Nov 28, 2000

Lease Crutcher Lewis

Three new project engineers have been hired for Lease Crutcher Lewis' Special Projects Division. Included are: Shawn Queen, Brendon Warme and Joshua Johnson. Queen holds bachelor's degrees in architecture and urban planning from the University of Washington. His current project is a tenant improvement for Targeted Genetics. Warme recently served as an intern for the company and holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from the University of Washington. He is working on tenant improvements at the Starbucks' headquarters. Johnson is also a recent intern with a construction management degree from the UW. He is helping with Union Bay's tenant improvements.

Bentall Corp.

Bentall Corp. has named John Carlson site project manager for its new Summit Office Center in Bellevue. He will work with field operations to ensure safety and quality, conduct building systems analysis, act as a site manager and interface with the construction team on three building complexes now under construction. Prior to joining Bentall, Carlson worked as a project manager for Baugh Construction and a construction manager for NT.

Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell

Buckhalter

Grissom

Schauer

Scott

J. Bradley Buckhalter, Stone Grissom, Jason Schauer and Timothy Scott have joined the law firm of Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim, which has offices in both Seattle and Tacoma. Buckhalter joins the firm with experience as both a judicial clerk and a legal assistant. Grissom joins the firm after serving as a legal investigator for the King County Public Defender's office. Schauer's legal experience includes working as an intern for the Attorney General of Washington and for the Notre Dame legal aid clinic. Scott has worked as a summer associate at Lukins & Annis in Spokane and as a deputy clerk at the Office of the Clerk U.S. District Court in the eastern district of Washington state.

Bader Martin Ross & Smith

Bader Martin Ross & Smith, a Seattle-based accounting and consulting firm announced 10 new hires and one promotion. The new hires are: Christine Hill, manager; Gary Chen, staff accountant; Mira Freiberg, tax department; Nicole Rowley, staff accountant; Young Chung, staff accountant; Linda Ferrera, staff accountant; Keith Tyacke, senior; Sabine Pradhan, senior; Helen Wright, accounting technician; and, Karianna Heimerman, accounting technician. Ryan Berry was promoted to tax senior. Berry has been with the firm since December 1998.

Absolute Future

Absolute Future, a Bellevue-based developer of secure communications systems, announced that it has named Scott Whitmore vice president, sales and marketing for its SafeMessage secure messaging product. Whitmore joined the company in July as a consultant to the sales and marketing team with responsibilities for developing the sales and marketing plan for the SafeMessage product launch. He joined the company full time last month in his current role.

FizzyLab

FizzyLab, a Seattle-based developer of automated information delivery solutions for online businesses, announced that Rip Warendorf was appointed senior vice president, business operations. Warendorf, a former executive at Corbis and iVillage, brings to FizzyLab more than 15 years of sales and business development experience in the technology and publishing industries.

Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless, a national wireless communications provider, has named D.J. Hulet as vice president of sales operations for the Northwest area. Hulet is responsible for leading the company's integrated sales and distribution efforts across all four regions in the Northwest area. She is a 23-year veteran of the telecommunications industry, most recently serving as customer service general manager for BTCellnet in the United Kingdom.

Lithia Motors

Lithia Motors of Medford, Ore. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Columbia Center Ford in Tri-Cities. In October of last year Lithia completed the acquisition of a Dodge store, and in May of this year Lithia acquired a Honda store in the same market area. With this most recent acquisition, Lithia now operates 107 franchises in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho and South Dakota. Lithia sells 26 brands of new vehicles at 50 stores and over the Internet at http://www.lithia.com