May 28, 2008
McGranahan Architects promoted
Seong Shin and
Michael Slater to principals. Slater's projects include a new academic building for Saint Martin's University in Lacey, the Cascade Building renovation for Pierce College Fort Steilacoom and the mixed-use Washington Market Building in Sumner. He is also serving as campus architect for Highline Community College and overseeing projects for Pierce College. Shin leads the firm's interior design services. She is working on Investco Financial Corp. headquarters in the Washington Market Building, the Tacoma headquarters of PCS Structural Solutions in Pacific Plaza and Lake Washington High School in Kirkland.
Schacht Aslani Architects hired architect
Kirt Neal and job captain
Samantha Beadel. Neal has 20 years of experience and specializes in K-12 and public facility projects in the Puget Sound region. Neal will serve as project manager on projects for North Seattle Community College, including the new Integrated Resource Center. Beadel has six years of experience with a concentration in residential design. She is working on the Edison North renovation for Seattle Central Community College.
Hopper Dennis Jellison Engineers, Planners and Landscape Architects has added land surveying services and hired
Terry L. Goodman to direct the new land surveying section. Goodman has 30 years of experience as a professional land surveyor. Twenty-three of these years were spent in the Pacific Northwest and 20 years were spent running his own companies.
WestSound Engineering hired
Maher Abed as a director of engineering in its Port Orchard office. Until recently, Abed was the public works director/city engineer for Port Orchard. He is a licensed civil engineer with 26 years of experience working for Puget Sound city governments and for WSDOT. As part of his duties, he will be marketing the firm's services to assist local governments.
EHS Design hired
Leah Hall as a general manager. She will work with senior management to provide executive-level oversight for daily operations. Hall has 20 years of management and operations experience in the advertising world, including five years at the Evans Group and 10 as general manager of the advertising agency Mogelgaard & Associates. Hall has served as executive director of The Seattle Show for the past five years.
Sparling hired
Alisa Parks as a marketing specialist. Parks is a marketing professional with more than 10 years in the local A/E/C industry and is a former board member for the Society of Marketing Professional Services. Her responsibilities will include the production of qualification packages and marketing collateral, database oversight, coordination of client presentations and special projects for the firm.
Environmental planning, design and construction services firm Brown and Caldwell hired five employees in its Seattle office.
Ellen Watson was hired as Washington Environmental Practice Leader. She has 30 years of experience in strategic environmental planning, regulatory compliance, community outreach, water resource management and hazardous waste management.
David McCleary was hired as a managing structural engineer. McCleary has more than 27 years of experience designing water and wastewater treatment plants, industrial and manufacturing facilities and commercial buildings. As principal structural engineer,
Larry Ramey draws on 33 years of experience on industrial, commercial, and municipal projects.
Rudy Jimenez was hired as a senior designer in the CADD group, after spending 10 years providing drafting services to a geophysical surveying company in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sharonne Park was hired as a project scientist and project coordinator.
May 21, 2008
Coffman Engineers hired
Diem Nguyen as an electrical engineer in its Seattle office. Nguyen has experience designing commercial lighting, power plans, parking lot lighting, and panel schedules for new construction and remodels. She most recently worked on projects for Costco. The firm also hired
Monica Mendez as an electrical designer. Mendez has worked on power and lighting systems for schools, retail and military projects. She most recently designed several telecom sites. The firm also hired
Dedrie Harper as human resources administrative assistant. She has two years of experience.
Freiheit & Ho Architects promoted
Franklin Wing Hol Ng to associate principal. Ng joined the firm in 1997 and has worked on a variety of projects, from office buildings and fast food restaurants to managing the firm’s Safeway account. His recent projects include 1200 Bellevue Way Townhomes in Bellevue and Vista Park Condominiums in Issaquah.
Magnusson Klemencic Associates promoted three employees to senior associates and three to associates. Rob Chmielowski, David Fields and Paul Larson were promoted to senior associates. Robert Baxter, Michael Rehder and Joe Taflin were promoted to associates.
WATG hired
Michael Brown as senior planner in its Seattle office. Brown has more than 20 years of experience in resort and residential planning and design. Prior to joining WATG, Brown was director of landscape architecture at Johnson Braund Design Group, where he worked primarily with Marriott International. He also designed the Macadam Winter Garden park in Tukwila, which recently won the Washington Recreation & Park Association’s 2008 Best Park of the Year award.
SRG Partnership hired
Chris Colley and
Jamie Watson as intern architects. Colley will work on the Student Health & Fitness Center at Everett Community College. Watson will work on the Linfield College Northup Hall renovation in McMinnville, Ore. SRG also hired
Jacqueline Bos as graphic designer.
IA Interior Architects hired Gina Bryan as contract manager in its Seattle office. Bryan joins IA from STDR Architects in Costa Mesa, Calif., where she was a project/marketing coordinator. She has more than 10 years of experience working with architects, engineers and general contractors on commercial and industrial projects. IA Interior Architects also hired Josh Khanna as project manager in its Seattle office. Khanna has more than 13 years of experience in corporate, financial and entertainment design. She joins IA from Wolcott Architecture | Interiors in Los Angeles, where she served as project manager.
MGH Associates, a land planning and civil engineering firm, promoted Maria Cahill to sustainability technical advisor. She was previously a project manager. She will help ensure the firm is meeting targets for green design service delivery, lead the refinement and development of MGH’s green design tools, and provide client and community outreach to support the firm’s sustainability initiatives.
