Mar 02, 2011
Tetra Tech hired
Sarah Hamel as a senior civil engineer,
Leanne Wilkins as a marketing coordinator,
Carrie Walker as an intern interior designer,
Catie Young as a receptionist, and
Zack Corcoran and
Rachel Harris as project assistants. Hamel has a background in civil infrastructure, transportation engineering and site development, and was project engineer on several low impact development projects. She will work on family housing in Homer, Alaska. Wilkins has web design experience and previously was a marketing assistant for GVA Kidder Mathews. She will prepare proposals, interview materials and presentations for the facilities group. Walker has a bachelor's in interior design from North Dakota University and interned with Merrill & Associates in Honolulu. Young, a Boise State University graduate, will work in the South Seattle office. Corcoran rejoins Tetra Tech's Richland office. He will administer details for U.S. General Services Administration port of entry projects at Portal, N.D., and Santa Teresa, N.M. Harris has a degree from Muhlenberg College. She will work on projects for Amtrak and King County. Tetra Tech provides consulting, architecture and engineering, and technical services worldwide.
Trindera Engineering of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, hired
Janelle Lee as an electrical project engineer. Lee has 9-plus years of electrical engineering experience in industrial and military settings. She will work on projects for industrial clients. She previously worked for K&N Electric. Trindera is an electrical and control systems engineering and consulting firm.
Architects Rasmussen Triebelhorn elected
Rhonda Gillogly as principal and hired
Allen Kabanuk as a job captain and
Shauna Cowan as marketing coordinator. Gillogly is director of business development. She is managing the court/jail renovation project for Pierce County and ADA renovations for Pierce Transit Tacoma Dome Station. She has 26 years of architecture and construction management experience. Kabanuk, with eight-plus years of experience, has a background in public and private projects, including criminal justice and retail. He is working on the Kittitas County jail expansion. Shauna Cowan is a graduate of Green River Community College, and has experience in construction and land development marketing. She will do marketing support for business development.
GN Northern hired
Karl Harmon as regional manager for the new Inland Northwest office in Spokane Valley. The Yakima-based firm provides engineering and environmental consulting, and construction material testing, with offices in Kennewick, and Hermiston and Hood River, Ore.
Westwood Professional Services hired
Robert Gonzalez for the national wind energy group. Based out of Portland, he will manage engineering design and multi-disciplined projects in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Gonzalez has worked for more than 11 years in residential, commercial and wind farm development. Westwood is a national land and energy development consultant.
Barking Frog at Willows Lodge in Woodinville hired Jennifer Schmitt as restaurant and wine manager. Schmitt was floor sommelier at Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar in Seattle and has also been a server and bartender at Luc Restaurant.
Law firm Carney Badley Spellman hired Lydia Zakhari as an associate. Her practice focuses on civil litigation, commercial litigation and construction law. Zakhari previously focused on commercial litigation, insurance defense and coverage, mass torts and civil litigation.
Arlan Norman, dean of Western Washington University's College of Sciences and Technology, will retire this summer. Norman is the founding dean of the college, which was formed after a reorganization at Western in 2002.
Perkins Coie added attorneys John Iani and Paul Smyth to its Environment, Energy & Resources Practice. Iani joins the Seattle office as partner. Smyth joins the Washington, D.C., office as of counsel. Iani was previously regional administrator for Region 10 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Symetra Life Insurance hired John Richter as vice president of national accounts. Richter was head of key accounts for the retirement income business at MassMutual Financial Group.
AAA Washington's board of trustees named Kirk Nelson CEO of the Bellevue-based company to succeed Charlie Liekweg upon his retirement. Nelson will assume the role April 1. He was with Qwest Communications where he has been Washington president since 1999. AAA Washington serves more than one million members in Washington and northern Idaho.
