Oct 22, 1996

fine.com Interactive

Dan Stull, president of the Seattle-based Web site design firm fine.com Interactive, has been named to the board of directors of LaserDirect, a direct marketing communications company based in Kent. Diana Bury has joined fine.com Interactive as director of Internet services. She was most recently with Sanctuary Woods Multimedia and AT&T Microelectronics in the San Francisco area. Tom Shannon and Stacy Speicher have joined the firm with Shannon as an interactive designer of Web sites and Speicher as a producer. Shannon was with FreeRange Media in Seattle and Speicher was with LaserDirect.

SDL/McCarthy

Marcia Karr is a new project manager at SDL/McCarthy in Bellevue. She has 12 years of experience as a design engineer and project manager. Karr is currently working on the King County Regional Justice Center project in Kent.

Mortenson

M.A. Mortenson Company's new business development coordinator is Keli Hagen. She spent the last six years at Bassetti Architects where she specialized in Native American and educational facilities. Hagen holds an architecture degree from the University of Washington.

Expert in urban village planning to speak

SEATTLE -- Peter Calthorpe, a national expert in transit-oriented development and urban village planning, will speak at noon Thursday in downtown Seattle. The brown-bag lunch will meet at Plymouth Congregational Church -- Hildebrand Hall at Sixth Avenue and University Street. The event is free to the public. Since 1972, Calthorpe has been combining his experience in both planning and architecture to develop an environmental approach to community development and urban design. He wrote the Sierra Club book Sustainable Communities with Sim Van der Ryn. His most recent work is The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. The event is being sponsored by 1000 Friends of Washington, the Puget Sound Regional Council and the Puget Sound Chapter of the American Planning Association. For more information, call (206) 343-0681.

Oct 16, 1996

AGRA

David C. Williams has been promoted to department leader at the Kirkland office of AGRA Earth & Environmental, Inc. He will lead AGRA's geotechnical and materials testing departments. Williams has been with AGRA for 14 years. He has managed many of the firm's projects involving geologic hazards, landslide investigation, transportation facilities, shoreline properties and erosion mitigation. He has also completed borrow investigations for a variety of construction materials in Washington, Alaska and Oregon, and has worked on regional landfill projects and smaller county landfills. His experience also includes airports, water storage reservoirs and public works projects. Thomas G. Hanson has also been promoted to department leader at AGRA's Kirkland office. He will act as head of the environmental services department. Hanson has been with AGRA for three years and during that time, he has provided comprehensive environmental services for industrial and institutional waste generators, for hazardous and radioactive treatment, storage and disposal facilities, and for uncontrolled hazardous waste disposal sites. He provides comprehensive environmental compliance audits of commercial and industrial facilities as well as compliance policies, plans and procedures.

Reid Middleton

David Swanson is the 1996 recipient of the distinguished Gustave Willems Award given nationally by the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses for the most outstanding waterfront design technical paper. The award will be presented at the upcoming Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses' (PIANC) National Conference being held in Seattle this month. Swanson is a project manager in the waterfront division at Reid Middleton. He specializes in the structural design of waterfront facilities, buildings, and industrial and transportation facilities. This December, Swanson will be presenting a paper in Washington D.C. on seismic risk reduction at the National Disaster Reduction Conference, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Skillings-Connolly

John Tevis has joined the civil engineering consulting firm of Skillings-Connolly, Inc. (S-C) in Lacey. Tevis will be one of S-C's senior transportation engineers. Prior to joining S-C, Tevis enjoyed a long tenure as a supervisory transportation engineer at the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board in Olympia and as a project engineer for the Department of Transportation.

PTL

K.V. Lew has joined Pacific Testing Laboratories' (PTL) Environmental Services Group as remediation manager. He has over 17 years of consulting experience practicing in Canada, the United States, Taiwan, Malaysia and Antarctica. His areas of expertise include geotechnical engineering, slope stability and failure analysis, IRAP for site closure, engineering remediation of impacted properties and environmental services. In addition to serving as a senior staff member in the environmental group, Lew will also act as an expert witness for PTL's forensics group offering expert witness testimony during geotechnical and environmental related litigation. Prior to joining PTL, Lew was an associate and client program manager overseeing numerous gasoline station projects for two major oil companies on the West coast for AGRA Earth & Environmental. Daryl Petrarca has joined PTL as manager of Environmental Services. Petrarca has over 19 years of experience in geologic services and environmental consulting. His areas of expertise include property transfer assessments, environmental audits, surface and subsurface characterization studies, off-shore sediment and dredging assessment studies, and remediation projects. Petrarca will assume supervision of PTL's Environmental Services Division, overseeing a staff of 10 engineers and geologists in four Pacific Northwest offices. Petrarca will provide technical guidance to PTL's environmental engineering group, offering services to various industrial and commercial clients. Petrarca will also serve as an expert witness for environmental-related litigation. Prior to joining PTL, Petrarca was employed as an associate and as environmental projects group manager at AGRA Earth & Environmental, where he managed AGRA's site assessment group.

Washington Enterprise Awards

Six Puget Sound area companies have been recognized in the first annual Washington Enterprise Awards for Best Business Practices sponsored by Arthur Andersen's Enterprise Group and Perkins Coie. Stevedoring Service of America, an international transportation services company founded in Bellingham is recognized for building alliances with suppliers, customers, local partners and complementary businesses. Olympic Hot Tub Company, the oldest spa company in the Puget Sound area is recognized for it reputation for customer satisfaction. Art Anderson Associates, a family-owned architectural, facilities and marine engineering services firm headquartered in Bremerton, is recognized for its ability to disseminate valuable information throughout the company. WRQ, Inc., a Seattle software company, is recognized for practices that motivate and retain employees. Stockpot Soups, a Redmond-based manufactuer of fresh refrigerated soups is recognized for its innovation with new products. Emeritus Corporation, a Seattle-based company which acquires, develops, owns and operates assisted-living facilities, is recognized for its tremendous growth. The awards recognize business practices that lead to great performances among emerging small and mid-sized companies.

Metawave Communications

Harold "Hal" Carey has joined Redmond-based Metawave Communications Corp. as vice president of engineering services. He will head Metawave's worldwide engineering services group, which provides installation, training, field service, and consulting support for the company's multibeam antenna product line. Metawave delivers spectrum management solutions that enable wireless service providers throughout the world to compete by optimizing call quality, coverage and capacity at minimal cost.