May 13, 1999

Safeco

Safeco Property & Casualty Insurance Companies recently promoted William T. Lebo to executive vice president; Richard R. Beristo senior vice president; James A. Kim to senior vice president of claims; Mary Kaes to regional vice president of the Denver region; Mike Englund to vice president and director of commercial lines sales; Wayne Smith to regional vice president of the Cincinnati region; Chuck Hansen to vice president of the property/casualty companies; Richard Amidei to assistant vice president for the insurance company; and Daniel B. Schaaf to assistant controller. Wayne Browne, senior vice president of claims, will be retiring at the end of the year. Allie R. Mysliwy, vice president of human resources for Safeco Life Insurance Company, was appointed vice president of corporate human resources at Safeco Corp. Darryl Sabin, former vice president of corporate human resources, will be retiring at the end of June. Rob Tee, government affairs representative, was appointed assistant vice president for

Workz.com

Workz.com, a Seattle-based online company, recently launched its web site to provide information, services and utilities to meet the e-necessities of small businesses.

Two Downtown

Two Downtown, a Seattle-based design company specializing in the creation of three-dimensional event and exhibit environments, recently appointed Mickey C. Gentile production manager. Gentile formerly served as vice president of operations for Design Dynamics Exhibits in Denver.

Elgin DDB

Elgin DDB, a Seattle-based public relations firm, recently promoted Kym Rockwood from account manager to account supervisor on the Holland America account. Paul Breslin has been added as an account coordinator; Jody Griffiths as a senior account planner; Julie Muiderman as an account coordinator for issues-related accounts; Christa Patchen as a senior account manager; and Sally Zamadics as an account supervisor for the Holland America account.

May 12, 1999

Hewitt

David Spiker has joined Hewitt Architects as a senior associate. Spiker previously had his own practice in New York City and New Haven, Conn., and for the past three years he has been principal at Goshow Architects in New York City, where he designed the Children's Science Museum at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y. Spiker has also worked with New York firms including Richard Meier & Partners Architects, HLW and Ulrich Franzen Associates Architects. In New York City, Spiker initiated a number of speculative projects and competitions aimed at urban improvement including the Penn Yards Project, exhibited at the Urban Center, and the Hudson River Waterfront Project, exhibited at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Spiker has served as design critic at Yale, Pennsylvania State University, Pratt Institute, Columbia, and for six years was a special lecturer in design studio and architectural technology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

W&H Pacific

W&H Pacific has named 14 new associates with the firm. In the Bothell office, they include Rita Smith, Gene Warden, Bill Nims, Steve Calhoun, Larry Grimm, Scott Sherrow, Steve Pesce, Marc Servizi, Megan O'Brien and Denise Rubin. Laura Jackson, Mike Unger and Don Braaten have been promoted in the Portland office, and Lisa Vernon is a new associate in the Boise office. W&H Pacific offers services in engineering, planning, landscape design and land development.

Squier

Arlan H. Rippe has been elected president of Squier Associates, a geotechnical and environmental engineering firm in Lake Oswego, Ore. The founder of the 28-year-old firm, L. Radley Squier, will now be chairman of the board. Rippe has been principal in charge of geotechnical engineering at Squier, responsible for major projects for Tri-Met, the city of Portland, the Bureau of Environmental Services and the Portland Water Bureau.

Yanick

Kathleen Bergum, a staff architect with Miles Yanick & Co., Bainbridge Island, has won three awards for excellence in "A Place to Call Home," a house design competition sponsored by the Bainbridge Island Housing Review Board, Kitsap County Consolidated Housing Authority and Windermere Foundation. The sponsors called for designs for three-bedroom, single-family residences affordable to moderate income earners for a Blakely Hill site on Bainbridge Island. Also requested were designs for two and three-bedroom homes to be made available to developers. Twelve entries were entered in the competition.

Parametrix

Scott Gibson has joined the Portland office of Parametrix as a senior transportation engineer. He specializes in roadway and highway engineering and design, and is now at work on a road widening project in Washington County, Oregon.

Otak

Adnan Haddad has joined Otak's Kirkland office as an engineer-in-training, with a degree in civil engineering from Portland State University and over six years of experience in the field. Adnan was previously a project designer with Land Development Consultants in Hillsboro, Ore. Celso Hermogenes has joined the Otak Seattle office as a civil CAD designer. He has a degree in civil engineering from De La Salle University in Manilla, and is a registered engineer in the Philippines. Before joining Otak, Celso was a staff engineer and CAD operator at Gary Struthers Associates.

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

Paul B. George recently joined Foster Pepper & Shefelman as chair of the Portland office's litigation group. George formerly served as of counsel at Paone Callahan McHolm and Winton in Irvine, Calif.

King County Executive Office

Shaunta Hyde was recently added to the King County Executive Office. Hyde formerly served as assistant to the King County Council's chief of staff. Frank Abe, who formerly served as director of new media, will move to the King County Department of Transportation to work on communications technology initiatives.

Western Washington University

Andrew R. Bodman, senior vice provost and interim dean of the Graduate College at the University of Vermont, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Washington University.

Beth Brosseau Consulting

Beth Broseeau Consulting, a Seattle-based naming and branding company, recently changed its name to Beth Brosseau Namebranding.

Puget Bindery

Puget Bindery, a Kent-based full service bindery, recently added a new optically monitored gathering and collating system and an automated trimmer.

Safeco Life Insurance

Kimberly E. McSheridan and Jim Pirak, assistant vice presidents of Safeco Life Insurance Co., were recently appointed vice presidents with the firm. Kent Nelson, assistant vice president for American States Life Insurance Co., was recently appointed assistant vice president for Safeco Life Insurance. Judy Walter, assistant vice president for Safeco Life Insurance, was recently named assistant vice president for First Safeco National Life Insurance Co. of New York. Kathy Englund, assistant secretary for Safeco Life Insurance, was recently named assistant controller.

Pacific Infrastructures

Pat King has been hired at Pacific Infrastructures as a general superintendent. King will oversee all field operations for the contractor. He has 15 years of industry experience and is a 1993 civil engineering graduate of the University of Washington. Pacific Infrastructures is an East Wenatchee-based excavation and utility contractor.

PSI

PSI has promoted Randall L. Bagwell to senior vice president overseeing Oregon, Hawaii and parts of Washington. Bagwell's responsibilities will range from active participation in projects to client involvement and presentations. He will supervise a staff of nearly 160. PSI is one of the nation's largest consulting engineering firms.