Oct 26, 1999

KJM & Associates

Bill Grubich has joined the Spokane office of KJM & Associates as branch manager and national director of correctional facility projects. He joins Heidi Stacy, the new office manager, Jeff Jurgensen, a new estimator, and Katharyn Getchell, a new scheduler. Grubich has over 27 years of experience providing program and construction management services to public owners of projects that have included universities, hospitals, and criminal justice facilities. Stacy has seven years of office administration and management experience. Jurgensen has over 10 years of experience as a project manager, superintendent, assistant superintendent and quality control manager on public and private projects. Getchell has 15 years of experience in all phases of project planning, scheduling and cost control. KJM is a Bellevue-based national project and construction management consulting firm.

White Shield

Kerrel D. Bell has been promoted to manager of White Shield's Surveying Division. Bell also manages White Shield's Bellevue office. For the past three years, Bell managed the firm's surveying operations in Eastern Washington. He is a licensed professional land surveyor in Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Montana with over 21 years of experience. He is currently managing survey projects and contracts for King County, the city of Seattle, Sound Transit, HNTB, Carter-Burgess, KPFF Engineering and several other clients in the Puget Sound area, Eastern Washington and Oregon.

Oct 19, 1999

Tully's Coffee

Whit Hamlin has been appointed project manager at Tully's Coffee. Hamlin will oversee architects, general contractors and vendors involved with remodeling, construction and design of new Tully's stores in the Puget Sound area. He also will be in charge of initial renovations of the company's prospective new headquarters and roasting plant, and development of kiosks, including semi-permanent and mobile versions. Prior to joining Tully's, Hamlin worked for GLY Construction. He holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from the University of Washington.

KJM & Associates

KJM & Associates has several new hires and promotions at its Bellevue headquarters. Aniekan Usoro is a senior project engineer, George Banning has joined as a construction manager/senior inspector, and Scott Battrick is an estimator. Promotions include: Duane Mask to vice president of the Northwest Region; Sandy Mask to senior vice president; Becky Davie to vice president of marketing; Shelby Clayton to marketing/public relations coordinator; and Lourdes Gomez to corporate administrator. Usoro has over 15 years of cost estimating, contract management and administration experience for commercial and industrial projects. Banning has over 25 years of construction management and inspection experience in civil, industrial and commercial construction. Battrick has eight years of experience specializing in cost estimating and cost management analysis, and over 14 years of experience in the construction industry. Duane Mask has been with the firm for 10 years and is responsible for general management, business development and client relations for the Northwest. Sandy Mask has been with the firm for 11 years and is responsible for general management, business development and client relations for the Southern United States. She also is the national director for transit projects, and is responsible for developing transit-related projects throughout the United States. Davie has been with the firm for four years and directs all corporate marketing and public relations activities. Clayton has four years of marketing, public relations, business development and public affairs experience. Gomez has six years of office administration and management experience. KJM, a national project and construction management consulting firm, has offices in Dallas, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, Spokane, Englewood, Colo., and Irvine, Calif.

Lease Crutcher Lewis

Seattle's Lease Crutcher Lewis has hired four technical professionals. Michele Clute has rejoined the company as a senior estimator after spending a year away. She previously worked for 10 years with the contractor and is now providing estimating and other preconstruction services on jobs like the Lakeside High School Ackerley Athletic Center renovation. Doug Norem has joined as an estimator and project engineer after having interned with the company for the past year. He recently graduated from the University of Washington with bachelor's degrees in construction management and architecture. Paula Sword has become a project engineer after spending 12 years as a superintendent, foreman and carpenter. She recently completed the UW's construction management certificate program and is working with the company's Special Projects Division on a tenant improvement for Williams Communications. Robert Brison is a project engineer who joined the company with 25 years of construction and facilities management experience. He previously worked for the UW and WA Botting, and is a graduate of Stanford University.

City of Seattle

Seattle Mayor Schell has appointed Robert Drury to serve a two-year term as a member of the city's Construction Code Advisory Board. Drury is the executive director of the Northwest Wall and Ceiling Bureau, an international nonprofit construction-industry trade association headquartered in Seattle.

Unimark Construction

Unimark Construction has promoted John Dellinger to vice president. Dellinger joined the company in 1988 as a project manager and was promoted to construction manager in 1993. He holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from the University of Washington.