Dec 30, 2009
Landau Associates, an environmental and geotechnical engineering and natural resource firm, promoted several employees. In its Edmonds office,
Clint Jacob was promoted to senior associate. Jacob has been with the firm for nearly 11 years, during which he has performed environmental site investigation, remedial design and cleanup. Jacob heads Landau's bioremediation group, which focuses on in situ bioremediation and monitored natural attenuation of fuels, chlorinated solvents and metals.
Jason Long was appointed director of natural resources/permitting. He has 16 years of experience and is a registered landscape architect, as well as a certified erosion and sediment control lead.
Colette Griffith was promoted to senior staff engineer. Griffith specializes in site investigation and environmental remediation.
Christophe Venot was promoted to staff environmental scientist. Venot has experience in ecology, microbiology and environmental engineering.
Mark Brunner was promoted to senior staff environmental planner. His experience focuses on environmental site assessment and due diligence investigation, State Environmental Policy Act documentation and National Environmental Policy Act reports.
In the firm's Tacoma office Theresa Turpin was promoted to associate planner, bringing more than 20 years of expertise in environmental permitting, public facilitation, land-use planning and regulatory compliance to her role. Tom Briggs was promoted to associate engineer/geologist in the Spokane office. Briggs is the Spokane office manager and has been with Landau for more than 20 years, serving in a key role to help develop the firm's Eastern Washington business. In Colfax, Mandie McDonald was promoted to staff environmental specialist, focusing on water resource regulatory issues. Heidi Bullock was promoted to Portland office manager, as well as being named an associate. She has 14 years of experience in the environmental industry, serving in a variety of technical and management roles.
BHC Consultants, a Seattle engineering, planning and construction services consulting firm, hired certified building official
William (Willie) Hill. BHC is creating a building code and construction compliance group, which Hill will lead. This group includes complete plan check and inspection services for buildings and structures to local municipalities and agencies, as well as the military and federal government sector. The group will also provide building code, fire code, and ancillary code interpretation, consulting and administration services. Hill has more than 25 years of experience providing local building code, construction inspection, building permitting and review services. Hill has completed hundreds of plan reviews for residential commercial, and institutional projects.
Quantum Consulting Engineers, a Seattle-based structural engineering firm, hired Sandy Duran as its new marketing coordinator. Duran has more than seven years of marketing and business development experience, predominately in the architecture, engineering and construction industries. Prior to this position, Duran served as marketing coordinator for Integrus Architecture in Seattle, and CTA Architects Engineers in Boise, Idaho.
Dec 23, 2009
Otak has named
Curtis LaPierre, Tom Litster, Kevin Timmins and
Brad Bielenberg to senior associates. LaPierre, a landscape architect and planner, is based in the Kirkland office and has been with the firm for eight years. He has 24 years of experience and is a member of the firm's transportation infrastructure services team. He is working on the National Park Service Cape Cod National Seashore Bike Trail in Massachusetts and South Lander Festival Street in Seattle. Litster, an urban planner, and Timmins, a water resources engineer, are both based in the firm's corporate office in Lake Oswego, Ore. Litster has been with Otak for 17 years and his project experience includes Smart Growth planning for land use and transportation projects, as well as the development of enhanced transit service through light rail, streetcar and bus rapid transit systems. Timmins has been with the firm for a decade and has experience in water resource engineering. He played a key role in the Cedar Creek Culvert to Bridge Replacement in Sherwood, Ore, which won the 2009 Public Works Project of the Year award from the Oregon American Public Works Association. Bielenberg is a landscape architect and planner based in Otak's Tempe office. He has been with the firm for four years and has 18 years of experience as a landscape architect and urban planner. He has designed and managed an array of streetscapes, parks, residences and plazas throughout the U.S., India, Japan, Brazil and Israel. He was project manager in the downtown redevelopment plan for Florence, Ariz.
Landau Associates hired
Perry Welch as a senior ecologist in its corporate office in Edmonds. Welch is a registered professional wetland scientist and natural resource biologist with more than 20 years of experience in wetland and stream restoration, habitat assessments and environmental permitting.
Dustin Hinson, a senior fisheries biologist, was hired to work in the firm's Spokane office. Hinson has 13 years of experience in fisheries management and ecology, aquatic habitat function and assessment, and environmental impact analysis. He will work throughout the Inland Northwest.
Chris Burke joined the Edmonds office as a senior staff hydrogeologist. Burke is a recent graduate with experience in environmental site investigations.
Martin Valeri, also a recent graduate, was hired as an environmental intern technician. The firm also hired
Cathy Ridley and
Cindy Kester in the Edmonds office as marketing coordinators. Ridley has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and technical communications, and Kester has 23 years of architecture/engineering marketing and public relations.
Boxwood promoted Kristen Atchity Fritsch and Jeremy Reding to principals. Fritsch started at Boxwood in 1999 and has worked as a designer, project manager and LEED consultant. Her recent projects include the Seattle Joint Training Facility, Gibraltar's renovation of the William Tell apartments in Belltown for Hostel Seattle, Hightower Cellars on Red Mountain, and Vulcan's Veer Lofts sustainable consulting and LEED certification. She is managing Lewis Creek Park north site development. Reding has been with Boxwood for seven years as designer and project manager. His recent projects include Waters Winery in Walla Walla, Snoqualmie Valley Eye Clinic, Col Solare winery on Red Mountain, and the Wines of Substance branding and Web site design, which was recognized this year with graphic design awards from Graphic Design USA. He is overseeing construction of a monastery in Omaha, Neb.
