Jun 20, 2007

Sparling

Sparling has made additions to its technology consulting team. Min-Hsao Chen is a land mobile radio consultant, Mark July is an audiovisual consultant and David Yoo is a CADD technician. Chen was the primary design engineer for Grant County PUD’s Fiber-to-the-Home project. He is working on the Spokane County Interoperability and Snohomish County Wireless Data projects. July designed and built one of Presentation Magazine’s top 10 boardrooms in the nation for Durr Industries. He is working on the design team for The Bravern mixed-use building in Bellevue and Skagit Valley College distance learning rooms in Mount Vernon. Yoo brings three years of AutoCAD and electrical engineering design experience to the technology studio.

Triangle Associates

Triangle Associates has hired Michael Kern as senior associate and Blake Trask as research associate. Kern has 15 years experience in facilitation, planning and project management. Trask supports senior staff with research, writing and analysis.

Key Technology

Saeed Tasbihgou was hired as managing director of Key Technology BV, the European operation of Key Technology. He replaces James Ruff, who was promoted to vice president of research and development. Tasbihgou will be based in the European headquarters in the Netherlands. Ruff will relocate to corporate headquarters in Walla Walla. Key Technology designs and manufactures automation systems for the food processing and industrial markets.

Customer Service Bureau

Mayor Greg Nickels has changed the name of the Citizens Service Bureau to the Customer Service Bureau to reflect the city's renewed emphasis on customer service. The bureau provides information, solves problems and resolves complaints regarding any city department.

Seattle City Light

Carol Butler, a legislative analyst for Seattle City Council, has been chosen as Seattle City Light's new director of corporate performance. Butler has 15 years experience as an economist and economic consultant to utilities.

Seattle University

Seattle University promoted Soon Beng Yeap to assistant vice president of marketing and university communications. He was professor and director of the Center for Strategic Communications. Yeap recently established a new major in strategic communications.

Giffin Bolte Jurgens

Giffin Bolte Jurgens hired Keith Pyeatt and Robert Gotham as project architects. Staff member Jackie Gilles has been awarded LEED accreditation. Pyeatt has 30 years of design and project management experience and worked on The Station Place Tower, a 14-story low-income senior housing project in the Pearl District and The Station Place Garage. He is working on a residential project providing temporary housing for families of seriously ill children treated at Multicare Medical Center in Tacoma and overseeing specification writing for other projects. Gotham has 20 years experience and has advanced training in Revit, AutoCAD and 3DSMax. He is a team member for ongoing projects at Multicare Medical Center in Tacoma.

Aspect Consulting

Aspect Consulting recently added Parker Wittman as information management specialist and Nikola Litven as marketing manager to the Seattle location. Wittman has experience in research and data management support and will work on projects ranging from groundwater hydrology to high-energy physics. Litven is responsible for marketing operations, communications, branding, public relations and business development.

Berger/Abam

The Federal Way office of Berger/Abam hired Carol Beck and Dushyant Arora. Beck, a senior planning manager, has 34 years of experience in the environmental, land use and planning field. Arora has 10 years of experience in structural design of transit-oriented developments, parking garages, and port and terminal facilities. He is working on design of a $160 million container terminal in Cai Mep, Vietnam, for the joint venture firms of Saigon Port and SSA Holdings International.

Golder Associates

Golder Associates appointed new principals and associates within its Redmond and Seattle offices. New principals are Jane Mills, Bryan Rawson and Tony Rice. Mills manages a national consulting team that focuses on real estate, insurance, financial and legal clients. Rawson is chief information officer. Rice is a senior technical and project manager who leads geotechnical projects in the transportation, infrastructure, water resource, pipeline, energy and mining industries. New associates are Grant Bailey and Diane Crawford. Bailey is a senior consultant, program leader and regulatory specialist for the Seattle office. Crawford is a senior environmental scientist and project manager for Seattle.