May 30, 2007
Parametrix hired
Randy Tuminello as the director of marketing and business development. Tuminello brings over 25 years of experience and spent 14 years as the founder and managing partner of TrustBuilders International, a management consulting company.
Aspect Consulting added three staff members to its Seattle location.
Mike Nelson is a remediation engineer.
Dave Rugh is a hydrogeologist.
Schuyler Johnston is a staff geologist. Nelson is working on the Gates Foundation headquarters, the Barbee Mills site on Lake Washington and the SAM Sculpture Park. Rugh has been working on Swale Creek and the Sound Transit University Link Light Rail project. Johnston is working on the Sound Transit University Link Light Rail tunnels. Aspect has offices in Seattle and Bainbridge Island.
The Seattle branch of BWR has added eight new staff to its engineering, planning and architectural team.
Gary Phillips is transportation engineering team leader. Phillips has 28 years experience in planning, design and construction of transportation-related facilities.
Norene Pen is lead project engineer with 12 years experience in transportation and traffic operational engineering.
Tracy Gill is a senior design engineer. Gill has 30 years civil engineering experience and has worked on transportation engineering, municipal engineering and hazardous materials.
Kelly Slusarski joins the airport planning team. He has 10 years experience in airport planning and consulting, revenue management analysis, air cargo, airline pricing, strategic outlook analysis and corporate sales.
Heekyong Kang and
Brian Larmore are recent civil engineering graduates of Seattle University and are staff engineers. Both were student interns with BWR Seattle.
Chris Puma is a graduate engineer.
Juliet Fortney is an administrative assistant.
CollinsWoerman promoted
Helen Brown to principal. Brown was director of the interior design team where she led projects like Bellevue’s Washington Square and Ashwood Commons, and oversaw several projects on Microsoft’s Redmond campus. Brown is a third generation architect.
Johnston Architects promoted three employees.
Sally Roth was named an associate and
Alison Walker Brems and
Todd Smith were made principals. Roth, a LEED accredited architect, is project manager for two mid-rise condominiums in downtown Tacoma and three mixed-use River Park buildings in Redmond. Walker Brems is project architect for the Ballard Lofts as well as for an 18-unit low-income housing complex in the Jackson Place neighborhood of South Seattle. Smith is the youngest principal architect at Johnston Architects at the age of 28 and is project architect for the 1100 Alki mid-rise condominium in Seattle.
Landau Associates’s Edmonds office hired
Erfan Nezami as senior staff engineer for the Geotechnical Group and
Laura Ellis as production/file coordinator. Erfan recently completed a doctorate degree in geotechnical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is providing geotechnical engineering services for the city of Gig Harbor, The Overlake School and Puget Western. Ellis has a background in customer service.
SvR Design Co. hired
Phil Miller as planner and
Sakaru Tsuchiya as civil designer. Miller has 20 years experience in bicycle and pedestrian planning, regional trail design and transit access. He is working with the city of Seattle on the Bicycle Master Plan and has worked on the Puget Sound Regional Council’s BNSF Rail Corridor Study and the city of Maple Valley’s Non-Motorized Transportation Plan. Tsuchiya has 20 years of experience in site development and utility system design. He is working on the Burke-Gilman Trail and various sidewalk improvement projects. Tsuchiya comes to Seattle from Tokyo, Japan, where he served as chief engineer for Kyosei Corp.
One Earth One Design, an interior design firm and sustainable lifestyle store in Seattle, has added
Erin Longmoon to its design team as senior interior designer for the commercial and hospitality sectors. Longmoon worked for Sechrist Design Associates and was the owner of Mesh Design Studio for three years.
Zipper Zeman Associates hired Timothy D. Hunnting as senior engineer. He has 20 years experience and has performed environmental site assessments, sound and groundwater remediation and hazardous waste cleanup projects.
The Seattle office of design firm NBBJ named four new principals: Phil Duff, John Hendry, Duane Jonlin and Margaret Montgomery. Duff joined NBBJ in 1999 and has worked on the University of Washington Medical Center and Harrison Hospital in Bremerton. He is working on a site and facility master plan for Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. Hendry is a registered architect in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, who joined NBBJ’s London office in 2003 to work on the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute’s Research Campus in Cambridgeshire, England. He is heading up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters project. Jonlin has 20 years experience in technical design, regulatory issues and sustainable technology. He has been with NBBJ since 1997 and is a lead technical architect. Montgomery has been with NBBJ for 17 years and is an advocate of green design. She is working on the Gates Foundation headquarters.
