Mar 19, 2008
Ralph Martin joined Baylis Architects as project architect. Martin has more than 20 years of design experience in corporate headquarters, high rise and mixed-use projects. He is currently working on the Stone Way Village mixed-use project. Baylis also hired
Chris Jimenez. Jimenez comes from the Landry Design Group in Los Angeles, where he worked on custom high-end residential projects. He is working on several high-end residential projects on the Eastside. Baylis also promoted
Sherry Silva to office manager. Silva has more than 20 years of experience in the A/E industry and has 15 years of management experience. She has worked for Baylis for one year.
EHS Design hired two new employees:
Rod Hammer as project manager and
Jean Brendecke as a marketing assistant. Hammer has 26 years of experience, and will work on strategic master planning for the city of Seattle. He returns to EHS Design after spending 10 years in New York working on interior design and project management for FXFOWLE Architects and Hillier Architecture. His work there included projects for Lincoln Center, the Bronx Zoo, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Merrill Lynch. Brendecke previously worked at Gresham and Beach Architects in Arizona and Garry Struthers Associates in Bellevue, and was most recently the house manager and volunteer coordinator at the Kirkland Performance Center.
The Driftmier Architects of Redmond hired
Lee Driftmier as an intern architect. Driftmier is a recent graduate of Yale University and is working on the Lake Whatcom Water and Sewer District headquarters and the Snohomish County PUD Credit Union. He is the son of president and principal
Rick Driftmier.
BHC Consultants hired
Jordan Zier as a staff engineer. Zier is a registered engineer-in-training and is providing engineering support on projects for the Southwest Suburban Sewer District and the city of Snohomish.
Johnson Braund Design Group hired
Heather Banks in its hospitality studio. Banks is an interior designer and her work includes corporate, health care, education, recreational, religion and hospitality projects.
Electrical engineering firm Lane Coburn & Associates promoted
Nick Alexander to an associate in its Woodinville office. Alexander is a senior electrical designer with 3-D expertise, and has more than 14 years of experience. LCA also retained
Don Pontsler as a part-time consulting engineer. Pontsler is a utility expert with more than 30 years of experience working at Tacoma Power and Light and Puget Sound Energy.
Theresa Lane was hired as office manager. Lane takes care of the books and scheduling, and provides assistance on engineering projects.
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol hired
Bernie Alonzo as an associate. Alonzo has more than 10 years of experience as a landscape architect, designer and project manager. Alonzo is working on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. GGN also hired
Shantell Hatfield as administrative assistant. GGN also promoted
Grant Stewart to principal. Stewart joined GGN in 2006 and is project manager for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Mar 12, 2008
Otak hired five people in Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, and another 10 in the firm’s Abu Dhabi office. In Seattle, Otak added senior project manager and landscape architect
Keith Bates. Bates has experience designing zoos and botanical gardens. Bates’ past local projects include the Hanford Reach National Monument heritage and visitor center in Richland, the Nikkei WWII Exclusion Memorial on Bainbridge Island and the UIAT NW Native Canoe Center in Seattle. Otak’s Carbondale, Colo., office hired senior project manager
Gary Long. Long joins Otak after more than 30 years with the Bureau of Land Management. He has experience in wilderness management and visual resource management, as well as historic trails management and environmental analysis. In Tempe, Ariz., Otak hired landscape architect
Tiffany Halperin. Halperin’s past projects include the Omni Tucson National Resort and the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale. Otak’s Manzanita office added
Will Lawrence as survey technician. Lawrence has led survey crews and was part of the management team responsible for creating a forest-management model for more than 15 million acres in Southeast Alaska. The Yakima office hired
Erik Pruneda. Pruneda’s areas of study included hydrology and hydraulics, and he worked with Whatcom County to obtain stream flow measurements, conduct research and develop a groundwater computer model.
KPFF hired
Mike Anderson as director of marine transit. Anderson has 34 years of experience in marine transportation, most recently as chief executive officer of Washington State Ferries. His experience in maritime operations includes vessel procurement and maintenance, waterfront and upland facilities and management of operations of one of the largest ferry systems in the world.
Berger/ABAM Engineers promoted
Helen Devery to Vancouver office branch manager. Devery has been with the company for more than 14 years and previously was planning manager. The firm also promoted
John D. White to regional client development director for the Vancouver office. White founded The JD White Co. in 1976, 30 years before its 2006 acquisition by Berger/ABAM, when he became vice president and branch manager.
NAC|Architecture hired
Melissa McFadgen as a senior associate. McFadgen returns to the firm after working for an area architectural firm for the past year. Her past projects include the Spokane Falls Community College sn-w’ey’-mn Building, Washington State University Academic Center in Spokane and Mountainside Middle School in the Mead School District. She is working on a new dormitory at Whitworth University and a building at Spokane Falls Community College. McFadgen is president-elect of the AIA Spokane Chapter.
FSI Architects hired
Terry LeDesky as senior project architect. LeDesky has more than 20 years of experience, including 16 years as principal architect of his own firm in Oak Harbor. His past work includes master planning, commercial, health care, and church design, and adaptive reuse of historic structures. He is also chapter president of the Northwest Washington American Institute of Architects and was involved in development of North Whidbey Skate Park. FSI Architects is a division of Fisher Companies in Burlington.
