Aug 23, 2017

Big Brothers Big Sisters

Engle

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Washington named Jeff Engle CEO, eefective Sept. 1. He has a background in management and business development, and has been a Big Brother since 2012. The group serves Thurston, Mason, Lewis, Pacific and Grays Harbor counties.

Visualant

Visualant, which provides chromatic-based identification, authentication and diagnostic solutions, said Phillip Bosua has become chief product officer. Bosua founded LIFX and created a smart light bulb that won the Edison Award.

The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times named Craig Eidem vice president of information technology. He was AboveCloud's chief technology officer and has 17 years of experience leading large-scale IT organizations, including at MegaPath and Broadvox.

Rolluda Architects

Barbakoff

Purvis

Ahmadi

Seattle-based Rolluda Architects hired Farzana Ahmadi, Matt Purvis and Brett Barbakoff as project designers. Ahmadi was dean of engineering faculty in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is working on a residential project in Everett. Purvis has been designing residential architecture in Vancouver and Seattle for seven years. His work includes Sound Transit's Lynnwood Link light rail extension. Barbakoff's work includes commercial, corporate office interiors, retail, historic preservation and housing. He is working on King County Solid Waste facilities projects.

Hewitt

Rossi

Kear

Capulong

Carrizosa

Benesi

Bishu

In Seattle, Hewitt hired Jeff Benesi as an urban designer, and Michael Carrizosa, Darel Capulong, Stephen Kear, Kirsten Rossi and Alemseged Bishu as staff architects. Benesi has a 45-year history as a landscape planner and urban design specialist, and a fine arts background. Carrizosa is a recent UW architecture design graduate. He will help design Redmond Technology Center light rail station and pedestrian bridge. Capulong has two years of experience. He is contributing to The Emerald high-rise condo tower in Seattle. Kear will do transportation architecture work, including the Redmond pedestrian bridge. Rossi is in the multifamily and mixed-use architecture practice working with the Capitol Hill transit-oriented development team. Bishu previously was an architect in New York City. He is working on a mixed-use project. Hewitt provides architecture, landscape architecture and urban design.

ALSC Architects

Camargo

Guzman

Leeper

ALSC Architects of Spokane hired Andrew Leeper as a project architect and Esteban Barrientos Guzman and Fernando Camargo as architectural designers. Leeper is working on improvements to the Whitworth University Pine Bowl. Guzman is working on the Northern Quest Resort & Casino expansion. Camargo has a master of architecture degree from Washington State University and a background in design and graphics. He is working on the Columbia Basin College Student Housing Complex.

GLR Engineers

Korpi

In Spokane, GLR Engineers hired Phillip Korpi as a structural project engineer. Korpi has five years of structural engineering experience in Nashville, Tenn., and Fort Collins, Colo. He is working on custom houses and an apartment complex in Airway Heights. GLR also has a Boise, Idaho, office.

Gibbs & Olson

Busby

Gibbs & Olson, a Longview civil engineering and land surveying firm, hired Kyle Busby as a project engineer. He has a civil engineering degree from the University of Washington and engineer-in-training certification. He assists with transportation, site, stormwater, wastewater and water design projects and stormwater analysis.