Jul 20, 2022

3form

Ruckel

Materials manufacturer 3form announced that its senior vice president of sales, Jennifer Ruckel, has been appointed to the International Interior Design Association's International Board of Directors. She joined 3form in 2010 as a materials consultant in Denver, Colorado, and has since grown to take on 3form's architecture and design, dealer partnerships, national account, and international sales channels. Ruckel has experience in tile, lighting, office furniture sales and interior design.

Ruckel was inaugurated to IIDA's International Board of Directors on June 12 at IIDA's Annual Meeting in Chicago. She will continue her role with IIDA for the 2022-2023 term. 3form is a manufacturer of architectural decorative resin and glass products, acoustic solutions, and markerboards. The firm has an office and showroom in SoDo.

Hewitt

Nagele

Hewitt announced the promotion of Julia Nagele to senior principal. Nagele also serves as director of design – architecture, and is an assistant affiliate professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington. Nagele has been with Hewitt for more than a decade and is responsible for the design of many of the studio's most notable buildings, including towers such as The Emerald, Mama Tower, Skyglass and 888 Bellevue, as well as the Capitol Hill Transit-Oriented Development and Luna Apartments. Her current projects include OneU and 1107 - two residential towers in the University District.

Nagele joined Hewitt in 2011 and was named a principal in 2018. She previously worked at LMN Architects and began her career at Ayers/Saint/Gross Architects. She graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Lehigh University. Nagele completed her Master of Architecture degree from the University of Maryland's School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and this year, delivered the commencement address at her alma mater and was named a Distinguished Alumni. In 2021, Nagele was recognized by Seattle Met as one of the most influential people in the city.

Milbrandt Architects

Erlandson

After passing her final test in June, Milbrandt Architects announced that Elizabeth Erlandson has officially earned her architect license. After earning her license she was promoted from project manager to project architect. Erlandson graduated from the University of Washington with her bachelor's degree in Architectural Studies in June 2014. She has been with Milbrandt for just under 8 years and is currently working in a blend of single family and townhomes for a variety of clients.

Parametrix

Willis

Grandstrom

Craig Grandstrom, PE, has joined Parametrix as a senior consultant based in Seattle. He has over 20 years of experience providing transportation and transit engineering and planning services to municipalities and agencies throughout the Puget Sound region. Grandstrom joins Parametrix from Jacobs Engineering where he served as a senior transportation manager. His experience includes bus and light rapid transit, multi-modal corridor studies and design, highway and interchange studies, traffic analysis and forecasting, and providing guidance on Federal Transit Administration-funded projects. He has worked with clients such as Sound Transit, the City of Seattle, King County Metro, and the Washington State Department of Transportation.

At Parametrix he joins the firm's transportation team providing engineering and planning services to clients throughout the Puget Sound region.

Parametrix has also selected John Willis, PE, as president, transitioning into the chief executive officer role in early 2023. Willis is succeeding the current CEO, Jeff Peacock, PE, who has served in the capacity since 2008. Willis joined Parametrix in 2017 and has served as the senior vice president overseeing the operations in Oregon and Southwest Washington prior to being appointed as president. Under his leadership, the Oregon and Southwest Washington regions of the firm have grown significantly. He has over 25 years of experience in the A&E industry in a variety of leadership roles and has managed some of the region's most significant infrastructure projects including the Interstate Bridge Replacement, TriMet's Portland to Milwaukie Light Rail, and the Dreamlifter Operations Center for Boeing.

WJE

O'Brien

Gilroy

Corvell

Skondre

Simon

Stanton

O'Shea

Stutts

WJE Seattle welcomed several new staff members. After a tenure as WJE Boston's unit manager, architect Anita Simon is returning to WJE Seattle, and engineer Becky Skondre, nee Gilbertson, is returning to Washington from the firm's DC branch. New hires include geotechnical engineer Mike Coryell and Joseph Gilroy. Coryell previously held positions with McMillen Jacobs Associates, CDM Smith, and the United States Air Force. Gilroy is completing his PhD at University of Texas-Austin and held positions with Peloton Land Solutions and Sanger Learning Center, both of Austin. Finally, Daniel O'Brien, a civil engineering student at Seattle University, has joined as a 2022 intern.

WJE also announced that Zachary Stutts earned his structural engineering license in Washington and was recently promoted to senior associate, and that Sean O'Shea and Andrew Stanton were promoted to associate III.

Jul 13, 2022

Barghausen Consulting Engineers Inc.

Dow

Varas

Dawson

Palmer

Manning

Anderson

Van Zandt

Huerta

King

Cory

Hubbell

Inigues

Wecker

Barghausen Consulting Engineers Inc. has promoted a total of 14 employees so far in 2022. Jennifer Manning was recently promoted to project coordinator. Manning was an intern on the firm's planning team during the Summer of 2019 and returned to work full-time for the Permitting and Compliance team in June of 2021. She is actively engaged in learning the permit processing protocols for site modifications, the procedures needed to bring fuel facilities back into compliance after receiving violations, and engaging Agency reviewers for permit issuance based upon our client's needs.

Megan Palmer and Haley Dawson were both promoted to senior project engineers. Palmer has been with Barghausen since June 2014 when she moved back to Washington from Nevada. She began working on a mix of commercial and fueling projects for several years before joining one of the firm's commercial teams, dedicating her skills to one client. Dawson has been with Barghausen and the Costco team since May 2017. She moved to Washington from Florida where she worked as a civil engineer for an Orlando firm for more than four years. She has a stormwater modeling background and manages a large engineering team on a large and diverse portfolio of projects.

Vicente Varas, from the firm's residential team, was recently promoted to project engineer, along with Cassie Thompson from the Oregon office. Varas started with Barghausen in June 2018 and has been a key piece of the Barghausen residential team. Varas works from the Kent office on small and large residential development projects for several national homebuilders from Pierce County to Snohomish County. He continues to grow his knowledge of residential plats and directly trains a design engineer. Brian Dow, out of the firm's Long Beach office, was promoted to design engineer for his efforts on a major fueling client account. Dow started with Barghausen in January 2014 and has been a key part of the Long Beach, CA office. He has taken on the responsibility of master drawing coordination and maintenance for a major retail fueling client.

Jordyn Cory was promoted to marketing coordinator and recently earned a drone pilot's license. Cory has been an integral part of the success of the marketing department since she started in 2019. Cory is now starting to fly project sites with her drone. Sandy King, from the firm's Oregon office, was promoted to project manager. King has been with Barghausen since September 2016, serving in various roles on both the engineering and planning sides of the firm. King has a unique skill set based upon her years of engineering experience.

Rhonda Huerta received a promotion to senior project accountant and David Van Zandt was promoted to senior CAD technician. Huerta has been with Barghausen since July 2018. She juggles many high-profile clients, challenging portals, and billing requirements and develops tools to track contracts and keep monthly billing as high as possible. Van Zandt started with Barghausen in September 2017. Since then, he has been expanding his knowledge on everything CAD related and has become an integral part of the team. He provides site plan options and civil plans to clients.

The firm also announced four new shareholders to its leadership team including senior planners, Sean Anderson, and Nick Wecker; permitting and regulatory compliance manager, Alexia Inigues; and senior project engineer, Jason Hubbell. Anderson is a senior planner and joined the company in early 2014, with most of his expertise focused on a nationwide fueling program. He has led the internal team on a gas program for many years. He has been instrumental in expanding the firm's footprint with the client into the Midwest, the East Coast, and gaining additional market share in Southern California and the Bay Area. Wecker is a senior planner who joined the company in 2013, quickly proving his value as a project manager for a substantial portion of the firm's corporate commercial work. He is responsible for developing and sustaining many key accounts with multisite commercial programs that span across multiple U.S. states.

Inigues is Barghausen's permitting and regulatory compliance manager who joined the company in 1997. Several years ago, she took over management of the firm's compliance program, leading a talented team ensuring a nationwide retail fueling client remains in compliance with a myriad of regulations and permit renewal requirements over all 50 states. Hubbell is a senior project engineer who also joined the company in 1997. Most of his early career with Barghausen involved helping clients get their projects designed and permitted. His client base includes a wide range of commercial, industrial, and residential projects.

Confluence Environmental Company

Huynh

Michniak

Douglas

Confluence Environmental Company has hired three staff members for its Seattle office. Calvin Kelly Douglas has been hired as a senior ecologist, Audrey Michniak as a project biologist I and Alexis Huynh as a staff scientist.

Kelly Douglas has 25 years of experience as a natural resource scientist and permit specialist, with expertise in local, state, and federal government regulations; permitting; and regulatory compliance issues. Field experience includes wetland, stream, and wildlife surveys in urban, rural, and undeveloped parts of the greater Puget Sound region, as well as in Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, Alaska, New York, Missouri, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Michniak has four years of experience conducting environmental and engineering consulting projects in support of land development proposals, corporate real estate portfolios, and industrial facilities development. She has performed wetland delineations; stream and nearshore surveys; fish exclusion; research and synthesis; mitigation monitoring; GIS analysis; and soil, groundwater, soil vapor, and outdoor air quality sampling.

Huynh works on freshwater and marine projects conducting critical areas studies and stream and nearshore surveys, analyzing complex data using GIS software, and preparing environmental documentation for permit applications. Huynh recently graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Management and Protection, and Minor in Geographic Information Systems, from California Polytechnic State University.