Nov 29, 2006

CH2M Hill

CH2M Hill added Brad Shinn as the business development manager for the Northwest Transportation Puget Sound region. He is the communications/stakeholder liaison for the state Department of Transportation's Tacoma/Pierce County HOV GEC contract. Chris Royak is the new survey manager. With 20 years of experience, he will be responsible for supervising a staff of 10 surveyors as well as managing Sound Transit's Central Link Light Rail survey project, and serving as a task lead for WSDOT's Tacoma GEC project.

Rice Fergus Miller Architecture & Planning

Rice Fergus Miller Architecture & Planning has added two staff members. Project manager/designer Bob Hutchinson has more than 20 years experience in government and private projects. He will work on municipal, hospitality and community projects. Jennifer Frost, also new to the firm, recently graduated from Washington State University with a degree in interior design. She will work on hospitality and health care projects.

Poggemeyer Design Group

Poggemeyer Design Group added Todd Popelka to the civil engineering department. Popelka is a civil engineer with 12 years management and design experience in industrial, commercial retail and residential development projects. He is has worked in the Puget Sound area for seven years and served as project manager on major projects across the country.

Parametrix

Parametrix has hired Robin McManus to serve as vice president and chief information officer. She joined the firm in May, and is redesigning the computing infrastructure and core applications to improve strategic growth plans. She joins the firm's executive committee, which is responsible for the overall management of the company.

Säzän Group

Säzän Group has added a new principal to its electrical division. Kelly Anderson has 25 years of experience in electrical and communications systems design. A registered communications distribution designer, Anderson is experienced in data communications, video and voice communications and telecommunications distribution systems. He has designed and managed more than 50 school communications technology upgrade projects and is currently managing electrical projects and is designing systems for the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, the Boeing Co. and a casino expansion.

Cary Kopczynski & Co.

Cary Kopczynski & Co. has promoted Ron Mirahsani to senior associate. His primary responsibilities include structural design and project management. Mirahsani is managing the structural design of Mosler Lofts, a 16-story tower located in Seattle, and two 15-story towers in Phoenix. Mirahsani is also managing Harborside Condominiums, a 10-story building in Bremerton.

MacKay & Sposito

MacKay & Sposito added the following employees in the last few months: Christy Osborn, planning manager; Heather Ramvick, landscape designer; Lisa Town, landscape designer/graphic illustrator; Jason Wiinikka and Colin Bratton are in the M&S surveying department; Alevtina Glukhenko joined the accounting department; April Boon and Kelsey Beseda are in administrative support; Jim Sandlin, landscape architect; and Cameron McDonald, engineer in training.

Nov 22, 2006

BLRB Architects

BLRB Architects has added five designers to its staff. Steve Carter joined as a project manager with more than eight years of experience in architecture and construction. He is working on Chambers Primary School and two small works projects for University Place School District. Marv Fucal joined as an intern architect. He has six years of design and construction administration experience on residential/mixed use, commercial and educational projects. He is working on the Newport Heights Elementary School project for Bremerton School District. Michael Henry is a specifications specialist with nearly 30 years of specifications writing, drafting and project management experience. He will work on the Bremerton High School and Mountain View Middle School projects. Dave Hickman joined BLRB as a CAD drafter. He has about 15 years of experience in educational facility drafting and is working on North Thurston School District’s South Bay Elementary School. Jonah Jensen is a job captain with four years of design experience on small public projects and educational facilities, including Stadium High School in Tacoma. He is working on the Mercer Island High School project and the Park Plaza project.

Cierra Electrical Group

Ted Johnson has joined Cierra Electrical Group as project manager and Jay Tilley has joined as designer.

The Transpo Group

Eric Shimizu has joined The Transpo Group’s Kirkland office. As a senior transportation engineer, Shimizu will focus on transportation and traffic design, including roadway design, signing and channelization design, and non-motorized facilities design. He has worked on highways and local arterial systems, inspection of roadways and ferry terminals, and illumination and signal design. He has also prepared alternative analyses and traffic operational analyses.

Trindera Engineering

Trindera Engineering hired Grady Weisz as an engineer in training. Weisz is beginning his career after receiving his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Montana State University. At Montana State, he focused on micro-controller design and application, as well as power engineering. At Trindera Engineering, Weisz’s initial focus is centered on municipal projects, primarily design services for water and wastewater applications.

Moffatt & Nichol

Moffatt & Nichol, a marine and civil transportation engineering firm, recently hired Joe Scott as a senior project manager, Peggy Confer as a structural engineer and Margaret Schwertner as an environmental scientist.

Otak

Otak recently hired Yen Nguyen as an urban planner. Nguyen, who studied architecture in Paris and urban planning in Rome, has experience developing schematic plans and construction document details for the interior renovation in the Hall of Human Origins in New York’s Museum of Natural History. Otak also hired Anthony Onofrio as field survey technician.

Golder Associates

Golder Associates has four new professional engineers in the Redmond office. Marketa McGuire, Steve VanShaar, Adrianne Yang and Sara Marxen have received their P.E. license.