Oct 24, 1996

Monahan & Biagi

Craig Evezich has been named "of counsel" at Monahan & Biagi, P.L.L.C., an international law firm with offices in Seattle. Evezich's practice includes all forms of civil litigation, small business formation and transactions, and alternate dispute resolution such as mediation and arbitration.

Weiss, Jensen, Ellis & Howard

Weiss, Jensen, Ellis & Howard, a law firm with offices in Portland and Seattle has elected three new shareholders. Susan Preston, of the Seattle office, Louis Santiago, Portland, and James Thomas, also in the Portland office, have been chosen for the positions.

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs

P. Arley Harrel, a partner with the Northwest law firm of Williams, Kastner & Gibbs, LLP, has been appointed co-chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Litigation Committee on Monographs and Unpublished References. The Monographs and Unpublished Reference Committee is responsible for managing the numerous publications from program and seminars of the Section of Litigation. The committee's goal is to increase the number and quality of publishable papers from all ABA seminars and programs.

Pierce Transit

Pierce Transit has received the award for Distinguished Budget Presentation by the Government Finance Officer Association (GFOA) of the United States and Canada for its 1996 annual budget. This is the eighth consecutive year Pierce Transit has earned this award.

Fullers

William Belickis has been named sous chef of Fullers at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers. Belickis most recently served as sous chef at Wildwood in Portland, Ore.

Oct 23, 1996

CPL

Bryan Collons has joined the firm of Coughlin Porter Lundeen as a structural engineer. Collons brings commercial, large industrial, and public project experience to CPL. Current CPL projects Collons is working on include the Quadrant Lake Union Center, Central Way Plaza, High Street Terrace, and the Brezza Condominiums. Other new CPL staff member include: Garo Pehlivanian, structural engineer; Sean King, structural CAD technician; Brian Lampe, structural engineer; Bob Pack, structural CAD technician; and Scott Steinmetz, civil CAD technician.

AKB

AKB Engineers, Inc. has hired Thomas Reisdorff as senior civil engineer. Residorff has over 11 years of civil engineering experience, having begun his career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Viet Nam working on road and airstrip projects. He served most recently as utility engineer for the City of Marysville. Reisdorff is currently performing civil engineering services on projects at Olympic College New Campus Design in Poulsbo, Pierce College and Maple Lane School. Noel Baca recently joined AKB Engineers as structural engineer. Baca has pioneered the design of prototype machinery and robotics equipment resulting in a mastery of various structural design parameters. His expertise also includes proficiency in the construction process which has made him an expert at planning for efficient constructability and design strategies. He has also written design programs including several frame stress modulars for AutoCAD. Baca is currently performing seismic retrofit design on such projects as Green Hill School Rehabilitation Phase I project, Sunny Jim Building for the City of Seattle, Seattle City Light's Building A, and 12 City of Seattle fire stations.

Hedges & Roth

Hedges & Roth Engineering, Inc. (H & R) has hired KokWah Tung as design engineer to its Bellevue office. Tung has 14 years of experience in the field of civil engineering, specializing in general civil engineering, transportation and water resource engineering. Tung brings extensive experience to the firm with his background from Washington State Department of Transportation and numerous large projects he performed back in the Eastern United States. Tung is a licensed professional engineer in Washington, Massachusetts, New York and New Hampshire. In addition to his experience in the U.S., he has performed engineering services in the Malaysia and Brunei.

PAE

PAE Consulting Engineers, Inc. has hired Barbara Hamilton as a lighting designer. Hamilton recently earned her masters of science degree in Lighting at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which is to be conferred in December. Her current projects include Label Graphics and the Portland International Airport.

Entranco

Kevin Hinckley has joined Entranco as a structural engineer. Hinkley brings 11 years of expertise in the design of bridges and other transportation facilities. Currently, he is the project engineer for the structural design of a 200-foot long bridge associated with improvements to 142nd Avenue East in Sumner. Jeff Faunce has joined Entranco's construction services unit. Faunce will provide construction management for roadway design projects. His experience includes supervising construction staff, and managing and coordination construction sites. Faunce has provided construction management services for East Marginal Way and the 51st Street Bridge, both located in Tukwila, and for NE Andresen Road, as part of the firm's on-call construction management services agreement with Clark County. Joe Willis and Jim Huber join Entranco as new surveying staff. Willis joins as a party chief with experience in Global Positioning Systems (GPS), construction staking, boundary, and topographic surveying. His project work at Entranco includes serving as survey party chief for construction staking services for Quadrant Willows Corporate Center in Redmond, and providing horizontal and vertical control for aerial mapping of Capital Lake in Olympia. Huber, a registered Land-Surveyor-in-Training, has specialized experience in construction staking, survey field calculation, and boundary and topographic surveys and mapping. While at Entranco, he has participated in projects including: the 51st Avenue South Bridge in Tukwila; a new watermain along East Marginal Way in Tukwila; and Brighton's Landing and Belvedere Park Residential Development in King County. Angel Wilcox, a registered Engineer-in-Training, comes to Entranco's environmental services unit after an internship with the City of Tukwila's Public Works Department. She has worked on a variety of civil and environmental projects since joining Entranco, including designing the pipe alignment and capacity for drainage improvements associated with the widening of SR 99 in Lynnwood, and providing design services for the reclamation of an abandoned gravel pit for stormwater management use in Pierce County. Barbara Alder brings four years of experience to Entranco's accounting department, where she will be responsible for client invoicing, and assist with payroll. She previously worked as accountant for SVR Design Company where she acted as the firm's bookkeeper/office manager.