Oct 05, 2011

Bellevue Arts Museum

Larry Wright has been appointed managing director of Bellevue Arts Museum. Wright has 15 years of nonprofit leadership experience and was recently CEO of the National Mentoring Partnership in Washington, D.C. He previously taught at Seattle University.

ValueAppeal

ValueAppeal, an online property tax appeal service developed to help homeowners lower property taxes, hired Eric Brown as chief operating officer. Brown was with Radiant Asset Management. ValueAppeal also completed its move to a larger headquarters in Seattle. Its new address is 501 Dexter Ave. N., in South Lake Union.

Washington State Bar Association

The Washington State Bar Association said Seattle attorney Joseph McMillan, Harry Schneider and Charles Sipos won the 2011 Award of Merit. This is WSBA's highest honor, most often given for long-term service to the bar or the public. The award recognizes their work on the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case.

Mithun

McBride

Christensen

Gula

Connolly

Mithun promoted Brendan Connolly to partner, Roger Gula to principal, and Erin Christensen and Lynn McBride to associate principals. Connolly, past vice-president of the Seattle Design Commission, focuses on projects with educational components, including the Summit Bechtel National Scout Reserve in West Virginia and the LEED platinum Walking Mountains Science Center in Avon, Colo. Gula's experience includes tenant improvements on Google's Mountain View, Calif., campus, and student housing and mixed-use projects. Christensen's work uses district-scale sustainability and community health indicators in planning and urban design projects such as the EcoDistrict Initiative for the Portland Sustainability Institute. McBride's work includes expanding the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's Resort in Worely, Idaho, to add a hotel.

Gensler

Thomas

Gensler, a design, planning and strategic consulting firm, hired Karen Thomas as managing director of the Seattle office. She will work to diversify the firm's projects and improve client service. Thomas worked at her own firm, Thomas & Thomas architecture and interiors, until 2010. Most recently, she was deputy director at The Henry Art Gallery.

Golder Associates

Toth

Hoose

Foroozan

Carscadden

Golder Associates Pacific Northwest operations hired Denise Carscadden as a senior engineer, Roozbeh Foroozan as a project engineer, William Hoose as a senior environmental/land use planner and Joseph Toth as a staff engineer. Carscadden has experience in environmental compliance, and will work in the Redmond remediation group. Foroozan specializes in geomechanics and fractured reservoir modeling, and is working on a hydrofracture simulation of a shale project in Colorado. Hoose will specialize in comprehensive plans and the California Environmental Quality Act, and is working on the March Joint Powers Authority General Plan. Toth transferred to Redmond from Golder's Anchorage office, where he has worked since 2007. He is in Suriname working on a feasibility study for a gold mine tailings storage facility. Golder is a ground engineering and environmental consulting firm.

BHC Consultants

Gray

BHC Consultants hired Kenneth Gray as a staff engineer. Gray is an engineer-in-training and holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Washington. He is providing engineering support on industrial wastewater projects. BHC is a municipal services consulting firm serving the public sector.

BCRA

Vefik

BCRA hired Ray Vefik as a project manager for its health care studio in Tacoma. Vefik has 30 years of experience as an architect, focusing on inpatient hospital design, medical office buildings, dental clinics, and surgical and ambulatory centers. BCRA provides architecture, interior design, building science, engineering, planning, resource management, visual communication and marketing strategy.

Brent Planning Solutions

Townsell

Brent Planning Solutions hired Paula Townsell as a special project consultant. She will do environmental assessments and due diligence research in land use regulations and project permitting. Townsell has more than 30 years of permitting and environmental assessment experience. Brent is a permitting and environmental consulting firm.