Dec 27, 2000

McCarthy

Two new project engineers have been hired at McCarthy's Northwest Division -- Tymon Berger and Christina Cheng. Berger has several years of construction experience and is currently working on several projects for the company's Tenant Improvement Group. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Washington State University, and minored in construction management there. Cheng has a year of industry experience and holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from the University of Washington. She also is working on several projects for the Tenant Improvement Group.

Arango Construction

After 27 years in business, Arango Construction owners Jack and Sue Arango have decided to retire and close the business. The Everett-based contractor will wrap up its four remaining projects by the end of January, but will keep an office open for the next year to handle any warranty issues.

Foster, Pepper & Shefelman PLLC

Diana Dietrich, Laurie Heinz, Hunington Sachs, Nancy Stephens and Michelle Carmody have joined law firm Foster, Pepper & Shefelman, practicing in the Seattle office.

Dietrich, who joins the firm as a member, specializes in antitrust and trade regulation litigation. Prior to joining Foster Pepper she was partner at the Washington, D.C. office of Baker Botts L.L.P.

Heinz, Sachs and Stephens joined Foster Pepper as Of Counsel. Heinz concentrates in patent, copyright and trademark law with a focus on emerging companies and technologies. She previously ran her own law practice.

Sachs practices corporate, securities, intellectual property and entertainment law in an emerging growth company context.

Stephens, formerly trademark counsel for the Coca-Cola Company, specializes in selecting, registering and protecting trademarks.

Carmody focuses her practice on creditors' rights and bankruptcy. Prior to joining Foster Pepper she was an associate at The Brown Law Firm of Kirkland.

Foster Pepper & Shefelman, with over 130 lawyers, has offices in Seattle, Portland, Spokane and Anchorage.

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo has added John Lo to its real estate group as vice president and relationship manager. Based in Seattle, Lo will be responsible for clients in the entire Puget Sound region as well as in the Spokane area.

Specifically Lo will work on providing custom financing to commercial real estate developers and investors for income and residential projects, including acquisition, bridge and development loans.

Previously Lo worked in investment banking in the Los Angeles office of Eastdil. In September, Wells Fargo completed a deal to acquire the privately-held Eastdil. Terms were undisclosed.

Callison Architecture

Callison Architecture of Seattle has promoted several senior employees to associate principal.

Environmental graphics designer Ron Singler is working on new concepts for Nordstrom and Nike.

Art Teller is a project manager working on projects for Nordstrom stores in North Carolina and Ohio.

Yu Wang is a designer working on White Pine Ski Lodge in Sandpoint, Idaho; Gondola Villas in Mammoth, Calif., and Terra Bay in San Francisco.

Designer Rashne Shroff is working on two Latham & Watkins projects in San Francisco and Costa Mesa, Calif., and is doing work for Spieker Properties in Bellevue.

Carter & Burgess

Carter & Burgess has expanded its transportation division with the addition of Eric Beckman, Adele Blair and Brad Stein to the firm’s Seattle office.

Stein is the unit manager for the transportation division. His consulting services include inspection, conceptual, preliminary and final design, management, rehabilitation, retrofitting, and quality control during construction.

Beckman joins the firm as a senior transportation engineer. He had worked for the King County Department of Transportation where he managed design and construction projects including road improvements and bridge replacements.

Blair joins the firm as marketing manager for the Seattle office. She has about 20 years of marketing experience in the architectural and engineering industry.

Carter & Burgess provides services in planning, engineering, architecture and construction management.

ECS Engineering

Shannon English has joined ECS Engineering, a electrical- and control-system design company in Bothell, as principal and electrical department manager. He has 13 years of professional experience, ranging from small studies to full-scale design and implementation projects.

Brian Brewer has been promoted to principal and controls manager. He has 23 years of experience in the industrial instrumentation and controls field. He has designed a variety of instrumentation systems, including electronics, pneumatics, hydraulics and motor controls.

LDC Design Group

Frederick Holz has been hired as a senior project manager for the land development division of LDC Design Group, a planning, engineering and surveying firm with offices in Hillsboro, Ore., and Vancouver and Bellevue. Holz has 15 years of experience designing water systems, including hydraulics and hydrology studies, sanitary sewer systems and pump stations. He is working on several projects in Washington County, including the Orenco Gardens and Willow Creek Heights developments, and an assisted-living facility.

Mahlum Architects

Mahlum Architects has promoted three associates in its Seattle office to the newly created position of senior associate.

Erol Taner has been a senior project architect for several of the firm's largest projects. In the commercial arena, he was responsible for the 56-story Washington Mutual Tower, designed in association with Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates for Wright Runstad & Co., and the new 240,000-square-foot Safeco Corporate Headquarters building in Redmond. He had been an associate since 1995.

Robert Lober has designed a variety of health care and commercial projects, including the West Wing addition and Cancer Center at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup; master plans for the Cornish College of Arts in Seattle and the Yakima Valley Community College; and the design for the 777 engineering test facility for Boeing at Everett. An associate since December 1999, Lober joined Mahlum in 1989.

Daniel Jardine , also an associate since December 1999, has focused on health care and education projects. He has worked on more than 50 projects for Valley Medical Center in Renton, Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, and Olympic Memorial Hospital in Port Angeles. His educational projects include the new Law School and Law Library at the University of Washington, programming and pre-design for the renovation of Suzzallo Library at the UW and renovation of the childhood education center at Shoreline Community College. Jardine has been an employee of Mahlum since 1987.

Degen & Degen

Roxanne Waltenbaugh is a new interior designer at Degen & Degen in Seattle. She joins the firm from Washington, D.C., where she worked with Brennan Beer Gorman Monk. She specializes in hospital and commercial design.

Hart Crowser

Roger McGinnis has been hired to work in the waterfront services division of Hart Crowser, a Seattle geo-environmental firm. McGinnis has more than 15 years of experience managing chemical analyses for complex environmental cleanup projects for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

John Herzog, a sediment quality specialist, oceanographer and project manager, has been named to lead the firm’s waterfront services division. He provides technical advice to engineers who select and design environmental remediation plans.

JPC Architects

JPC Architects, a Bellevue-based architectural firm, has hired several employees.

New to the firm’s corporate studio are project managers Bruce Schulte and Marty Jones and CADD designer Lisa Grilley .

Joining the special projects team are architects Pred Milovac and Andre Montelvan and project manger Inna Klepach.

Architect Vince Ojala joins JPC as project manager, Pamela Jones is the firm’s marketing coordinator, Kathy Sweat is the receptionist, and Chad Peterson joins the accounting department.

Phinney/Bischoff Design House

Amy Scheuer has been hired at Phinney/Bischoff Design House as a marketing coordinator. She had worked in the technology and computer-consulting industry and also had experience in the broadcast industry.

Dena Taylor is the firm’s new copywriter.

Phinney/Bischoff Design House is a Seattle-based graphic design firm specializing in brand development.

Shannon & Wilson

Gayle Guadarrama is the new marketing director at Shannon & Wilson, a geotechnical and environmental consulting firm in Seattle. Previously, Guadarrama was the marketing director at Redmond-based GeoEngineers