Feb 03, 2000

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

Seattle attorneys Grover Cleveland, Jon Hongladarom, Jake Larson and Lori Nomura of Foster Pepper & Shefelman were promoted to member status. Paul George, who practices in the firm’s Portland office was elected to partnership. Cleveland concentrates in general municipal law and litigation. Hongladarom’s practice focuses on the construction industry. Larson’s commercial litigation practice concentrates on complex construction disputes. Nomura practices in the area of healthcare, representing hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers. George, who chairs the litigation practice for the Portland office, concentrates his practice in commercial and complex litigation.

iPolitics.com

Bellevue-based iPolitics.com, a nonpartisan, political Internet company bringing politics to the Web, announced the appointment of former Seattle Times political editor, Mark Matassa to the position of editorial advisor. Matassa will compile and edit iPolitics.com’s weekly e-mail newsletter. The newsletter will cover a range of issues, including economics, technology, health, education and the environment, from all sides of the debate.

Mackie Designs

Mackie Designs, a Woodinville-based manufacturer and marketer of professional audio systems, announced the appointment of Keith Olsen to the newly created position of director of recording product development and the appointment of Mike Reeves, Manfred Reiman and Fausto Incerti as directors of sales. For more than 25 years Olsen has owned the multi-studio complex Goodnight L.A., in Los Angeles, Calif., and is responsible for producing 39 gold, 24 platinum and 14 multi-platinum recordings. Reeves will be director of sales for the Americas, Reiman for the Pacific Rim, Asia and Canada and Incerti for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Clipper Navigation

Darrell E. Bryan, executive vice president and general manager of Clipper Navigation, operators of the Victoria Clipper vessels, has been elected to chairman of the Seattle King County Convention and Visitors Bureau for the years 2000-2001. Bryan has been with Clipper Navigation for more than 14 years.

Feb 02, 2000

Burr Lawrence Rising + Bates Architects

Several employees of Burr Lawrence Rising + Bates Architects have been named associates.

William "Kit" Burns has been project architect and project manager on numerous educational facilities since joining BLR+B in 1987. He is project manager for the new Auburn High School.

John Wegener has been project architect/manager for more than 20 educational projects. He is completing the addition/modernization of Bainbridge High School and is working as project manager for the new Kent Junior High School.

Hossein Peigahi has worked as project architect and designer for numerous award-winning educational projects since joining BLR+B. He is project designer for the new Auburn High School. Ronald Tjerandsen is project architect for the historic renovation/addition of Bryant Elementary School in the Seattle School District.

Located in Tacoma, Burr Lawrence Rising + Bates Architects principal market is public and private schools. The firm's services include programming and design of educational facilities, overall master planning and bond issue budgeting.

BOORA Architects

Jerry Conduff, associate, has rejoined BOORA Architects in Portland. He is the senior project designer for a new medical education building at Stanford University. Conduff worked with BOORA from 1992 to 1996; prior to that, he was a designer at the New York architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects.

Narada Golden has joined the firm. He is on the design team for a new 72,000-square-foot library and theater communications Building at Linfield College.

Robert Hoffman brings to the firm nine years of experience on projects ranging from education and medical facilities to offices and residences. He is currently working on a $65 million arts and entertainment center for the city of Mesa, Ariz. Prior to joining BOORA, Hoffman worked with two Portland firms as well as firms in North Carolina.

CDi

Gary Williamson has joined CDi Mechanical Engineers as a senior mechanical engineer. He is leading the firm's University of Washington Ambulatory Surgery and Treatment Pavilion project. He has 30 years of project experience in the greater Seattle area, including more than 15 years with Bouillon Inc.

CDi Mechanical Engineers is based in Lynnwood. The firm's principal markets are in higher education, health care, municipal, military and commercial projects.

Fuller/Sears Architects

Steve Johnson has been named principal at Fuller/Sears Architects, a six-year-old Seattle firm.

Prior to joining the firm, he was senior designer at both Callison and G2 Architects.

Johnson has more than 20 years of experience in the design of retail, office, residential and mixed-use urban projects. He is project designer on the renovation of Pier 70 and the retail base of 520 Pike Tower.

INCA Engineers

Tamara Jenkins has recently joined INCA Engineers in Bellevue as a project engineer for the firm's transportation department. She has worked as an engineer for the city of Tacoma and Lockwood, Andrew & Newnam in Dallas.

Reid Middleton

Ron Cameron has joined Reid Middleton as a principal traffic engineer. He will provide technical oversight and quality control of firm-wide transportation planning and traffic engineering projects.

Cameron has more than 30 years of street and highway engineering experience. He comes to Reid Middleton from Gray & Osborne, where he served as the city of Newcastle's interim public works director. He is past president of ITE Washington Section and past chairman of the Urban Traffic Engineers Council.

Based in Everett, Reid Middleton provides civil and structural engineering, planning and surveying services to the street and highway, waterfront, airport, site development, utilities, surveying, and structural-design markets.

Sunset Air

Joseph Bettridge has recently passed the necessary examinations to become a professional mechanical engineer in Washington state.

Roth Hill Engineering Partners

Roth Hill Engineering Partners has added two resident site observers to its construction services team.

Roger Curtis joins the firm with extensive experience in underground utility construction, municipal facility field observation and design review for sewer and water system projects.

Fritz Bright joins the firm after years in the construction field building sewer and water distribution systems, pump stations and storage facilities.

Based in Bellevue, Roth Hill Engineering Partners is a civil engineering firm specializing in municipal water, sewer, storm and street facilities.

Professional Service Industries

Professional Service Industries has hired several new employees.

Michael O'Grady has joined the firm as senior vice president of the Pacific Northwest region. Prior to joining PSI, he was working for Law Engineering of Houston.

Alex Bagarry has been hired as manager of non-destructive examination of materials. He used to work for Hellier & Associates of Anaheim, Calif.

Michael Bosnick has been hired as senior roofing consultant.

Located in Seattle, PSI provides geotechnical and environmental consulting services, construction materials testing and special inspection, chemistry testing and facilities/roofing consulting.

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs, a Seattle law firm, announced that Kristina C. Udall has been elected in the firm’s membership. Udall’s practice involves analyzing, preparing and executing estate plans for large estates. Prior to joining the firm, Udall was assistant dean of development and community relations and executive director of the Law School Foundation for the University of Washington School of Law.

Davis Wright Tremaine

Allen D. Clark has been appointed partner-in-charge of the Seattle law office of Davis Wright Tremaine. Clark, a commercial and international transactions lawyer, serves as outside general counsel to a wide variety of local and national clients and also represents international clients in connection with the structuring, financing and operation of their investments in the United States.

Stafford Suites, Sumner

Stafford Suites, Sumner, a part of Ostrom Management which provides senior health care services and housing, named Judy Amesbury the commuinty relations director of the newly opened 72-unit assisted living facility. Amesbury has years of experience in events planning and marketing and most recently served as director of marketing for the Woodmark at Steel Lake.

Cheney Cowles Museum

A major gift from Avista Corp. to the Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Cheney Cowles Museum has provided seed funding for the establishment of the museum's Center for Plateau Cultural Studies. Avista's contribution will enable the museum to provide a two-year funding for the center's deputy director position. The center will serve as a central resource for gathering, documenting, preserving, interpreting and disseminating the cultural history and ongoing traditions of the regional tribes.

Federal Reserve Bank

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco announced the appointment of Mary Pugh, president and CEO of Seattle-based Pugh Capital Management, to the Seattle branch board as a director. Pugh succeeds Tomio Moriguchi, chairman and CEO of Uwajimaya. Pugh's three-year term began January 1.

Vander Houwen

Rachel Trantor joined Bellevue-based Vander Houwen Public Relations as a PR intern for the winter quarter. Trantor is currently a senior in business administration at Seattle Pacific University.