Apr 23, 2003

Roth Hill Engineering Partners

Dawn Gonzales has joined Roth Hill Engineering Partners as a services assistant, responsible for engineering project administration and support. In addition, she will be assisting the firm in the accounts payable department.

Dejan Andjelkovic has joined Roth Hill as an E.I.T. designer, focusing on engineering support for a variety of municipal utility projects.

The Bellevue-based consulting civil engineering firm provides engineering and design, land surveying, government affairs, planning and construction administration services.

Otak

Joe Simmler recently joined Otak as senior project manager and water resource marketing manager in the firm’s Kirkland office. Simmler has 28 years of experience in water resource management, including 12 years in the public sector and more than 16 years as a consultant to municipal agencies. Simmler has been assisting cities and counties in planning, funding and compliance with various local, state, and federal stormwater requirements. He is currently working on comprehensive stormwater management plans for the Port of Bremerton, and the cities of Fife and Marysville, and regional stormwater management plans for Yakima County, and the cities of Yakima and Union Gap.

Courtney McFadden has recently been promoted to Puget Sound marketing supervisor at Otak’s Kirkland office. McFadden has been with Otak for seven years and will supervise marketing activities and staff. She has led marketing efforts for projects including the South Tacoma Commuter Rail Station for Sound Transit; the Station Camp Commemorative Park and Interpretive Center in Chinook; and the Georgia Pedestrian Facilities Handbook.

Diane Levy recently joined Otak as marketing specialist at the Kirkland office.

Shannon & Wilson

Jeri-Beth Bowman, corporate human resources manager for Shannon & Wilson, was recently elected president of the 2003 Business Advisory Council for Washington Vocational Services' Projects with Industry. WVS is a non-profit organization whose mission is providing job placement services to individuals with disabilities.

Land Surveyors’ Association

The Land Surveyors’ Association of Washington named R. William Glassey Surveyor of the Year at the recent annual conference.

Glassey is a licensed professional surveyor in Washington and Colorado. He has served on the LSAW Executive Committee since 1995 and chaired its Speakers Bureau, Public Relations and Redefinition of Surveying Liaison Committees.

LSAW represents more than 1,000 professional surveyors and associates in 12 chapters located throughout Washington.

LSAW also announced the installation of Gary M. Gervelis as 2003 state president. Gervelis is land survey manager for the city of Seattle.

Candela

Candela, architectural lighting consultants, promoted Mary Claire Frazier to firm principal. With 18 years experience as a lighting consultant, designer and instructor, and degrees in architecture and psychology, Frazier will join Candela principal Denise Fong in managing and marketing the firm.

Frazier's expertise includes museum, commercial office, hospitality, educational, and library projects. Since joining Candela in 1996, she has developed designs for projects such as Experience Music Project and the Auburn and Issaquah libraries. Frazier's current projects include Seattle Public Library's Ballard, Rainier Beach and Beacon Hill branches, and the University of Washington's Bioengineering and Genomic Sciences Buildings.

Apr 16, 2003

Helix Architecture

NewsBriefs:Helix Architecture announced several recent additions. Jaime E. Sanchez has 12 years experience in the design of schools, office, and retail facilities since graduating from Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. He is currently assigned to Helix’ military projects at Fort Lewis and Portland Air National Guard, Oregon.

Paul E. Clark has 10 years experience in design/documents production for industrial and commercial projects. His current assignments include Port of Tacoma’s Pierce County Terminal and seismic repairs of multiple buildings at Western State Hospital in Lakewood.

Helix Architecture is a Tacoma-based firm with a staff of 20, offering architecture, planning, interior design and construction administration.

Parametrix

Steve Aisaka, senior structural engineer, recently joined Parametrix. Aisaka will be responsible for project execution and business development.

Aisaka has 23 years of project management and design experience, with emphasis on the design of bridges and other transportation-related projects, including rapid transit, aviation, rail, port facilities and tunneling projects.

His recent experience includes reconstruction of the Northeast Eighth Street interchange in Bellevue. Current projects include work for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities on the Glenn/Parks interchange project, as well as the statewide Programmatic EIS for replacement of failing bridges for the Oregon Department of Transportation.

George Suyama Architect

Jay Deguchi recently joined George Suyama Architects as a new partner. Deguchi has 15 years of architectural experience. After 30 years as George Suyama Architects, the firm's new name is Suyama Peterson Deguchi. Their address is 2324 Second Ave.

HDR

HDR recently hired Dan Olson, a professional engineer, as a senior project manager in its Bellevue office. Olson has 25 years of experience in public and private sector leadership, project management and construction management. He is certified as a project management professional.

Prior to joining HDR, Olson was general manager of the Northshore Utility District in north King County, providing potable water and sanitary sewer service for 65,000 people and businesses in north King County. He also held leadership positions with Seattle Public Utilities and the Seattle Water Department for 15 years as he managed the Construction Management, Specifications and Contracts, Real Property and Survey groups. Dan began his career as a project manager with PBA Consulting Engineers.

NBBJ

NBBJ recently named senior associates Kelly Coller, Kay Compton, Karen Dahlstrom, Scott Dunlap, Duncan Griffin, Gary Harris, Tom Henry, Wayne Hiranaka, Robert Leykam, Margaret Montgomery, Laurel Rech, Robert Smith, Duncan Thieme, Carl Tully, Tim Weyand, and Noel Whorton. New associates are Laurie Bert, Marnie Boomer, Jim A. Brennan, Billy Chen, Phil Duff, Ed Fajardo, Holger Fritsch, Dana Hollingshead, Keith Hui, Midge Hunnicutt, Duane Jonlin, Ross Leventhal, Marcus Lintault, Barney Mansavage, Andrew McCune, Gregory Menikoff, Yachun Peng, Jan Ralkowski, Scott Roaf, Claudia Ross, Tara Schneider, Leslie Synnestvedt, Lisa Tomich, and Natasha Turcinovic.

Cierra Associates

Stevan English has joined Cierra Associates, a Seattle electrical engineering firm, as a project manager. He has 33 years experience with electrical design, consulting and engineering for health care, high tech office, educational and Department of Defense facilities. English has managed electrical design for 10 million square feet of health care facilities for organizations such as Swedish Medical Center, Providence Hospital and Medical Center, Stanford Hospital and Kaiser Permanente. He recently managed the electrical design for MDS Pharma Services’ laboratory relocation in Bothell.

Elmo Acacio has been promoted to associate. He has 14 years of experience and joined Cierra two years ago as project manager. His responsibilities have focused on civic buildings such as the High Point Community Center Expansion, and medical facilities including numerous projects with Overlake Hospital Medical Center, Valley Medical Center and Providence Centralia Hospital.

Jon Gordon was promoted to senior designer. He has five years of CADD drafting and design experience, and has worked at Cierra since 1998. Gordon has a degree from Western Washington University in industrial technology. His projects include the Overlake Hospital Medical Center Outpatient Surgery Remodel, and Quest Diagnostics at Valley Medical Center.

Alan Tubis has joined the firm as a CADD drafter. He has three years of professional experience.