May 14, 2014

BergerABAM

Rusten

Marsh

Federal Way-based BergerABAM appointed M. Lee Marsh as president and chief executive officer effective June 1. He will succeed Arnfinn (Arnie) Rusten, who retires May 31. Marsh, who holds a Ph.D., joined the firm in 1994 and has spearheaded many seismic design and assessment projects. As senior project manager and principal, his projects have included bridges, transit guideways, marine structures, buildings, and specialized work such as cranes for nuclear power plants. He also has been on the board of directors since 2006. Rusten became CEO in 2005 and has helped BergerABAM double its revenues and staff. The firm provides civil and structural engineering, planning, environmental services, public involvement, construction management and support, surveying, and underwater inspection services. It has more than 230 staff.

Swenson Say Faget

Dow

Richter

McKinney

Swenson Say Faget hired Ryan McKinney and Brian Richter as project engineers and Alex Dow as a staff engineer. McKinney was with Magnusson Klemencic Associates for two years. He is working on Camp Don Bosco for the Catholic Archdiocese. Richter worked for a year at MKA. His projects include Columbia Confluence, a workforce housing complex in Cashmere. Dow previously was with Seattle Structural and AUE in Bellevue. He is working on Redmond Valley Furniture and 1200 Pike Street. Swenson Say Faget is a structural engineering firm with offices in Seattle and Tacoma.

Yost Grube Hall Architecture

Colvin

Ericka Colvin of Yost Grube Hall Architecture has become an architect in Oregon. Colvin has seven years of experience at firms in Oregon and Massachusetts, and has been with YGH since 2013. YGH provides planning, architecture and interior design.

Geosyntec Consultants

Wisdom

Geosyntec Consultants hired Charles S. Wisdom, Ph.D., as a senior consultant in its Pacific Northwest water resources practice, which provides stormwater management, stormwater impacts, best management practices, NPDES permit compliance, endangered species biological assessments and NEPA compliance.

THA Architecture

Sugarbaker

Smith

Mooney

Mannhard

Bascue

THA Architecture promoted Tracey Bascue, Scott Mannhard, Scott Mooney, Nic Smith and Matt Sugarbaker to associate. Bascue joined the firm in 2008 and is creative lead of interior architecture. She is working on new office space for Puppet Labs of Portland. Mannhard, a project architect, was hired in 2011. He is working on the Black Butte Ranch Lodge redevelopment. Mooney, a project architect, was hired in 2007. He is working on Renton Highlands Library. Project architect Smith joined THA in 2009. He is working on a project for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon. Project architect Sugarbaker was hired in 2012. He is working on Oregon State University's Austin Hall College of Business.

Transpo Group

Marnie O'Brien Primmer joined Transpo Group as director of strategic business development in the Newport Beach, California, office. She will work on corporate strategic growth, business planning and marketing, and with clients on transportation policy and communications. She was executive director of Southern California-based Mobility 21, a coalition focused on securing transportation funding for the region. Transpo Group is a transportation planning, engineering and technology firm.

Code Fellows

Code Fellows, a Seattle-based digital trade school, named Kristin Smith chief executive officer. Company co-founder Will Little has been appointed chief technology officer. Smith was vice president of supply chain at Zulily and worked at Amazon.com for eight years. Code Fellows was launched in 2013 and has graduated 165 software engineers from eight-week intensive courses, with an average starting salary of $75,600 per year.

Expeditors International

Expeditors International of Washington said Peter J. Rose, past CEO and chairman of the board, has resigned as both chairman and a member of the board. Robert R. Wright is the new chairman. He has been the company's lead independent director since May 2010. Wright is president and CEO of Matthew G. Norton Co., a real estate investment, development and management firm in Seattle. The board adopted a policy in 2012 requiring the CEO and chairman roles be split. Expeditors also said Rommel C. Saber, president of the Europe, Africa, Near/Middle East, and Indian Subcontinent region, will retire in 2015.