October 3, 2007

Otak

Otak hired eight new people in Washington and Oregon. In Seattle, Otak hired planner Kimberlee Otto. Otto has worked as a private environmental consultant and urban planner in Draper City, Utah, and Ada County, Idaho. In Lake Oswego, Todd Rivers has joined as an architecture job captain, Christopher Yake as a senior planner and Lesley Barewin as a transportation planner. Rivers has more than 13 years of architecture experience in Oregon. Yake managed the Denver Transit-Oriented Development Market Study, drafted the University Park Neighborhood Plan and completed the Alameda Transit-Oriented-Development Station Area Infrastructure Framework Plan in Denver. Barewin specializes in environmental planning for transportation projects. She worked in the planning department at the city of Milwaukie, Ore., assisting with an update to the transportation plan, and for the city of Beaverton in the Solid Waste and Recycling Department. In Long Beach, William Herman joined the firm as a survey technician; Chris Gillespie joined the Gearhart, Ore., office as a survey technician and Jeremy Schad joined the Manzanita, Ore., office as a CAD technician. Herman has 27 years of surveying and engineering experience and Gillespie has more than five years of AutoCAD and field-surveying experience. Ellen Miller joined the Corvallis office as a project engineer. She has eight years of experience in civil engineering design and consulting, including site design, hydrology studies, hydraulic design and groundwater remediation systems. The Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, office has added four engineers and an architect.