Mar 02, 2000

Stanislaw Ashbaugh

The Seattle law firm of Stanislaw Ashbaugh has added two new associates to the business and employment law group. Michael R. Fields is new in the employment law group and will focus on counseling employers. Jennifer L. Mentor is new in the business law group. She will concentrate on corporate and securities law, trademark law and business litigation.

Safeco

Safeco has announced an alliance with Concur Technologies of Redmond to deliver e-business solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. Safeco will make an investment in Concur, which recently launched a new product, Concur Business Advantage, that connects businesses directly to suppliers for price discounts. Safeco Life and Investments President Randy Talbot will take a seat on the Concur board as part of Safeco's effort to offer more e-commerce solutions.

Northwest Prostate Institute

Northwest Hospital announcfed that its Northwest Prostate Institute has affiliated with Gordon Grado of Scottsdale, Ariz., who will become deputy medical director of the brachytherapy program in Seattle. Haakon Ragde is medical director of the program. Both will continue to be involved in the brachytherapy program in Scottsdale. The ultrasound-guided outpatient procedure offers rapid recovery time and minimal impact on patients.

Olympic Venture Partners

Kirkland-based Olympic Venture Partners, which specializes in early-stage high technology and Internet venture capital in the Pacific Northwest, has been named the leading investment venture capital firm in the Pacific Northwest for 1999 by the Pricewaterhouse Coopers' Money Tree Survey. The survey, ranked by number of investments, places Olympic Venture in the leading spot with 28 deals closed in 1999. This is the third consecutive year that OVP has ranked first in the survey. Venture capital also hit new highs in Washington state in 1999, with more

ZAAZ.com

ZAAZ.com of Seattle has hired Andi Rusu to join its team as art director. Rusu was formerly art director in Caribiner International's Seattle office and will help to advance ZAAZ.com's online creative design efforts. ZAAZ.com optimizes proprietary Internet publishing tools for businesses including Microsoft, Washington Mutual, Ackerley Group and Compaq.

Best Cellars

Best Cellars will open a new store in Kirkland Parkplace on the corner of Sixth and Central in downtown Kirkland. The New York-based chain specializes in affordable wine priced at $10 or under and categorized by taste. The new store will open this spring.

Mar 01, 2000

BRC

BRC Acoustics, a Seattle firm, has promoted two employees and hired a third new staff member.

Ioana Park, who recently became a licensed professional engineer in acoustics, has been promoted to senior acoustical consultant. She specializes in environmental noise control.

Mohamed Ait Allaoua, who has been with BRC for three years as a technician, has been promoted to acoustical consultant. He works primarily in architectural acoustics.

Andi Strasser recently joined the firm as a technician. He will be conducting analyses of mechanical noise control and vibration.

CBG

CBG Consulting Engineers, a mechanical and electrical engineering firm, has named John Karasaki, energy services manager, as an associate. He has been with the firm for five years.

Dale Heberling, electrical engineer, also has been promoted to an associate. He has more than 13 years of industry experience with a background in electrical and life safety systems. His current projects include two new elementary schools for the Hillsboro (Ore.) School District and the Northwest School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland.

DCI

Kathryn Emery will head the civil department at the newly relocated Everett office of DCI Engineers. She is currently civil project manager at the Bellevue corporate office. Emery has nearly 20 years of professional experience.

Her current projects include Eastgate Plaza, a multistory office building in the Eastgate area of King County, the Northup Commons Office Building in Bellevue, the Blier Office Building in Kirkland and the Cedar Park Assembly of God in Bothell.

DCI Engineers is a structural and civil engineering firm based in Bellevue with branch offices in Everett, Spokane and Portland.

David Evans and Associates

David Evans and Associates has hired Dennis Derickson as a senior planner in its Everett office. Derickson worked as a city and county planner in Washington state for about 30 years.

He is working on the Harbor Pointe Master Plan in Mukilteo and the Cassidy Ridge Development in Snohomish County.

Eric Williams, who recently passed his landscape architecture examination, was promoted to project manager for the firm's landscape architecture group in Tacoma.

Based in Bellevue, DEA is a consulting firm of engineers, scientists, surveyors and planners.

Degenkolb Engineers

David Roggenkamp has been promoted to principal at Degenkolb Engineers, a structural engineering firm based in Portland. He joined the firm in 1997 and has 25 years of professional experience in the design of structures, rehabilitation, seismic analysis and excavation shoring systems.

Roggenkamp is the project manger for several projects, including a seismic upgrade for the city of Portland's groundwater pump station and the Portland International Airport's enplaning roadway canopy.

Entranco

John Lauritzen has joined Entranco in Bellevue as the new survey project manager. He has more than 25 years of surveying experience, working on such projects as the Intracorp Seaway Industrial Business Park in Everett and the Trossachs residential subdivisions in Sammamish.

HBB

Wayne Williams has joined Halvorson, Beach & Bower as an associate and project manager. He has 11 years of professional experience with a focus on educational, office, recreational, health care, restaurant and institutional projects.

He is working on the Island County Courthouse remodel, a groundwater heat pump system for the Lake Washington School District and the new music building at Edmonds Community College.

Based in Seattle, HBB provides mechanical engineering services and performs energy and cost studies.

Sparling

Sparling has named James Degnan as a principal in the firm. Degnan, who has been with Sparling for five years, has more than 21 years experience in the design of power, lighting and emergency and security systems for commercial, industrial, aviation and transportation facilities.

He is in charge of the central terminal redevelopment at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, electrical design for a 60,000-square-foot seminar building at The Evergreen State College and electrical design for a three-story office building and garage at Redmond Town Center.

W&H Pacific

Tom Huntsinger has been named vice president of Portland operations at W&H Pacific, a planning, engineering and surveying firm based in Seattle. He worked as deputy general manager of the transportation division for an international company.

Michael Schmid has been named vice president of project management of the Portland office. He is the incoming president of the Consulting Engineers Council of Oregon.

The firm has also named James Purkey as survey director of the Seattle office. Most recently, he was assistant survey director for Entranco.

INCA

Mike Gillespie has joined INCA Engineers in Bellevue as a senior project manager in INCA's transportation department. His 20 years of engineering experience includes several years with the cities of Shoreline and Lynnwood and 12 years with the King County Department of Public Works, Roads Division.

JD White Co.

JD White Co., a Portland/Vancouver-based land use, natural resources and public involvement firm, announced several staff additions. Donna R. Robinson was appointed manager of Oregon operations. Robinson was previously a project team manager with the Oregon Department of Transportation. Karen Ciocia was appointed public involvement manager. Ciocia was program development manager for the city of Vancouver prior to joining JD White. Corrinne Humphrey joined the firm as an assistant planner. Humphrey was previously a land use planner and public involvement specialist with Pacific Rim Resources in Portland.

American Safari Cruises

Dan Blanchard has been promoted to president and CEO of American Safari Cruises, a Lynnwood-based operator of yacht cruises in Alaska and the California wine country. Blanchard was the company's vice president and has more than 20 years' experience in the cruise industry. Prior to joining American Safari, he was general manager of operations for Alaska Sightseeing/Cruise West.

Porter, Kohli & LeMaster

Porter, Kohli & LeMaster, a new law firm in Seattle, has opened in the Rainier Tower. The principals are Benjamin G. Porter, Laurie D. Kohli and David A. LeMaster. Traci L. Wall is an associate lawyer with the firm and Lyman W. Hull is of counsel. The firm is a general practice law firm with an emphasis on commercial litigation, business transactions and tax planning.

U.S. Bank

Robin C. Russell, joined the Seattle offices of U.S. Bank as vice president in its private financial services group. Russell has been in the financial services industry since 1982 and most recently served as vice president and manager of trust administration for Northwestern Trust and Investors Advisory Co.

Northwest Institute of Acupuncture

Laura Bradburn has joined the Seattle-based Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine board of directors. Bradburn is a licensed acupuncturist, a licensed massage therapist, owner of Aasgard Acupuncture & Massage Clinic and founding member of Maternity Acupuncture and Massage Associates.