May 02, 2007

PCS Structural Solutions

PCS Structural Solutions named a new president and vice president. Craig Stauffer, an employee for 14 years and managing principal in the Seattle office, is the new president. Brian Phair, in the firm's Tacoma office for 13 years and longtime principal-in-charge of much of the company's educational, correction and health care work, is now a vice president. Dan Putnam remains the CEO. Both Stauffer and Phair studied architecture and engineering as students, Stauffer at the University of Wyoming and Phair at Washington State University.

Transportation Solutions

Redmond-based Transportation Solutions named Eric Johnston manager of private development and entitlement. Johnston coordinates studies and plans for projects that minimize traffic impacts while maximizing development opportunities. He has worked on commercial, residential and mixed-use projects.

Hart Crowser

Hart Crowser promoted Michael Bailey, a principal engineer who has been with the firm for 26 years, to CEO. He has been a project manager on environmental and geotechnical projects. John Celms, the outgoing CEO, will remain on the Board of Directors.

Sparling

Sparling recently hired Wesley Ward, Denise Dennis, Ian Cotton, Megan Mills and Leah Manning. Ward is a project designer on the Eddie Bauer Headquarters in Bellevue and Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia. Dennis is a project designer working on Microsoft West Campus and Cascadia Community College Global Learning and the Arts Center projects. Cotton is a project designer working on the Bank of America Digital Processing Center in Renton. Mills is a human resources generalist and is focused on recruiting and benefits management. Manning is administrative assistant and transferred from the Portland office where she has been working since January.

MulvannyG2 Architecture

MulvannyG2 Architecture made five promotions in the Bellevue Corporate Mixed-Use Team to recognize employees for the company's 30 percent growth in revenue last year. David Glassman was promoted to technical team lead. He is working on the Esplanade, a condominium project in Tacoma, and Escala, a high-end condominium project in Seattle. Alison Waldsmith, Peter Sherrill, Kevin Sutton and Michael Vanderhoff were all promoted to associate. The team is working on Seattle projects including Olive 8, a hotel condominium mixed-use development on Eighth and Olive, and Seneca Towers, a condominium tower at Eighth and Seneca.

Jacobs Engineering Group

Jacobs Engineering Group hired Frank Davidson, Ven-Hung Tseng, Kyle Akin, Bryce Ohm and John Taylor in the Bellevue office. Davidson is a senior project manager with 24 years of experience in design, construction and project management of waterfront, marine and multi-disciplined projects on the West Coast. Tseng has 20 years of experience in planning, scheduling, interfaces management, claims resolution and administration of multi-phased construction contracts for rapid transit facilities and underground projects. He will be the project controls manager for the Brightwater Conveyance CM project. Akin has been working as a civil engineering intern for Jacobs since May 2005 in Tallahassee, Fla., and will be part of the Construction Management Group. Ohm is a senior construction inspector who will be working on CM projects. He has 26 years of experience with the Washington State Department of Transportation as a construction inspector. Taylor joins the project controls section and is experienced in scheduling.

Belt Collins Northwest

Belt Collins Northwest hired Tye Simpson as operations manager for its civil engineering practice in downtown Seattle. Simpson, who is LEED-accredited, was a senior engineer at SvR Design with 17 years of experience in the civil engineering field. He has experience in adaptive reuse, utility design, water systems, sewer systems, grading, site development, storm drainage and pump design.

Skillings Connolly

The Lacey headquarters of Skillings Connolly hired Pam Jenkins. Jenkins served as director of environmental services for the Washington Department of Corrections and as director of environmental programs for the Port of Tacoma. She helped establish statewide programs for residential wood smoke abatement and helped create a ranking method for contaminated sites. Skillings-Connolly does engineering, environmental and real estate work.

INCA Engineers

INCA Engineers has made three vice president promotions and several staff additions. Dan Russell will serve as vice president of operations for the nearly 100-member firm. Dale Miller, structural department manager, will serve as vice president of project management and transportation department manager. Scott Williams will serve as vice president of business development. INCA made additions to the Structures Group including Perry Cole, Chirag Meta, Doug Frei, Lacie Petitto and David Lapene. Cole returns to INCA after two years. Meta is a mechanical engineer for structures. Frei, a recent retiree from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, becomes the structures team lead in Walla Walla. Petitto is an intern in the structures service office in New Orleans and joins Lapene who is the structures team lead in Louisiana. Phil O'Dell rejoins INCA as federal services manager. Weiming Bian joins as a project engineer and Nghia Pham joins as engineer for the transportation group. Suchithra Raman is the firm's hydraulic specialist. Andrew D'Sylva is the firm's CAD administrator. Christopher Perkins, Bryan Roberts and Cabot Guidry join the survey team. The administration staff now includes Annette Togami and Vicki Knapp. INCA has offices in Bellevue, Tacoma and New Orleans.

The Portico Group

Seattle-based Portico Group promoted Alissa Rupp to associate principal. She has been with the firm since 1998 and is a registered architect and an experienced exhibit designer. She is working as project manager on design of the new USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center and acted as project manager and designer for the recently opened KidsQuest Children's Museum in Bellevue. There are also several staff additions. Jerry Bridges, Bronwen Carpenter, Megan Nielsen Hegstad and Epaminondas Trimis have joined the firm as architectural designers. Jay Rood and Allisona Osborne have been added as landscape architects, along with Jill Keller, Brenda Rowen and Audrey Stout as landscape designers. New exhibit designers include Jefferson Hurley and Ragna Jacobsen, and Ryan Giroux is the new architectural drafter. Also joining the staff are Kimmie Heckard and Vicky Jocson as receptionists, Q Lai as project management administrator and Jonathan Ziemba as network administrator.

Foster Pepper

Judy Runstad, an of counsel in the Foster Pepper Real Estate and Land Use practice groups, was given a Corporate Director of the Year Award for 2007 by the Seattle-Northwest Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. The NACD cited her work as chair of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, co-chair of the Washington Competitiveness Council, board member for Wells Fargo & Co., Safeco and Potlatch, and service on five gubernatorial commissions.

BluWater Consulting

Kirkland-based BluWater Consulting, an IT consulting and staffing firm, hired Tyler Veney as partner. Veney has 25 years of experience and recently served as vice president of telecommunications for an Atlanta-based division of American Systems Corp.

Washington State University

Todd Lupkes, a certified golf course superintendent who graduated from Washington State University's turf management program in 1992, has been selected as the course superintendent for the university's new Palouse Ridge Golf Course in Pullman. Lupkes worked at the Gig Harbor Golf Club in Gig Harbor. The 18-hole Palouse Ridge Golf Course is under construction and set to open in 2008.

County Office of Emergency Management

Eric Holdeman, director of the King County Office of Emergency Management, is leaving the county to work in private consulting with ICF International, headquartered in Fairfax, Va. Holdeman will leave the county in mid-May and an interim director will be named before his departure.

Allstate Insurance

Allstate Insurance Co. announced the opening of a new Seattle agency, owned and operated by Jim Berk. The agency, located at 9218 Roosevelt Way N.E. offers auto, property, commercial and life insurance. Allstate is a national personal lines insurer.