Jun 28, 2000

Stormwater Management

Stanley Sroka has joined Portland-based Stormwater Management as regional manager for Oregon. Prior to joining the firm, he was district sales manager for the Veeder-Root Co. in Portland.

Adam Sapp has joined the firm as regional sales manager for Pennsylvania. He was employed as area sales manager for Hancor Inc. in Findlay, Ohio.

Christopher Young has been hired as regional sales manager for North Carolina. He was the business development manager for Resource Technologies, a biotech company in Charlotte, N.C.

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca has promoted the following employees to the position of associate partner.

Marnie Nelson, the Seattle office manager, has been with ZGF for more than 15 years.

Robin Randall is a senior designer and project architect with more than 14 years of experience. She is working on design of tenant improvements, skybridge and lobby pavilion for the Overlake Hospital in Bellevue.

Kristina Ryhn is a project manager with more than 15 years of experience specializing in the design of health care facilities. Her current projects include the Good Samaritan Surgery Center in Puyallup, additions and alterations for the Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia and a master plan for Overlake Hospital's medical imaging facility.

ATC Associates

ATC Associates has named Michael Burt vice president of Northwest operations. Burt has been with the company for five years and most recently was director of Northwest operations. He has 15 years of business management experience and, since 1991, has worked in the environmental, safety and health industry.

The local office of ATC Associates is in Seattle. The company provides environmental, geotechnical and construction services.

Harmsen & Associates

Harmsen & Associates, an engineering and surveying firm in Monroe, has reorganized its three-member board of directors, which is now made up of department heads: Harland McElhany, director of engineering; David Boersema, director of surveying; and Rink Carpenter, director of field operations. Rink recently became an owner as well as a member of the board.

Doug Slager has been promoted to CEO. The firm has also added Skip Walton to the surveying staff. He was formerly employed with Trepanier Engineering in Everett.

Tetra Tech/KCM

Alex Chen has joined Tetra Tech/KCM as a civil engineer in the firm's wastewater group. Chen has been responsible for various aspects of utility engineering, including design and hydraulic analysis of treatment, storage, pumping and conveyance facilities. His recent work includes process design for a wastewater reuse pilot study for King County, a project that involves new technologies, such as ballasted flocculation, biological aerated filtration, membrane biological reactors and reverse osmosis.

Arthur Lee has joined the firm as a civil engineer in the watershed management group. Lee has more than 17 years of experience in engineering and planning, with particular expertise in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, or NPDES, permits and program development.

Brad Wakeman has joined the firm as a senior architect and project engineer in the firm's facilities design and water resources departments. He is providing design and management support for the Pacific Rim Center, the Rockwood pump station, and the Olympus Terrace ultraviolet disinfection system.

Tetra Tech/KCM provides consulting services in sanitary and hydraulic engineering; civil engineering, architecture, structural, mechanical, transportation, lake restoration and watershed management; and fisheries planning and design. The firm's local office is in Seattle

Jun 26, 2000

Riddell Williams

Duncan Manville and Scott Yasui have joined the Seattle law firm of Riddell Williams as associates. Manville joined the firm's litigation practice. Yasui concentrates his practice on real estate, including corporate counseling, financing, development, architecture, construction and property management.

Jun 21, 2000

Cierra Associates

Bryan Boeholt has joined Cierra Associates as associate and project manager. He has 12 years experience in electrical design and project management. His projects include a series of World Lighting Stores, the Eastlake Building and student apartments for Northwest College.

Linda Holte has been hired as senior project designer. She has more than 10 years of electrical and mechanical design and project coordination. Cierra Associates is a Seattle-based electrical planning and design firm.

Golder Associates

Jane Rowcliffe has joined Golder Associates, an international environmental and engineering company, as a senior environmental engineer. She has a degree in civil engineering from the University of California at Irvine and a degree in occupational safety and health from the University of Southern California.

Several employees of the firm's Redmond office have been promoted -- Cathy Smith, senior engineer; Travis McGrath, senior engineer; Sandra Schildt, senior developer; Gary Zimmerman, senior environmental scientist; Robert Parney, senior hydrogeologist and geophysicist; Robin Kirschbaum, project engineer; and Beth Spelsberg, project fisheries biologist.

Reid Middleton

Ralph Petereit has joined Reid Middleton's waterfront group as a senior engineer. Petereit, who recently retired from the U.S. Coast Guard, will manage waterfront design projects for the firm's private- and public-sector clients. His responsibilities will include project management, design and marketing. Based in Everett, Reid Middleton is a civil and structural engineering, planning and surveying firm.

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca has promoted several employees to the position of associate partner.

Carole Kassir-Garcia is a senior designer with more than 17 years of experience. Since joining the firm in 1995, she has worked on several projects for Microsoft Corp., and has worked on a variety of health care projects around the country.

Dave McLean is a project designer and technical designer with ZGF. He is the project architect for the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance ambulatory care clinic at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

John Mess is a project manager with more than 20 years of professional experience. He is the project manager for the Amazon.com headquarters expansion in Seattle; the children's therapy unit for Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup; and Overlake Hospital tenant improvements. Zimmer Gunsul Frasca is an architecture, planning and interior design firm with local offices in Seattle and Portland.

ATC Associates

ATC Associates has named Michael Burt as vice president of its Northwest operations. Burt has been with the company for five years and most recently worked as director of Northwest Operations.

He has 15 years of business management experience and since 1991 has worked in the environmental, safety and health industry. He has overseen projects relating to regulatory compliance, training, account management, contract administration, environmental assessment and remediation, and management of asbestos, lead-based paint, and other hazards in occupied buildings.

He is responsible for ATC branch offices in Seattle, Portland, Denver and Salt Lake City, and a satellite office in Wenatchee.

ATC Associates provides services in environmental and building sciences, infrastructure, geotechnical and construction services, information management technology and environmental training.

Casne Engineering

Casne Engineering, an electrical engineering firm with offices in Bellevue and Spokane, has named its board of directors.

The board has elected Bob Casne, founder of the firm, president. A 35-year veteran in electrical engineering, Casne is a longstanding member of the Electric League and Consulting Engineering Council of Washington.

Joe Skinner has been elected treasurer. He manages the industrial department at the firm, supervising power, control and software engineers.

Ken Albinger has been elected vice president of the firm. As manager of the municipal department, he oversees electrical project work for water, wastewater, and solid waste projects.

Terry Stulc has also been elected vice president. For the last six years, he has been the manager in charge of the firm's Spokane office, performing management, engineering and marketing functions. His clients are the water and wastewater and metals industries in eastern Washington.

Curtis Clute has been elected to the board as secretary. He is the manager for the firm's transportation and shipping industry projects throughout the country.

Casne Engineering specializes in electrical and control system services.

Interface Engineering

Vince Collins has joined Interface Engineering as a fire protection engineer. With more than 12 years of professional experience, Collins specializes in high-pile storage, sprinkler protection, and code and seismic consulting on fire and life safety issues.

Stephen Sexton has also joined the firm's fire protection department. Sexton has been in the life and safety field for 11 years. His main focus is the design of sprinklers in commercial buildings, housing, military facilities and marine buildings.

Meier Enterprises

Tom Brandon has joined Meier Enterprises to provide project management and coordination of engineering services for educational projects. Prior to joining the firm, he was the executive director of operations for the Pasco School District.

Located in Kennewick, Meier Enterprises is an architecture and engineering firm.

Milbor-Pita & Associates

Kevin Roberts has joined Milbor-Pita & Associates as a senior geotechnical engineer. Roberts has 15 years of professional experience in geology and geotechnical engineering. He has focused on geotechnical studies involving site development, settlement and liquefaction, slope stability and retaining structures. Roberts was previously with Terra Associates.

Based in Bellevue, Milbor-Pita & Associates specializes in geotechnical, tunnel and geo-environmental projects.

Ridolfi Engineers

John Meyer has joined Ridolfi Engineers as an environmental project manager. Prior to joining the firm, he was an environmental engineer with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Rob Spafford has joined Ridolfi as a senior civil engineer and manager of the Coeur d'Alene field office. He has 20 years of experience as a facilities engineer with the U.S. Forest Service.

Ridolfi Engineers is a civil engineering and environmental consulting firm that provides natural resource restoration and evaluation, environmental protection, waste management and scientific consulting services. The firm has offices in Seattle and Coeur d'Alene.