Feb 10, 2010

INCA Engineers

INCA Engineers, a Tetra Tech company, has hired Rich Reis as vice president of operations. He was regional operations manager at WHPacific for eight years, where he oversaw 11 offices in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Reis has 30 years in civil and environmental engineering, construction and project management, including work for Fluor Daniel, SCS Engineers and Emcon Northwest, with projects in Japan, Canada and Saudi Arabia.

BergerABAM

David Sacamano has joined BergerABAM as a senior landscape architect and urban design manager in the Vancouver office. Sacamano has 14 years of experience with planning, design, permitting and constructing urban landscapes and public open spaces. He has worked for municipalities, higher education and health care institutions, and transportation agencies.

Yost Grube Hall Architecture

Yost Grube Hall Architecture has hired Celeste Warren as a building information modeling manager, Julio Rocha as a project architect, Kevin Montgomery as a model maker, and Alexander Asselineau and Jessica Tippens as design team members. Warren has 21 years of experience in architecture and interior design. She provides technical support for YGH on projects for the U.S. Department of State and Central Oregon Community College. Rocha has 13 years experience as an architect and is working on the campus center project at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Asselineau has eight years of experience and his work includes projects for Clackamas Community College, Portland State University, and Central Oregon Community College. Tippens earned her master's in architecture from Tulane University. She is completing her final registration exams and will work on projects for the Department of State. Montgomery holds a bachelor's in architecture from Ball State University and is pursuing a master's of architecture at the University of Oregon. He will work on projects for the Department of State and Central Oregon Community College.

Mithun

Mark Shapiro has been named a principal at Mithun. He was a principal and project designer/architect for Kansas City-based BNIM architects. Shapiro has about 27 years of experience with education, cultural and civic projects, and has spent 20 years teaching architecture at universities. He has taught at Syracuse and Tulane universities, and was head of the Department of Architecture at Kansas State University. A native of South Africa, he has practiced and taught there, and in Great Britain and Italy. He been recognized for complex projects, including the Greensburg Sustainable Comprehensive Development Plan. He helped develop housing prototypes for actor Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation and the Holy Cross Sustainable Redevelopment Plan/Holy Cross School site master plan in New Orleans.

Maryhill Museum of Art

Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale hired Melissa Stabile as collections manager. Stabile recently worked with the Frisco Historic Park and Museum in Frisco, Colo. She replaces Betty Long-Schleif, who retired in January after 22 years as Maryhill's collections manager.

Koch Companies Public Sector

Calli Daly has joined Koch Companies Public Sector as regional manager, state government affairs for the Northwest. She will represent Koch companies including Georgia-Pacific, Invista B.V., Flint Hills Resources and Koch Industries. Daly will work out of an office in Salem, Ore., and be responsible for legislative policy advocacy and government relations in Oregon and Washington. Daly was previously government affairs director at Northwest Food Processors Association in Portland.

Russell Investments

Tacoma-based Russell Investments hired James Polisson as managing director of the global ETF business and Andrew Arenberg as managing director of global ETF distribution. Both were instrumental in building BGI's global iShares business. They joined Russell in mid-January and will be based in San Francisco.

Feb 09, 2010

Andersen Construction Co.

Seattle's Andersen Construction Co. hired Paul Beethe, Eric Olson and Devin Page. Beethe has 30 years of experience in commercial construction and is serving as exterior facade superintendent for a medical office building at Overlake Hospital Medical Center.

Olson is a 10-year construction veteran and is a project manager for a medical office building in Mill Creek. Page has nine years of construction experience. He is heading up the firm's Special Projects Division.

Oceanside Construction

Oceanside Construction of Bellingham has been certified as an MDBE general contractor. The company focuses on earthwork and underground utilities. It was formed five years ago by Joe Baldwin, a Washingtonian with 25 years of construction experience in roles such as estimator and project manager. With the new certification, Baldwin plans to expand the company's operations from Western Washington to the entire state and northern Oregon.

FP2 Inc.

FP2 Inc., formerly the Foundation for Pavement Preservation, has unveiled a new logo and Web site at http://www.FP2.org. The site focuses on advocacy, research, promotion and activities for the pavement preservation industry.

CFO Selections

Bellevue-based CFO Selections hired Howard Mendelsohn as a senior associate in its professional services practice. Mendelsohn has 25 years experience in public and private technology and life science companies, and has been CAO of Icos Corp. and VP-finance for Expedia. CFO Selections provides executive search and interim consulting services.

HUD

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded about $650,000 to the Fair Housing Center of Washington in Tacoma and the Northwest Fair Housing Alliance in Spokane to assist people who believe they have been victims of housing discrimination. The Fair Housing Center won a private enforcement initiative grant for $275,000. The Northwest Alliance won a $275,000 private enforcement initiative grant and a $99,000 education and outreach initiative grant.

RS Medical

Vancouver-based International Rehabilitative Sciences, doing business as RS Medical, hired John Konsin as president and chief executive officer. Rick Terrell, the company's president and co-founder, is retiring from daily operations and will continue to serve as chairman of the board. Konsin was vice president, sports surgery, of the Surgical Devices Global Business Unit of Covidien. International Rehabilitative Sciences provides pain management and rehabilitation products and services.