Sep 02, 2009
Architect
Alissa Rupp was promoted to principal of The Portico Group. She has been with the Seattle firm 11 years. Her recent work includes overseeing replacement of the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center at Pearl Harbor, and leading exhibit design for the Hands On Children's Museum in Olympia.
Jim Gladson is a new senior project manager in the public involvement division of the Vancouver office of Berger ABAM, an engineering, planning and construction management consulting firm. He previously worked as a public information and outreach manager for Clark County Public Works, and did community outreach and relations for the city of Portland. He is working to expand the public involvement division in Southwest Washington, Portland and the Puget Sound area.
Mahlum's Seattle office has two new associate principals: architects
Mitch Kent and
Todd Olson. Kent, who has worked for the firm for nearly 13 years, was project manager for Franklin Elementary, Rosa Parks Elementary and the new Finn Hill Junior High, all in the Lake Washington district, and the new Issaquah High School. He is managing the new math and science building for Crista Ministries' King Schools, and has worked on biotechnology projects, including a remodel for Seattle Life Sciences, new corporate headquarters for Corixa, and buildings for Orca BioSciences, Lucidas Information and the Hope Heart Institute. In Olson's 16 years with Mahlum he has focused on health care. He is project manager for the new Norton Sound Regional Hospital, which will be the largest building in Nome, Alaska, serving 15 villages, as well as the new Enumclaw regional hospital. He has managed eight projects for Valley Medical Center in Renton, four for the University of Washington and four for Mount Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka, Alaska.
Aug 26, 2009
The environmental planning, design and construction services firm Brown and Caldwell hired four new staff members in the Seattle office.
Debbie Jung is a senior structural engineer who also manages construction projects. Mechanical engineer
Eron Jacobson specializes in clean and alternative energy systems.
Michelle Lynch is a project biller, and
Breanne Holle is an administrative assistant.
Thomas Keown was named senior management consultant for RoseWater GHD Asset Management Group in Seattle. His background is in civil engineering, potable and sanitary engineering, hydraulic modeling and asset management. Previously, he was responsible for day-to-day engineering and operations functions for the Highline Water District in Kent, where he implemented the district's first asset management plan.
