May 28, 2008
Justin Carr joined PSF Mechanical as a senior CAD technician. Carr has more than 10 years of experience. PSF is a design-build mechanical contractor providing wet and dry side engineering.
The Women's Business Enterprise National Council and the Astra Women's Business Alliance have certified Cochran Inc. as a Women's Business Enterprise. LeeAnn Cochran is the principal owner of the Seattle-based electrical contracting and design-build firm.
CH2M Hill Hanford Group won a Safety that Soars award from Industrial Safety and Hygiene News magazine. The award recognizes single-site facility locations that demonstrate and use innovative and unique methods to achieve safety performance that “soars” above the average. CH2M Hill was cited for its safe work environment program at the Hanford tank farms. The firm reduced injuries there 50 percent between 2004 and 2007.
Barbara C. Sherland, attorney and principal in the Seattle office of law firm Stoel Rives, has been elected to serve a five-year term as Washington state chair of the American College of Trust and Estate Council. She is also serving as chair of the Puget Sound Blood Center and will begin serving as president of the Estate Planning Council of Seattle in May.
Michael Soman, current Group Health executive medical director, will fill the top leadership role of Group Health doctors as presidentchief medical executive of Group Health Permanente. Group Health Permanente is a separate group practice corporation that contracts exclusively with Group Health Cooperative. Soman will oversee a group of more than 900 doctors. He succeeds Hugh Straley, who is retiring after a 30-year career with Group Health.
Purdie Rogers, a Seattle-based full-service advertising and public relations agency, hired Craig Bryan as vice president of business strategy. Bryan has 30 years of experience in marketing, and last worked for Homeplans.com, a division of Move.com in St. Paul.
Capability Homecare, a new Seattle-based private duty service provider created by Daniel Bigbee, announced its official launch May 1. The company's goal is to provide a holistic approach to health care.
McGranahan Architects promoted
Seong Shin and
Michael Slater to principals. Slater's projects include a new academic building for Saint Martin's University in Lacey, the Cascade Building renovation for Pierce College Fort Steilacoom and the mixed-use Washington Market Building in Sumner. He is also serving as campus architect for Highline Community College and overseeing projects for Pierce College. Shin leads the firm's interior design services. She is working on Investco Financial Corp. headquarters in the Washington Market Building, the Tacoma headquarters of PCS Structural Solutions in Pacific Plaza and Lake Washington High School in Kirkland.
Schacht Aslani Architects hired architect
Kirt Neal and job captain
Samantha Beadel. Neal has 20 years of experience and specializes in K-12 and public facility projects in the Puget Sound region. Neal will serve as project manager on projects for North Seattle Community College, including the new Integrated Resource Center. Beadel has six years of experience with a concentration in residential design. She is working on the Edison North renovation for Seattle Central Community College.
Hopper Dennis Jellison Engineers, Planners and Landscape Architects has added land surveying services and hired
Terry L. Goodman to direct the new land surveying section. Goodman has 30 years of experience as a professional land surveyor. Twenty-three of these years were spent in the Pacific Northwest and 20 years were spent running his own companies.
WestSound Engineering hired
Maher Abed as a director of engineering in its Port Orchard office. Until recently, Abed was the public works director/city engineer for Port Orchard. He is a licensed civil engineer with 26 years of experience working for Puget Sound city governments and for WSDOT. As part of his duties, he will be marketing the firm's services to assist local governments.
EHS Design hired
Leah Hall as a general manager. She will work with senior management to provide executive-level oversight for daily operations. Hall has 20 years of management and operations experience in the advertising world, including five years at the Evans Group and 10 as general manager of the advertising agency Mogelgaard & Associates. Hall has served as executive director of The Seattle Show for the past five years.
Sparling hired
Alisa Parks as a marketing specialist. Parks is a marketing professional with more than 10 years in the local A/E/C industry and is a former board member for the Society of Marketing Professional Services. Her responsibilities will include the production of qualification packages and marketing collateral, database oversight, coordination of client presentations and special projects for the firm.
Environmental planning, design and construction services firm Brown and Caldwell hired five employees in its Seattle office.
Ellen Watson was hired as Washington Environmental Practice Leader. She has 30 years of experience in strategic environmental planning, regulatory compliance, community outreach, water resource management and hazardous waste management.
David McCleary was hired as a managing structural engineer. McCleary has more than 27 years of experience designing water and wastewater treatment plants, industrial and manufacturing facilities and commercial buildings. As principal structural engineer,
Larry Ramey draws on 33 years of experience on industrial, commercial, and municipal projects.
Rudy Jimenez was hired as a senior designer in the CADD group, after spending 10 years providing drafting services to a geophysical surveying company in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sharonne Park was hired as a project scientist and project coordinator.
