Sep 16, 2015

HOK

Foss

HOK named Anton Foss managing principal in Seattle and San Francisco. Foss is a senior vice president, and was a regional leader of the sports, recreation and entertainment practice in San Francisco. He joined HOK in January when it acquired 360 Architecture. Foss has nearly 30 years of planning, design and management experience. He has led sports, recreation, entertainment, corporate, health care, education, mixed-use and residential projects. In Seattle, Foss has had a leadership role in the proposed NBA/NHL arena and the Husky Stadium expansion. HOK provides architecture, engineering and planning, with 25 offices worldwide.

ESM Consulting Engineers

Jenson

Curkendall

O'Connor

Mann

In the Federal Way office, ESM Consulting Engineers promoted Evan Mann to senior land planner and hired Kerri O'Connor as assistant planner/GIS specialist and Chad Curkendall as an engineer I. Dean Jenson is the new survey crew chief in Everett. Mann has nearly 10 years of experience managing residential, commercial and industrial developments in the Puget Sound region. O'Connor has six years of experience as a geospatial and signal intelligence analyst for the Army and the federal government. She was a GIS and data systems analyst intern for the city of Tacoma and Puget Sound Regional Council. Curkendall holds a bachelor's in civil engineering from the University of Washington.

OAC

Nabavi

Smith

Rock

OAC hired Brad Rock as a senior project manager and Eric Smith as regional director, and promoted Houman Nabavi to project manager in the construction management practice group. Rock has 10 years of construction management experience. He will manage office, health care and high tech projects. Smith has 38 years of experience in the construction industry as an owner, builder and consultant, and has worked in public, not-for-profit and private development. He will lead development in OAC's Silicon Valley and Bay Area markets and assist the alternative project delivery practice group in the Northwest. Nabavi has worked in construction and real estate for more than a decade. He has project planning, design, and construction experience for office, lab, industrial/manufacturing and housing projects. Rock and Nabavi work in the Seattle office, and Smith in San Jose.

Washington Defense Trial Lawyers

Campbell

Jennifer Campbell, a shareholder at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, is president-elect of the Washington Defense Trial Lawyers, starting in July 2016. She has been on the board since 2007, and has years of experience with product liability, personal injury and general commercial litigation.

Phillips Burgess

The Olympia law firm Phillips Burgess has moved its headquarters to a larger space in Market Place at 724 Columbia St. N.W. The firm still has an office in Tacoma. The founders are attorneys Richard “Mick” Phillips and Heather Burgess, and they focus on land use, environmental, real estate and natural resources law.

Sep 15, 2015

Hornall Anderson

Yoder

Eslami

Seattle branding and design firm Hornall Anderson hired Rahmin Eslami as a vice president of design. He will work with current VP of design Michael Connors, and oversee an inter-disciplinary team. Eslami was a creative director with Landor Associates in Chicago, and has worked on projects for Abbott, Bank of Nova Scotia, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Michelin and Procter & Gamble.

Associated Ministries

Michael Yoder joined Associated Ministries in Tacoma as executive director. He has 30 years of experience in nonprofits and worked for 12 years at World Vision where he launched a national program about AIDS in Africa.

Express Construction

Yong-Hyun Kim

McDaniel

Gonzalez

Bellevue-based Express Construction hired Michael Gonzalez as general superintendent, and Joseph McDaniel and Andrew Yong-Hyun Kim as project engineers. Gonzalez has more than 20 years of experience in heavy construction, concrete work and structural steel installation. McDaniel recently earned a bachelor's degree from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon. Yong-Hyun Kim is a recent graduate of the University of Washington's construction management program.

D.R. Johnson

Riddle, Oregon-based D.R. Johnson has been certified to manufacture cross-laminated timber under a new standard approved last year by the American National Standards Institute. Johnson's panels were tested and certified by the American Plywood Association. The company says it is the first in the country to receive the certification.