Aug 13, 2014

Hart Crowser

Krieter

Steward

Hart Crowser added four people in Portland to the natural resource team. Cleve Steward is a fisheries scientist and principal with 35 years of experience. He has been a researcher, policy adviser and project manager for government agencies, tribes and NGOs. Joe Krieter is an aquatic ecologist with 20 years of experience. A former Hart Crowser employee, he has consulted for the timber industry, ports, developers, nonprofits and governments. Andy Clodfelter is a fisheries biologist with 13 years of experience. Jim Brown is a fisheries biologist with 25 years of experience. He has vessel operations experience on the Columbia River and experience in GIS. Hart Crowser is a Seattle-based environmental and engineering consulting firm, with offices also in Edmonds, Vancouver, Anchorage and Honolulu.

Schacht Aslani Architects

Stepanicich

Rakestraw

Schacht Aslani Architects hired intern architects Kristina Rakestraw and Melanie Stepanicich. Rakestraw holds a bachelor's of architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She will work on the Early Childhood Center at Skagit Valley College and the Department of Comparative Medicine at the University of Washington. Stepanicich graduated from the University of Washington and worked in San Francisco for a year. She will work on the Allied Health and Early Childhood Development Center at Peninsula College.

SCJ Alliance

McAboy

Kell McAboy joined SCJ Alliance as a senior planner. She was senior planner with the Port of Tacoma, Mason County lead planner for land use and shoreline permit applications, and has planning experience with Spokane and Airway Heights. SCJ is a consulting firm specializing in transportation planning and design, civil engineering, and land use/environmental planning. It has offices in Lacey, Seattle, Vancouver, Wenatchee, Boise and Westminster, Colorado.

Sparling

Lopez

Preuss

Sparling hired Marcus Preuss as a wireless consultant in the Lynnwood office and Mike Lopez as a technology project manager in San Diego for the technology design and consulting service line. Preuss specializes in distributed wireless and wired communications. He has experience with radio programming software and hardware, and is working on the Pierce County 700MHz Public Safety Radio System. Lopez has 33 years in information technology, 24 for Franciscan Health/Catholic Health Initiatives. Lopez is working on the Sacramento Behavioral Health project. Sparling provides electrical engineering, technology and audiovisual consulting, acoustical and lighting design, with offices in Washington, Oregon and California.

Helix Design Group

Payne

Tacoma-based Helix Design Group hired Susan Payne as a staff architect to assist with production work. Payne previously worked at Helix. She is a drafting instructor at Highline Community College. Helix provides architecture, interior design and graphic design.

Aug 06, 2014

The Miller Hull Partnership

Do

Kwok

Lau

In the Seattle office, The Miller Hull Partnership hired Eugene Lau, Ka-Chung Kwok and Maria Do as architects; Sean Waldron and Wojtek Szczerba as an intern architects; and Tetsuo Takemoto as a project designer. Lau was with SHKS Architects and Mahlum Architects, where he worked on projects including Nathan Hale High School. Lau is working on buildings near the Seattle Waterfront Overlook Walk. Kwok was an architect at Suehiro Architecture, where he worked on airport planning and design. He also worked at NBBJ on corporate projects. He is project architect on the master plan for a resort village in China.

Takemoto

Szczerba

Waldron

Do has a background in architecture and landscape design for K-12 schools, Seattle parks and transit facilities. She worked at Bassetti Architects, SHED Architecture and Design, EDGE, llc, and Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects. She is on the Bothell City Hall team. Waldron worked at NBBJ on health care projects and was with Oh Planning + Design in Portland. His projects include expansion of Pike Place Market. Szczerba has experience on residential, educational and commercial projects at Rohleder Borges Architecture, Mahlum Architects, E. Cobb Architects, Chadbourne+Doss and Lead Pencil Studio. He is working on the Pike Place Market waterfront entrance. Takemoto has done master planning, urban design, and architectural design at Machado and Silvetti Associates in Boston. He is working on PSU Millar Library and Mercer Island Library. Miller Hull is an architecture and planning firm, with an office also in San Diego.

DCI Engineers

Amrhein

Salh

Ostling

In the Seattle office, DCI Engineers hired Thorin Ostling as a structural CAD designer, Sunny Salh as a civil design engineer, Mathew Amrhein as a project manager, Rose C. Bechtold as a communications specialist and Caleb Heeringa as a communications coordinator. Ostling will use AutoCAD for detailing and editing construction documents. He was a structural CAD designer for Lower Columbia Engineering in Oregon, and is pursuing a project management degree. Salh was a civil engineering designer at Merrick & Co. in Colorado. He is working on a drainage study for Renton Heritage Apartments.

Heeringa

Bechtold

Amrhein has seven years of engineering experience, with projects that include Microsoft Building 123. At DCI, Amrhein is responsible for structural analysis, design and management. Bechtold has marketing experience at Callison and Omax Corp. For 13 years, she was a technical writer and engineering aide at Esterline Korry Electronics. She will do marketing, web content and blog posts, and help pursue new projects. Heeringa has experience as a newspaper reporter and editor, mostly in Sammamish. He will produce content. DCI is a civil and structural consulting firm, with offices also in Spokane; Portland and Eugene, Ore.; San Diego, Irvine and San Francisco, Calif.; Austin, Texas; and Anchorage.

Professional Service Industries

Professional Service Industries hired Richard Fredricksen as a project geologist in Lynnwood. Fredricksen has been a project geologist in Washington and Oregon for 20 years, mostly with Oregon Department of Transportation. The firm provides environmental engineering and testing, and is based in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.