June 26, 2024

Barghausen Consulting Engineers

Valcin

Johnson

McGonagall

Kreger

Mancilla-Martinez

Reese

Husic

Berry

Yanez

Sullivan

Rusovic

Moralez

Garcia

Hopper

Barghausen Consulting Engineers has hired 26 employees across its five offices between January and May 2024.

The firm has three offices in Washington, in Kent, Puyallup and Richland, and two California offices in Long Beach and Roseville.

The DJC will be running the new employee announcements over the next two weeks.

New employees in the Kent office are Bronson Miller, Brenda Mancilla-Martinez, Casey Kreger, Devin Richards, Mason McGonagall, Riley Johnson, Samuel Valcin, Sean Sullivan, Zachary Yanez, Mitchell Berry, Dzanela Husic, Ivey Reese, Joe Hopper, Hilda Pacheco Garcia, Gabriel Morales and Aleks Rusovick.

Miller joined Barghausen as a survey chainperson in April of 2024. He received his A.A. degree at Tacoma Community College in 2013.

Mancilla-Martinez started as Barghausen's talent acquisition coordinator in February. She received a B.A. in Sociology and two Minors in Law, Societies and Justice, and Labor Studies from the University of Washington. Mancilla-Martinez previously worked as a recruiter for retail support at Starbucks.

Kreger joined Barghausen in January as a survey chainperson. He studied Information Technology at the University of Phoenix, and EMT – Fire Technology at the College of Sequoias.

Richards, a survey chainperson, started at Barghausen in April. He received an A.A.S. in DTA from Bellevue College and is working towards an A.A.S. in CET and plans to continue his education with a B.S. in Surveying and Geomatics Engineering Technology through Idaho State University.

McGonagall joined Barghausen as a senior planner in March. He obtained a B.A. in History from the University of Montana. From Oregon State University, he received a Master's degree in Anthropology, a Doctorate in Architecture, and a Minor in Environmental and Earth Science. Previously, he worked as a senior planner for the city of Redmond.

Johnson is an assistant planner. He started in April. Johnson graduated from Oregon State University with a B.S. in Geography and Geospatial Science in 2017. Previously, he worked as a land planner with McInnis Engineering. He has three years of experience in planning and urban development for local government and small business owners.

Valcin, IT support technician II, started in Barghausen's Kent office in January. He graduated with an A.S. degree in Science from Nassau Community College. Valcin previously worked in several help desk and system administrator positions for Microsoft and the U.S. Army.

Sullivan started as a project architect in January. He graduated from Philadelphia University with a B.A. degree in Architecture and a Master's degree in Sustainable Design. Sullivan has 12 years of experience in architecture.

Yanez, senior project accountant, joined Barghausen in January. He graduated from West Governors University with a B.S. in Accounting in May 2022. Yanez previously worked as a project accountant for Dowbuilt in Seattle. He has a strong background in construction accounting and financial management.

Berry started in February as an architectural CAD technician. He graduated with an A.S. in Architectural Engineering Design from Clover Park Technical College in 2014. Berry has over nine years of experience creating a variety of construction drawings using Revit and AutoCAD.

Husic, assistant planner, started as a remote employee in January. She graduated from Boise State University with a B.A. in Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies. Previously, she worked as a care coordinator with House Rx.

Reese started as an assistant planner in May. She graduated with an A.A. degree from Edmonds Community College in December of 2016. Reese then graduated with a B.A. degree in Urban Planning from Arizona State University in April 2023. She previously worked as an assistant estimator at Wilcox Construction.

Hopper started as a senior civil project manager in May. Hopper previously worked for Barghausen from 1996-2004 and has over 30 years of professional experience throughout the states of Washington and Michigan. He graduated from Oakland Community College with a degree in Applied Science, Engineering, and Science/Math in 1992. He specializes in the planning, design, and construction management of public and private sector engineering projects.

Pacheco Garcia started as a design engineer in May. She graduated from Everett Community College with an A.S. Pre-Engineering degree. She then attended University of Washington, where she graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. She previously worked as a staff engineer at BHC Consultants.

Morales, architectural CAD technician, started in May. He received a Certificate in Engineering Design and Drafting from Renton Technical College in April of 2018. Morales previously worked as a BIM Technician for The Conco Companies. He has extensive experience creating Revit models, managing and incorporating construction changes, RFI's, submittals, and other revisions.

Rusovick started as a senior CAD technician in May. She previously worked for Barghausen from 2016-2023 and has over seven years of architecture drafting experience. Rusovick graduated from the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, North Macedonia in 2014 with a B.S. degree in Architecture.