Sep 25, 2019

Toole Design

Daleo

Zdeb

Widstrand

In Seattle, Toole Design hired Eric Widstrand as Northwest regional traffic engineering director. In Portland, it promoted Jessica Zdeb to the Portland office director and hired Sharon Daleo as director of engineering for Portland. Widstrand has over 25 years of experience in traffic engineering in the public and private sectors. He was the city traffic engineer for the city of Seattle and Long Beach, California. Zdeb has nearly a decade experience planning for walking and bicycling at scales ranging from corridor to campus to region. Daleo brings 20 years of experience to conceptual designs of multimodal facilities, including active transportation networks and facilities, bus transit and bikeways in urban arterial environments, and trails/paths/greenways. Toole Design is a national firm focused on planning and engineering for active transportation.

HNTB Corp.

Woodward

Darold Woodward joined HNTB Corp. as electrical department manager based in the Bellevue office. Woodward coordinates project priorities and staffing assignments, does technical coaching and mentoring, and meets clients' electrical consulting needs on infrastructure projects. He has over 25 years of electrical engineering experience, including work in control and electrical system design for transportation, water, wastewater and energy facilities. He has managed projects, led electrical technical teams, and directed detailed design of electrical and control systems. He was a senior electrical engineer for another consulting firm. HNTB is an infrastructure firm.

Hart Crowser

Klee

Nguyen

Simbeck

Woodhouse

In Portland Hart Crowser hired Kevin Woodhouse as a geologist. In Honolulu, the firm promoted Simone Simbeck to associate and hired Anthony Nguyen as a staff engineer and Mikki Klee as a project engineer. Woodhouse will be Hart Crowser's Portland health and safety officer. His 13 years of experience includes in-situ treatment and remedial excavation environmental cleanup projects. He has worked on projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Navy, including remediation at Navy bases in San Francisco to facilitate redevelopment of closed bases. He has also supported clients with stormwater pollution prevention plan development and compliance inspection.

Simbeck is an environmental scientist who has been with the firm for 1.5 years and has 13 years of experience in environmental assessment, stormwater management, environmental sampling design, dredge management and regulatory compliance. She has contributed to projects in the Hawaiian Islands, contiguous United States, New Zealand and New Caledonia. Nguyen has a bachelor's in chemical engineering from Stanford University. He will work on stormwater and environmental compliance projects. Klee has eight years of experience. She was with the county of Maui Public Works, Design Division, where she managed multimillion-dollar capital improvement program projects and federal aid projects involving stormwater, roadway, drainage system and flood control. She has six years of experience in National Pollution Discharge Elimination System compliance. Hart Crowser is an engineering, science and consulting firm headquartered in Seattle.

SH Architecture

Panars

SH Architecture promoted architect Dennis Panars to partner. Panars joined the firm in 2012 and has been integral to the growth of its higher education, health science and medical portfolios. Projects he has led include the Boulder City Hospital expansion, the College of Southern Nevada Health & Sciences Building and remodels at North Vista Hospital in Las Vegas where he is based. He also heads up college development projects in Seattle, where SH also has an office.

Parametrix

Moore

Craig Moore joined Parametrix as a senior construction manager in the Puyallup office. Moore was with Jacobs. He has 19 years of experience providing construction management for transportation, light rail, stream and habitat restoration, drinking water, wastewater, and aviation infrastructure projects. That includes the SR 520 bridge replacement project. Parametrix provides engineering, planning and environmental sciences.

Sep 18, 2019

Elliott Bay Design Group

King

The Elliott Bay Design Group board of directors appointed Brian King as president-chief engineer. King is a mechanical engineer, naval architect and marine engineer. He will supervise the company's business and affairs, and advance its major strategic objectives while leading the team on planning, business management, engineering, personnel development and sales. King was hired in 1988 and has developed engineering standards, led recruitment and training efforts, managed engineering and technical resources and developed the quality assurance program. He will continue to do project development and client management. EBDG provides naval architecture, marine engineering and production support services, with offices in Seattle, New Orleans, New York and Ketchikan, Alaska.

HNTB Corp.

Demuth

HNTB Corp. hired Kimberly Demuth as environmental department manager and associate vice president in its Bellevue office. Demuth has over 35 years of experience in environmental permitting and compliance, historic preservation, visual resource management, cultural resource management and project management. Based in the Seattle area for over 20 years, she has national experience managing transportation, transit and rail projects. She has done work for Sound Transit and the California High Speed Rail Authority, and in the power, oil and gas, utilities, mining, renewables and private development fields. Most recently, she was environmental market director for another consulting firm. HNTB is an infrastructure firm.

DLR Group

Perez

Yancy

DLR Group hired Shelly Engels Yancy (interiors) and Christopher Perez (architecture) in its Seattle office. The global integrated design firm provides architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization.

Hart Crowser

Ferencz

Kaparos

Pascua

Keppler

Exley

Higgins

Nakahara

Bradshaw

In Seattle, Hart Crowser promoted Brice Exley to senior associate and Joni Keppler and Ernest Pascua to associate. The firm also hired Andrew Kaparos as an associate environmental engineer, Margot Ferencz as a geotechnical engineer, Maggie Bradshaw as an environmental scientist and Andrew Nakahara and Jolie Higgins as environmental engineers.

Exley is a geotechnical engineer hired eight years ago. He is project manager for geotechnical design for the new Seattle Center Arena, and the 850-foot-tall Rainier Square tower, soon to be Seattle's second-tallest building. Keppler was hired 18 years ago and is accounting database manager, supporting all departments. She maintains the company's enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software, which are integrated across its nine offices. Pascua, financial statement manager, was hired 20 years ago. He is responsible for generating and analyzing Hart Crowser's accounting and financial records and for reports to management on the financial operations of the company, as well as maintaining proper revenue recognition on projects of the business units.

Kaparos rejoined the firm and will work on stormwater management and environmental cleanup projects. His 13 years of experience includes stormwater management systems, hydraulic and hydrologic computer modeling, contaminated site remediation, and environmental permitting. His work on brownfield sites has helped put previously contaminated properties back into productive use, and he has worked with industry to reduce stormwater runoff with sustainable techniques.

Ferencz has a master's in geology from Rutgers University. Her focus is on foundation design and landslide remediation. She has worked internationally. Bradshaw has experience in environmental cleanup and geographic information systems. She has a bachelor's in conservation resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a certificate in wetland science and management from the University of Washington. She will work on environmental assessment and cleanup projects. She previously provided support to the EPA on the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund site.

Nakahara has a master's in civil and environmental engineering from the UW and a background in environmental site assessment and remediation, GIS, data analysis, and the transport of chemicals in the environment. Higgins has a master's in civil/environmental engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She has a background in water quality involving stormwater and ocean acidification. She co-founded a coastal erosion project in Mali Island, Fiji.