Feb 24, 2010

Herrera Environmental Consultants

Herrera Environmental Consultants has promoted to senior engineer Chase Barton, Mary Larkin, Mark Merkelbach and Jeff Parsons. It promoted to project engineer Christina Avolio, Rebecca Dugopolski, Guy Kays, Heidi Machel and Brian Scott, and promoted Tian Liang to engineer. Herrera is an employee-owned engineering and applied sciences firm based in Seattle.

Jerome W. Morrissette & Associates

Dennis Baker has joined Jerome W. Morrissette & Associates as a stockholder/owner. Baker has experience surveying short plats, large lot subdivisions, boundary line adjustments, construction staking, boundary and topographic surveys. A land surveyor since 1999, he most recently owned Geomatics. JWM&A provides municipal and private clients with civil, municipal and geotechnical engineering services.

David Evans and Associates

David Evans and Associates has promoted Tom Service to vice president of project excellence. Service was manager of DEA's Puget Sound region. He has been with the firm for 17 years.

USKH

USKH has added Hannah Pham to the Spokane office mechanical engineering staff. Pham has two years of experience at engineering firms in the region. She is a graduate of Eastern Washington University. USKH is an employee-owned design firm operating in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

Otak

Otak hired Douglas Sarkkinen as a senior structural engineer and project manager in its Vancouver office to work with the transportation infrastructure services team. Sarkkinen has nearly 25 years of experience with concrete structures and bridges. His expertise includes design, structural analysis, and forensic and expert witness evaluations. Prior to joining Otak, Sarkkinen designed and managed projects in Oregon and Washington. His work includes the South Canyon Bridge in Bend, Ore., which won the 2005 Oregon Parks Project of the Year Award. Otak is an urban design, planning and engineering firm.

INCA Engineers

INCA Engineers, a Tetra Tech company, hired Rey Hokenson as director of the new hydropower services department. It provides studies, construction and operation support, FERC licensing and permitting, and final design for projects. Hokenson has worked on hydroelectric and water resources projects for 40 years in the United States, Panama, Columbia, Brazil, Laos, Thailand, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines.

Riddell Williams

Law firm Riddell Williams hired three new associates. They are Bryan Case, Keith Seo and Shata Stucky. Case joins the Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights and Litigation practice groups. Seo joins the Health Care, Corporate Transactions and Finance practice groups. Stucky joins the Environmental, Natural Resources and Litigation practice groups.

Gilmore Research Group

Seattle-based Gilmore Research Group, a marketing research consulting firm, hired Jack Geiger as vice president, senior research consultant. Geiger has 18 years of marketing and management experience and has worked with financial services, utilities, technology and telecommunications.

Helsell Fetterman

Seattle law firm Helsell Fetterman said long time partner Llewelyn Pritchard is receiving the Father Robert F. Drinan Award from the American Bar Association. The award recognizes an individual who has provided leadership to the legal profession in protecting and advancing human rights, civil liberties and social justice.

Hallmark Manor

Hallmark Manor, a nursing and rehabilitation center in Federal Way, hired Darren Bake as executive director. Bake worked with Generations Healthcare in San Diego, Calif. He has six years of experience in longterm care administration.