Jan 09, 2002

Berger/ABAM

Kenneth Bartenhagen has joined Berger/ABAM Engineers in Federal Way. Bartenhagen’s background includes design and document preparation for development of stormwater, site grading and utilities for commercial, residential and educational facilities.

Sonia Bradley has joined the headquarters office as marketing coordinator.

Robin Hake has joined Berger/ABAM as human resources administrator at the Federal Way headquarters. Hake has 10 years experience in human resources management and payroll administration. Her background focuses on recruitment, performance appraisal programs and benefits administration.

Harris Group

The Seattle-based consulting engineering firm Harris Group has promoted Edward M. Portaro and William E. Ward to vice presidents. Members of the energy business unit, Portaro and Ward lead services to the power and oil and gas industries, respectively.

Portaro, vice president, power, leads a team supplying engineering, design and construction management on natural gas- and coal-fired power plants. He has 24 years of experience, including project management, project engineering and equipment evaluation.

Ward, vice president, oil and gas, leads a team providing consulting engineering for natural gas collection, storage and transportation, including design of compressor stations and storage facilities. He has 25 years experience in the gas processing and compression industry.

HTNB

HTNB Architects Engineers Planners recently promoted Barton A. Drake to associate vice president. He remains director of aviation facilities and architecture. In this role, he will develop a marketing program and ensure the quality of work to provide for existing and future clients. Additionally, he will handle more of the office operations and operation budgets, while maintaining his involvement in management of aviation facilities.

Drake is involved in the design and construction phase of the Sea-Tac Airport concourse C & D expansion. He has worked on projects at Portland International Airport, Vancouver International Airport, Salt Lake City International Airport and numerous other international, military and municipal airfields.

Interface

Interface Engineering named Jerry Yudelson corporate marketing director. Yudelson had been director of green building services for Portland General Electric for the past two years.

Yudelson serves on the board of the U.S. Green Building Council, a 1,000-member national trade association. He is also a trainer in the LEED green building rating system for the USGBC. Interface was the engineering consultant for the Ecotrust Natural Capital Center in Portland.

ASCE

H.G. "Gerry" Schwartz Jr., chair of Sverdrup Civil of Maryland Heights, Mo., recently took the office of president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Schwarz has been with Sverdrup his entire career, beginning as a design engineer in 1966, moving to president in 1993, and to his current position as chairman in 2000. He was been a member of ASCE for more than 40 years, serving as vice president from Zone III and director from District 16.

In 1995, he chaired the committee that prepared the society's strategic plan, "ASCE 2000: Working Drawings for the 21st Century." The plan has reshaped the society, according to Schwartz. "ASCE exists to meet the needs of its 123,000 members," he said. "It's a great time to be an engineer, especially a civil engineer."

Schwartz believes civil engineers, the leaders of industry and government a few short decades ago, are today considered "technologists." When asked how to restore engineers to a position of leadership, he replied, "By placing emphasis on the importance and value of the engineer as manager, ASCE can lead this charge.

Washington Roundtable

Kelly

Washington Roundtable named John F. Kelly, chairman and CEO of Alaska Airlines, as its new chairman. Kelly was a member of Governor Locke's blue ribbon commission on transportation and serves on the Washington Competitiveness Council. He is also a board member for Avista and a member of the Northwestern University Transportation Center Business Advisory Committee. The Washington Roundtable studies and makes recommendations on public policy issues to the governor and legislature.

Jan 08, 2002

Master Builders

The Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties had elected its new president and board for 2002. Sandy McAdams, owner of Sandy's Design and Remodeling in Bellevue, is president. She is joined by board members Todd Bennett of Bennett Companies LLC, Peter Orser of Quadrant Homes and Bonnie Miller of Puget Sound Energy. McAdams has been a member of the home-building association since 1982. She has been instrumental in many association activities, including the Remodeled Homes Tour, a fundraiser for the Seattle AIDS support group, and the annual Rampathon, which provides handicap access ramps for low-income individuals.

Jan 02, 2002

Shannon & Wilson

Richard Martin was promoted to manager of Shannon & Wilson’s groundwater services group. Martin has 12 years of consulting experience and a background in both environmental and geotechnical groundwater projects. Current projects include dewatering design for the Waterfront Marriott Hotel in Seattle; groundwater and heat-transport modeling on Grand Cayman Island for the Carribbean Utilities Corporation; and soil and groundwater evaluation for the Ballard Interbay North Manufacturing Industrial Center Brownfields Pilot Project for the Port of Seattle.

Berger/ABAM

Joseph Galloway has joined Berger/ABAM Engineers' Federal Way office. Galloway’s background includes design and inspection of building and transportation projects. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Washington State University.

Kelly Pitera recently joined the Federal Way headquarters. Pitera’s background includes concrete and soils testing, transportation and structural design, and construction management. She received her bachelor’s in civil engineering from Villanova University in Philadelphia.

Melinda Webb has also joined the Federal Way headquarters as marketing coordinator. Webb’s background focuses on proposal and qualifications coordination, business development event planning and coordination and data base management. She received her bachelor’s degree in international business from Linfield College in Oregon.

Vicki Shapley recently joined the Federal Way headquarters as a senior environmental scientist. Prior to joining Berger/ABAM, Shapley worked with King County Department of Transportation (DOT) as an acting manager and supervisor of the environmental unit, working with all sectors in King County DOT. Shapley’s 18 years of experience with King County consists of project environmental review components for transportation projects, from local to federal jurisdictions. She has a bachelor’s in environmental health and microbiology from Colorado State University.

Elliott Bay Design

Michael Minnig recently joined the structural engineering team at Elliott Bay Design Group. He holds a bachelor's in maritime systems engineering from Texas A&M at Galveston and a master's in Ocean Engineering from Virginia Tech. Before relocating to the Northwest, Minnig worked for Northrop Grumman at their Ingalls Shipbuilding facility in Pascagoula, Miss. His first project is to model and perform structural analysis on a 320-by-126 foot dry dock facility.

Kennedy/Jenks

Kennedy/Jenks Consultants announced that Allen C. Shewey has joined the Pacific Northwest region as manager of the Portland/Tri-Cities Public Works group.

Shewey has background in water resources, storm drainage, sewer collection and pumping, water storage, water and wastewater treatment, and streets and parking facilities. He has served as principal in charge or project manager on a range of public works projects, with experience in all project phases from planning through design and construction administration. Recent significant projects include stream restoration and water quality improvements for an existing discharge to a Bureau of Reclamation wasteway, a storm water pump station evaluation, and restoration of irrigation siphons in Washington. Wastewater projects include treatment facilities using sequencing batch reactor and oxidation ditch technologies, wastewater facility planning and sewer studies, wastewater effluent discharge and permitting to water quality limited streams and innovative subsurface wastewater reuse.

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Parsons Brinckerhoff, a transportation engineering firm, announced its new area manager for Seattle is Jared Smith, former regional transit manager for the city of Seattle. Smith succeeds Richard Page, now a principal consultant with the management consulting division of Parsons Brinckerhoff.

TT/KCM

Tony Melone, in watershed management with Tetra Tech/KCM in Seattle, has been selected to participate in a two-year agriculture and forestry leadership development program. As one of the members of the Washington Agriculture and Forestry Leadership Program, Melone will attend 16 seminars designed to enhance leadership skills and increase motivation. The seminars are jointly sponsored by institutions of higher education and agriculture and forestry-related businesses. The program is conducted under the auspicies of the Washington Agriculture and Forestry Education Foundation

Mayes Testing Engineers

Stuart Carter has been promoted to manage Mayes Testing Engineers' Special Projects Division. Carter has been with the company for over four years and is responsible for handling condition surveys, seismic upgrades and pachometer testing. Mayes' Special Projects Division has been in high demand since the Feb. 28 earthquake. The company has offices in Everett, Tacoma and Portland.