Dec 19, 2001

Shannon & Wilson

Shannon & Wilson announced Rohn Abbott is the firm’s new president. With Shannon & Wilson for 33 years, Abbott worked as a project manager in the firm’s Seattle branch for six years prior to opening the Fairbanks office in 1974. He will continue as the Fairbanks branch manager and chairman of the board of directors.

St. Louis branch manager, Richard Frueh will serve as executive vice president. Frueh is also a member of the board of directors. Gerard Buechel, the recently appointed Seattle branch manager, will also continue as a member of the board of directors. Buechel has been with the firm since 1980.

Shannon & Wilson is a geotechnical engineering and environmental consulting firm with 220 professionals located in Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oregon and Washington. The firm’s corporate headquarters is in Seattle.

Krazan

Manda Kunze has joined Krazan & Associates as operations manager. Kunze will be coordinating operational functions for Krazan's construction testing and inspection department in the company's Vancouver office. Kunze has 10 years of construction inspection and testing experience and has served on the Oregon Council of Engineering Laboratories as vice president. Krazan & Associates provides geotechnical/environmental engineering, construction materials testing and inspection and construction quality control.

Abacus

Ronald Herbst has joined Abacus Engineered Systems as vice president of energy services, responsible for leading the performance contracting group. Herbst comes to Abacus from Emcor Energy Services, where he was director of performance contracting.

Larry Hamburg has joined Abacus as director of business development for southern Washington and Oregon. As a liaison for the performance contracting group, his primary responsibilities include working with current customers and identifying new energy projects. Formerly, Hamburg was managing partner for Phoenix Engineered Systems, which retrofitted steam systems for better efficiency.

Charlie Peters joins the engineering team as a CAD technician. Peters had been working at Abacus on contract since August before becoming full time staff. Amee Quiriconi, an associate and the lead lighting designer, recently earned her certification as a LEED-accredited professional. Certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program signifies expertise in all aspects of sustainable design.

This past year, Quiriconi also completed the Sustainable Building Advisor Program. This program is offered through Seattle Central Community College and co-sponsored by Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities-Resources Conservation. She has been working in energy conservation and architectural lighting since 1995.

Abacus' current energy work includes the largest performance contract for the state of Washington, a $17 million campus-wide project at Central Washington University, and construction management services for a $15 million project for the Rondout Valley Central School District in Accord, N.Y.

Penhallegan

Chris Rhinehart of Penhallegan Associates Consulting Engineering recently obtained LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Rhinehart has 20 years of civil site design experience with an emphasis on stormwater management and protection of environmentally sensitive sites. She was the firm's civil engineer for Seattle Public Utility's recently opened Cedar River Watershed Headquarters Expansion and Education Center in North Bend.

Core Design

Core Design, an Eastside planning/civil engineering/surveying firm, announced Stephen J. Schrei has been promoted to professional land surveyor. Schrei is working on Jefferson at Mill Creek, Kingsridge and Kensington. He specializes in platting, right of way determinations, route surveys, boundary line adjustments and records of survey.

ESM

ESM Consulting Engineers of Federal Way promoted Andrew J. Martin to senior vice president and Susan M. Swanson to vice president. Martin will oversee the professional staff as director of engineering and planning. Swanson will be assistant director of engineering with special emphasis on planning communities. Martin has been with ESM since 1990, and Swanson joined the firm in 1991. Headquartered in Federal Way, ESM has an additional office in Bothell.

Reid Middleton

Joon Kim has joined Reid Middleton's planning group as an entry-level planner. Kim is responsible for providing peak-load land use review services for the city of Seattle Department of Design, Construction and Land Use and planning related research, as well as for preparing and writing professional documents including EISs. Prior to Reid Middleton, Kim interned with the city of Lynnwood and Mukilteo.

Walker - Macy

Walker - Macy of Portland has named Bryan Cole and Mauricio Villarreal as associates. They are part of the team guiding the continued growth and evolution of the Portland-based landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm.

A registered landscape architect, Cole has been part of Walker - Macy’s staff since 1995. He is an experienced project manager who has worked on a diverse range of assignments including site design for Russellville Housing, Reed College’s Landscape master plan, the Forest Ecosystem Research Laboratory at Oregon State University, and design of the Mission Interpretive Trail for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. He is project manager for one of the largest projects currently in the office, Airport Way Landscape Concept Master Plan for the Port of Portland.

Villarreal has 15 years of experience focused on urban design and higher education planning and design projects. A registered landscape architect, he worked for firms in Tokyo and New York prior to joining Walker - Macy in 1995. His project experience includes the South Waterfront Park Extension on the Willamette River in downtown Portland, the Belmont Dairy mixed-use development, and the Beaverton City Library.

Lane Powell Spears Lubersky

William M. Krause has joined the law firm of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky as an associate. His practice will focus on corporate finance and securities.

Sedgwick Rd.

Sedgwick Rd. added five new staff members to its roster. Steve Payonzek, recently servicing the Nike and Polaroid accounts at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, is senior copywriter; Dave Sakamoto, previously with Odiorne Wilde Narraway + Partners in San Francisco, is senior art director; and Debra Bednar, previously with Arnold Worldwide in San Francisco, has been named account supervisor. In the company's broadcast production department, Jane Jacobsen has been named director of production and Monica Pasternak is the new business affairs manager/producer. Sedgwick Rd. was formerly known as McCann-Erickson. Clients include Continental Mills, Seattle Art Museum and the Seattle International Film Festival.

GA Design

David Traina has joined GA Design, an Eastside graphic design firm, as senior designer. He has a degree in graphic design and comes to GA with nine years of experience. Providing solutions for print and interactive media, including corporate branding, packaging, annual reports and direct mail, Traina has served local and national clients such as Microsoft and Nintendo.

Onvia.com

Onvia.com named Clayton Lewis to president and chief operating officer. Lewis joined the company in March of 1999, serving as part of the management team that took the company public in March of 2000. Most recently, Lewis served as vice president of marketing for the Seattle company. Onvia.com helps businesses secure government contracts and government agencies find suppliers online.

Association of Washington Business

The Association of Washington Business gave Honeywell Air Transport Systems, based in Redmond, its 2001 Frank Russell Award. The award honor a company that offers employees a range of resources such as flex-time, innovative leave programs as well as recognition programs and a strong compensation package. The association also honored these businesses in various categories: Hobart Machine Products, Echo Bay Minerals, MAL Inc. Certificate, BP Cherry Point, Labor Ready, TERRA Resource Group, Underwriters Laboratories, Camas Empire Health Services, Kaiser Permanente, P. Robert Brown, Roth Hill Engineering Partners, Crown Distributing, Eddie Bauer, Wizards of the Coast and Solectron.

U.S. Bank

U.S. Bank is the leading Small Business Administration 7a lender in the SBA’s Seattle district for 2001. The ranking is based on dollar volume. U.S. Bank provided more than $19 million in SBA-guaranteed loans to 53 Western Washington small businesses during fiscal year 2001. The bank was also the leading SBA lender in three other SBA districts: Portland, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Polaris Venture Partners

Dave Barrett, Bob Metcalfe, and Christoph Westphal have been named general partners at Polaris Venture Partners. Metcalfe, Ethernet inventor, founder of 3Com, and InfoWorld columnist, joined the firm in January 2001. Westphal joined the firm as a principal in June 2000. Barrett joined Polaris after a 21-year career as a senior operating executive with Lotus Development, Rational Software and Calico. Polaris is a venture capital firm with offices in Boston and Seattle.

Loudeye Technologies

Loudeye Technologies appointed Adrian Cosentini chief audio engineer of its VidiPax subsidiary. VidiPax specializes in magnetic media restoration. Cosentini was chief audio engineer for the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound and has been involved in projects such as audio restoration for Woody Guthrie Publications, the New York Philharmonic and the American Institute of Physics. Loudeye provides services and infrastructure for delivery of digital media and streaming content in Seattle