December 23, 2009

Otak

Otak has named Curtis LaPierre, Tom Litster, Kevin Timmins and Brad Bielenberg to senior associates. LaPierre, a landscape architect and planner, is based in the Kirkland office and has been with the firm for eight years. He has 24 years of experience and is a member of the firm's transportation infrastructure services team. He is working on the National Park Service Cape Cod National Seashore Bike Trail in Massachusetts and South Lander Festival Street in Seattle. Litster, an urban planner, and Timmins, a water resources engineer, are both based in the firm's corporate office in Lake Oswego, Ore. Litster has been with Otak for 17 years and his project experience includes Smart Growth planning for land use and transportation projects, as well as the development of enhanced transit service through light rail, streetcar and bus rapid transit systems. Timmins has been with the firm for a decade and has experience in water resource engineering. He played a key role in the Cedar Creek Culvert to Bridge Replacement in Sherwood, Ore, which won the 2009 Public Works Project of the Year award from the Oregon American Public Works Association. Bielenberg is a landscape architect and planner based in Otak's Tempe office. He has been with the firm for four years and has 18 years of experience as a landscape architect and urban planner. He has designed and managed an array of streetscapes, parks, residences and plazas throughout the U.S., India, Japan, Brazil and Israel. He was project manager in the downtown redevelopment plan for Florence, Ariz.