Nov 03, 2021

AKS Engineering & Forestry

Stull

Steigleder

Marquis

Joki

Hollenbeck

AKS Engineering & Forestry welcomed five new employees to the company: Tim Hollenbeck, Tyler Joki, Julie Marquis, Matt Steigleder, and Paul Stull III.

Tim Hollenbeck, PLS, is a Washington-registered professional land surveyor, drone specialist, and FAA-certified Remote Pilot. He earned a BA in geography at Western Washington University and brings 22 years of experience in traditional and high-tech surveying for residential and commercial land development to AKS' Vancouver office. Tyler Joki comes to AKS with 13 years of experience in natural resources conservation and project management. He has worked for private engineering groups and local and federal agencies in the Portland area with a focus on wetlands restoration, aquatic resources monitoring, and feasibility assessment of environmentally sensitive projects. He is also a licensed landscape contractor and holds a BS in biology from Portland State University.

Julie Marquis recently joined AKS as Marketing Proposal Manager. Marquis has broad experience across the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. She has 13 years of marketing expertise under her belt, nine of which were acquired with engineering firms. Marquis brings strong leadership, strategic planning, communications, and research abilities to the AKS marketing team. Matt Steigleder, PE, is a project manager and transportation engineer with nine years' experience designing and managing urban and rural roadway projects. Steigleder earned his BS in civil engineering at Oregon State University. He has extensive experience working on traffic engineering projects for the Oregon Department of Transportation, working on every part of the process from conceptual design alternatives through construction support.

Paul Stull III, PE, has joined the AKS team in Tualatin as a project engineer. Stull III holds a BS in civil engineering and an MS in environmental engineering from Oregon State University. He has nearly 30 years' combined experience managing commercial, industrial, private, and public projects, with a focus on environmental and water resources. He is a licensed environmental engineer in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.

B + H

Morrow

B+H, an architecture, interior design and real estate advisory firm, has welcomed back Hannah Morrow as practice lead for Healthcare in their Seattle Studio. Morrow returns to B+H from KMD architects where she built on her prior healthcare experience with a number of local projects. Morrow's B+H portfolio includes corporate workplace and several hospital projects, including SickKids in Toronto, Ontario, and currently a hospital redevelopment in Burnaby for Fraser Health.

Nelson

Lewis

Nelson Worldwide, an architecture, design, and strategy firm, welcomed Rachael Lewis as Regional Design Leader. Based in the firm's Seattle office, Lewis will lead the hospitality team to craft memorable experiences that attract, connect, and engage loyal guests. Lewis joins Nelson with over two decades of experience in design, brand development, and team management. As a seasoned leader with an extensive hospitality background, she will provide innovative insight on industry trends and bring hospitality design elements to various market sectors, including workplace, healthcare, and retail. Before joining Nelson, Lewis worked at Katerra as Director of Architecture and Design, where she led multi-family and hospitality verticals. Throughout her career, she has worked alongside hospitality leaders, brand executives, and high-profile clients. She also unified a team of diverse professionals to deliver spaces that attract and inspire while enhancing the user's experience through design and branding. Some of the brands she has previously worked with include The Walt Disney Company, Hilton Worldwide, IHG, and Best Western International.

Parametrix

Jones

Wesley Jones, PE has joined Parametrix as a Senior Water Engineer based out of the firm's Puyallup and Bremerton offices. He has 18 years of experience in civil engineering, including the commercial, educational, and industrial sectors. Jones comes to Parametrix from Sitts & Hill Engineers, Inc. where he was a Civil Principal, leading design teams and providing quality control on a variety of private industrial and commercial projects. He is skilled in scheduling, cost estimating, permitting, and a variety of civil-specific tasks such as pump stations, paving, stormwater management, rail, general site development, and utilities. His recent project experience includes stormwater treatment and site design for The Boeing Company, the Tacoma LNG Facility for Puget Sound Energy, a new manufacturing facility for James Hardie Building Products, and the Pierce County Skills Center for the Bethel School District.

At Parametrix, Jones joins the firm's Puget Sound water division serving a variety of public clients and private clients including the counties of King, Pierce, Kitsap, Grant, and Mason (along with cities therein), King County International Airport, Port of Moses Lake, The Boeing Company, James Hardie Building Products, Miles Sand & Gravel, and Puget Sound Energy, among others.

Shannon & Wilson

Galas

Shannon & Wilson, Inc., a geotechnical and environmental consulting firm, announced that Shannon Galas has joined their firm in its Seattle office as a senior marketing manager. Prior to joining Shannon & Wilson, Galas spent more than 12 years at HDR, most recently supporting the Water Business Group with management, strategy, and hands-on marketing for the Washington Area. In her 20 years of A/E/C marketing, Galas has led engineering pursuits related to the infrastructure and treatment of drinking water, wastewater, water reuse, and stormwater; water resource management; construction management; value engineering; transportation; real estate services; and federal work. Her architectural background includes civic, public school, higher education, historic preservation, rehabilitation, corporate/office, healthcare, and interior design.

Oct 27, 2021

Allwest

Dallman

Hayley Dallman has joined Allwest as a project assistant, based in the firm's Spokane Valley office. Dallman graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Earth and Environmental Science. She previously worked at Streamline Dental Solutions as a receptionist.

CollinsWoerman

Kincaid-Slate

Pak

Rillos

In Seattle, CollinsWoerman hired Callista Rillos as Architect and Rachell Pak as Administrative Assistant. In Spokane, CollinsWoerman hired Claire Kincaid-Slate as Architect and Interior Designer. Rillos brings over eight years of expertise in retail, civic, and corporate office new construction and TI's. She has permitted projects in over a hundred different jurisdictions in the US and Canada. Kincaid-Slate joins CollinsWoerman with over 15 years of expertise in the design field. Her past project experience ranges from medical and dental facilities, general office buildings, financial and banking facilities, multi-family residential, mixed-use buildings and hospitality. Pak brings a background in customer service and administration. She is a graduate of the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in Communications and French.

MadArt

Kelly

Milliman

After 15 years of leadership, MadArt Founder Alison Milliman is stepping away from her position at the institution's helm to focus on other endeavors. MadArt is a contemporary arts organization. In her departure, Emily Kelly, MadArt Director + Curator since 2017, will transition into having full strategic and creative oversight of the organization's operations and programming. Milliman's founding vision for MadArt was to support emerging artists in making new work that promotes the expansion of their professional practice. This provided a foundation for experimentation, innovation, and unlikely collaborations that have defined MadArt over the last decade. Throughout her tenure, Milliman has shepherded the organization into a nationally recognized contemporary art space that has directly supported over 75 artists through the commissioning of new and compelling works.

Emily Kelly and the MadArt team will continue to honor Milliman's intentions while broadening programming and cultural partnerships to reflect the ever-evolving pulse of the arts community. Working closely with artists, visitors, and staff, Kelly has curated nationally acclaimed exhibitions, grown the studio's audience, and expanded MadArt's educational outreach by inviting schools and students to use the studio as a learning tool and curricular resource.

Shapiro Didway

Conner

Sang

Jackman

Otani

Portland-based landscape architectural firm. Shapiro Didway, has promoted long time staff landscape architect Nate Otani to Principal, and added three new additional professionals. The new staff include: Matt Jackman, Shuang Sang and Jesse Conner. Otani, Principal, joined Shapiro Didway in 2014 and brings over a decade of landscape design and project management experience to the firm. He continues to build a deep portfolio focused on education campuses, mixed-use developments, recreation resources planning, and civic work. Otani earned his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon with additional studies in Design Visualization from the Art Institute of Portland. Career highlights to date include several recent projects for local K-12 school districts and the Willamette River Greenway Trail Segments in Portland.

Jackman, Landscape Designer, has over 17 years of experience leading award-winning projects along the East Coast in Florida, New York, and the Hamptons working in a wide range of climates and environments. His work is driven by client and community needs, creating spaces that fit the unique characteristics of each community with specialized materials, plantings, and attention to detail. Jackman earned his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Western Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. He is currently working on multi-family apartment housing projects located within the Portland Metro area.

Sang, Landscape Designer, has experience working on projects ranging from campus design and recreation planning to new housing developments and public plazas. Sang's three plus years of experience includes projects for firms across the United States and China. As a result, she brings a great understanding of diverse cultures as well as the unique knowledge of plant species of varied climates. Sang earned her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Nanjing Forestry University in China, and her Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. In 2016 she received The Yuanye Award, one of the largest student design competitions hosted annually by the Chinese societies of landscape architecture and considered to be the most influential events in landscape architecture societies in eastern Asia. Currently Sang is a team member on a variety of housing, recreation, and civic projects for Shapiro Didway.

Conner, Landscape Designer, brings to the firm previous experience working with a construction team to design and implement retaining walls, plantings, and irrigation systems. New to the profession, Conner has one year of experience and earned his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Conner has served as U.S. Air Force Veteran and Washington Air National Guard member and led trips across the Pacific Northwest as an Adventure Facilitator and Leave No Trace Instructor for the Washington State University Outdoors program. He joins the team on a variety of housing and community-based facility improvement projects.