Apr 04, 2001

Integra Telecom

LaFramboise

Julie LaFramboise has been named field marketing manager for Integra Telecom of Washington, a Kent-based integrated communications provider. LaFramboise will oversee advertising, public relations and product and business development in the state. She joins the company from AT&T where she was an account executive.

Lovsted–Worthington

Lovsted

Young

Carl Lovsted, owner of the Lovsted Co. in Seattle, and Dean Young, owner of Worthington Insurance in Bothell, jointly announced the formation of Lovsted–Worthington, LLC. The two organizations have commenced business as the new entity, with each operating at their existing facility locations. The merger places Lovsted-Worthington in the top 15 locally owned independent insurance agencies in the Puget Sound area, ranked by size. The combined experience and resources enabled them to strengthen current insurance and risk management services.

Weber Marketing Group

Pilcher

Weber Marketing Group, a Seattle-based advertising agency, has hired Jeffry Pilcher as creative director. Pilcher will assume responsibility for the agency’s 10-person creative staff and oversee the development of advertising and branding materials for the firm’s clients. Prior to joining Weber, Pilcher was creative director for Sharp Advertising in Las Vegas and executive creative director for AMG, an Anchorage advertising agency.

King County

The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada has honored King County for its comprehensive annual financial reporting. King County's 1999 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report received the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting, the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and financial reporting.

State School Director's Association

David Brine has been selected as director of communications and marketing for the Washington State School Director's Association (WSSDA). Brine has served the past 13 years as communications director for the Washington State Office of the Secretary of State.

Symonds

Symonds Consulting Engineers has hired Kurt Hoppen as director of projects. Hoppen will provide training, mentoring and monitoring of Symonds' project managers -- overseeing scopes, schedules and budgets. At previous firms, he has worked as director of projects and quality assurance director.

KPFF

KPFF Consulting Engineers recently named Mark Gedosch as an associate. Gedosch is assigned on location at Sound Transit to manage station facilities design for the Martin Luther King Jr. Way section of the Rainier Valley Link light rail. Previously, he was responsible for civil plans and specifications for Sound Transit's Kent and Tukwila commuter rail stations. Other recent projects include the Whitney Hill Bridge for King County and Southeast Eighth Street reconstruction for the city of Bellevue.

Boxwood

Joe Farmer is the new director of graphic design at Boxwood, which provides architectural, interior design and planning services for a range of projects. Farmer has won several national awards for his simple, clean design aesthetic. Boxwood recently acquired Plow Creative, a graphics firm specializing in the design of Web sites, corporate identity programs, signage, wayfinding packages and specialty marketing pieces.

Merritt+Pardini

Merritt+Pardini announced that Michael Meadows has joined the firm as director of the Transit Facilities Studio. Meadows worked with Merritt+Pardini as a project manager, managing the firm’s design of the Kitsap Transit Maintenance and Operations Base. Current projects that he is managing include: Port Angeles International Gateway Transportation Center, Sequim Transit Center and the Lakewood and South Tacoma Commuter Rail Stations.

GeoEngineers

GeoEngineers recently added Dawn Keegan as senior ecologist, Joey Hickey as project manager in its Portland office and Amy King as marketing coordinator in its Redmond office. Keegan's areas of expertise are endangered and threatened species, including preparation of biological assessments and evaluations and environmental impact statement preparation.

Hickey brings more than five years of experience providing environmental consulting services to both the private and public sector. His experience includes underground storage tank decommissioning, subsurface investigations, ESAs, CERCLA investigations and remedial investigations. Hickey is a member of the Willamette Chapter of Certified Hazardous Material Managers, and a member of the Oregon Association of Environmental Professionals. King has a wide range of skills including proposal management, database management, public relations, technical writing and various computer skills.

MulvannyG2 Architects

MulvannyG2 Architects has promoted David Kofahl and Kant Chutikul to design principals, and Peter Lian to senior project designer at its Seattle office. Kofahl will lead the design teams of MulvannyG2's large-scale, mixed-use projects, both regionally and nationally. Chutikul's responsibilities include master planning, conceptual and architectural design, supervising design projects and ensuring design quality throughout the firm. Kofahl specializes in master planning and programming. He has more than 20 years experience designing large-scale mixed-use, retail and resort projects in the U.S. and Asia.

Chutikul specializes in the design of large-scale and complex projects. He has more than 12 years of architecture experience and has designed more than 7 million square feet of office, hotels, sports facilities and high-rise residential projects in the U.S. and Thailand. As senior project designer, Lian will work with project managers and job captains to ensure quality design is integrated into a wide variety of MulvannyG2 projects. He will also continue to have a leading role on the master planning, zoning and urban design of the firm's large-scale, mixed-use projects.

thinktank

thinktank, a marketing company headquartered in Chicago, has opened a Seattle office. The communications company has added two new staff members who will be contributing their account management and creative expertise to the thinktank team.

Joining thinktank will be Rob Topel, a 12-year veteran account director; and Juan Mayans, a bilingual account director and project manager. The backgrounds of Topel and Mayans will add to the diverse team comprising thinktank. They will also help launch two critical thinktank initiatives: development of opportunities throughout the region and establishment of professional partnerships with the Hispanic and Latin American ad community