December 31, 2025

Säzän Group

McKinnon

Yamin

Gardner

Säzän Group recently added new team members in its Seattle and Portland offices.

Mark Gardner joins Säzän as director of engineering. Gardner brings three decades of experience leading service groups and design-build teams across biotech, commercial, corporate campus, and higher education markets. He will focus on aligning Säzän Group's work with client outcomes and on team building. He comes to the firm from McKinstry, where he most recently served as senior operations manager. His portfolio includes the WSU North Puget Sound Campus building in Everett and the Thomas S. Foley United States Courthouse in Spokane.

Farid Yamin joins as a principal in the Portland office, where he leads the mechanical engineering team. Yamin has over four decades of experience in organizational and design management, overseeing engineering and construction activities of multidisciplinary teams across a variety of sectors, including transportation, semiconductor, life sciences, healthcare, and mission-critical facilities. Throughout his career, Yamin has advanced through key leadership roles such as mechanical lead, department manager, engineering manager, principal engineer and buildings/MEP practice lead for the western U.S. region.

Corey McKinnon joins as an associate principal. McKinnon brings more than 25 years of electrical design and engineering leadership experience across healthcare, mission-critical, industrial, logistics, and commercial markets in the Pacific Northwest. His experience in the design-build sector includes leading multidisciplinary teams and overseeing complex electrical systems from concept through construction. McKinnon most recently served as executive director of design at SeaTac Electric Design.