March 12, 2008
Otak
Otak hired five people in Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, and another 10 in the firm’s Abu Dhabi office. In Seattle, Otak added senior project manager and landscape architect
Keith Bates. Bates has experience designing zoos and botanical gardens. Bates’ past local projects include the Hanford Reach National Monument heritage and visitor center in Richland, the Nikkei WWII Exclusion Memorial on Bainbridge Island and the UIAT NW Native Canoe Center in Seattle. Otak’s Carbondale, Colo., office hired senior project manager
Gary Long. Long joins Otak after more than 30 years with the Bureau of Land Management. He has experience in wilderness management and visual resource management, as well as historic trails management and environmental analysis. In Tempe, Ariz., Otak hired landscape architect
Tiffany Halperin. Halperin’s past projects include the Omni Tucson National Resort and the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale. Otak’s Manzanita office added
Will Lawrence as survey technician. Lawrence has led survey crews and was part of the management team responsible for creating a forest-management model for more than 15 million acres in Southeast Alaska. The Yakima office hired
Erik Pruneda. Pruneda’s areas of study included hydrology and hydraulics, and he worked with Whatcom County to obtain stream flow measurements, conduct research and develop a groundwater computer model.
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