Nov 06, 2002

Stevens Pass

Shawn Smith was named director of snowsports education for Stevens Pass. Smith is the former director of ski and snowboard education, racing and events at Colorado's Copper Mountain Resort. Steven's Pass, covering 1,125 skiable acres with 37 major ski runs, is owned and operated by Harbor Resorts.

Group Health

Group Health elected four new members to its 11-member board of trustees: Ruth Ballweg, director of the University of Washington's Medex Northwest physician assistant program; Aubrey Davis, past president and CEO of Group Health; Ira Fielding, MD, retired as a urologist at Kaiser Permanente; and Pegge Till, currently chair of the cooperative. Each trustee serves a three-year term. Members also elected Terry Kakida as chair of the standing nominating committee. Kakida is currently a manager with the city of Seattle.

Delta Computer Systems

Paso

Jacob R. Paso joined Delta Computer Systems as a quality assurance engineer. Paso's previous experience includes design and installation of a research radar communications project with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Sweden. Delta Computer Systems of Vancouver manufactures motion control electronics.

Harborstone Credit Union

McKeon

Harborstone Credit Union named Mike McKeon to create its new business services banking department in Tacoma. McKeon held several banking positions over the past 30 years, including chief lending officer, regional manager and credit administrator. Harborstone operates eight branches, an investment and insurance center and Internet offices serving 51,000 members from Auburn to Olympia.

Kibble & Prentice

van der Velden

Walker

Mike van der Velden joined the retirement plan services division of Kibble & Prentice as a vice president and Bill Walker joined the firm as a vice president in its private client group. Walker has extensive experience in developing long-term disability and long-term care insurance programs; van der Velden focuses on investment consulting and helping companies design, manage and administer retirement plans.

Otto Rosenau

Peter West has joined Otto Rosenau & Associates Inc., a geotechnical engineering, special inspection and materials testing firm, as a technical director. West is a registered professional engineer in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. He has over 25 years of experience in civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, forensic engineering, design, construction materials, quality control management, construction management and safety.

Studio Meng

Studio Meng Strazzara recently added Shammara Baldwin, Ashley Carson, Chris Davidson, Ken Eckert, John Geobel, Diane Monroe, and Edward Sweetnam to its staff.

Baldwin, marketing manager, brings years of experience in marketing to the construction and design industry. Carson, project coordinator, works in the value engineering department. Davidson, intern architect, is a recent graduate from Washington State University and is working in the educational design studio.

Eckert, senior architect, brings 20 years of architectural and project management experience. Goebel, project manager, has 15 years of experience in the architectural field. Monroe, senior architect, is a 20-year design veteran providing design expertise in the educational design studio. Sweetnam, senior architect, joined the firm early this year. He has 20 years of experience designing educational facilities, multi-family housing, churches and commercial institutions.

The firm promoted Dennis Erwood to principal. During his 14-year tenure with the firm, Erwood has worked on development of K-12 educational facility design, as well as higher education, commercial institutions and residential facilities. He is currently overseeing numerous projects including Central Washington University’s New Music Education Facility and Highline School District’s Madrona and Gregory Heights elementary schools.

Mirai

Mirai Associates recently added three staff. Donald Hoffman joins Mirai as traffic engineer. Hoffman was Northwest Region traffic engineer for the Washington State Department of Transportation. He has 40 years of transportation engineering experience, including having managed initial design, construction and operation of the ramp metering and closed-circuit TV system for all freeways in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Brian Dearing, engineer-in-training, joins Mirai from Missouri. He currently studying for his master's in civil engineering/transportation planning at the UW Yukari Bettencourt joins as administrative coordinator/graphics specialist. She was an associate online editor for REI and editor of Soy Source, a Japanese community newsletter.

BJSS

James Poulson joined BJSS Duarte Bryant as lead designer. He is currently designing the new student union and recreation center for Central Washington University. Prior projects include the Washington State Stadium & Exhibition Center, Rose Garden and Madison Square Garden.

Richard Miller joins the firm as senior cost estimator. He brings 20 years experience working on schools, office buildings, government facilities, site development, industrial and high-end residential. He previously worked at general contractor and construction firms.

Jim Brown is director of quality control. He has conducted training programs and worked on design quality control, constructability review and quality assurance programs for several organizations, including the U.S. GSA, U.S. Navy, Seattle chapter AIA, University of Washington, state of Washington and several architectural firms.

BJSS Duarte Bryant is a 41-year-old national architecture and planning firm with offices in Seattle and Olympia.