Oct 18, 2006
Callison announced the promotions of 25 staff members — three to director and 22 to associate principal. The new directors are Leonard Ruff, Doug Demers and Doug Stelling. Associate principals are Chris Beza; Wyn Bielaska; Tom Boshaw; Stephen Busto; Shirley Cheng; Amy DiMarco; Todd Enoki; Trent Fleming; Martin Jones; Jenny Li; David Owsiany; Robert Norwood; Glen Peterson; Liz Robinson; Cassandra Rowan; Conrad Saks; Elaine Schneider; Diljit Sethi; James Tippett; Lynn Vandeberg; Brad Wilson; and Ron Zeytoonian.
Magnusson Klemencic Associates has hired 23 new employees in recent months, including 18 full-time structural or civil engineers. New design engineers include:
Kevin Borth, Nathan Canney, David Garcia, Amy Haaland, Ryan Lent, Serena Markey, Tom Meyer, Janet Miller, Austin Payne, Joshua Powers, Greg Rogers, Tyler Sprague, Lori Szewczyk, Kevin Wang and
Griffin Thornock. Borth is working in MKA's aviation practice, Canney is in hotel/housing, Garcia is in museums and libraries, Haaland is in hotel/housing, Lent is in hotel/housing, Markey is in labs, Meyer is in hotel/housing, Miller is in retail/urban villages, Payne is in health care, Powers is in convention centers, Rogers is in hotel/housing, Sprague is in health care, Szewczyk is in hotel/housing, Wang is in sports and Thornock is in convention centers.
Anthony Vandermuss is a civil design engineer;
Lanny Flynn is the manager of health care projects; and
Ryan Reynolds is a civil design engineer. MKA recently expanded its space in Unico's Rainier Tower to accommodate up to 50 more employees.
Fletcher Farr Ayotte added five staff members.
Richard Grace has joined as a project designer. Grace has designed higher education buildings, commercial facilities and mixed-use developments. He is working on Central Oregon Community College's Cascade Culinary Institute and conceptual design for a new mixed-use building in Portland.
Brinton Riggs, Zach Childs, Laura Roark and
Yeosaine Huggins have joined as architectural interns. Riggs has six years of experience including retail, office and educational projects. Childs is a recent graduate of the University of Oregon's School of Architecture. Roark has six years of experience, with an emphasis on office projects, and Huggins is pursuing a master's degree in architecture at the University of Oregon's Portland Center. Riggs, Roark and Huggins are members of the White Stag block project team and Childs is working on FFA projects.
Bush, Roed & Hitchings has added two staff members:
Dakin Bell has rejoined the firm as a survey project manager. Bell, a professional land surveyor, originally joined BRH in 1992 and is working on the Safeway fueling station in Lynnwood, Avalon Bay retail in Bellevue and the North Aurora project in Seattle.
Joshua Campbell joined as a design engineer. Campbell has four years experience. He is working on mixed-use projects in Greenlake and Ballard, the Canyon Pointe development in Bothell and the Three Cedars Elementary school in Bellevue.
RoseWater Engineering added four new staff to the Seattle office.
Jane Ward has joined the firm as a senior project manager. Ward has experience in water and wastewater facilities, project management, facility design, comprehensive planning and construction assistance.
Kathleen McCullough has six years of civil engineering experience, including scheduling, estimating, production tracking, quality control, report preparation and budget tracking.
Lorraine Mathews has joined the firm as a project assistant. Mathews has 10 years of administrative experience and will provide support with scheduling, database management, planning and project management.
Mahboobeh Monshizadeh-Nazer joins as an accounting assistant, with 10 years of accounting experience.
Golder Associates has added three senior staff to its Northwest operations.
Scott Dinkelman is a senior consultant in the Redmond office and will work in the land development group.
Mitch McGinnis has also joined the Redmond office as a senior project engineering geologist and joins Dinkelman on the land development team.
Kurt Schlyer joined the Seattle office as a senior consultant and has 18 years of environmental planning experience, focusing on organizing environmental compliance documents. Other additions are:
Jill DeKoekkoek, geophysicist;
Daryl Donatelli, staff geophysicist;
Mary Harvey, geochemist;
Derek Holom, hydrogeologist;
Ben Mattson, engineer;
Sarah Peterson, marketing support specialist;
Nels Reese, field technician;
Stephen Skone, Intranet tester;
Gwynneth Smith, geological engineer; and
Slava Stevens, AutoCAD technician.
Oct 17, 2006
Swinerton Builders Northwest added to its Bellevue office. The new faces include senior project manager
Dave Patnode, senior superintendent
Mark Borchardt, assistant superintendent
Jarrod Bates, project engineer
Jerry Foster and staff accountant
Maria Dumaliang. Patnode has more than 30 years of construction experience and is working in the Special Projects Group. Borchardt is working on a parking garage in Kent. Bates is part of the team for lodging at Fort Lewis. Foster joined the Island Market Square residential project on Mercer Island.
Lease Crutcher Lewis hired five employees and gave a new title to an existing one.
Dai Gorman, previously a superintendent and foreman, has made a lateral move to project manager in the Special Projects Division in Seattle. The new staff include: project managers
Brian Aske and
Patrick McQueen, office assistant
Amanda Blewett, operations assistant
Christy McDonald and project engineer
Jim Williams. Aske is a 17-year construction professional, holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from Cal State Chico, and is a LEED Accredited Professional and DBIA-designated professional. McQueen is in the Special Projects Division. He has been in construction since 1997, and holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from the University of Washington. Blewett holds a bachelor's degree from Armstrong Atlantic State University. McDonald has worked in construction for 10 years. Williams has 19 years of industry experience, and holds an associate's degree in computer drafting and design from ITT Tech.
Chad Ehli of Cascade Auctions in Tacoma has been elected president of the Washington Auctioneers Association. He specializes in business liquidation and real estate auctions.
The Executive Women's Golf Association has awarded Janet Young its Nancy Oliver Founder's Award for volunteer leaders. Young is vice president of operations for Fire Safety Services in Kirkland. The association is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Mitzi McMahan has joined the Economic Development Division of Pierce County as an economic development specialist. She was a planner with King County, the Federal Transit Administration and the city of Auburn.
