May 13, 2009

Kathy Casey

Seattle chef Kathy Casey and her business partner and husband, John Casey, will relocate their Food Studios and Liquid Kitchen Headquarters this summer. The food studio will move from Ballard to a 2,300-square-foot location in Salmon Bay Marine Center. Casey will relocate her consulting services to the space, use it for research and development, team building classes and special events. Casey also announces the launch of her new book, “Sips and Apps.”

TMP Worldwide

New York's TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, an independent recruitment advertising agency, hired Sandy Haeberle as vice president. Haeberle will work out of the TMP Seattle office. She previously worked for regional and national health care organizations.

SBA

Christine Heckert, senior vice president at First Heritage Bank in Snohomish, was named the Washington State Financial Services Champion of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Heckert has worked in the SBA industry for 20 years and joined First Heritage in 2007, heading the bank's SBA department.

Sound Community Bank

Sound Community Bank, a subsidiary of Sound Financial, is purchasing the Port Angeles Office of 1st Security Bank of Washington. Sound Community Bank will acquire the 1st Security deposits, deposit-related loans and the branch facility at 1405 E. Front St. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in the second quarter.

HDJ Design Group

HDJ Design Group, a firm of engineers, planners, landscape architects and surveyors headquartered in Vancouver, hired John R. Brodeur, a licensed professional engineer and licensed engineering geologist, in its Pasco office. Brodeur has more than 25 years of experience in geotechnical engineering, geohydrology and engineering geophysics work. He has spent the last 10 years in the region performing geotechnical investigations and solving soil and groundwater problems. The firm also hired Lisa Johnson in its administrative staff in the Vancouver office. She will handle general ledger accounting duties.

Architects Rasmussen Triebelhorn

The Tacoma-based firm Architects Rasmussen Triebelhorn hired Cory Hamilton. Hamilton is skilled in AutoCAD and Revita architecture software, and has more than 10 years of experience in institutional and municipal projects including health care and fire prevention. He is working on the Pierce County County-City Building multi-phase renovation and a remodel project for the Washington Military Department at Camp Murray.

PACE Engineers

PACE Engineers hired David Poulson as branch manager of its Oregon City office. Poulson has 24 years of experience in civil engineering and project management for both public and private organizations. His experience includes urban planning, community development, and commercial and industrial property development. He also has experience in civil engineering for transportation and public works infrastructure and military housing developments.

May 12, 2009

Berk & Associates

Berk & Associates, a public policy and management consult, promoted Michele Eakins to be administrative manager. Before Berk, she worked for Paccar and McCune, Godfrey & Emerick. Berk also hired Lynnette Bradbury as business manager. She previously worked for Blink Interactive and Werkhaus Creative Communications.

Vulcan

Vulcan Inc. hired Martha Fuller as executive vice president of finance. Fuller has been acting chief financial officer since November. Previously, she was chief financial officer of the Seahawks.

Society of Certified Public Accountants

The Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants chose Pete Miller, a principal in Clark Nuber's audit practice, to receive the 2008-2009 Chapter President of the Year Award for outstanding leadership, enthusiasm and commitment to the Bellevue Chapter. Miller is president of the chapter.

Express Construction

Bellevue's Express Construction hired Kevin Hoppe as a senior project engineer and Leonard “Lenny” Gestson as a superintendent. Hoppe began his construction career nearly 20 years ago as a carpenter and has worked his way up. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Seattle University and a certificate in construction management from the University of Washington. Gestson has 38 years of experience in the construction industry and has been a certified journeyman carpenter since 1974.

PSF Mechanical

Rob Houston and Nancy Haugen joined PSF Mechanical as detailers. Each has more than 21 years of industry experience. PSF is a design-build mechanical contractor.

Smokey Point Concrete & Skagit Readymix

Scott Christianson from Arlington is the new sales manager for Smokey Point Concrete & Skagit Readymix, which serves Skagit, Snohomish and northern King counties. Christianson has 25 years of experience in the cement, ready-mixed concrete, and sand and gravel industries.

GLY Construction

GLY Construction's presentation of “Content-Rich BIM” placed second in the Best Information Technology Solution competition sponsored by the Associated General Contractors earlier this year at its national convention in San Diego. The presentation by GLY's integrated design manager Dave Burger was one of six in the competition. It outlined methods undertaken by GLY to build a 1.6 million-square-foot underground parking garage for Microsoft in Redmond. The project included a 10-acre plaza and structural elements for three buildings atop the sloping lid of the garage. For his efforts, Burger received a plaque and a $500 gift certificate.