Jun 30, 2010

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry

Seattle law firm Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson hired Darin Jensen and Timothy Steen. Jensen is an associate in the business, tax and estate planning/probate departments. He worked with a Northwest accounting firm as its tax procedure expert. Steen joined the Litigation Practice Group as an associate. Steen focuses on dispute resolution and trial on behalf of businesses and entrepreneurs. He worked at Eisenhower & Carlson as a commercial trial lawyer.

WSBA

The Washington State Bar Association said Port Orchard lawyer Tracy Flood has been elected the new at-large governor. She will assume the seat in September that is held by Seattle attorney Brenda Williams for a three-year term. Flood has had a solo practice for seven years. Since 2009, she has been an adjudicator for the U.S. Department of Labor.

CollinsWoerman

CollinsWoerman promoted Harold Moniz to senior associate in planning and Lara Macklin to associate. Moniz has been with the firm since 2007, leading work on Seattle Housing Authority's Yesler Terrace and King County's form-based code pilot project. Macklin, a medical planner/interior designer, is with the health care team. She worked on Swedish Issaquah Medical Center and MultiCare Covington Medical Center. Seattle-based CollinsWoerman is an architecture, design and planning firm.

Wilson Engineering

Nathan Twining with Wilson Engineering received his Washington engineer license and has been promoted to project engineer. He has been a design engineer for Wilson since 2006, assisting with roads, civil site planning, reservoirs, water mains, sewer pump stations and wastewater reuse plants.

MulvannyG2 Architecture

MulvannyG2 Architecture hired Jenny Li as a design principal in its Bellevue office. Li is lead designer for the retail and mixed-use sectors. She has 22 years of international design and management experience in retail, mixed-use, corporate, industrial, residential and master planning in the United States, China and New Zealand.

Skillings Connolly

T. Patrick Fox, survey manager with Skillings Connolly in Lacey, is one of fewer than 500 land surveyors nationwide to receive a new certification from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management called CFedS, for Certified Federal Surveyor. The program enhances expertise for survey work on federal lands, especially on Indian trust lands. Fox has been in the surveying field in Thurston County since 1977, and has managed Skillings Connolly's survey department for 12 years.

Jun 29, 2010

Wells Fargo Private Bank

Wells Fargo Private Bank hired Carla Wigen to the Washington and Alaska team as a wealth management director. Wigen has 20 years of wealth management, legal and accounting experience. She was vice president and senior trust officer for Washington Trust Bank.

Bellevue Downtown Association

The Bellevue Downtown Association promoted Jennifer Fischer and Patrick Bannon to vice presidents and Jordan Slaymaker to marketing manager. It also hired Michael Pearce as director of business development and government relations. Fischer joined BDA from Seafair in 2005. Bannon joined BDA in 2005 from the Seattle office of Hill & Knowlton. Slaymaker joined BDA as an intern in 2007. Pearce has had consultant and staff roles with the cities of Tacoma and Seattle.

Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker

Attorney Jason Wandler of Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker was named a "Rising Star" by Washington Law & Politics Magazine. To identify Rising Stars, the magazine asked the top 5 percent of the Bar Association membership in Washington to vote for the best attorneys they have observed in action who are either age 40 or under or who have been practicing 10 years or less. Wandler represents general contractors and subcontractors in public and private construction projects. Oles Morrison is based in Seattle.

Andersen Construction Co.

Seattle's Andersen Construction Co. hired Paul Hackett, Jaime Puracal and Alec Thomas in its Special Projects Group. Hackett, a project manager, is a nine-year local construction veteran. Puracal and Thomas are project engineers. Puracal has been in the industry for five years.

Veca Green

Dan Fairbanks was appointed head of Veca Green in Seattle, and Chris Fryer was appointed sales and marketing associate. Fairbanks has worked with several startup companies and holds a bachelor's degree from the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. Fryer has experience in sales and media marketing, helped several Internet startups and co-directed a feature film. He grew up working in the residential construction industry. Veca Green specializes in energy retrofits.

ARTBA-TDF

Two Northwest safety initiatives were recognized at the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation's 12th annual Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness Awards in Pittsburgh. CH2M Hill won an award for its Work Zone Safety Matters campaign to reduce job site accidents, injuries and fatalities. The campaign included a toolkit for employees nationwide and hosted the American Traffic Safety Services National Work Zone Memorial with the Washington State Department of Transportation. The Idaho Department of Transportation, Connecting Idaho Partners JV and The Langdon Group won an award for their efforts to notify travelers at the Boise Airport of ongoing construction activity on nearby Interstate 84. The partners created an information kiosk near the baggage claim area that had computer-animated simulations of the construction projects and how motorists should drive through the work zones.