Nov 08, 2000

Boora Architects

Helms

Valian

Williams

Wilm

Four new employees have joined Portland-based Boora Architects, bringing the firm's total 106.

Calvert Helms is project architect for a 23,000-square-foot office building in northwest Portland. Prior to working for Boora, she was with Thompson Vaivoda Associates in Portland and firms in San Francisco.

Michio Valian has been a team member on the new $45 million National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. He is also working on the design of a clubhouse at Pacific Dunes, a new golf course on the southern Oregon coast.

Hunter Williams recently completed work on a new music building and finished interior improvements to a Niketown store in San Francisco. He previously worked for Emmons Architects and Dull Olson Weekes Architects of Portland.

Petra Wilm, who recently received a master's degree in architecture from the University of Portland, is working on the Railroad Freedom Project.

Core Design

McNaughton

Hermansen

Core Design, a Bellevue planning, civil engineering and surveying firm, has hired Malcolm McNaughton as a land planner. He has three years of experience in local land development and project entitlement.

Lafe Hermansen also joins the firm as a land planner. He has experience in residential site planning, municipal redevelopment planning, landscape planning and landscape construction project management.

Baylis Architects

Baylis Architects of Bellevue has hired several new employees. Monika Leutenegger, a recent graduate from the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz, Germany, has joined the firm as an intern. She is working on the Bellevue Overlake Office and Redmond 85th Street office projects.

Christine Hatcher, a Texas A&M graduate with a background in historic preservation, also has joined the firm as an intern. She also is currently working on the Redmond 85th Street Office project.

Bree Carey returns to Baylis Architects as graphic designer. Grace Suryani, a recent architectural graduate from Catholic University of Farahyangan, Indonesia, has joined the firm as an intern. She is working on the Bellevue Overlake office building, a mixed-use project in Kirkland, and a Barnes & Noble store in Spokane.

Wendy Lee has been hired as an interior designer. She is working on a Holiday Inn in Issaquah.

Tina Boyd has been hired as office manager. Before working for Baylis, she worked in the utilities industry and for a Seattle law firm.

Boxwood

Jeff Phillips has joined Boxwood, a Seattle architectural firm, as an intern architect. He is working on the Stillwater Creek Vineyard visitor center in Royal City, Wash., and is creating 3-D computer models of the McClellan Street light rail transit station in Seattle.

McLellan & Copenhagen

M. Reza Agahian has been promoted to principal at McLellan & Copenhagen LLC, a Seattle firm specializing in scientific laboratory design. He has more than 11 years experience with the company in the planning, design and construction administration of scientific research and teaching facilities. His current projects include the University of California's Riverside Physical Science Building and the University of British Columbia's Michael Smith Building Vancouver.

Mark Osborn, who has 20 years of professional experience, has been promoted to associate principal. His projects include Millennium Pharmaceuticals' genomic research building in Cambridge, Mass., and the National Marine Fisheries Service Honolulu laboratory renewal project in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Michele Brittany, who has been with the firm for one year, has been promoted to business development. She is managing the marketing department.

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects has hired 10 new employees, which expands the Seattle-based firm's staff to a total of 67.

The new employees are: Naomi Darling, architectural designer, who is working on a private residence on Mercer Island; Peter Brunner, architect, who is project architect for the Tacoma Art Museum in association with Antoine Predock; Elizabeth Bianchi Conklin, architect; Timothy Gudgel, architectural designer, who also is working on the Tacoma Art Museum; John Riordan, architectural designer, whose current projects are the Newman Student Center at the University of Washington and the Mission Hill Winery at Kelowna, B.C.; Joyce Larson, bookkeeper; John Mrozek, architect, who in association with the Frye Art Museum is working on the design of Nitze-Stagen's Museum Tower project; Kee Song, architect, who is working on a private residence in Bellevue; Supatra "Shikki" Huangyutitham, architectural designer, who is working on the Tacoma Art Museum Project; and Debbie Kennedy, interior designer, whose projects include the Newman Student Center at the University of Washington, the Frye Art Museum and several private residences.

Hamilton/Sanderson

Manahan

Eaton

Hamilton/Sanderson, a Seattle-based marketing, advertising and public relations firm, has added Katy Manahan as office manager and Jamie Eaton as assistant account coordinator. Manahan is currently working to complete her bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Phoenix. Eaton earned his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Washington.

Davis Wright Tremaine

Cai

Rongwei Cai has joined the international law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine as a partner in the firm's Seattle office. In mid-November Cai will relocate to Shanghai and will take the helm as the office's chief representative designate and resident partner. His practice will concentrate on foreign investment in China, international business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications and technology law.

Immunex

Immunex Corp., a Seattle-based biopharmaceutical company, announced the promotions of Robert Bettencourt as vice president of managed care, Edison Russell as vice president of specialty therapeutics sales, and Michael Ambielli as senior director of commercial operations. Bettencourt will be responsible for building strategic alliances with managed care business partners. Russell will focus on sales initiatives for Leukine, Novantrone, and other Immunex specialty therapeutics products. A new commercial operations group has been created, headed by Ambielli. This group will provide support to both the specialty therapeutics and Enbrel franchises.

Hablador

Hablador, a Seattle-based company specializing in enterprise-level Web-content management, announced that Barbara Thompson has joined its executive team as vice president of administration. Thompson has more than 15 years of software industry experience, including a five-year stint with one of Seattle's first Internet companies, Starwave/Infoseek.

Eddie Bauer

Eddie Bauer, the Redmond-based apparel and accessories company, announced two new appointments in its apparel division -- Jarlath Mellett to senior vice president, design and product development, and Stephen Donnelly to vice president, general merchandise manager, men's apparel. Mellett will be responsible for the development and design of almost all Eddie Bauer product lines. Donnelly will be responsible for communicating product vision, business strategies and overseeing business operations for the men's apparel line.