Dec 13, 2000

Integra Telecom

Arcand

Evans

Pam Arcand and Michelle Evans have joined Integra Telecom of Washington, a Kent-based integrated communications provider, as manager of activations and sales manager respectively. Arcand will oversee the process of turning up new customers. She has 22 years of experience in telecommunications including 16 years in military communications. Evans' responsibilities include recruiting, training and supporting the sales team. Her 10 years experience includes sales and sales support.

Gillespie Insurance Group

Michael and Dee Gillespie, owners of Gillespie Insurance Group in Issaquah, were recently honored by Farmers Insurance Co. for their achievement of premier agency status. This is the fourth consecutive year that the husband-wife team has earned the designation. The distinction is based on an agent's sales volume for auto, home and life products; high client retention; and outstanding overall customer service.

Davis Wright Tremaine

Farber

Atkins

Employment and labor law partner, Henry Farber has relocated to and Linda White Atkins has rejoined the Bellevue law offices of Davis Wright Tremaine. Farber joined the firm in 1993. Prior to joining Davis Wright Tremaine, he was general counsel to Frederick & Nelson. Atkins returns to the Bellevue office as of counsel and will continue to practice in real estate, land use and natural resource law. She spent a year as a real property specialist for XM Satellite Radio.

Shandwick International

Jacobs

Warrick

Shandwick International, a Bellevue-based reputation management firm, recently promoted three employees in its Seattle office. Cameron Young was promoted to account executive. Bruce Jacobs and Sarah Warrick were promoted to assistant account executives. Young handles media relations for the Albertsons.com account team. Jacobs and Warrick are involved with media relations for the Microsoft TV account

Berger/ABAM

Berger/ABAM, a civil and structural engineering firm, has promoted several employees in its home office in Federal Way.

Amie Walton was recently promoted to grade II engineer. Walton has been working in the company's waterfront division for the past year and a half. Most recently, she has been involved with the firm's seismic upgrade and new construction projects at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Matt Bollinger has been promoted to CAD operator III. Bollinger has been employed with the company for more than nine years. He is also a member of the firm's underwater dive inspection team.

Warren Kring has been promoted to information technology manager for the Federal Way office, as well as the Seattle and Portland offices. He has been employed with the company for about eight years.

Callison Architecture

Seattle-based Callison Architecture has promoted several senior staff members to associate principal.

As a project manager, Craig Dinkins has been involved with a number of Nordstrom projects over the years. He is working on Nordstrom stores in Florida.

Zivko Penzar is a designer working on projects all over the world. His projects have taken him to retail and entertainment centers Wola Park in Warsaw, Poland; Kerepesi Park in Budapest, Hungry; Greenbelt Pavilion in Makati, Philippines, and the Sheraton-Walker Hill in Seoul, Korea.

Project manager Sid Scarboro is working on projects for Nordstrom, including the new Nordstrom at "The Grove at Farmer's Market," an outdoor mall next to the historic Farmer's Market in Los Angeles. He is also Callison's expert on the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Renate Schweiger is Callison's public relations manager.

Doug Shaw is a project manager also involved in the firm's Nordstrom projects. He is working on planning and interior design coordination for the new series of Nordstrom stores.

Senior designer Laurie Aznavoorian is directing several projects for Vantas and Telegis.

Designer Rick Phillippe is working on the 800 Stewart office building project and Vantas executive suites across the country.

Carter & Burgess

Carter & Burgess, an architecture and engineering firm based in Fort Worth, Texas, has hired several new employees in its Kirkland office.

Senior engineer Tom Corcoran has experience in the coordination of mechanical, electrical and plumbing design concepts and design consistency.

Douglas Erickson, who has 22 years of experience in the building industry, will be responsible for expanding the firm's biotechnology market in Seattle and the Northwest.

Douglas Smith will also help develop the firm's biotechnology projects. He has more than 20 years of professional experience, with a recent specialization in the design of clean and high-technology manufacturing plants, biopharmaceutical laboratories and technology facilities, including semiconductor fabrication plants.

Reid Middleton

Terrie Flaming has been hired as the new human resources manager at Reid Middleton, a civil and structural engineering firm in Everett. Before joining the firm, she worked for Landau Associates in Edmonds.