Dec 23, 2020

Thornton Tomasetti

Morgen

Brian G. Morgen, Ph.D., joined Thornton Tomasetti as vice president and Seattle office director. Morgen has over 16 years of experience in the Seattle market and a background in structural analysis and design, and project management. He has worked on office and residential towers, health care facilities, civic and cultural centers and mixed-use complexes. Morgen is a specialist in performance-based seismic design and played a key role in the design of several high-performing buildings in earthquake-prone areas in the western U.S. and Asia. Most recently, he was a principal in Magnusson Klemencic Associates' Seattle office and a senior member of the firm's office and residential specialist groups. Thornton Tomasetti's Seattle office is working on Climate Pledge Arena.

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

Umana

Geter

Cox

Donovan

Seattle-based landscape architecture firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol promoted Chihiro Shinohara Donovan to senior associate, Azzurra Cox and Rikerrious Geter to associate and Wolfgang Umana to office manager. Donovan has a background in architecture, landscape architecture and environmental design. She has worked on the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., Dongtan Park in Seoul, South Korea, and Spring District parks in Bellevue. She is the project designer on India Basin Shoreline Park in San Francisco. Cox loves cities and has a commitment to public space. She is on the design team and leading the public engagement for the India Basin project. She also is an urban design commissioner on the Seattle Design Commission. Geter examines and promotes how public space can best serve impoverished areas to encourage equitable, healthy and sustainable communities. He recently participated in engaging the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco to help them visualize their India Basin Shoreline Park. His current projects include West Main in Bellevue and Mercer Blocks in Seattle, where he brings an emphasis to sustainability. Umana has experience in social media, communications, outreach and technical services. He recently transformed the Washington, D.C., office space to accommodate a growing number of designers and continually advances GGN's technology infrastructure with cutting-edge hardware and software. All the others work in the Seattle office.

Hart Crowser

Hyllseth

Goodwin

Eng

Schmitz

Dagel

Marsters

Simbeck

Arnold

In Seattle, Hart Crowser promoted Mark Dagel and Mike Schmitz to principal and Kelly Eng, Angie Goodwin and Rolf Hyllseth to senior associate. In Tacoma, the firm promoted Dr. Lorne Arnold to associate and in Honolulu it promoted Simone Simbeck to senior associate. Also, Dr. Janice Marsters was promoted to senior principal. She manages the Hawaii and Guam offices.

Dagel is a hydrogeologist who has 33 years of experience, 11 at Hart Crowser. That includes environmental investigations, cleanups, source control and monitoring; Natural Resource Damage Assessment and restoration projects; stormwater compliance; and environmental stakeholder and regulatory negotiations. He has managed environmental work at landfills, petroleum-contaminated sites, military installations, industrial facilities and abandoned mining, milling and smelting sites. Schmitz is a geotechnical engineer who manages the geotechnical business unit. He has 17 years of experience with transportation, airport and river levee projects, including nearly four at Hart Crowser. He was a geotechnical engineer on a team that replaced 554 bridges in just 3.5 years. Eng is human resources manager in the Seattle office. She has 24 years of experience, including 18 at Hart Crowser. She is responsible for the planning, implementation and administration of all functional areas of human resources. She also works with the corporate health and safety manager in the retention of health and safety statistics and completion of OSHA and other compliance reports.

Goodwin is a hydrogeologist who has been with Hart Crowser for 14 years, supporting projects involving water resources, environmental hydrogeology, remediation, property due diligence/redevelopment and groundwater computer modeling. She has been environmental project manager for multi-phase construction projects involving significant soil management and disposal. Hyllseth is a geotechnical engineer with 30 years of experience, including nine at Hart Crowser. His work includes mixed-use developments, deep excavations, landslides, bridge foundations, rockfall mitigation and rockslide evaluation/instrumentation. He has completed projects and is managing on-call contracts for public agencies that include the Washington State Department of Transportation, U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the city of Seattle. Arnold is a geotechnical engineer with nine years of experience including six at Hart Crowser. He is the founder and manager of the Tacoma office. His projects include high-rise, highway and port and waterfront development. He was the geotechnical project manager for the Southbound Interstate 5 bridge over the Puyallup River and the South Sound 911 Public Safety Communications Center in Tacoma.

Simbeck is an environmental scientist who has been with Hart Crowser for two years and has 15 years of experience in environmental assessment, stormwater management, environmental sampling design, dredge management and regulatory compliance. She has contributed to projects in the Hawaiian Islands, contiguous United States, New Zealand and New Caledonia. Marsters has more than 28 years of consulting experience in Hawaii and the Pacific, including five at Hart Crowser, specializing in stormwater consultation and environmental planning, compliance and permitting. She has managed hundreds of environmental and geotechnical projects for private industry and government agencies in Hawaii and the Pacific. She is an American Council of Engineering Companies fellow. Hart Crowser, a division of Haley & Aldrich, specializes in geotechnical engineering, environmental science and engineering, stormwater services and resilience engineering.

Lasher Holzapfel

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson announced that three lawyers joined the firm this month. Denver Gant joins the Estate Planning Practice Group. His focus areas include estate planning, probate, business and real estate. Christina Smith joins the Family Law Practice Group. Smith began her legal career working with child victims of abuse and neglect, and spent several years working on large corporate civil litigation cases. William Reingold Jr. joins the Family Law Practice Group. He most recently completed a judicial clerkship for the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Lasher Holzapfel was founded 47 years ago in Seattle.

Oregon Wildfire Disaster Relief

GE Appliances, a Haier company, is joining with independent retailers in Oregon to donate over $25,000 to the Oregon Wildfire Disaster Relief Fund. The partnership between GE and the local retailers supports the American Red Cross, which is providing shelter, emergency supplies, financial assistance and recovery planning to Oregon families. Retailers participating in this relief effort include DeWhitt Appliance in Portland, Kelly's Home Center in Salem and West Coast Appliance in Central Point.

T-Mobile

The Public Utility Commission of Texas announced that Bellevue-based T-Mobile has been selected to provide Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) and Captioned Telephone service (CapTel) in the state of Texas. The commission has 30 years of history with Sprint, now part of T-Mobile. Relay services like TRS and CapTel enable people who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, low-vision or have a speech disability to communicate over the phone by using a specialized text telephone and an operator to convert voice communications to text.

Dec 22, 2020

Lane Powell

Sweeney

Su

Nichols

Moyer

Lane Powell announced five new attorneys have joined the firm's Portland and Seattle offices. Riley Moyer (Seattle) will be an associate on Lane Powell's Labor, Employment & Benefits and Wage & Hour Teams. Ryan Nichols (Seattle) joins Lane Powell's Transportation and Corporate, Securities and M&A Teams as counsel to the firm. L. Paul Ohainle (Seattle) joins the Private Client Services Team as counsel to the firm. Michelle Su (Seattle) joins as an associate on the firm's Finance & Banking Team. Erin Sweeney (Portland) joins the firm as a shareholder on the Labor, Employment & Benefits Team.

Harvest Alaska

Harvest Alaska completed its acquisition of BP Pipeline's midstream ownership, following approval by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. Harvest immediately acquires BP's approximately 49 percent interest in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and 49 percent of Alyeska Service's and other Alaska midstream interests. Alyeska will continue to operate the pipeline as it has for decades. The 800-mile-pipeline system, one of the largest pipelines in the world, transports oil from the North Slope of Alaska to the northern most ice-free port in Valdez. Harvest Alaska, a subsidiary of Harvest Midstream, is a privately held midstream services provider based in Anchorage.

City of Kenmore

Joanne Gregory, finance and administration director for the city of Kenmore since December 2007, announced her retirement. Gregory has served in local government finance for more than 29 years. Leticia Salcido will become new finance & administration director. Salcido comes to Kenmore with over 23 years of experience in local government finance, including 13 years as the finance director of El Centro, California. The selection of Salcido was the result of a nation-wide search. She will take over the management and direction of the city's finance, information technology, risk management, and city clerk functions.

Cumming

McLay

International construction project management and cost consultant Cumming hired Finlay McLay as chief operating officer. McLay will be based in the firm's growing Seattle office. He has over 30 years of construction industry experience, most recently as an executive at SNC-Lavalin and prior to that as president of the Americas Region for Rider Hunt International. He replaces David Baird, who was promoted to CEO. Company founder Finlay Cumming recently transitioned from CEO to executive chairman. The Los Angeles-based company says it's working on internal innovation and geographic expansions. It has over 950 staff in 30 U.S. and five U.K. offices, according to its website.

Construction Center of Excellence

The Construction Center of Excellence extended the deadline to Wednesday for its construction video contest for high school students called We Build Washington! The statewide contest promotes construction as an industry of choice from a student perspective. Construction craft students can showcase their building projects and win a $2,000 scholarship for first place, $1,000 for second and $500 for “people's choice.” More information is at http://www.constructioncenterofexcellence.com/webuildwa.

Hanford Mission Integration Solutions

Richland-based Hanford Mission Integration Solutions made $60,000 in donations to 12 nonprofits as part of its 12 Gifts of Gratitude holiday program. Each nonprofit received $5,000. They included Columbia Basin College Foundation, Habitat for Humanity Tri-County Partners, WSU Tri-Cities Foundation and others. HMIS is the team of Leidos, Centerra Group and Parsons. On Jan. 25, it will start the new Hanford Mission Essential Services Contract at the Hanford Site.