as Everett Community College Student Fitness Center. Pleskac has nearly a decade with SRG, where he has worked on public projects such as Bellevue City Hall. Messmer has been with the firm for five years. His projects have included South Puget Sound Community College's Building 23. SRG provides programming, planning, architecture and interior design, with offices in Portland, Seattle and San Francisco.

Zervas Group Architects

Andrew Krzysiek has become a partner at Bellingham-based Zervas Group Architects, where he has worked most of the last 12 years as a project manager/architect. He spearheaded design of the LEED gold Whatcom Educational Credit Union Loan Center in Bellingham and the WECU Ferndale branch. He is working with the Jansen Foundation to turn the former Lynden City Hall into an arts center.

Core Design

Core Design hired Michael Moody and Dean Furr as project engineers to help on residential and commercial projects. The firm provides civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture and urban design.

Mead & Hunt Business

Mead & Hunt promoted Damon Smith to business unit leader of Northwest aviation. Smith is a senior airport planning and design engineer in Vancouver, and will manage staff in four offices. He leads commercial, reliever and general aviation airport improvement projects. The firm is working on projects with the Washington State Department of Transportation and Puget Sound Regional Council. It provides architecture, engineering, airline service consulting, planning, environmental, construction administration and program management.

Brown and Caldwell

Brown and Caldwell hired Brian Gasseling as a principal designer, Ellen Milne as a graphic designer and Mary Treacy as marketing coordinator III, all in Seattle, and Matt DeBoer as a senior engineer in Tacoma. Gasseling has 25 years of experience in product design, industrial piping and project management. He previously worked at Chemithon. Milne has 10 years in the AEC industry, including design of concepts, templates and descriptive graphics for marketing and business development. She previously worked at Sellen Construction. Treacy has done marketing and business development in architecture and engineering, management consulting and interactive agencies. DeBoer has 11 years of experience in water/wastewater facilities, outfall modeling and design, and field studies on water quality assessment. He worked at Cosmopolitan Engineering. Brown and Caldwell is an environmental engineering firm.