May 20, 2008

Summit Law Group

Summit Law Group advanced Maureen L. Mitchell to a member role in the Environmental Practice Group and added J. Chad Mitchell to the Litigation Group. Maureen Mitchell has worked at Summit since 2004. J. Chad Mitchell will open an office in Kennewick. He worked for Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.

Talaris Conference Center

Talaris Conference Center hired Michael O'Dell as director of operations and Brenna Weisser as sales manager. O'Dell was director of operations for a startup company. Weisser worked as sales coordinator at Bell Harbor International Conference Center.

Cruise West

Cruise West, a small-ship cruise line, hired Thomas Kratsch as director of sales. Kratsch was vice president of operations at All-Travel.com.

Heery International

Troy Kunas was promoted to Northwest area facility services operations manager at Heery International. Kunas is managing all commissioning and building services for the Boise, Spokane and Puget Sound areas from the company's Tacoma office. Kunas has been with the firm for three years, most recently as senior commissioning agent for the Oregon commissioning team. He joined Heery after 24 years as a chief engineering officer in the Coast Guard. Heery is an architecture, interior design, engineering, facility management, program management and construction management firm.

Skanska USA Building

Seven employees were promoted in the Seattle office of Skanska USA Building, including: Stephanie Schubert to senior project manager; Brad Kropp to senior superintendent and general superintendent of special projects; John Anderson, Mike Perry and Dale Scholtz to senior superintendents; Mike “Bull” Smith to ironworker general superintendent; and Al Darby as structural steel specialist in the Preconstruction Department. Schubert has been with Skanska for 13 years, Kropp for 10 years, Anderson for 12 years, Perry for 20 years, Scholtz for more than 20 years, Smith for 12 years and Darby for eight years.

May 16, 2008

Helsell Fetterman

Helsell Fetterman, a Northwest legal firm, hired Elizabeth Berns as of counsel. Berns will work in the Business Transaction and Estate Planning & Probate groups. She was a principal at the Law Office of Elizabeth J. Berns.

North Seattle Community College

North Seattle Community College hired Steve Miller as executive dean for career/workforce education. Miller was dean of workforce education at Centralia College. NSCC was established in 1970.

Pier Systems

Bellingham-based Pier Systems, a provider of online public information software, hired two new engineers in product and development and quality assurance. Richard Taylor is senior software engineer. He was a software engineer for Attachmate. Kevin Byford is quality assurance engineer. Byford worked at DIS Corp.

Puget Sound Health Alliance

The Puget Sound Health Alliance hired Mary O. McWilliams as executive director. McWilliams has 20 years experience in health care leadership and was president of Regence BlueShield in Washington. She replaces Margaret Stanley, executive director since 2005, who is retiring. The Puget Sound Health Alliance is a non-profit made up of those who provide, pay for and use health care.