Oct 03, 2012

Golder Associates

Golder Associates hired Reda Mikhail as a geotechnical practice leader in the Pacific Northwest. He has a background in geotechnical and structural engineering and more than 20 years of experience on transportation, waterfront, energy, site development, wastewater and landslide projects, including 15 years in this region. Golder is a global ground engineering and environmental consulting firm, with an office in Redmond.

Rice Fergus Miller

Rios

King

Frost

Southerland

Rice Fergus Miller promoted Jeremy Southerland and Jennifer Frost to principal, Matt King to senior associate, and Reuben Rios to associate. Southerland is a designer and project manager who focuses on health care and senior living projects. He also sits on the Bremerton design review board. Frost is an interior designer with a focus on hospitality, senior housing and health care. King is an architect and project manager who focuses on health care services. He has spent 20 years working as a builder, designer and project manager. Rios is a technical designer focusing on senior living projects. Bremerton-based Rice Fergus Miller provides architecture, interior design and planning.

Sparling

Le

Sparling hired Denny Le as an electrical project designer in its Lynnwood headquarters. Le recently graduated with a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Eastern Washington University. He previously was an electronics technician. He is working on Stadium Place in Seattle and two office buildings in Eastern Washington. Sparling is an electrical engineering and technology design firm.

Murray, Smith & Associates

Hickerson

Murray, Smith & Associates hired Wally Hickerson as a senior consultant in the Tri-Cities. He has 40 years of experience as a consultant in the Pacific Northwest, including managing projects for a public agencies, such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Northwest consulting engineering firm provides infrastructure planning, design and construction management.

HDJ Design Group

Schaller

HDJ Design Group hired Regan Schaller as a survey technician in the Vancouver headquarters. He has more than 11 years of survey experience and is a licensed land surveyor in training. He has a background in project management and survey experience for topographic, construction, as-built and boundary mapping projects. HDJ provides engineering, planning, landscape architecture and survey services.

Cary Kopczynski & Co.

Bellevue-based Cary Kopczynski & Co. structural engineering firm hired Al Leaverenz as an associate and BIM/CAD manager, Elaine Peng as senior design engineer, Gregg Vernon as senior CAD designer and Allison Tran as administrative assistant. Leaverenz has more than 30 years of experience and returns to CKC after running his own CAD/BIM company. He manages CKC's drafting/production department. Peng has 13 years of experience. She is working on 815 Pine, a 40-story apartment tower in downtown Seattle, and Ameristar, a $500 million gaming resort in Louisiana. Vernon has 23 years of experience in structural drafting, including six years with BIM and Revit. He is working on the Avalon University District project and The Vermont, a 30-story apartment project in Los Angeles. Tran has five years of experience as a special education teacher and a title specialist at a law firm. CKC designs urban buildings and parking structures in the United States and elsewhere.

Sep 26, 2012

SPVV Landscape Architects

Teal

Darren Teal joined SPVV Landscape Architects of Spokane as a landscape architect. Teal obtained his license in 2010, and has eight years of landscape design experience, along with a background in land planning, civil planning, and designing plans for stormwater and erosion control. He is working on redevelopment of Hart Field. SPVV provides landscape architecture and planning.

KPFF Consulting Engineers

Roberts

KPFF Consulting Engineers promoted Sara Roberts to principal. Roberts joined the firm in 1995. She has worked on educational, transit and port facilities, and parking structures. Her projects include the Port of Seattle consolidated rental car facility. KPFF is a civil and structural engineering firm with a number of U.S. offices, including in Seattle.

Hart Crowser

Hart Crowser hired Pete Heltzel and Kelsey Donahue in the Edmonds office, Max Gummer in Portland, and Suzanne Faubl, Marc Miller, Kerry Hosken, Nimfa Josol and Rebecca Ramsey in Seattle. Heltzel is a fisheries biologist helping the city of Bellevue determine fish populations in urban streams. His clients have included the Corps of Engineers and energy companies. Donahue is a marine biologist supporting habitat work in Cook Inlet in Alaska. Gummer is a geotechnical engineer who previously worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation. He is working on waterfront and roadway projects. Faubl is an environmental engineer who will assist with projects for the US Forest Service and City Light. Hosken is an environmental engineer with experience in wildlife biology. He will support stormwater and remediation projects. Miller is a field geologist who will work on the SR99 bored tunnel in Seattle. Josol is a senior accounting clerk with 22 years of experience. Ramsey is a project assistant with a bachelor's from Hamilton College. Hart Crowser is a Seattle-based environmental and engineering consulting firm.