Jan 10, 2001

Lane Powell Spears Lubersky

Beard

Earnhart

Ronald Beard and William Earnhart have been elected partners at the law firm of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky. Beard will practice in the firm's Seattle office. He is a trial attorney concentrating in commercial litigation. Earnhart concentrates his practice in commercial litigation and will practice out of the firm's Anchorage office.

Davis Wright Tremaine

Geariety

Kimberly Geariety has joined the employment and labor law practice of Davis Wright Tremaine as an associate in the firm's Bellevue office. Geariety brings 20 years of human resources and labor relations experience to her new position. She also has experience in mediation, negotiation and litigation at both the trial and appellate levels.

Heller Ehrman

Anne Voegtien, Gillian Apfel, Matthew Carvalho and Michael Dion have joined the Seattle law firm of Heller Ehrman. Voegtien joins the firm as special counsel in the business practice group. Apfel, Carvalho and Dion join as an associates in the firm's litigation department.

Society for Information Management

The Society for Information Management, a professional organization of the world's IT leaders, announced the installation of its 2001 executive board. Two Seattle-area businessmen were appointed to serve on the board. Steve Brilling, president, Dragonfly Ventures, was appointed vice president of chapter relations and Larry Miller, manager, Boeing Computing and Network Operations Project Management Methods and Resources organization, was appointed vice president of member products.

Bogart Golf

Robert Pacquer, chief financial officer of VaxGen, was named to the advisory board of Bogart Golf, a Bellevue-based golf instruction company. VaxGen is a biotech company in the development stage of producing a vaccine against HIV/AIDS. Pacquer will work specifically on the financial strategies of the company as it continues its national expansion.

Cierra Associates

Saldivar

Espirtu D. Saldivar recently joined Cierra Associates as senior project designer. He has more than six years of professional electrical design and drafting experience. His projects emphasize retail, tenant improvements, multi-family residential and health care facilities. Debbie R. Shimomaye recently joined Cierra as office manager/sales associate.

Entranco

Rael

Ann Rael has been hired as new executive vice-president for human resources at Bellevue’s Entranco, an engineering and environmental consulting firm. In her role at Entranco, she will lead human resource activities company-wide for Entranco’s 14 branches in 9 western states.

Rael has more than 20 years experience managing all facets of organizational development and human resources. Most recently, she served as director of human resources for ContractorHub.com in Kirkland.

Degen & Degen

Roxanne Waltenbaugh is a new interior designer at Degen & Degen in Seattle. She joins the firm from Washington, D.C., where she worked with Brennan Beer Gorman Monk. She specializes in hospital and commercial design.

Hart Crowser

Roger McGinnis has been hired to work in the waterfront services division of Hart Crowser, a Seattle geo-environmental firm. McGinnis has more than 15 years of experience managing chemical analyses for complex environmental cleanup projects for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

John Herzog, a sediment quality specialist, oceanographer and project manager, has been named to lead the firm’s waterfront services division. He provides technical advice to engineers who select and design environmental remediation plans.

JPC Architects, PLLC

JPC Architects, PLLC, a Bellevue-based architectural firm, has hired several employees.

New to the firm’s corporate studio are project managers Bruce Schulte and Marty Jones and CADD designer Lisa Grilley.

Joining the special projects team are architects Pred Milovac and Andre Montelvan and project manager Inna Klepach.

Architect Vince Ojala joins JPC as project manager, Pamela Jones is the firm’s marketing coordinator, Kathy Sweat is the receptionist, and Chad Peterson joins the accounting department.

Phinney/Bischoff Design House

Amy Scheuer has been hired at Phinney/Bischoff Design House as a marketing coordinator. She had worked in the technology and computer-consulting industry and also had experience in the broadcast industry. Dena Taylor is the firm’s new copywriter. Phinney/Bischoff Design House is a Seattle-based graphic design firm specializing in brand development.

Shannon & Wilson

Gayle Guadarrama is the new marketing director at Shannon & Wilson, a geotechnical and environmental consulting firm in Seattle. Previously, Guadarrama was the marketing director at Redmond-based GeoEngineers.

Site Studio Landscape Architecture

Jason Walker, ASLA, has left his position as principal landscape architect and design department manager of Sterling Landscaping, Inc., to begin a new landscape architecture practice that specializes in single-family and multi-family residential community design.

Walker has more than eight years of local project experience and has completed more than 400 residential and nearly 100 commercial and public landscape projects. Site Studio will build on Jason’s project experience that includes contributions to residential communities such as Snoqualmie Ridge, Vintage Community, Trossachs, Harbour Pointe Village, Northwest Landing and public park projects such as the renovation of Green Lake Park, Alki Beach Waterfront Park, Angle Lake Park and multiple public and municipal recreational design projects.

Perteet Engineering

Dan Rude, former deputy director of the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board, has recently joined Perteet Engineering as a senior project manager in the company’s South Puget Sound Regional office in Lakewood. Rude brings more than 30 years of transportation engineering and project management experience to the multi-disciplinary engineering firm.