May 15, 2019

Rolluda Architects

Seaman

Pena

Hanway

Seattle-based Rolluda Architects hired Craig Hanway as a project architect, Vicky Pena as a project designer and Jasmine Seaman as an administrative assistant. Hanway holds a bachelor's in architecture from Iowa State University and a master's in business administration from Seattle Pacific University. He is working on projects for Seattle Public Schools and Mount Baker School District. Pena has a bachelor's in architecture from Universidad del Valle in Columbia and a master of architecture from the University of Washington. She is working on projects for Tukwila School District. Seaman has a bachelor's in tourism from Central Philippines University. She assists with administrative and marketing tasks.

Northwest Kidney Centers

Jackson

Joyce F. Jackson, president and CEO of Northwest Kidney Centers for the past 20 years, will retire after a successor is found. During Jackson's tenure, annual patient services revenue grew from $32 million to $131 million, and fundraising revenue grew from $200,000 to $3 million. Northwest Kidney Centers is now the eighth-largest dialysis provider in the country.

Shyft Technologies

Paravecchio

Paula Paravecchio joined Shyft Technologies as vice president of sales. Paravecchio has 20 years of experience in business development and the software as a service industry. She previously was senior industry director for retail, CPG and hospitality at Microsoft. Shyft has an app that helps workers swap shifts, communicate with each other, and make more money by covering shifts.

Chasing

China-based underwater drone company Chasing opened its first U.S. office in Seattle and hired Sage Raterman as general manager to lead its expansion in North America. Raterman has over 15 years of experience, with stints as senior director of sales in North America and Australia for PowerVision Robot and as director of sales and channel marketing for Autel Robotics.

Runberg Architecture Group

Chamness

Lee

Seattle-based Runberg Architecture Group promoted Daniel Lee and Archie Chamness to associates. Lee has nine years of experience on multifamily and mixed-use projects. He is a project manager on Esterra Park's Block 2 housing project in Redmond for Capstone Development and is helping guide it through entitlement. Chamness has over 12 years of experience in design and construction. His projects have ranged from garden-style apartments to adaptive reuse and urban mixed use. He is a construction manager at Vulcan Real Estate's 532-unit Jackson Apartments in the Central District. Runberg designs mixed-use urban environments.

GGLO

Wortman

Sarah Wortman joined the GGLO Seattle office as director of business development. Wortman has over 20 years of experience in marketing and business development in the A/E/C industry. She has a master of fine arts degree from Northwestern University and a bachelor's in speech communications from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates

Crase

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates named senior associate John Crase unit manager of its Seattle office. Crase was hired in 2011 and has construction industry experience, working on projects involving timber, steel and concrete on industrial, commercial and transportation structures. He was general manager of a wood component manufacturer and a project engineer for Vector Engineering.

HNTB Corp.

Collins

Infrastructure firm HNTB Corp. named Kevin R. Collins leader of its local office, based in Bellevue. He succeeds Jim Thomson, who was appointed president of HNTB's new Northwest Division. Collins is a vice president with over two decades of transportation industry experience. He leads a team delivering aviation, toll, highway, transit, rail, planning, program/construction management, tunneling and other services in the region. He has been project manager on Sound Transit's East Link and Lynnwood Link extensions.

FFA Architecture and Interiors

Syer

Hawkins

Strigle

Lowrance

Portland-based FFA Architecture and Interiors promoted Rianna Lowrance to marketing coordinator and hired Kathleen Strigle and James Hawkins as architectural staff and Shelby Syer as an administrative and accounting assistant. Lowrance supports the firm's social media and proposal marketing and coordinates events. She worked for a digital marketing and public relations agency. Strigle was at another Portland architectural firm for two years. She holds master's in architecture from Portland State University and is working on Oregon City's new police and municipal courts facility and K-12 renovations for Lake Oswego School District.

Hawkins has a bachelor of architecture degree from Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and spent seven years as a sole proprietor building large timber structures using traditional methods. He has worked on the Westridge Elementary School renovation in Lake Oswego. Syer was an office manager for a Portland mental health care provider and studied anthropology and marine biology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She assists the accounting department. FFA provides architecture, planning and interior design.

Osborn Consulting

Johnson

Winter

Gray

In Bellevue, Osborn Consulting hired Matthew Gray as a senior project manager, Rhett Winter as a project manager and James Johnson as a CADD manager. Gray is an engineer with 24 years of experience planning, analyzing, designing, and managing local and federal water resources projects. Winter has 17 years of experience delivering municipal drainage conveyance, habitat restoration and site development projects. Johnson has over 30 years of drafting, design and CADD management experience focused on water quality, site development and transportation improvement projects.