Aug 17, 2011

BergerABAM

Dallara

Devery

BergerABAM promoted Dennis Dallara to chief financial officer and treasurer, and Helen Devery to vice president. Dallara, previously controller and treasurer, has been with the firm for more than 10 years. Devery will continue to oversee the Vancouver office, which specializes in land use, environmental planning and public involvement. She has been with the company for 18 years. BergerABAM provides program management, civil and structural engineering, land use planning, natural resources, public involvement, construction management and support, and dive services.

Inventrix Engineering

Strobridge

Inventrix Engineering promoted Patrick Strobridge to associate principal. He was the firm's first employee and has more than 10 years of design experience, including schools, laboratories, hospitals, security/detention, civic, telecommunications, and office space. He will be plumbing design lead and project management lead for detention/corrections projects. Inventrix is a mechanical engineering firm.

Ben C. Gerwick

Ben C. Gerwick, an Oakland, Calif.-based civil and structural consulting firm, hired Paul Guenther to manage its Seattle office. He will provide business development, project management and technical delivery/oversight in the Northwest and Alaska. He was senior project manager/engineer with CH2M Hill in Bellevue. During his 23-year career, he has been a structural design engineer and project manager, focusing on bridges and port facilities. Gerwick designs major marine structures and bridges.

Perteet

Perteet hired Dan Mathias as utility manager and Dave Alm as senior traffic engineer for its transportation design group, and Rick McMahan as construction manager and Arlene Prieto as assistant construction manager. Mathias is based in Everett, and the others in Seattle. Mathias has 30 years of experience in utility management and was a regional engineer at Washington State Department of Health. Alm has 35 years of experience in traffic engineering, including in traffic operations and safety, and intelligent transportation systems. Perteet provides civil and transportation engineering services.

Aug 10, 2011

HDJ Design Group

Gifford

Kowatsch

HDJ Design Group hired Peter H. Kowatsch as the new Pasco branch manager and land surveyor, and re-hired Larry Gifford to provide traffic engineering assistance in the Vancouver office. Kowatsch has more than 30 years of surveying experience, including 13 as branch manager for a Wenatchee firm and nine as survey manager of a Tri-Cities firm. He has taken private development plans from conception to final plat and worked with public agencies on filing final plats. Gifford has more than 34 years experience at WSDOT in the Southwest region. He left HDJ in 2007 but worked part-time on interchange projects for WSDOT. While at HDJ, he did illumination design, traffic impact analysis, signal design and corridor operation studies. HDJ provides engineering, planning, landscape architecture and surveying.

ColumbiaGrid

ColumbiaGrid hired Allen Burns as president and CEO beginning Sept. 5. He takes over from the firm's first CEO, E. Jon Kaake, who is retiring. Burns is an electrical engineer with more than 30 years in the electric power industry and a background in high-voltage transmission operations and management, power marketing and trading, industry restructuring and utility management. He is a former executive with the Bonneville Power Administration and consultant on electric power matters in the Pacific Northwest.

Enginuity Systems

Tupper

Enginuity Systems hired Karissa Tupper as a mechanical engineering CAD/design technician. Tupper is a graduate of Clover Park Technical College building architecture/engineering design technology program. She is working on the seismic upgrade and interior renovation of Building 2 for the Department of Veterans Affairs at American Lake. Enginuity is a Tacoma-based mechanical engineering firm.