Sep 20, 2006
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership added four new people to the Seattle office:
Connie Holloway, Craig Rizzo, Kim Myran and
Elisabeta Curea. Holloway has joined the architectural group as project architect for St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor. Rizzo has joined as an associate partner and designer for St. Anthony Hospital. He worked in ZGF's Los Angeles office for five years, working on projects such as the Whittier Library in California, the Pfizer Research Campus in San Diego, and the Mid-City Exposition Light Rail Transit Project in Los Angeles. Prior to joining ZGF, Rizzo worked on the $600 million Phoenix Convention Center expansion. Myran has 20 years of experience as an architect and interior designer and will work in the Seattle interiors group, serving as project manager for the Microsoft 88 Building. Curea has joined the Seattle architectural group and is working on the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance expansion. She graduated in June from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in architecture.
Walker Macy hired
Derek Budzik as IT/CAD manager. At University of Oregon, he was an intern and network administrator for the University of Oregon's Center for Advanced Technology in Education, where he specialized in helping students with learning disabilities, and providing technological solutions for local high school students.
KMD Architects announced several senior design and management promotions and new staff.
Christopher Rubright has been promoted to director of health care design. Rubright's recent work includes hospitals in Seattle, Mount Vernon and Bremerton, as well as international work.
Sean Huang, a KMD board member and architect who has been active in Washington projects, has relocated full-time to Seattle from company headquarters in San Francisco. He is the firm's second corporate director and first board member to be in Seattle. Huang's work includes design for Seattle and San Francisco hospitals, and the Ford Field football stadium in Detroit. Senior associate
L.T. Chen is a senior project designer. Chen was lead designer of KMD's Jie Fang News building under construction in Shanghai and other projects in Asia and the United States. The Jie Fang tower was named Office Building of the Future by the leading international property association, MIPIM. Huang will co-lead KMD's 14-person office in Seattle, with
Larry Parrett. The office also recently won two science facilities totaling 420,000 square feet in Richland; a master plan, site analysis and concept design for a new Snohomish County justice center in Everett; and a 20,000-square-foot retrofit design for the Evergreen Neurological Institute in Kirkland.
Hammond Collier Wade Livingstone's Omak office recently added Rod Picking and Dawn Sams to the materials testing department. Picking is a materials testing technician II, responsible for concrete, soils and asphalt testing. Sams, a materials testing technician I, will provide technical support.
David W. Gee of the law firm Garvey Schubert Barer's Seattle office has been elected to the board of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys.
Thomas A. Knowles, former president of Marshall & Sullivan Capital Management, has joined the Sonata Capital Group investment advisors in Seattle.
The Seattle public relations and public affairs firm of Nyhus Communications has hired Lily Eng as director of public relations, Denna Cline as senior strategist and Jessica Joffe Stein as project manager. Eng was with Pacific Public Affairs, Cline was with the Seattle Monorail Project and Joffe Stein was with Nintendo of America.
The Port of Tacoma has hired William W. Carney, Jr. as senior technology engineer. Carney was with Hallkinion in Bellevue.
Infinisource has hired David Heupel as regional sales manager for Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Infinisource helps companies meet COBRA and other employee benefits requirements.
