Aug 05, 2015

Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Yeap

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce named Soon Beng Yeap senior vice president of communications and marketing. Yeap's background includes working on Starbucks Coffee's international expansion and as communications counsel to Microsoft while he worked at Waggener Edstrom. The organization recently promoted Kim Lichttenegger to director of marketing and Alicia Teel to director of policy communications.

Carney Badley Spellman

Luke

Lucinda J. Luke was named shareholder at Carney Badley Spellman law firm in Seattle. Her practice focuses on labor and employment counseling, and litigation, municipal and corporate law. Luke also has extensive experience representing municipal entities.

NAC Architecture

Lan

Jain

NAC Architecture hired architect Amy W. Jain and architectural designer Tami Liyu Lan in the Seattle office. Jain has over 15 years in the architecture and engineering industry, including as a project manager and project architect with Miller Hayashi Architects. Lan has worked with an architectural firm in Taiwan. NAC provides planning, design, engineering and consulting services.

Hoshide Wanzer Architects

Mantz

Scales

Hoshide Wanzer Architects promoted Will Scales to associate principal and hired Cierra Mantz as a staff architect. Scales is an architect and project manager with experience on civic, higher education, retail, hospitality and housing projects. He will now also do marketing and office management. Mantz has experience in environmental sustainability. She is assisting on retail and hospitality projects, and designing a cabin in the Cascades.

Art Anderson Associates

Engelbrecht

Art Anderson Associates hired Eric Engelbrecht as vice president of the marine group. Engelbrecht will lead a team of naval architects and marine engineers, and work to expand the government and commercial business of the Bremerton-based engineering firm. He has done business development, technical sales, project management and engineering for marine and naval architecture-related industries, and was a Navy nuclear submarine officer.

AHBL

Turpin

Brynestad

Lovatt

Laszlo

In Seattle, AHBL hired Nadine Laszlo as a senior landscape project manager and Lauren Lovatt as a project engineer. In Tacoma, it hired Bart Brynestad and Anne Turpin as project engineers. Laszlo holds a bachelor of landscape architecture from Michigan State University and has design experience. Lovatt holds a bachelor's in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Washington, and has three years of industry experience. Brynestad holds bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from the UW. He worked for the Corps of Engineers on hydraulic modeling. Turpin has 16 years of experience, including in site design and CADD drafting. AHBL provides civil and structural engineering, landscape architecture, community planning and land surveying, with offices also in Spokane and the Tri-Cities.

BCE Engineers

Justice

Smith

Santos

BCE Engineers promoted Henry Santos, Jim Smith and John Justice to associate. They have worked on engineering project teams in the Northwest and have 17, 8 and 16 years with BCE, respectively. BCE is a mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering firm in Fife.

Otak

Schneider

Otak hired Ben Schneider as a landscape architecture professional in Redmond. He has over five years of experience in park design, urban design, playgrounds, campus design, sports fields and stormwater bioretention facilities. He is working on Pacific Highway improvements for Kent. Otak provides urban design, architecture, planning and engineering.

The Watershed Company

Hoenig

Booth

The Watershed Co. promoted Kenny Booth to principal and hired Anna Hoenig as an ecologist on natural resources projects. Booth is a senior planner who heads the permitting practice. He has 12 years of experience leading teams on natural resource mitigation projects for government and commercial clients. Hoenig was with Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust and holds a master's in evolution, ecology and systematics from the University of Munich. The Watershed Co. provides natural resources assessment, mitigation and restoration design, environmental planning and permitting, arborist and landscape architecture services.