Jan 04, 2006

Clark Nuber

Clark Nuber recently elected Lisa Downs to the board of directors of the American Society for Training and Development, Puget Sound chapter as vice president of member services. Clark Nuber also added two new people to the firm: Dan Cassidy, senior tax manager, and Jennifer Lawrence, office services coordinator. The CPA and consulting firm is based in Bellevue.

Coinstar

Coinstar named Alex Camara senior vice president and general manager of worldwide coin, including North America and the United Kingdom. Camara has held leadership positions at Coinstar for the past six years. He will work out of the company headquarters in Bellevue. Coinstar has more than 12,000 coin counting machines in service.

Edmonds Center for the Arts

The Edmonds Public Facilities District picked Joseph McIalwain as executive director of the Edmonds Center for the Arts. McIalwain has an arts management and fundraising background. He was assistant professor of theater management for the University of Alabama; managing director of Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival and director of development for the Kirkland Performance Center.

Country Insurance & Financial Services

Oscar Carlson of Ridgefield, Christine Scott of Mill Creek and Toby Starcher of Lynden have been named agents for Country Insurance & Financial Services. The firm provides insurance and financial services, including auto, commercial, disability income, home/renters, life, long term care and umbrella insurance.

Kleinfelder

Plum

Kleinfelder announced Robert L. Plum has joined the Seattle office as a principal geotechnical engineer. He will handle technical and project management on large transportation projects. Plum has served as the geotechnical lead on numerous major projects, including the preliminary design investigation of several stations along the Los Angeles subway system, reconstruction of Interstate 90 through Mercer Island and the new Spirit Lake Highway to Mount St. Helens

Group West

Hamel	Katsoolis
Soldwedel	Arbini

Group West recently added several staff members: Paul Hamel has been named principal, Shane Katsoolis joined as director of interiors, Paul Soldwedel was added as a senior project architect and Jarrod Arbini as a senior designer.

Parametrix

Isenhart

Dinkuhn

The Bremerton office of Parametrix recently hired David Dinkuhn and Lily Isenhart. Dinkuhn has worked in environmental engineering, remedial design, project management, regulatory compliance, remedial investigations and feasibility studies. He is working on Golconda Mine remedial design, Coeur d'Alene basin and Kitsap County brownfields as a project engineer. Isenhart has worked on vulnerability assessments and emergency response plans for the Army and remedial design for the Nacimiento Copper Mine in New Mexico. At Parametrix, she is working on the Golconda Mine site clean up in Coeur d'Alene, and will work on several projects as an environmental engineer, helping with remedial investigations, feasibility studies and design.

Coffman Engineers

Maxwell

Tanigawa

Reeves

Ben R. Maxwell and Byron Tanigawa joined Coffman Engineers' electrical engineering department, and Robert Reeves joined the structural engineering department. Maxwell and Tanigawa are currently working on Lincoln High School, and Reeves is working on several Nordstrom projects.

Exeltech Consulting

Yang	Andreason	Kirby-Leonard
Finkle	Slemmer	Szepanski
Underwood	Payne	Berg
Crawford

Exeltech Consulting announced new staff members in its Olympia, Seattle and Salem offices. The Seattle office added Wei Yang, buildings/facilities engineer, Ken Andreason, facilities structural engineer, and Denise Kirby-Leonard, administrative assistant. The Olympia office added Kathryn Crawford, environmental planner; Rod Finkle, director of construction management; Leroy Slemmer, project manager; and Kelly Szepanski, administrative assistant.

Joining Exeltech's Salem office are Alicia Underwood, planning/ communications specialist; Jeff Payne, construction manager; and Allison Berg, administrative assistant. Exeltech provides civil, structural and environmental services.

Thomas Hacker Architects

Silbert	Jung Yoon	Adams
Miller	Hacker	Miller

Thomas Hacker Architects of Portland announced several additions. Rachel Silbert, who has 10 years of design and project management experience, is working on the campus plan for Portland State University and the Undergraduate Classroom Building for Washington State University in Vancouver. Amie Jung Yoon re-joined T· H· A as a full-time design assistant. Isaac Adams joined as an architectural intern and is LEED accredited. Cezanne Miller has been hired as marketing coordinator. Miller graduated in the June from Portland State University with a bachelor of arts in community development. Sarah Hacker has been promoted to marketing director, after four years as the firm's marketing coordinator. Stephen Miller has been promoted to graphics manager, after joining T· H· A in 1999 as IT manager. Gordon Price has been promoted to CAD/IT manager. Price was hired in 2001 as CAD manager.

CH2M Hill

Edward S. Aromi has been named senior vice president for strategic business development in CH2M Hill's Richland office. Aromi will be responsible for expanding the firm's nuclear activities. Aromi has worked on cleanup efforts at Hanford since October of 1996. Under his leadership, the CH2M team completed the removal of liquids from 149 single-shell tanks and began retrieval and transfer of the remaining waste in those tanks into the double-shell tank system. Mark Spears will replace Aromi as president of CH2M Hill's Hanford Group. Spears joined CHG in May, after working with Kaiser HILL Inc. at the U.S. Department of Energy's Rocky Flats Facility. His first position at CHG was as senior vice president of Nuclear Operations Technical Services.

David Evans and Associates

David Evans and Associates hired Petur J. Sim as an environmental scientist and planner, Paul A. Randall-Grutter as a project engineer and Rhett Winter as a design engineer. Sim specializes in wetland delineations, mitigation, critical area ordinances and SEPA compliance. Randall-Grutter specializes in civil and structural engineering for residential, commercial and industrial projects. They include design of subdivisions, roads, and water, storm and sewer systems. Winter specializes in civil engineering for site design, water, storm and sewer systems underground utilities and roadways. He also has experience with construction oversight and agency coordination.