Jan 23, 2002

Birdstep Technology

Han-Arne L'orange is the new CEO of Birdstep Technology's U.S. headquarters in Seattle. Previously L'orange was a partner at Datum AS, a privately held investment company and one of Birdstep's shareholders, located Norway. Birdstep, based in Oslo, is a developer of high performance, small footprint databases and wireless-enabling technologies and recently opened its Seattle office.

SMS, Settlement Services

SMS, Settlement Services has acquired InfoStream of Tacoma. InfoStream has been providing software solutions to the escrow and title market since 1984. SMS is headquartered in Orange, Calif., with offices in Tacoma, Cleveland and Milpitas, Calif.

Seattle Goodwill

Seattle Goodwill has appointed Lauriann Reynolds to its board of directors. Reynolds is currently business development manager for Pemco Insurance in Seattle.

Washington Asparagus Commission

The Washington Asparagus Commission appointed Alan Schreiber as executive director. Schreiber is a previous administrator of the Washington State Commission on Pesticide Registration. Schreiber succeeds Margaret Webring who recently retired as executive director. Schreiber faces an upcoming referendum vote brought by a minority grower constituency to challenge the existence of the commission.

Microsoft

Don Box has joined Microsoft as an architect in the company's .NET Developer and Platform Evangelism Group. Box, is an educator, authority on the Component Object Model (COM), co-author of the Simple Object Access Protocol specification, and coiner of the term "COM is Love." Box will help develop Microsoft's XML Web services architecture.

Columbia Bank

Ellen Dunn who recently joined Columbia Bank as a vice president will be the new manager of the proposed Columbia Bank branch in downtown Gig Harbor. Dunn was previously with Key Bank as a branch manager personal banker. Until the completion of the new branch, she will be based at Columbia Bank's Fosdick Drive Northwest branch in Gig Harbor.

Perkins Coie

The law firm of Perkins Coie has appointed Evelyn Cruz Sroufe as a partner in its Seattle office corporate finance group. Previously, Sroufe was president and CEO of The WebSea Group and held executive positions at Visio and Microsoft. Her practice will focus on acquisitions and takeover defense and corporate governance.

Moyer Foundation

The Moyer Foundation’s board of directors hired Gary Pollock as its new executive director. Pollock was previously executive director of the Stroum Jewish Community Center

Foushee & Associates

Britt Slone has joined Bellevue-based Foushee & Associates as a principal and director of business development. Slone worked the past 20 years at McCarthy and SDL, which became McCarthy after the national contractor bought it out. His experience in team build projects and his network of contacts is expected to add depth to the Foushee team. Slone grew up on the Eastside and attended the University of Washington.

CRI team

Jeff O'Boyle has been hired as the project manager for the new jail building that is part of the Snohomish County's Campus Redevelopment Initiative (CRI) project. O'Boyle was project manager in land development and facilities construction for the county's Paine Field Airport. Also joining the CRI team is Connie Lewis, a former consultant for URS. Lewis is the team's communications coordinator. She has over 28 years of experience in public and media relations, advertising and community outreach. Her duties at CRI include internal and external communications. In addition to the jail, the CRI project includes an administrative building, parking garage and plaza. Work will begin this summer and finish up in mid-2005.

NBBJ

Glenn

Williams

NBBJ has added two terminal design architects to its aviation architecture studio, enhancing its design services for transportation clients. Joining as design principals are J. Lee Glenn and Roxanne L. Williams, who have a broad range of background on large and medium-scale public projects, with a particular focus on aviation and multimodal passenger terminals. At a crucial time for airport design, these new aviation architects will strengthen NBBJ’s aviation design capabilities to ensure creative responses to the new passenger service, security and economic challenges ahead for airports.

Glenn joins NBBJ from Washington D.C., and was formerly a design principal and vice president with HNTB Corp. Glenn uses a collaborative design process to address architectural design problems in innovative ways. He provides direction on project character, philosophical approach and the development of formal responses to programmatic and technical design problems. His recent design work includes projects in Dallas/Fort Worth, Wilkes Barre/Scranton, Penn., Salt Lake City and Ohio.

Williams also comes from HNTB, having been the director of design for the D.C. area offices. Williams was listed as one of the Top 400 Architects in the United States during a recent AIA Architects convention. Her design and planning work has been in transportation, mixed-use development and master planning. Recent work includes projects in Atlanta, Miami, Virginia and North Carolina.

Otak

Otak recently hired Curtis LaPierre in its Seattle office. As senior landscape architect and environmental planner, LaPierre brings 18 years of design expertise in the Northwest and Alaska. He is currently completing design for an interurban trail, providing site development options for a large waterfront property and coordinating permits for a beach restoration.

AKS

Johnson

AKS Architecture recently promoted Wayne E. Johnson to associate. He brings experience on a variety of building types, from pre-design through construction administration. As an associate, he will maintain direct involvement in projects while contributing to the future success of AKS Architecture.

Bush, Roed & Hitchings

King

Erin King has joined Bush, Roed & Hitchings to provide marketing and project management word processing support. A Central Washington University graduate, King specializes in marketing. Bush, Roed & Hitchings is a Seattle-based civil engineering and land surveying firm.

MBT

Bruckner

Robert Bruckner has been appointed principal of the firm and director of MBT Seattle, the architecture firm responsible for design of a number of prominent Seattle-area projects.

Bruckner has been a leader in campus design and the architecture of award-winning research, academic and health care buildings for 17 years. He has worked closely with MBT for the past 18 months as a design consultant on a new research laboratory for Allergan, Inc., in Irvine, Calif.

For the past three years, Bruckner led bruckner studio, a design collaborative focused on the architecture and master planning of research and academic environments. He is currently working with the University of Chicago to develop its campus master plan, as well as on architectural projects for research and higher education institutions throughout the western U.S.

Previously, Bruckner was the principal for design of NBBJ Architecture’s eastern practice, and was a designer with Helmut Jahn in Chicago. He also worked with Taft Architects in Houston. His client list includes the University of Washington, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, University of Idaho, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Microsoft and the Samsung Medical Foundation in Korea.

As principal-in-charge of MBT Seattle, Bruckner assumes the leadership role from Peter Hockaday, who opened the Seattle office in 1998 and who is retiring in 2002 after 34 years with MBT