Nov 02, 2011

Weber Thompson

Weber Thompson promoted Amanda Keating to senior associate and Myer Harrell to associate. Keating has led the firm's sustainability management team and integrated design programs. She manages several mid-rise projects, including two in Ballard seeking LEED gold, and was project manager for housing in Woodinville Wine Village. Harrell is a project architect with the mid-rise team and was on the team for Eco-Laboratory, a project that won first prize in the 2008 USGBC Natural Talent Design Competition. He won the 2011 AIA Seattle Young Architect Award, was a runner up in Metropolis magazine's 2009 Next Generation Design Competition, and was featured in the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial. Seattle-based Weber Thompson provides architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and community and urban design.

Decker Consulting Engineers

Decker Consulting Engineers hired Patrick Green as a senior project designer. He has more than 15 years of experience in civil engineering for land development and transportation projects. He is working on several apartment buildings in Seattle, a parking garage for a Bellevue car dealership, and an aerospace facility at Paine Field. Decker is a Seattle-based civil engineering design firm.

THA Architecture

Portland-based THA Architecture appointed Corey Martin as a design principal as part of its expansion into advanced approaches to design, sustainability and craft. Martin worked at Richard Potestio and Allied Works Architecture before starting his own design, furniture and sculpture firm in 1999. He later formed a partnership, M1C2, to undertake projects for the University of Oregon. In 2005, he established PATH Architecture in Portland with architect and developer Benjamin Kaiser. THA said Martin helped spearhead a wave of design-driven speculative development in Portland. Martin's work has received AIA Portland awards and a 2011 Residential Architect Design Award. THA designs buildings and urban spaces.

Licensing Executives Society

Cheryl Cejka director, technology commercialization at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, was named to the Licensing Executives Society board of directors as trustee for marketing. LES is a professional society representing 4,000 North American members engaged in the transfer, use, development and marketing of intellectual property.

Salish Lodge & Spa

Salish Lodge & Spa hired Rod Lapasin as general manager. Lapasin has 32 years of hospitality experience and will oversee daily operations of the lodge. Lapasin was recently director of catering and conference services at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle.

K&L Gates

The Seattle office of global law firm K&L Gates hired Charles Carter as a partner in its corporate practice. Carter joins K&L Gates from the Summit Law Group. Carter's practice focuses on high-growth companies.

Nov 01, 2011

King County Small Business Awards

King County gave out its first annual King County Executive's Small Business Awards. Molly Moon's Handmade Ice Cream is small business of the year, XXX Rootbeer is minority small business of the year, PRR is women small business of the year, Paula's Choice is exporting small business of the year, General Biodiesel is green/sustsainable small business of the year, Rockridge Orchards & Cidery is rural small business of the year, and Seidelhuber Iron and Bronze Works won for workforce development.

Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young hired Tremaine Smith to its Indirect, State and Local Tax Practice in Seattle. Smith is the former deputy director of the Washington Department of Revenue, where he spent 33 years.

Fisher Interactive

Fisher Interactive Network promoted Jenny Kuglin to general manager, content and social media, and Mike Seifert to general manager, digital revenues. Kuglin joined Fisher as director of social media in 2010. Seifert joined Fisher in February as director of sales.

BNBuilders

Hull

BNBuilders, a Seattle-based West Coast general contractor, hired Joe Hull as project executive. Hull previously was president and principal of True North, a commercial construction service company in Tacoma. He spent many years with Hoffman Construction, where he managed such projects as the Experience Music Project, Seattle Central Library and Seattle City Hall. He has Design-Build Institute of America certification and completed the Professional Liability Program.

Holaday-Parks

Glidden

Richard Glidden joined the account executive team at Holaday-Parks in Seattle. Glidden has worked in the mechanical contracting industry for more than 14 years as a mechanical designer and project manager. He is a certified Sustainable Building Advisor and a LEED V2.0 Accredited Professional.

Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker

Sam Baker, partner of the Seattle-based law firm Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker, will receive a 2012 Golden Beaver Award on Jan. 13 at The Beavers' annual awards dinner in Los Angeles. Baker's award will be in the service and supply category. Baker holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from the University of Washington and a J.D. from the University of Montana. He was a founding member of the UW Contractor Industry Advisory Council and has been a director of the Western Washington University Foundation. The Beavers is a heavy-engineering construction association.

Korsmo Construction

Tacoma's Korsmo Construction won the 2011 Corporations for Communities award in the small company category. The civics award honors Washington businesses that contribute to the community. Korsmo held the fifth annual Billy Stocking Special Olympics swim meet; built and donated dozens of wooden bunk beds to the Tacoma downtown YMCA shelter; and donated time and materials to build the Fallen Officers Memorial in Lakewood. The winner of the large company category was Sterling Savings Bank. An awards ceremony will be held tomorrow.

Bayley Construction

Mercer Island-based Bayley Construction moved its Southern California office to 23101 Lake Center Drive, Suite 200, in Lake Forest. The company also is no longer using a post office box as its Washington mailing address. Mail can be sent to: 8005 S.E. 28th St., Mercer Island, WA 98040.