Feb 24, 2010

Herrera Environmental Consultants

Herrera Environmental Consultants has promoted to senior engineer Chase Barton, Mary Larkin, Mark Merkelbach and Jeff Parsons. It promoted to project engineer Christina Avolio, Rebecca Dugopolski, Guy Kays, Heidi Machel and Brian Scott, and promoted Tian Liang to engineer. Herrera is an employee-owned engineering and applied sciences firm based in Seattle.

Jerome W. Morrissette & Associates

Dennis Baker has joined Jerome W. Morrissette & Associates as a stockholder/owner. Baker has experience surveying short plats, large lot subdivisions, boundary line adjustments, construction staking, boundary and topographic surveys. A land surveyor since 1999, he most recently owned Geomatics. JWM&A provides municipal and private clients with civil, municipal and geotechnical engineering services.

David Evans and Associates

David Evans and Associates has promoted Tom Service to vice president of project excellence. Service was manager of DEA's Puget Sound region. He has been with the firm for 17 years.

USKH

USKH has added Hannah Pham to the Spokane office mechanical engineering staff. Pham has two years of experience at engineering firms in the region. She is a graduate of Eastern Washington University. USKH is an employee-owned design firm operating in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

Otak

Otak hired Douglas Sarkkinen as a senior structural engineer and project manager in its Vancouver office to work with the transportation infrastructure services team. Sarkkinen has nearly 25 years of experience with concrete structures and bridges. His expertise includes design, structural analysis, and forensic and expert witness evaluations. Prior to joining Otak, Sarkkinen designed and managed projects in Oregon and Washington. His work includes the South Canyon Bridge in Bend, Ore., which won the 2005 Oregon Parks Project of the Year Award. Otak is an urban design, planning and engineering firm.

INCA Engineers

INCA Engineers, a Tetra Tech company, hired Rey Hokenson as director of the new hydropower services department. It provides studies, construction and operation support, FERC licensing and permitting, and final design for projects. Hokenson has worked on hydroelectric and water resources projects for 40 years in the United States, Panama, Columbia, Brazil, Laos, Thailand, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines.

Feb 17, 2010

GeoEngineers

GeoEngineers has hired Scot McQueen as its new applied technology manager to help the firm grow its technology consulting services. McQueen will assist clients through the use of technology such as GIS, mobile and remote devices, Web sites, LiDAR and geophysical tools. McQueen joins the firm from ESRI. He has 14 years of experience with government agencies, private firms and publicly funded research institutes around the world.

Perteet

Perteet appointed Crystal Donner as CEO and Michael Yeoman as COO. Donner was previously interim president. She has 14 years with Perteet. Yeoman has been with the firm since 2002, most recently as director of applied field services overseeing the survey and construction management division. Perteet is an employee-owned local consulting firm specializing in engineering, planning and survey projects.

Art Anderson Associates

Marty McKay of Art Anderson Associates earned his license in mechanical engineering for Washington state. McKay started working for Art Anderson in 2001. He has worked with Washington State Ferries, NOAA, the Port of San Juan, the U.S. Navy and the Tacoma Fire Department. The family-owned firm has offices in Bremerton and Columbus, Ohio. Services include advanced marine research, naval architecture, engineering, transportation planning, and construction management.

Pacific Surveying & Engineering

David Galbraith has joined the ownership team of Pacific Surveying & Engineering. Galbraith has worked in civil engineering and project management for seven years. He is experienced in urban infrastructure design, low impact development, stormwater management and construction contract administration. The employee-owned civil engineering, land surveying and environmental solutions firm is based in Bellingham.

URS Portland

Mike Arneson has joined URS as a senior transportation project manager, leading business development in roadway and highway design projects. Arneson, a civil engineer with 17 years of experience in transportation, land development and water/wastewater projects, will be based in Portland. Projects he has worked on include: Medford interchanges and the Highway 62 Corridor EIS in southern Oregon. Prior to joining URS, he was a principal at a civil engineering firm and worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation.

Coffman Engineers

Coffman Engineers has hired Chad Heimbigner as a senior civil engineer. He has worked on retail, manufacturing, education, government, military, airports, commercial, health care, public welfare, entertainment, recreation, residential, assisted-living and tribal projects. Coffman has offices in Seattle and Spokane, and in California, Alaska and Hawaii.