Mar 11, 2009

Shugart Bates

Shugart Bates hired Lori Jay Roozen as a design associate. Roozen has seven years of experience in retail and office design. She is working on a mixed-use development on Alki in West Seattle.

Inca Engineers

Inca Engineers hired 10 new employees in its structural engineering department in Bellevue. Lois Loesch is a senior project engineer with 26 years of experience in civil/structural engineering. She is serving as a task manager for the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal project in New Orleans, the largest design/build civil works project in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers history. Ayhan Utkan is a senior design engineer with nine years of structural engineering experience. He is working on the Army Reserve Pier 23 Replacement, and will be working on the East Link Sound Transit light rail project. Mohammad Saifuzzaman is a project engineer with more than 10 years of experience in the analysis and design of bridges, buildings and hydraulic structures. Leo Moyer is a design engineer with two years of experience. Moyer is working on the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal project in New Orleans. Steven Michael is working on the Army Reserve Pier 23 Replacement project and the Upper Mississippi River Lock 22 Approach Walls. Roger Lindstrom, Anthony Smith and Barrett McBride are CADD technicians working on various projects, including Pier 23, Lock22 Approach Walls, Panama Canal, and Inner Harbor Navigation Canal. Eric Lynum, a CADD/design engineer, and Eli Lundberg, a design engineer, are working on the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal project.

Kennedy/Jenks Consultants

Lon R. Yandell has joined the Portland office of Kennedy/Jenks Consultants as client services manager. Yandell has more than 25 years of experience in the environmental services industry. His focus will be on senior technical work, business development and client service. Yandell has experience managing an environmental department, heading a corporate brownfields program, and serving as a senior project manager. He is a registered geologist in Oregon, a licensed geologist and hydrogeologist in Washington, and a registered brownfields professional.

Callison

Callison promoted three senior staff members to principals. Matt Billerbeck has spent 20 years planning and designing retail and mixed-use projects around the world. His expertise includes guiding the design and rollout process for large-scale retail developers domestically and internationally. His recent projects include Sorouh City, Egypt, three projects in the U.A.E. and Aqaba Master Plan in Jordan. Michel Hebrant focuses on the Middle East and oversees development of projects and relationships with consultants, contractors and government agencies. His recent projects include Eye Park, U.A.E.; Sarab Al Areen, Bahrain; Al Rahji Centre, Saudi Arabia; Grand Heights, Egypt and The Pearl, Qatar. Zivko Penzar has led a number of retail, mixed-use and hospitality projects around the world. Zivko's recent projects include Hongyi Plaza, Greenland Luwan, The MIXc, Yueda Time Mall and Central Walk, all in China.

Mud Bay

Mud Bay, a natural pet supply store, is the first retailer to sign a lease at Piper Village in Greenwood. Piper Village is a new urban village with a mix of retail and apartments currently under construction. The natural dog and cat supply store will open in July.

Knowledge Anywhere

Bellevue-based Knowledge Anywhere, a supplier of technology-based support systems and e-learning solutions, has acquired Minneapolis-based Warehouse Intellect, a provider of corporate e-learning solutions for companies like Best Buy, General Electric and Denny's. Warehouse Intellect will be branded under the Knowledge Anywhere name. All employees will be retained and Knowledge Anywhere will gain an office in the Midwest.

Group Health Credit Union

Group Health Credit Union has relocated its Redmond branch to Bellevue. The new branch is at 1048 116th Ave. N.E., in the Bellevue Design Market Center.

Pharmacy OneSource

Bellevue-based Pharmacy OneSource promoted Tim Gibbons to chief executive officer and president. He has been president and chief operation officer since 2005. Gibbons succeeds his father, Terry Gibbons, who will continue to serve as the executive chairman on the board.

Port of Olympia

The Port of Olympia hired Kevin Ferguson as finance director and Kathleen White as communications manager. Ferguson has been chief financial officer for Washington Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development and the Bremerton School District. White has been a senior communications manager for Weyerhaeuser and public relations director for Washington Department of Personnel.