Mar 16, 2021

Department of Corrections

Thompson

Secretary Stephen Sinclair has named Adrian Thompson as the Washington Department of Corrections' interim Equity & Inclusion Administrator. He has worked for the Department of Corrections as a staff psychologist for over two years. In his previous work, Thompson helped research mental health disparities in the court system, advocated and treated youth who were sexually abused and co-created a medical mentoring program designed to target disparities in high school achievement and medical school enrollment. He earned his doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Howard University. Thompson takes over from Karen Johnson, who was recently appointed by Gov. Jay Inslee to the role of director of the Office of Equity.

ExtraHop

ExtraHop, a provider of cloud-native network detection and response, has received several product and company award recognitions in the 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. ExtraHop was named a Best Cybersecurity Company and a Fastest-Growing Cybersecurity Company. Additionally, Reveal(x) was recognized for two product awards including a Gold Award in Artificial Intelligence Security and a Silver Award in AWS Cloud Security. These awards recognize the company for its demonstrated excellence and innovation in improving hybrid and cloud security for the enterprise. ExtraHop is headquartered in Seattle.

Smartsheet

Bellevue-based Smartsheet appointed Alissa Abdullah its board of directors. Abdullah currently serves as deputy chief security officer at Mastercard. Prior to Mastercard, she served in several executive roles including vice president, chief information security officer at Xerox, chief information security officer at Stryker and deputy chief information officer for the White House during the Obama administration. Smartsheet is an enterprise platform for dynamic work.

Lease Crutcher Lewis

Moore

Smith

Perry

Wofford-Miles

In Seattle, Lease Crutcher Lewis promoted Aaron Wofford-Miles to people services director and Francesca Perry to people services generalist; and hired Greg Smith as VDC director and Casey Moore as project executive. Wofford-Miles joined Lewis in 2019, bringing an expertise in human resources. In her new role, she will support Lewis' workforce throughout Washington and Oregon. Perry joined Lewis in 2018 as a people services coordinator. She is now focusing on employee benefits and recruiting for the Seattle office. Smith was VDC director at Skanska for 11 years and more recently was the national VDC training leader for DPR Construction. Moore is working in Lewis' K-12 market for Washington. He has over 30 years of experience as an architect and owner in the K-12 market, most recently as capital projects director for the Federal Way School District.

UMC

Uzhansky

Bickford

Local mechanical engineering and construction company UMC hired Keith Bickford as business development manager for the Controls Group and Yury Uzhansky as lead engineer. Bickford is a certified commissioning professional with over seven years of building automation experience. He holds master's degrees in architecture and environmental science. Uzhansky is a registered professional mechanical engineer with over 40 years of experience in design and construction, commissioning, start up and functional testing of different mechanical systems. Prior to joining UMC's engineering team, Uzhansky worked with UMC's construction team on multiple projects as a design engineer.

Gray Lumber Co.

deLeon

Jack deLeon is retiring after 40 years of commercial sales and service with Tacoma-based Gray Lumber Co. The company says deLeon has influenced many people in the building industry, both personally and professionally. He also dedicated much of his time to the Special Olympics program.

Mar 12, 2021

City of Tacoma

Tacoma District 1 Councilmember John Hines received a Certificate of Municipal Leadership from the Association of Washington Cities (AWC). AWC's Certificate of Municipal Leadership program recognizes city and town elected officials for accomplishing training in four core areas: roles, responsibilities and legal requirements; public sector resource management; community planning and development; and effective local leadership. Hines completed more than 30 hours of training credits to earn this distinction. He has served on the Tacoma City Council since January 2020. Founded in 1933, AWC is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation that represents Washington's 281 cities and towns before the state legislature, the state executive branch, and with regulatory agencies.

Fortive

Fortive has appointed Daniel Comas to its Board of Directors. Comas served as executive vice president of Danaher from April 2005 through December 2020, including as chief financial officer through December 2018. Comas currently serves as an advisor to Danaher and is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Fortive also announced that Steven Rales and Mitchell Rales will not seek re-election to the board at the 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders in June 2021 when their current terms will expire. Fortive is a provider of technologies for connected workflow solutions across a range of end-markets, and is headquartered in Everett.

Smartsheet

Bellevue-based Smartsheet announced Sonnedix, a global solar Independent Power Producer, selected Smartsheet to help implement new initiatives around training, remote work, and health and safety. Sonnedix develops, builds, owns and operates more than 330 solar plants in eight countries. In response to the shift to remote working, Sonnedix's HR team created a portal with resources that allow employees to request and receive training. Global employees can now book and be approved for training sessions with Smartsheet automation.