Feb 07, 2019

Pierce County

Jody Miller Ferguson rejoined Pierce County as director of the Emergency Management department. Ferguson was deputy/interim director of King County's Office of Emergency Management. Earlier in her career, she served 12 years in the Pierce County Emergency Management department, where she became interim director. Ferguson starts Feb. 19, subject to county council confirmation.

Puget Sound Partnership

Sheida Sahandy will step down May 3 as executive director of Puget Sound Partnership. Sahandy was appointed five years ago by Gov. Jay Inslee. The Olympia-based agency leads collective efforts to restore and protect Puget Sound.

Watson & McDonell

Seattle-based CPA firm Watson & McDonell is now part of CliftonLarsonAllen. Watson & McDonell provided audit and tax services to small and medium-sized businesses for over 30 years, with a focus on nonprofits and affordable housing providers. Managing partner Lillian McDonell and 14 Watson & McDonell coworkers joined CLA, which has 120 offices in the U.S.

The Riveter

The Riveter — a Seattle-based coworking and community network focused on women — is expanding into six cities by mid-year: Dallas, Denver, Portland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Atlanta and Austin, Texas. The company, which recently received $15 million in funding, and will have 11 spaces in eight cities following the expansion, with more to come. Amy Nelson is founder and CEO.

Feb 06, 2019

IBI Group

Wharton

Toronto-headquartered IBI Group hired Gregory Wharton as studio lead for a new commercial-residential mixed-use architecture practice in Seattle. He has over 25 years of experience in Seattle, nationally and internationally as a designer and planner for mixed-use projects including high-rise, mid-rise, apartments, condos, hotels, offices and retail centers. IBI Group has 2,800 employees and more than 60 offices worldwide.

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

Mohr

Clifton

Berahman

Seattle-based Magnusson Klemencic Associates promoted Farshad Berahman, Sean Clifton and Danya Mohr to principal. Berahman has a Ph.D. and 20 years of design and structural engineering experience managing projects up to 11.8 million square feet. As leader of the high-rise structures technical specialist team, he has advanced MKA's tall building design with wind and seismic engineering advancements, including new forms of damping systems within tall towers for more efficient motion control. Clifton is a member of the residential and hotel specialist group and the high-rise and concrete technical specialist teams. He has experience internationally in residential, hospitality and mixed-use developments up to 4 million square feet, and high-rises up to 100 stories. Mohr is in the retail/mixed-use specialist group with experience in retail, mixed-use, and hospitality markets globally. He was educated as an architectural engineer and has designed boutique retail as well as multi-tower, mixed-use developments. MKA provides structural and civil engineering worldwide.

Floyd|Snider

King

Seattle-based Floyd|Snider promoted Megan King to associate principal. The environmental engineer and senior project manager has 15 years of experience in upland and in-water hazardous waste remediation, project management and facilitation. She has worked on environmental cleanup and restoration projects in the Northwest for ports, municipalities, industries and developers.

Blueline

Rivera

Contreras

Jensen

In Kirkland, Blueline hired Eric Jensen as planning manager, Gloria Contreras as an engineer/construction inspector on public works projects and Eric J. Rivera as an engineering drafter. Jensen most recently was in capital infrastructure project management for King County's Community Development Block Grant program and has been principal planner for the cities of Duvall, Carnation and Millwood. He will lead land use planning, permitting and grant management for Blueline. Contreras has a master's in civil engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and was a project engineer with Gary Merlino Construction. Rivera has been in the civil engineering field for 20 years in California, including on a survey crew for Rodman, and as a designer and CAD manager for Yamabe & Horn Engineering. Blueline provides civil engineering, land use planning and landscape architecture.

ESM Consulting Engineers

Kunitsugu

Everett

Lennon

Stiff

In Federal Way, ESM Consulting Engineers promoted Trevor Stiff to vice president, Zack Lennon to director of survey, John Everett to director of planning and Clark Kunitsugu to principal. Stiff has been at ESM since 2001 and is director of engineering. Lennon has 20 years of experience in land surveying and has taken over the overall management of the firm's survey operations. Everett has 20 years of experience in land planning, real estate and development. Kunitsugu leads ESM's residential services with over a decade of experience in engineering, design and entitlement of residential projects. He works with builders and developers in the Puget Sound region. ESM provides civil engineering, land planning, surveying, landscape architecture and GIS services.

BBB Northwest + Pacific

Vedder

Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific hired former KOMO TV investigative journalist Tracy Vedder as communications director. Vedder is based in Boise, and oversees media relations and outreach across the Pacific Northwest. She also operates a small horse ranch in Boise with her husband.

Department of Fish & Wildlife

Carrie McCausland is the new public affairs director at the state Department of Fish & Wildlife. McCausland was deputy communications director at the state Department of Natural Resources, and was a communications specialist with the city of Tacoma prior to that.

Seattle Art Fair

Nato Thompson will return as artistic director for Seattle Art Fair, which will be held in August at CenturyLink Field Event Center. Thompson last year curated a range of projects, performances and installations for the fair. He is artistic director at Philadelphia Contemporary and created Philadelphia's Festival for the People. Seattle Art Fair was founded in 2015 by Paul Allen, and is produced by Vulcan Arts + Entertainment and Art Market Productions.

Washington State Auditor

The Office of the Washington State Auditor has a new website: http://www.sao.wa.gov. It was redesigned based on feedback from hundreds of people in local and state government who do business with the auditor.