Apr 07, 2010
Design firm NBBJ named
Arnold Levin and
Jose Sama as principals in the Seattle office. Levin has 40 years of experience conducting workplace research, teaching design strategy and consulting in corporate real estate. He is workplace strategy director at NBBJ and is working on several projects with Beckman Coulter. Sama is a health care studio design lead with 20 years of experience on medical, academic, corporate and research projects. His past projects include Swedish Orthopedic Institute and Virginia Mason Medical Center. He is working on the University Medical Center in New Orleans.
Parametrix hired
Brad Bastin as the engineering services division manager in its Lacey office. Bastin has 30 years of experience in transportation, strategic planning and team building. He will provide business development, leadership and mentoring for the community building and transportation programs. Bastin's expertise is in planning, design, management and transportation projects.
Western Architectural has hired
D. William Otey to do building envelope consulting and design, and serve on the firm's litigation support team. He will offer expert witness testimony in construction defect cases. Otey has 30 years of experience in architecture, construction management, construction forensics and claims. Portland-based Western Architectural is a forensic architecture and engineering firm.
John Gish and
Jim Rothwell have been elected to Callison's board of directors. Gish has 25 years of retail and mixed-use experience and an understanding of the social aspects of design, the firm said. He works in Asia with clients such as Shanghai Greenland Group and Ayala Land. Rothwell has worked with Microsoft and Vulcan. With 25 years in the industry, he has led speculative office developments, build-to-suit office buildings, corporate campuses, high technology facilities and mixed-use developments. He is market leader for commercial work in the Middle East. Callison is an international architecture and design firm with nine offices worldwide.
Dykeman promoted
Patricia (Trish) Sherman and
Michael Stevens to associate principal and
Zachary Ham to associate. It also announced the hiring of
Matthew Kimball as associate,
Sam Castro as intern architect and
Kristen Anderson as an interior designer. Sherman joined Dykeman in 1991. She works on schools, commercial, residential and retail, and is project manager on the Valley View Middle School for the Snohomish School District. Stevens was hired in 2007. He has 13 years of experience and has been involved in retail/mixed-use, education, residential and civic projects, including Valley View. Ham started at the firm in 2005. He is working as project architect on Everett School District's James Monroe Elementary School. Kimball recently joined Dykeman. His work includes the Snohomish County PUD operations center and multiple Safeway projects. Castro joined Dykeman in 2009. He is involved in projects for the Housing Authority of Snohomish County. Anderson was hired in 2009 and is working on James Monroe Elementary School. Dykeman, located in Everett, specialties in architecture, interior design, Web site design, environmental graphics and visual marketing.
Seattle-based Jacobson Jarvis & Co., an accounting, tax, information systems and management consulting company, promoted Erin Welch to partner. Welch will assume responsibility for the consulting practice while continuing to serve a number of the firm's audit clients. Welch joined the company in 2000 as an audit staff member.
Davis Wright Tremaine hired Portia Moore as partner. Moore has 20 years of experience representing clients such as Starbucks Coffee, Bose and State Farm Insurance, and is an employment litigator. She was recently with Lane Powell.
Sue Clark will become interim dean of the College of Sciences at Washington State University beginning July 1 in the event that a new permanent dean is not on site by that date. Clark is a professor in the Chemistry Department and has been at WSU since 1996. WSU is searching for a new dean to replace Mike Griswold, who is returning to the faculty after serving as dean for seven years.
Bonneville Seattle hired Ryan Hatch as operations manager. Hatch will assume programming responsibilities for News Talk 97.3, KIRO FM and 770 KTTH. He is a member of the Bonneville team in Phoenix.
