Nov 08, 2006

Mithun

Mithun recently added six employees. Stephen Antupit brings 17 years of design and urban planning experience, most recently with Seattle Housing Authority. His strategic planning skills were used for the High Point and New Holly projects and directing Seattle Housing Authority’s market rate home sales. Dennis Cope most recently headed his own firm and specialized in international senior living facilities. Prior to that, he worked as a managing architect for HOK, including eight years in Tokyo. John Fleming joins Mithun with more than 20 years of experience designing residential, municipal and commercial projects, as well as public art projects, including the Grass Blades sculpture at Seattle Center. Marshall Foster is an urban planner who most recently worked as San Francisco’s director of city greening. He has experience planning high-density, mixed-use developments and worked on San Francisco’s Livable City Initiative, which added street trees and expanded the community garden network. Antonio Parés has more than 17 years of experience on institutional, commercial and residential projects around the world. He has focused on sustainable technologies and social responsibility. Christopher “Critter” Thompson is an expert on geographic information systems, computer modeling and mapping.

Murase Associates

Murase Associates’ Seattle office recently hired David M. Guthrie as a landscape architect, Sarah O’Neill as landscape designer and Laura Loverich as marketing assistant. The Portland office hired Whitney Gould. Guthrie is working on the Social Security Administration Teleservice Building, Mallard Bay Condominiums, Amgen’s new Bothell campus and a variety of residential projects. O’Neill is working on Amgen’s Phase II campus expansion and Skyline at First Hill. Gould’s work includes Salem Regional Health Services and the John Ross.

MulvannyG2 Architecture

MulvannyG2 Architecture has added seven employees to its Portland office, in addition to nine new employees earlier this summer. James Van Lanen, senior associate, will lead the technical and quality assurance program for the Target team. Other new employees include associates Lui Wei, Patton Lewis and Christina Pierce. New CAD technicians are Jacob Melton and Meredith Miller, and Leah Signs joined as an administrative assistant.

Washington State Hospital Association

The Washington State Hospital Association has hired Deborah Swets as vice president of membership. She was executive director of Seattle-based CityClub since 1993.

Foster Pepper

Foster Pepper has hired Kenneth L. Myer as a member in the business practice group. He was a partner at Short Cressman & Burgess. Foster Pepper has offices in Seattle, Portland and Spokane.

Tacoma Power

Tacoma Power has promoted Linda McCrea to deputy superintendent and Chris Gleason to community/media services manager. McCrea joined the municipally owned utility in 1980; Gleason in 2003.

American Safari Cruises

American Safari Cruises has promoted Tim Voss to director of marine operations and hired Naomi Sture as sales and service counselor. Angela Brekke is the new travel information coordinator. The Lynnwood-based company operates cruises on luxury yachts.

Nov 07, 2006

Sequoyah Electric

Vicki Verochio, Laura Thomas and Kevin Hazelwood have joined Sequoyah Electric. Verochio is a project manager. She has 22 years of electrical construction experience, as an estimator, project engineer and project manager. Thomas is an administrative support person. She has been in the construction industry for 15 years. Hazelwood is an AutoCAD operator in the company's Engineering Department. He has worked in the electrical construction industry for 18 years as a designer and AutoCAD operator.

Parsons

Parsons Construction Group hired James C. Brummond as senior vice president of its Heavy Civil/Transportation and Environmental Division in Sumner. Brummond is responsible for business development focusing on large-scale transportation and infrastructure projects. He has more than 30 years of industry experience, including a five-year stint as president of RCI Environmental, a subsidiary of RCI Construction Group, which Parsons acquired in 2005. Parsons Construction Group is a business unit of Parsons Corp.

Snelson Companies

Sedro-Woolley's Snelson Companies named Edwin J. Shannon president and chief operating officer. Shannon, PE, CSP, has been a partner at the firm for 16 years and was most recently senior vice president and manager of marketing, corporate services and gas distribution. John R. Norton, formerly president, is now CEO. Snelson is a pipeline, utility and mechanical construction and fabrication company.

Schuchart Corp.

Schuchart Corp. appointed Bob Gregorini and Jennifer Rosado as the company's first partners. Gregorini was also named vice president of operations. He has nearly 30 years of engineering and construction experience, and holds an associate's degree from Pittsburgh Technical Institute. Rosado was also named vice president of administration. She has been with Schuchart for more than 14 years, initially as the receptionist and then in administrative support roles.

PSF Mechanical

Mark Gifford has become an inside fabrication sales associate and Craig Randall a design engineer at PSF Mechanical. Gifford has worked in sales for 15 years and holds an associate's degree in business management and accounting. Randall has worked in the HVAC industry for more than 18 years and holds an associate's degree in HVAC engineering from North Seattle Community College.

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt has hired Christopher D. Priddy as an associate attorney in the law firm's Seattle office. He was with Willkie, Farr & Gallagher in Washington, D.C.

Premier Media Group

Bellevue-based publisher Premier Media Group has launched a new magazine for the Eastside called 425.

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs

Julio Carranza, Taryn Darling Hill and Jacob Downs have joined Williams, Kastner & Gibbs as associates in the Seattle office. Joseph Sexton has joined the Tacoma office as an associate. Carranza's work focuses on employment and commercial litigation. Hill's work focuses on commercial litigation. Downs works on business litigation, mass torts and product liability defense. Sexton's specialty is general civil litigation.

Washington Restaurant Association

The Washington Restaurant Association named Teran Petrina vice president of internal operations. Petrina was WRA's director of accounting. Now she will oversee accounting, finances, information systems, human relations and office management.

Puget Sound Blood Center

D. Michael Strong, Puget Sound Blood Center's executive vice president of operations and COO, has been named president of the AABB, formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks. Strong has been with PSBC since 1988. He is also a research professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at the University of Washington.