Mar 05, 1999

EMB Partners Inc.

EMB Partners Inc., a Seattle-based marketing communications firm, has named Dana Gosney as partner. Gosney formerly served as president of ifix, an interactive marketing, design and technology firm based in Seattle.

Mar 04, 1999

Stoel Rives

Stoel Rives, a Northwest-based law firm, recently elected Christopher J. Voss to partner in the Seattle office; David Copley Forman, Gary W. Glisson, Eric A. Grasberger, Scott J. Kaplan, Michael C. Robinson, Peter L. Surrurier, John R. Thomas and Robert H. Thomson to partners in the Portland office; Martin K. Banks to partner in the Salt Lake City office; and Louis A. Ferreira IV to partner in the Vancouver, Wash. office. Voss focuses his practice on corporate and securities transactions. Amy S. Christophersen, Ivan A. Gaviria, Kristi L. Helgeson, Sherri L. Jefferson and Katriana L. Samiljan recently joined the firm as associates in the Seattle office. Christophersen practices construction and design law, Gaviria practices corporate and securities law, Helgeson practices commercial litigation, Jefferson practices employment and labor law and Samiljan practices corporate, securities and finance law.

Mar 03, 1999

Imagio Technology Advertising

Seattle-based Imagio Technology Advertising and Public Relations recently added Jo Dixon as advertising director, Lisa Dunnavant as art director and Holly Toliver as senior account supervisor. Dixon formerly served as senior art director at Publicis in Seattle, Dunnavant formerly served as art director for Market Place Designs in Portland and Toliver formerly served as channel marketing manager at Microsoft.

Mar 02, 1999

Power Planning Council fishing for comments

PORTLAND -- The Northwest Power Planning Council, together with the Independent Scientific Advisory Board, have completed a draft report and recommendations on fish passage projects at Columbia and Snake River dams. Now the Council would like to get the public's response to the document before it is finalized and sent to Congress. The deadline for comment is March 23. Recommendations contained in the draft include:

• Relocation of fish bypass outfalls;
• Installing longer screens upstream of turbine entrances;
• Continuation of collection and guiding of fish near the river's surface;
• Continue efforts to reduce dissolved gas at dams;
• Improve adult fish passage at dams; and
• Use independent engineering review for fish-passage projects.

Shipwreck salvage consultant loves it

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) -- Bill Milwee, flak catcher for the "responsible party" in the New Carissa shipwreck, didn't write the book on salvage operations. He wrote two of them. The bearded, 6-foot-5 Milwee has become a familiar face on Oregon television after answering for the ship's owners for more than three weeks. "You've got to have a steady hand and a steady nerve to be in this business, and Bill has all of that," said Jack Gallagher, chairman of Gallagher Marine Systems, the outfit hired to run the salvage operation. Shipwreck work may seem exotic to the rest of the crews and onlookers, but it's the life that Milwee has lived for 17 years. He attends two to four disasters a year from Antarctica to Tahiti. The work was not something he dreamed of as boy in Montgomery, Ala. He didn't build model ships, read sea stories or pine for adventure. "You kind of stumble into things through life," he said. Milwee, 62, entered the Naval Academy in June 1955, earned his graduate degree in naval architecture and rose to the rank of commander in the U.S. Navy. He rounded up his military career in 1979, did a stint as manager for a Gulf Coast oil drilling operation and then settled in Portland. Milwee was contract writer for a 1990 book called "Mud, Muscles and Miracles" that recounted 80 years of naval salvage operations. He also wrote the 1996 "Modern Marine Salvage," which is considered nearly the Bible in the salvage industry, Gallagher said. So when the crowd of people gather in a tight room to decide what to do next with the New Carissa, they look to Milwee. "Basically he's been calling the overall shots," Gallagher said. Milwee said the New Carissa has been the most complex of all his salvage jobs. Jon Savelle is the Journal's environment editor. He can be contacted at (206) 622-8272.

Sparling

Hunter S. Fulghum and Jeffrey S. Hankin have been named as principals at Sparling, a Seattle-based specialty electrical consulting firm. Fulghum leads the communication design group and Hankin manages a studio that focuses on retail, healthcare and commercial projects.

Seatran

Richard Miller has been appointed director of the Roadway Structures Division of Seatran. Miller has worked for the division for 20 years and is a professional civil engineer. He recently oversaw the city's largest bridge projects, including a $23 million six-year program to strengthen 24 key bridges to withstand a major earthquake. His primary goal as new director is to secure some of the more than $350 million needed for work on Seattle's aging bridges.

Berschauer Phillips

Jerry O. Oetgen has joined Berschauer Phillips Construction Co. as chief estimator, design build. Oetgen has over 30 years of construction, design and estimating experience. He worked for Lugo Construction and Rushforth Construction before coming to Olympia-based Berschauer Phillips.

BFC Frontier

Growth in BFC Frontier's commercial construction operations has lead to new staff and promotions at the Lynnwood contractor. The new hires include Danny Rampt, a project manager, and Jack Long, a project superintendent. Kathy Friess was promoted to the newly-created position of executive administrative assistant. She has been a contract administrator at BFC for over two years. Rampt has worked as a project manager and estimator throughout the U.S. since 1986. He holds a civil engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He is working on LDS church projects in Port Orchard and Bainbridge Island, and an office project in Kirkland. Long studied construction management at the University of Minnesota and currently supervises construction of the Safeway Plaza project in Maple Valley. He has over 17 years of field supervisory experience.