Sep 03, 2014

Bumgardner

Mezzato

Witt

Ramirez

Hemba

Bumgardner, a Seattle-based architecture and design firm, hired Thomas Hemba as a project manager and Arnulfo Ramirez, Fredrika Witt and Gabriele Mezzato as architectural interns. Hemba worked in Germany on international high-rise hospitality projects. He spent 10-plus years at Mithun, working on mixed-use housing and student housing. His projects now include a residential high-rise in Seattle. Ramirez holds a master of architecture degree from the University of Washington. He is assisting with construction administration for The Angeline, a mixed-use project in Columbia City. Witt holds a bachelor's in architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology and a master of architecture degree from the University of Oregon. She has three years of experience as an intern architect. Mezzato has seven years of experience in residential, commercial and industrial projects in Italy. He is working on a Seattle high-rise.

Sparling

Hanson

Phan

Moore

Sparling hired two computer-aided drafting professionals, Colin Moore and Bau Phan, in its Lynnwood office and administrative assistant Debbie Hanson in Portland. Moore has five years of computer drafting and design experience, and is in Sparling's electrical practice. He is working on tenant improvements for Seattle Genetics Building 4 — Phase 1B and data center projects. Phan has four years of experience in electrical design. He is working on Amazon Block 52 and Sea-Tac Airport's North Satellite renovation. Hanson has 14 years of administrative experience, including with engineering and construction firms. Sparling provides electrical engineering, technology and audiovisual consulting, acoustical and lighting design, with offices in Washington, Oregon and California.

HKP Architects

Baldwin

Christine Baldwin joined HKP Architects as an intern architect, where she has contributed to work for Edmonds School District and the Swinomish Social Services Building remodel. Baldwin has promoted HKP's recent expansion into Seattle. She holds a bachelor of architecture degree from California Polytechnic State University and studied at Dessau Institute of Architecture in Germany. HKP is an architecture and design firm, with an office also in Mount Vernon.

Sazan Group

Grzan

Sazan Group hired Robert Grzan as a senior electrical engineer to work on health care, labs, K-12 and higher education projects. He has 23 years of experience in electrical systems planning, design and construction administration. Sazan provides mechanical, electrical and data/telecom services, with offices in Seattle and Portland.

Icicle Creek Engineers

Baines

Icicle Creek Engineers hired Sunny Baines as marketing/office manager. Baines has seven years of experience in architecture, engineering and construction and was treasurer for the Society for Marketing Professional Services Seattle chapter for four years. ICE is a geotechnical, geologic, hydrogeologic, and environmental services company.

CVPartners

Addison Group of Chicago is expanding its professional staffing services onto the West Coast by acquiring CVPartners, a staffing firm with offices in San Francisco and Seattle. CVPartners focuses on jobs in finance, accounting, information technology and human resources. It will maintain offices in Seattle and Bellevue as well as San Francisco and Mountain View California.

The Partners Group

The Partners Group is moving to a new office space in Bellevue that will house all Washington divisions including Employee Benefits Consulting, Commercial Insurance and Private Client Services. The new space is at 11225 S.E. Sixth St., Suite 110. The firm opened new offices in Bend and Lake Oswego, Oregon, this year along with a new location in Bozeman, Montana.

Sequoyah Electric

Bykerk

Reischman

Sequoyah Electric hired Derek Reischman as an estimator and David Bykerk as a purchasing agent at its Redmond headquarters. Reischman has experience in the roadwork/industrial side of the electrical construction industry. He holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from Washington State University. Bykerk has more than a dozen years of experience working for electrical suppliers.

Adolfson & Peterson Construction

Whitney

Rick Whitney on Oct. 1 will become chief executive officer of Minneapolis-based Adolfson & Peterson Construction. Whitney was president and CEO for the past six years at M+W U.S. in Watervliet, N.Y. He succeeds interim CEO Steven Pinney, who has held that role since CEO Doug Jaeger stepped down in December 2013. A&P has an office in Tacoma.