Jul 25, 2012

Army Corps of Engineers

Lt. Col. Andrew Kelly has been appointed district commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Walla Walla District. Kelly was joint observer trainer for the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Virginia and replaces Lt. Col. David Caldwell who served as district commander for the past two years. The corps provides hydropower, flood risk management, recreation opportunities and maintains a navigational channel in the Snake and Columbia rivers.

The Raikes Foundation

The White House honored Tricia Raikes as a Champion of Change. Raikes is co-president of the Raikes Foundation where she leads efforts to end homelessness among juveniles. Champions of Change was created as part of President Obama's Winning the Future initiative.

Point B

Seattle-based Point B promoted Chris Olsen to practice director in Seattle. Olsen is a 17-year veteran of Point B, a mentor with the Microsoft Kinect Accelerator incubation program, a volunteer at the UW Engineering College and a leader with the Cub Scouts and Boys Scouts of America. Point B is a management consulting firm.

Schacht Aslani Architect

Seattle-based Schacht Aslani Architects hired Shazi Tharian as a staff architect and Andrew Ellis, Neil Parrish and Jonathan French as intern architects. Tharian previously was a staff architect at Bassetti Architects. Schacht Aslani said associate Jean-Claude Letourneau received a certificate from the Design-Build Institute of America in design-build project delivery.

The Blueline Group

The Blueline Group hired Dene Kuzaro as an engineer-in-training. Kuzaro works on residential, commercial and public works projects. Blueline provides civil engineering and land use planning.

West Consultants

Eset Alemu of West Consultants received her Washington engineering licence. She works in the Bellevue office of the Salem, Ore.-based water resources engineering firm.

HOK

Mike Retford joined the architectural firm HOK in San Francisco as director of a team that works on projects for police, crime labs, emergency operations centers, courthouses, and correctional centers in California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Arizona. Retford previously was with Aecom, and has 30 years of experience as a principal, project manager and project architect. HOK has 25 offices worldwide.

Otak

Otak hired Darcey Miller and Jenny Ngo as a senior wetland biologist and a planner, respectively, in Kirkland. Miller has 13 years of multidisciplinary science experience and has worked on projects in Washington, California, Montana and Louisiana. She was a shoreline biologist responding to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Ngo was a commuter profiles designer with the University of Washington. Otak provides engineering, urban design, architecture and planning.