May 28, 2014

Mithun

Good

Scribante

Mithun promoted Lisa Scribante and Marcy Good to principal. Scribante has more than 20 years of experience in designing and managing corporate, hospitality and public projects, and is a project leader for high-tech clients. Good is the technology director and holds a marketing communications leadership role. She led technology and brand integration for Mithun's merger with San Francisco–based Daniel Solomon Design Partners.

Sparling

Sparling hired Berry Brunk as health care technology practice leader. Brunk will consult with owners in the acute and post-acute markets on technology, planning and integration. He has 30-plus years of experience in management consulting, business development, and sales and marketing. He has provided product development for Fortune 100 companies and technology solutions for health care organizations. Sparling provides electrical engineering, technology and audiovisual consulting, acoustical and lighting design, with offices in Washington, Oregon and California.

Unispace Global

Collins

Unispace Global hired Aimee P. Collins in Seattle as director of interior design. She has more than 15 years of experience in interior design and space planning for corporate, hospitality, multifamily and retail projects. Previous clients include BDO Seidman, T-Mobile, Barre3 and Helly Hansen. Sydney, Australia-based Unispace is a global design firm with in-house construction capabilities.

Otak

Allen

Ellis

Otak's Kirkland office hired Matthew Ellis as a civil engineer in the transportation and infrastructure design group and Darwin Allen as a CAD technician. Ellis has eight years of experience on municipal projects, and is working on projects for Snohomish County and Boeing. He was an engineer in Woodinville's public works department. Allen has more than 16 years of AutoCAD and technical support experience, primarily civil support for airport and commercial projects. Otak is an urban design, architecture, planning and engineering firm with offices in Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Abu Dhabi, UAE.

NAC|Architecture

Bishop

Paradiso

Kurtz

McFadgen

Comes

Love

NAC|Architecture promoted Keith Comes to managing principal, Melissa McFadgen and Dan Kurtz to principal, Rob Paradiso to senior associate, and Angela Bishop and Brian Love to associate. Love works in the Seattle office and the rest work in Spokane. Comes is an architect who has been with NAC for 22 years. He is working on Redmond's recreation master plan. McFadgen is an architect who is working on People's Community Center in Tacoma. Kurtz, an architect, is managing the Kootenai Health master facility plan in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Paradiso is a drafter who is working on Ferris High School's modernization and replacement. Bishop, an architect, is working on Rockwood South Hill Summit Tower in Spokane. Love is an architectural technician. His projects include Joe Redington Sr. Junior/Senior High School in Knik, Alaska. NAC|Architecture has a staff of more than 110, with offices also in Los Angeles and Denver.

GeoEngineers

GeoEngineers hired geotechnical engineers Eamaan Tabatabai and Michael Gray in Redmond and Mark Rose in Bellingham. The firm also hired Shashi Shankar as a senior environmental engineer and Caitlin Mack as the administrative coordinator, both in Seattle, and Jason Stefanski as IT director in Redmond. GeoEngineers is an earth science, engineering and technology consulting firm headquartered in Seattle with 13 offices nationwide.

May 21, 2014

Sclater Architects

Reed

Taylor

Alvarado

Kutsin

Glassman

Tehrany

Castilonia

Sclater Architects hired David Glassman and Mike Kutsin as project managers, Matt Alvarado as a job captain, Meg Taylor as a project coordinator, Steven Reed as an architect, Paul Castilonia as an accountant and Toktam Shafiei Tehrany as an intern. Glassman has 30 years of experience designing and managing commercial, retail, light-industrial and mixed-use projects. He is project manager for the office expansion at Lincoln Square in Bellevue. Kutsin has 22 years of experience with civic, mixed-use, senior living, commercial and residential projects, and is working on Lincoln Square. Alvarado has eight years of aviation and commercial experience and is providing support on the Lincoln Square garage. Taylor has seven years of experience in building repositioning and commercial interiors, and is supporting the Lincoln Square project. Reed has 17 years of experience with high-rise office, retail and mixed-use projects, and is supporting a mixed-use project. Castilonia has more than 25 years of accounting experience. Tehrany holds a master of architecture degree from Washington State University and is working on the Lincoln Square office tower. The Seattle architectural design and planning firm said it has more than doubled the size of its team in the last five years, and now has over 30 people on the design and planning staff.

IA Interior Architects

Libby

Khatibi

Ephrem

Gabay

The Seattle office of IA Interior Architects hired Al Gabay as a project architect, Ermias Ephrem, Sr. as a job captain and Ali Khatibi as a senior project manager. Laura Libby was promoted from junior to senior project designer. The San Francisco-based architectural firm focuses on interiors and workplace strategies.

EHS Design

Howard

EHS Design co-founder Mindy Howard has returned to the firm as managing principal after an eight-year hiatus. She will direct financial functions, oversee human resources, coordinate with attorneys and insurance agents, and manage the marketing staff. Howard and EHS CEO Jack Emick started the firm in 1977, as Emick Howard & Associates. They firm joined with Paul Seibert and Associates in 1992. Seattle-based EHS Design provides strategic planning, interior design and architecture.

Mayer/Reed

Fry

Shane

Mayer/Reed promoted Jeramie Shane to associate partner of the landscape architecture and urban design group, and Kathy Fry to associate partner of the visual communications and product design group. Shane joined Mayer/Reed in 1998. He is working on the Daimler North American headquarters. Fry was hired in 2008 and has 12 years of experience in signage, wayfinding, interpretive graphic design and branded spaces for museums, hospitals, libraries, office spaces, airports and universities, including Vancouver Community Library. Portland-based Mayer/Reed provides landscape architecture, urban design, visual communications and product design, with an 18-person staff.