Dec 10, 2003

Columbia Bank

Columbia Bank promoted Toni Quinn from manager of the Allenmore branch to assistant vice president and manager of the 104th and Canyon, and Summit branches in Puyallup. Joe Urvina, former branch manager with U.S. Bank, was named assistant vice president and manager of the 176th and Meridian branch. Columbia Bank is based in Columbia, Maryland.

Safeco

Safeco, a Seattle-based company that sells insurance and investment products, named Tom Hutton to its board of directors. Hutton is the former president and CEO of Risk Management Solutions and is the managing partner at Thompson Hutton, where he provides management and transaction services to private equity investors.

Peak Systems

Peak Systems, a Seattle-based information technology company, opened a satellite office in Albuquerque, N.M. Rick Wangen, director of sports and event productions and senior project manager, will handle client services for the new office. Wangen is one of the founders of Peak Systems.

Taco Del Mar

Bill Wright, a former Subway franchisee, joined Seattle-based Taco Del Mar as master developer for the state of Utah. Wright is currently planning to open several locations in the Salt Lake City area. Bob and Chad Moore of Colliers International will act as the territory's real estate broker.

American Automobile Association

AAA Washington/Inland, based in Bellevue, hired Dave Martin as an insurance agent in its Everett office. Martin has seven years of insurance experience in the Puget Sound area.

Mount Bachelor Village Resort

Mount Bachelor Village Resort, a condominium resort in Bend, Ore., promoted Melissa Veen from concierge to sales assistant. Veen will assist Michelle Marquis, director of sales and marketing.

HBB

Green

Grovenburg

Meghann Green recently joined Seattle-based HBB Mechanical Engineers Seattle office as a project engineer. Green has experience with K-12, university and office buildings. She is working on the Suquamish Elementary School for the North Kitsap School District, Rainier Hall for Everett Community College and Mountlake Terrace Hall for Edmonds Community College.

Dennis Grovenburg has joined HBB as a project designer. Grovenburg has 25 years experience on a variety of projects including K-12, college, laboratory, health care, high-rise, airport, recreational, food service, institutional and retail facilities. At HBB he is involved with the design of three elementary schools, two in Seattle and one in Monroe, plus the Gateway Middle School in Everett and the expansion of a municipal building in Yakima.

Architects Rasmussen Triebelhorn

Ramay

Architects Rasmussen Triebelhorn, a Tacoma architectural firm, added Jason A. Ramay as job captain. Ramay's background includes municipal, educational, commercial, cultural, medical, industrial and urban design projects.

Ramay is job captain on ART's team for the Yakima Valley Justice Center and Yakima County Sheriff Department's Search and Rescue Headquarters. The firm has 30 years of experience in municipal/civic architecture and is designing police headquarters for the city of Tacoma and for the city of Lakewood, a new sheriff's precinct for Pierce County and the new Mason Middle School for Tacoma School District.

PND

Moothart

PND, Inc. recently hired Nicholas Moothart as a civil engineer. Moothart graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, with a degree in civil engineering and an emphasis on structural design. He began work at PND doing fender design on the Guemes Ferry Dolphin and work on Jacobson Dock, a design/ build with Hurlen Construction, in Juneau.

SRG Partnership

Wiener

SRG Partnership announced the addition of Jon Wiener as senior associate in its Portland office. In 1984, Wiener helped form Soderstrom Architects, where he was an owner for 19 years.

He has experience in higher education, including science labs, classrooms, studio art buildings, law schools, administrative buildings and mixed-use facilities. He has designed for private institutions, including Willamette University, where he has completed eight projects over a 24-year period and Lewis & Clark College, where he has completed nine projects since 1988, as well as several projects at George Fox University, Pacific University and Reed College. He has also been involved in multiple projects at Portland State University, Oregon State University and University of Oregon.

He has spoken around the country on green design, and recently won the first ever GE Edison award for sustainable lighting.