Jul 21, 2004

MLA Engineering

Stouppe

Andrew Stouppe joined MLA Engineering as an associate. Stouppe has more than 20 years experience as a structural engineer, including senior technical and management positions. He is a structural engineer and has worked on a number of high profile architectural projects. Stouppe received his B.S. and M.S. from Purdue University.

Crandall Arambula

Ames

Debra Ames, marketing director for Crandall Arambula, was promoted to principal. Ames is responsible for marketing, business development and public relations. Ames is also president-elect of the Portland chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services.

Crandall Arambula is a national urban design firm that integrates urban design, planning, architecture and economics to create redevelopment strategies for cities. The firm received two American Institute of Architects awards in the past four years, including a national honor award for regional and urban design in downtown Racine, Wis., and for a revitalization strategy in Portland.

Skillings-Connolly

Bergquist	O'Leary	Ewing
Maibauer	Matthews	Edwards

Skillings-Connolly, an 80-person engineering, environmental and surveying firm, added six to its staff.

Bob Bergquist is environmental division manager and has more than 14 years' experience on permitting, design consultation, construction monitoring and the Endangered Species Act. He also teaches graduate level engineering, project management and marketing at St. Martin's College in Lacey.

Meg O'Leary joined as manager of public involvement. O'Leary brings over six years' experience in public involvement, project management and urban planning. She is versed in multiple aspects of architecture, transportation planning, environmental impact issues, and radio and video production. She produces project newsletters, presentation materials and reports, and has experience with community involvement and event planning for a variety of diverse, multi-jurisdictional communities.

Bryan J. Ewing is project manager. He brings 20 years' of civil engineering and construction experience. He has worked with private developers and municipalities on water and transportation projects, and is versed in estimating, contract administration, design, project scheduling and environmental permitting.

William H. Maibauer is a staff engineer, and will focus on water and wastewater projects. He brings 20 years experience in water system design, comprehensive plans, wastewater treatment systems and permitting.

Brian K. Matthews rejoins as a project manager, with 10 years experience in water, stormwater and sanitary sewer design. He served as a field engineer during construction of Seattle Metro's West Point Treatment and Yelm's 100 percent water reuse facility, and has worked as a design engineer for the Department of Natural Resources and the city of Sumner.

Rynea Edwards is survey technician. She brings 10 years experience executing drawings for utility, road, sanitary sewer, stormwater and water system designs. She has land survey expertise and is fluent in AutoCAD.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson added intern architect Kyle Zerbey and marketing coordinator Hillary Clause to its Seattle office. Zerbey recently received his bachelor of architecture from Oklahoma State University School of Architecture. Clause worked with TCA Architecture Planning in Seattle and Clause Architects in Des Moines.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson's Seattle projects include Seattle City Hall, libraries and two buildings at the University of Washington. The company also has offices in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Wilkes-Barre, Penn.

Jul 14, 2004

HDR

Posthumus

The architecture and engineering consulting firm HDR hired David Posthumus as Northwest region controller. He will be based in the Bellevue office and cover the five-state northwest region. Posthumus, an accountant with 20 years of experience, was a division controller for Ionics RRC. HDR employs 350 people in the Northwest and has 90 locations worldwide.

DCI Engineers

Swanson

Gokey

Slay

DCI Engineers, civil and structural consulting engineers, added Kristopher Swanson, Jacob Gokey and Vern Slay to its Bellevue office. Swanson is a structural project engineer working on the 7,000-square-foot boardwalk in Blaine.

Gokey recently graduated from Washington State University with a civil engineering degree. As a structural project engineer he will review structural drawings, and provide details for buildings and materials. Gokey is working on a mixed-use, 66,080-square-foot building at 45th and Bagley.

Slay is a CAD designer in DCI's structural division. He will manage projects, maintain communication with project managers and staff engineers, and check adherence to drafting standards, consistency and coordination. DCI employs more than 90 engineering, technical and administrative staff in offices in Bellevue, Spokane, Everett, Portland and San Diego.

Hart Crowser

Hart Crowser added geotechnical engineers Armin Stuedlein, Alison Armstrong, Matt Gibson and Ben Upsall to the Seattle office. They will work on the Sea-Tac Third Runway, Bellevue Square expansion and the seawall for the Seattle Art Museum Sculpture Park. Field engineer Jeff Ross is assisting with the new Washington Mutual Tower. Geologists Bruce McDonald and Ben Stanton are conducting fieldwork for a stormwater microtunneling project at Sea-Tac Airport.

Hart Crowser is an environmental and engineering consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, with offices in Edmonds, Portland, Anchorage, Denver and Cherry Hill, N.J.