Jan 02, 2002

Shannon & Wilson

Richard Martin was promoted to manager of Shannon & Wilson’s groundwater services group. Martin has 12 years of consulting experience and a background in both environmental and geotechnical groundwater projects. Current projects include dewatering design for the Waterfront Marriott Hotel in Seattle; groundwater and heat-transport modeling on Grand Cayman Island for the Carribbean Utilities Corporation; and soil and groundwater evaluation for the Ballard Interbay North Manufacturing Industrial Center Brownfields Pilot Project for the Port of Seattle.

Berger/ABAM

Joseph Galloway has joined Berger/ABAM Engineers' Federal Way office. Galloway’s background includes design and inspection of building and transportation projects. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Washington State University.

Kelly Pitera recently joined the Federal Way headquarters. Pitera’s background includes concrete and soils testing, transportation and structural design, and construction management. She received her bachelor’s in civil engineering from Villanova University in Philadelphia.

Melinda Webb has also joined the Federal Way headquarters as marketing coordinator. Webb’s background focuses on proposal and qualifications coordination, business development event planning and coordination and data base management. She received her bachelor’s degree in international business from Linfield College in Oregon.

Vicki Shapley recently joined the Federal Way headquarters as a senior environmental scientist. Prior to joining Berger/ABAM, Shapley worked with King County Department of Transportation (DOT) as an acting manager and supervisor of the environmental unit, working with all sectors in King County DOT. Shapley’s 18 years of experience with King County consists of project environmental review components for transportation projects, from local to federal jurisdictions. She has a bachelor’s in environmental health and microbiology from Colorado State University.

Elliott Bay Design

Michael Minnig recently joined the structural engineering team at Elliott Bay Design Group. He holds a bachelor's in maritime systems engineering from Texas A&M at Galveston and a master's in Ocean Engineering from Virginia Tech. Before relocating to the Northwest, Minnig worked for Northrop Grumman at their Ingalls Shipbuilding facility in Pascagoula, Miss. His first project is to model and perform structural analysis on a 320-by-126 foot dry dock facility.

Kennedy/Jenks

Kennedy/Jenks Consultants announced that Allen C. Shewey has joined the Pacific Northwest region as manager of the Portland/Tri-Cities Public Works group.

Shewey has background in water resources, storm drainage, sewer collection and pumping, water storage, water and wastewater treatment, and streets and parking facilities. He has served as principal in charge or project manager on a range of public works projects, with experience in all project phases from planning through design and construction administration. Recent significant projects include stream restoration and water quality improvements for an existing discharge to a Bureau of Reclamation wasteway, a storm water pump station evaluation, and restoration of irrigation siphons in Washington. Wastewater projects include treatment facilities using sequencing batch reactor and oxidation ditch technologies, wastewater facility planning and sewer studies, wastewater effluent discharge and permitting to water quality limited streams and innovative subsurface wastewater reuse.

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Parsons Brinckerhoff, a transportation engineering firm, announced its new area manager for Seattle is Jared Smith, former regional transit manager for the city of Seattle. Smith succeeds Richard Page, now a principal consultant with the management consulting division of Parsons Brinckerhoff.

TT/KCM

Tony Melone, in watershed management with Tetra Tech/KCM in Seattle, has been selected to participate in a two-year agriculture and forestry leadership development program. As one of the members of the Washington Agriculture and Forestry Leadership Program, Melone will attend 16 seminars designed to enhance leadership skills and increase motivation. The seminars are jointly sponsored by institutions of higher education and agriculture and forestry-related businesses. The program is conducted under the auspicies of the Washington Agriculture and Forestry Education Foundation

Mayes Testing Engineers

Stuart Carter has been promoted to manage Mayes Testing Engineers' Special Projects Division. Carter has been with the company for over four years and is responsible for handling condition surveys, seismic upgrades and pachometer testing. Mayes' Special Projects Division has been in high demand since the Feb. 28 earthquake. The company has offices in Everett, Tacoma and Portland.

Dec 31, 2001

Harborstone Credit Union

Four employees of Harborstone Credit Union in Tacoma have been recognized with Employees of the Year awards. receiving the recognition are: Richard Clark, member service, South Hill; Vickie Holden, support services; Gary Platt, administrative services; and Daisy Ruiz, member service, Bonney Lake. Harborstone serves 54,000 members primarily in the South Sound market from Auburn to Olympia.

Pratt Fine Arts Center

Theressia Hazelmyer is the new development director and Rodney Kessler is the new facilities director at Pratt Fine Arts Center. Hazelmeyer was formerly development director for Big Brothers and Sisters of King and Pierce Counties; Kessler has been a Pratt instructor for the past eight years. Pratt also elected ten new members to its board of directors: Elias Alvord, Cheryl Berenson, Beth Davies, Manya Drobnack, Pam Johnson, Daniel Lipkie, Roger MacPherson, Ann Suter, Ron Woods and Cheryl Yokoyama.

Property Casualty Underwriters Society

John W. Reynolds Jr. has been sworn in as president of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society for 2001-2002. Reynolds served previously as the society's president elect. He is currently vice president-agency development for Safeco Insurance.

Tektronix

For the second consecutive year, Tektronix has received top awards from Broadcast & Production Italia magazine. The business was honored with the Top Award for Television and first prize in the Studio Measurement Instruments for Television categories. Headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., Tektronix has operations in 25 countries worldwide