Jul 30, 2008

Berona Engineers

Berona Engineers of Lynnwood hired seven new employees:Rod Pascua, Leigh Ann Black, June Libao, Steven Bray, Jeff Berona, Octavio Novoa and Tiffany Aprecio. Pascua is a senior mechanical engineer and project manager with more than 22 years of experience. Pascua is working on projects for Western Washington University and the Port of Seattle. Black, Libao, Bray and Berona are CAD technicians. Novoa is a mechanical designer with more than 12 years of experience. Aprecio is a marketing coordinator. She has more than six years of experience.

MSGS Architects

Architect Garner Miller was promoted to partner at MSGS Architects. Miller is currently project manager/designer of the Heritage Court Office Building in Olympia and the Proactive Sports Medicine Building in Tumwater. His expertise includes school design. MSGS partners James Gabrielse and Gary Schoenfeldt will be retiring. Schoenfeldt will make a gradual transition into retirement, and will continue to work for clients like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Giffin Bolte Jurgens

Giffin Bolte Jurgens promoted Thane Eddington and Keith Pyeatt to associates, and hired Ishtmeet Singh as architectural application specialist and Mina Nguyen as architectural intern. Eddington has 12 years of experience and was an AIA Herman Miller Scholar in 2005. He specializes in health care design and is working on projects for Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland and Providence St. Peters Hospital in Olympia. Pyeatt's work includes commercial, industrial, mixed-use, educational, multi-family housing and health care projects. He is working on Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup. Singh will provide software training, product evaluations, consulting and technical support using AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop and Revit technology. Nguyen was a team member for the Kansas City Providence Medical Center while employed with a firm in Kansas. She is now working on projects for Multicare in Tacoma.

Pb Elemental

Pb Elemental Architecture hired Tatiana Kirova as lead architect on commercial projects and Shawn-Patrick Duffee as lead project architect on mixed-use and commercial projects. Kirova has 20 years of experience and previously worked for MulvannyG2 Architects, GGLO and Weber + Thompson. Duffee has more than 10 years of international experience. His past employers include Studio Libeskind in Berlin, Morphing Systems in Zurich and MulvannyG2.

Cary Kopczynski & Co.

Cary Kopczynski & Co. hired Shellie Simmons as design engineer. Simmons is working on the Bellevue Place Hyatt Expansion and Escala. Jason Au-Yeung and Matthew Godsey were also hired as interns.

Triad Associates

Triad Associates survey CAD Technician Bobby Johnson passed the Fundamentals of Land Surveying exam, earning the designation of Land Surveyor in Training. A second-generation surveyor, Johnson began his career nearly 20 years ago as a survey field crew member with his father's firm.

Group Four

Group Four, a Bothell-based consulting firm specializing in civil engineering, land surveying, land use planning and biological sciences, said Carolyn Prentice has completed the Certified Arborist examination administered by the International Society of Arboriculture.

Jul 23, 2008

Integrus Architecture

Integrus Architecture hired Jade Tipke as office assistant, Sarah Gilbert as project office assistant and Julie Taylor as a specifications writer in training. Tipke recently graduated from Eastern Washington University. Gilbert is working on the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, the Compton Union Building at Washington State University and U.S. embassy projects. Taylor is assisting with construction administration on Lake Washington School District’s Rachel Carson Elementary. The firm also promoted Faith Kidder to specifications writer and Krista Spilker to marketing assistant. Kidder has been with the firm since 2003, formerly as office assistant. Spilker has worked with the firm since 2006, previously as project office assistant.

Gensler

Gensler promoted Sidney L. Scarboro and Chad Yoshinobu to principals and Susana Covarrubias to senior associate. Scarboro has 24 years of experience and leads project management in Gensler’s Seattle office. Scarboro is working on projects for T-Mobile, Bank of America and David Barton Gym. A founding member of Gensler Seattle, Yoshinobu serves as design director, specializing in architecture, interiors and master planning. Yoshinobu’s past projects include Boeing, Snoqualmie City Hall and the Las Vegas Monorail. Covarrubias has more than 15 years of experience. Her clients include T-Mobile, Getty Images, Safeco and WPP Companies.

Murray, Smith & Associates

Murray, Smith & Associates promoted Tom Lindberg to principal engineer from senior engineering associate. Lindberg assumes broad project management and business development responsibilities for MSA’s Northwest Washington service area. Lindberg previously served as president of Flowater Engineering and is a water system engineering specialist.

NAC|Architecture

NAC|Architecture promoted Trish Buzan to technology director. The new position was created to establish a manager of day-to-day technology issues within the firm. Buzan joined NAC|Architecture in 1990 as a CADD operator, later becoming the firm’s CADD manager and leader of the firm’s building information modeling efforts.

Shaw

Shaw hired Dave Alford as regional vice president for the West, responsible for operations in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and California. Alford has more than 20 years of experience and specializes in profit/loss management, client and business development, acquisitions, consulting, strategic planning and personnel management. The firm also promoted Kent Kading to vice president of National Practice Program services, comprising core environmental, health and safety consulting, and engineering services. Kading has been with the firm for more than 15 years and has served as the auditing and compliance NPP leader for the past six years.