Jan 05, 2011

Skamania Lodge

Skamania Lodge, an all-season resort in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, hired Chris Kerr as director of sales and marketing. Kerr has 22 years of experience and was recently director of sales and marketing at the Fairmont Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Stoel Rives

Stoel Rives, a full-service U.S. business law firm, announced attorney Geoffrey Revelle received a Distinguished Service Award from TerraLex, a global network of independent law firms, for collective leadership in its strategic plan. Revelle is a partner in the firm's Seattle office. He focuses his practice on assisting companies with a broad range of issues.

Callison

Callison hired Shawn Rush as associate principal in its Seattle office. Rush has 25-plus years of experience and will focus on business development in the global retail studio, which includes national accounts and workplace interiors. She will also identify market opportunities for domestic offices. Rush has been president of the Seattle chapter and foundation national co-chair of Commercial Real Estate Women. She is an advocate for sustainable design and has spoken at conferences and written on the subject. Her projects and clients include Davis Wright Tremaine and Amazon.com. Seattle-based Callison has offices in Beijing, Dallas, Dubai, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York and Shanghai.

Transpac Marinas

Dan Jankelson has been named president and CEO of Transpac Marinas in Anacortes. Since joining the company in 1989, he has led manufacturing and construction activities, and is responsible for design and manufacture of flotation systems. As chief operating officer for the past 10 years, he managed production for boat harbor projects in Alaska and the Northwest. Recent Alaska projects include the commercial vessel moorage float systems for King Cove and St. Herman Harbor. Outgoing president Dave Rytand will remain active in the business, focusing on sales and developing new products. Transpac designs and manufactures marine flotation and wave attenuation systems.

USKH

Dean Bergman was selected as an associate of USKH. He is a member of the survey and GIS department, and works from the Spokane office. His duties include processing and adjusting survey data, with an emphasis on planning, acquisition and post processing of static GPS surveys. He also has background in geodetic computations and map projections, and played a large role in the Akun Island survey project, which was awarded Project of the Year by Point of Beginning magazine. USKH provides architectural, engineering, environmental, landscape architecture, planning, and land surveying services in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

Enginuity Systems

Yan-Hon “Moses” Chong of Enginuity Systems passed his mechanical engineer certification exam. His recent projects include remodel of Building 2 for the Department of Veterans Affairs at American Lake, and energy analysis and LEED certification for the Topping Boys and Girls Club in Tacoma.

Sparling

Sparling hired Monish Chadha as IT architecture practice leader and Doug Harvey as technology project manager in its Houston office. Chadha has 15-plus years of experience in operations management and design of technology solutions for corporations. He is a network architect and systems engineer with experience in analysis and design of LAN and WAN topologies, radio networks, data and voice centers, traffic management systems and wireless standards and protocols. Harvey has 25 years of experience in design and implementation of low voltage cable systems. He has a background in telecommunications and data communications systems, and related infrastructure, and is working on projects for Scott & White Healthcare in College Station and Temple, Texas. Seattle-based Sparling provides services in electrical, technology, audiovisual, acoustical and lighting design.

Jan 04, 2011

Lake Washington Technical College

Lake Washington Technical College's board of trustees named David Woodall interim president. He replaces President Sharon McGavick, who is retiring. Woodall spent the past eight years with the Oregon Institute of Technology and was professor and director of OIT Seattle. Lake Washington Technical College's main campus is in Kirkland and it has locations in Redmond and Duvall.

Shoreline Community College

Shoreline Community College President Lee Lambert has been named vice chair of the board of the National Coalition of Certification Centers, a coalition of business and education groups that support national standards in critical manufacturing areas via certified training programs. The group will focus on transportation, aviation and energy sectors.

InfoSpace

InfoSpace announced John Cunningham is chairman of the board of directors. Cunningham has been a director since July of 1998, and was lead independent director of InfoSpace since 2010. Cunningham has been a general partner at Clear Fir Partners, a private equity investment partnership, since 1998.

Transpac Marinas

Dan Jankelson was named president and CEO of Transpac Marinas in Anacortes. Jankelson joined the company in 1989 and served as chief operating officer for the past 10 years. Transpac designs and manufactures marine flotation and wave-attenuation systems. Jankelson replaces Dave Rytand, who remains active in the business, focusing on sales and new product development.

Pacific Coast Steel

David Perkins was named president and CEO of Pacific Coast Steel, a reinforcing steel contractor. Perkins takes over for Eric B. Benson, who served as the company's president for 18 years. For the past five years, Perkins was executive vice president at San Diego-based Pacific Coast Steel, which operates in 10 western states in partnership with Gerdau Ameristeel. Locally, the company has an office in Auburn. Benson will remain on the company's board and its executive management team.

Dexter + Chaney

Dexter + Chaney's Spectrum Equipment Service System was selected as one of the Top 100 New Products of 2010 by Construction Equipment magazine. Products were evaluated using a number of criteria, including advances in technology, significant improvement in performance and increasing the competition in a product category. ESS is used by contractors to automatically collect key equipment data in real time from the field. Dexter + Chaney is based in Seattle.