May 24, 2023

BHC Consultants

Daugherty

Hill

Ochiltree

Gross

Dorn

Local engineering, planning, and code compliance consulting firm BHC Consultants, LLC has announced the following leadership changes. After serving as president of BHC since June 2017, Ronald Dorn, PE, has stepped down, and the board of directors has appointed James (Jim) Gross, PE, PMP, former executive vice president and director of engineering, as the new president as of January 2023.

Dorn stepped down from the board of directors in May 2023, and will continue to manage projects through the end of 2023. Dorn has more than 40 years of engineering experience managing, planning, and designing a wide variety of municipal utility projects. He has served on the company board for fourteen years and was previously the director of engineering for the company. Gross has more than 30 years of civil and environmental engineering consulting experience, primarily in drinking water and wastewater planning, design and construction support.

Cameron Ochiltree, PE a senior engineer with BHC for seven years has been named executive vice president and promoted to director of engineering. Ochiltree has 25 years of experience working as a principal, project manager, and lead engineer primarily on wastewater collection, conveyance, and treatment system facilities through planning, permitting, design, and construction. Ochiltree will lead an engineering department with more than 45 engineers specializing in drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, solid waste, structural, and electrical engineering.

William (Willie) Hill, CBO, ACO will be retiring at the end of 2023 after serving as the manager of building code and construction compliance at BHC for 14 years.

Shane Daugherty, AIA, NCARB has been appointed as the new manager of building code and construction compliance as of January 2023. Daugherty is a licensed architect with more than 20 years of experience in commercial, hospital, and residential projects through all stages from planning to completion. His background includes architectural and construction project management, and the Factory Assembled Structures (FAS) program at Washington State Department of Labor and Industries. Daugherty will lead a building code and construction compliance group that includes eight in-house certified building inspectors able to address all aspects of building code compliance.

Herrera

McInerney

VandePutte

Sloan

van Zee

Esteban

Herrera has welcomed five new employees based out of Washington and Wyoming: Jimmy Esteban, Erynne van Zee, Cameron Sloan, Nikki VandePutte and Julia McInerney.

Esteban is a civil engineer with four years of experience designing transportation systems, green stormwater infrastructure, and storm drainage systems across the Pacific Northwest. He has a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Seattle University and will be based out of the firm's Seattle office.

Van Zee is an environmental engineer and landscape designer with a background in technical design and analysis, community engagement/co-design strategies, interdisciplinary research, and integrated water resources design and planning. She has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from Tufts University and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Washington. She will be based out of Herrera's Seattle office.

Sloan is an environmental scientist based out of Herrera's Wyoming office. He comes to Herrera from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality where he worked as a Natural Resource Analyst, overseeing the environmental compliance of mining operations across the state. Sloan has a Bachelor of Science in Energy Resource Management and Development from the University of Wyoming.

VandePutte is an environmental technician based out of Herrera's Seattle office. She has experience working on restoration projects, identifying salmonoid, native plant, and invasive species, and conducting field research. VandePutte is a graduate of Western Washington University with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, Freshwater and Terrestrial Ecology Emphasis.

McInerney is a HR generalist based out of Herrera's Seattle office. She comes to Herrera from Synapse Product Development where she worked as an HR and recruiting coordinator. McInerney has experience with employee onboarding, recruiting, interview processes, and database management. She is a graduate of Florida State University with a bachelor's degree in International Affairs.

Opsis Architecture

Wood

Dunn

Roberts

Opsis Architecture announced new leadership promotions within the firm and new staff.

Chris Roberts, AIA, was promoted to Opsis principal. Roberts has 19 years of experience at Opsis and more than 27 years in the architectural profession. He brings a depth of expertise in architectural design and project management to the sports, recreation and higher education projects he is a part of. His skills and expertise have been honed from work on projects ranging in size and complexity from the award winning, long span mass timber Idaho Central Credit Union Arena at the University of Idaho to performing arts centers, libraries, and recreation centers throughout the pacific northwest.

Erica Dunn, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP, was promoted to the role of associate principal. Dunn joined Opsis in September 2022. She brings more than 19 years of experience in architecture with the last 12 years dedicated to zero energy projects. Dunn is a recognized leader in sustainable design, and was recently honored as one of eight new Fellows in the New Building Institute's Senior Fellows program.

Conor Wood, AIA, has joined Opsis as a designer and construction administration specialist with 12 years of architectural, interior design and project management experience from a diverse set of project types. His previous work encompasses residential, commercial office, hospitality, retail, laboratory, and higher education buildings.

Perteet

Martin

Engineering consulting firm Perteet Inc. has welcomed Erik Martin as the director of its South Sound operations. Martin brings more than 17 years at Pierce and Lewis Counties, most recently in the role of Lewis County manager. He has also worked in consulting as an engineer, project manager, and principal.

Martin has expertise in a diverse range of areas, including transportation, planning and environmental projects, basin-wide flooding solutions, community development, and infrastructure improvements. This move will expand Perteet's multidisciplinary services to all of southwestern Washington.

May 17, 2023

Allwest

Swanson

Allwest has hired a new project engineer for the firm's Hayden, Idaho, office. Nathan Swanson recently joined the firm after working more than 20 years in the geology and engineering fields. He has worked on projects in California, Oregon, Canada and the Dominican Republic as a field technician, project geologist, project engineer and senior field engineer.

Swanson most recently worked as a contract field technician with Miller Pacific Engineering Group of Novato, Calif. Swanson graduated in 2004 from Sonoma State University with a bachelor's degree in geology and chemistry. He holds a master's degree in geological engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

BCRA

Gentry

Alisha Gentry has joined BCRA as director of operations, a new role within the firm's strategic leadership team. She will oversee internal procedures and strategies, firm finances, staffing, and general operations. She joins BCRA from B+H Advanced Strategy and brings over 21 years of operational leadership and management experience to this new role at BCRA. Gentry will be based in the Tacoma office.

PACE Engineers

Emmerson

Mealue

Kohn

Turner

Weller

Vestal

Heldstab

Wilburn

PACE Engineers, Inc. has welcomed eight new employees following the firm's recent CES|NW acquisition: Tony Weller, Eliza Turner, Paul Kohn, Ben Mealue, Fallon Emerson, Jerreme Wilburn, Jesse Heldstab and Eric Vestal.

Weller, PE, PLS, now a senior principal engineer in PACE's Municipal Department, has over 45 years of experience designing and managing numerous public and private civil engineering, construction, and surveying projects. His experience includes working in two city engineering departments and volunteer/elected positions serving the City of Tualatin and the Washington County area.

Turner joins PACE as an accounting professional. She brings over 12 years of experience with four of those being an accounting assistant. Turner manages vendors, vendor invoices, process expense reports, and more.

Kohn, PLS, joins PACE as a principal surveyor and brings over 35 years of experience in land surveying. Over 20 of those years have been in leadership roles working on public projects, private land development projects that include boundary and topographic surveys, large-scale utility surveys, ALTA surveys, and large-scale construction surveys.

Mealue, EIT, is now an engineering intern at PACE. He has over 15 years of experience in project management, design engineering, and construction. Mealue's engineering experience includes roadway, waterline, sanitary sewer, storm drainage treatment and control, grading and erosion control, and site development projects. Mealue is experienced in AutoCAD Civil 3D modeling.

Emerson joins PACE's survey team as a survey field technician. With over 19 years of experience, he has extensive knowledge in topographic mapping, construction staking, industrial surveys, boundary surveys, quality control and monitoring.

Wilburn also joins PACE's survey team as a survey field technician and licensed drone pilot with over 26 years of survey experience. He is proficient in topographical surveys, ALTA surveys, condominium surveys, horizontal and vertical control surveys, construction staking, boundary, and GPS Control surveys.

Heldstab, is now a survey technician at PACE. He brings over 12 years of land surveying experience and is a registered drone pilot. He is proficient with boundary surveys, topographic surveys, construction staking, corner restorations, legal description writing, and GPS and RTK surveys.

Vestal also joins PACE as a survey field technician and brings over 16 years of land surveying experience. Vestal's main responsibilities will be managing a field crew, maintaining, and calibrating equipment to ensure the gathering of good data, and overseeing that data is transferred to the project managers. On the project sites, he will determine how to best complete the task and what equipment to use. Vestal is proficient in construction staking, survey practices, GPS, Trimble data collectors, and total stations.

Parametrix

Aderiye

Elder

Tait Elder, RPA has joined Parametrix as a senior consultant. He is a Secretary of the Interior qualified archaeologist with almost two decades of cultural resources experience spanning across the Western United States.

Elder comes to Parametrix from ICF where he most recently served as principal archaeologist and Pacific Northwest transportation sector lead. Elder has served as principal investigator on over 150 cultural resources studies in the Pacific Northwest since 2012 for agencies such as Snohomish County, Washington State Department of Transportation, City of Seattle, and King County Metro. At Parametrix, he will build cultural resources capacity and expertise for the Greater Washington environmental planning and compliance team.

Tope Aderiye, PMP has joined Parametrix as a senior planner. He has over 15 years of project management experience working in telecommunications, information technology, civil infrastructure, construction, and public utility environments.

Aderiye comes to Parametrix from Program Management & Controls Services. He is a Certified Project Management Professional and holds a master's certificate in project management. Aderiye has worked with clients such as the Chicago Transit Authority and the Chicago Department of Aviation. At Parametrix, he joins the firm's Strategic Advisory Services group which offers business advisory, owner's advisory, and delivery advisory services to clients across the Western United States.

Linda Gehrke has joined Parametrix as a principal consultant based in Seattle. She has over three decades of experience working in the public transportation industry, providing planning, environmental, and cartography services across Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Gehrke is the former Regional Administrator for Region 10 of the Federal Transit Administration and spent over 15 years working for the United States Department of Transportation as a Community Planner and Deputy Regional Administrator. She holds a Master of Public Administration and a degree in geography with a concentration in cartography, environmental sciences, and planning.

At Parametrix, she joins the firm's strategic advisory services practice with an emphasis on transit clients, Tribal nations, and other public agencies throughout the Western United States.