Aug 11, 2021

SCJ Alliance

Graham

Sharese Graham, PMP has joined SCJ Alliance as a Senior NEPA Specialist. Graham has a BA in Marine Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has 20 years of experience in environmental strategy, impact analyses, permitting, and documentation for a wide variety of State Environmental Policy Act and National Environmental Policy Act projects. Her experience includes transportation, infrastructure, recreation, school, industrial, and residential development projects, as well as shoreline, comprehensive and master planning efforts. At SCJ, she is already applying her expertise to a significant WSDOT project improving 23 fish passages, the Dupont Multi-Field Sports Complex, and the SR 3 Freight Corridor Supplemental EA. SCJ Alliance is an 100% employee-owned firm specializing in civil engineering, transportation planning and design, environmental and urban planning, landscape architecture, and public outreach.

Architects West

Becker

Architects West hired Devan Becker as an Intern Architect. Becker received his Associate Degree in Architecture in 2019 followed by his Bachelor of Architecture from Washington State University in 2021. He is proficient in AutoCAD, Revit, and Sketchup. Architects West has been providing architectural and landscape architectural/land planning services throughout the Northwest since 1973. Architects West has offices in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington.

GLR Engineers

Durflinger

GLR Engineers has hired Dustin Durflinger as a structural Project Engineer in the firm's Spokane, WA office. Durflinger graduated from Washington State University in May of 2021 and has been working on a variety of projects since joining GLR, including several single-family custom homes in Central Washington and a new Bruchis restaurant in Post Falls, Idaho. GLR is a structural engineering firm with offices in Spokane and Boise.

Allwest

Fraser

Allwest hired Scott Fraser as engineering services manager. Fraser graduated from the University of Idaho with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He most recently worked for McCanna Engineering as a professional engineer designing commercial sites and residential subdivisions. He previously worked for Allwest for a combined six years as a staff engineer and materials testing manager. Fraser will be based in the firm's Spokane Valley office. Allwest is a full-service professional engineering, environmental, and construction materials testing firm serving the Inland Northwest.

Miller Nash

Miller Nash has hired Don Scaramastra as a parter in its Seattle office. Scaramastra joins the litigation team, helping clients obtain insurance recoveries for large losses, address complex contract disputes, resolve disagreements over business acquisitions and manage antitrust claims. Most recently, he has assisted a number of businesses who faced losses and disruptions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, Scaramastra is recognized for his pro bono practice, defending constitutional rights issues for underrepresented communities. Scaramastra received his bachelor's degree from the University of California Irvine before earning his law degree at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Miller Nash is an industry-focused law firm with offices in Washington, Oregon, California and Alaska

Alaska Wind Farm

Emerson, a global technology and engineering company, announced the completion of a digital transformation project to increase the reliability of clean energy generation at Golden Valley Electric Association's (GVEA) Eva Creek wind farm. As the largest electric utility serving northern Alaska, GVEA and its Eva Creek wind farm supply reliable, low-cost electricity to customers, while reducing fossil fuel usage. Emerson's sustainable grid solutions have increased the reliability of GVEA's wind turbines, contributing to a 65% reduction in operations and maintenance costs. Emerson is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Statsig

Kirkland-based Statsig announced the general availability of the Statsig platform. Statsig also announced $10.4 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Madrona Venture Group and several individual investors including Aparna Chennapragada (CPO at Robinhood), Calvin French-Owen (co-founder of Segment), Dylan Field (CEO & co-founder at Figma), Fidji Simo (ex-Facebook and CEO at Instacart), Gokul Rajaram (product leader at DoorDash), Hadi Partovi (CEO and founder at Code.org), Jay Parikh (ex-VP at Facebook and co-CEO at Lacework), and Sriram Krishnan (ex-Twitter and General Partner at a16z). Founded in February 2021, the Statsig platform enables product developers to run rapid, high-quality product experiments and analyze how their users are responding to new features and functionality the same way product teams at Facebook, Amazon, Airbnb and Uber do today. Statsig's experiment analytics and decision-making tools such as Pulse, Experiments+, and AutoTune allow product teams to run hundreds of experiments every week and evaluate how their products are performing every day.

Aug 10, 2021

PAWS

Nguyen

PAWS has chosen Phil Nguyen as the new chief financial officer of the Lynnwood-based organization. Nguyen has 20 years of financial leadership experience including non-profits, biotechnology R&D, and information technology entities. She recently served as the CFO for Cardea, a national, women of color-led organization. At Cardea, Nguyen built infrastructure and established internal controls to deliver reliable financial information and led the strategic development and management of all accounting, financial and IT functions. Prior to Cardea, Nguyen served as the director of finance for Flying House Productions, Seattle Men's Chorus and Seattle Women's Chorus, where she developed seven-year financial performance and trends analysis. Prior to that, Nguyen was the owner of KPN Consulting Services.

Seattle-King County First Citizen

Danielson

Benjamin Danielson M.D., a pediatric physician and community volunteer, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Seattle-King County First Citizen Award. He is the former medical director of the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic. In announcing this year's recipient, event co-chair Cindy Silverstein said Danielson's extraordinary commitment to the health and well-being of children and families, especially low-income people of color, his leadership on social justice, and his lifelong commitment to community service made him an especially worthy honoree this year when healthcare and a national reckoning with racism are paramount. Danielson will be honored at a civic celebration presented by Seattle King County Realtors in partnership with John L. Scott Real Estate and Windermere Real Estate. The event is Oct. 28 at the Seattle Art Museum. Since 1939, the First Citizen Award has celebrated community leadership, volunteerism and public service.

Nautilus

Nautilus has hired Alan Chan as chief legal officer. Chan will lead all aspects of Nautilus' global legal strategy, including corporate governance and compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property. The company also announced the appointment of Sarah Jones, formerly corporate controller, to principal accounting officer. Most recently, Chan was vice president of legal affairs and assistant corporate secretary for Arrow Electronics. Jones, who joined Nautilus in 2013, will be responsible for the quarterly report to the audit committee and play a larger role in overall risk management for the company in addition to her current responsibilities overseeing accounting, financial shared services, credit and collections, SEC reporting, stock management, and internal control. Nautilus is a global leader in digitally connected home fitness solutions, and is headquartered in Vancouver.

Skanska

Prendergast

Skanska promoted Patrick Prendergast to operations vice president of its Civil division in Washington state. Prendergast has 19 years of experience in heavy-civil construction, including nearly 11 years with Skanska. He has been a project executive at Skanska for the past eight years, most recently as project director leading the company's work on the Lynnwood Link Extension light rail project. Skanska says Prendergast has vast expertise in highway, transit, industrial and civil municipal infrastructure project delivery, and a strong background in engineering design and survey.

Wayne's Roofing

Richmond

In Sumner, Wayne's Roofing promoted Chuck Richmond to assistant operations manager. Richmond started at Wayne's in 1987 as an apprentice, advancing to journeyman, foreman, superintendent and senior superintendent. As assistant operations manager, he is overseeing all roofing and yard operations.

Wenaha Group

Krebs

Tacoma-based Wenaha Group hired Taylor Krebs as a project manager in its Portland office. Krebs started her career at Seattle Public Schools, where she spent several years in project management, working across 63 of the district's properties. She then transitioned to an architecture firm, where she continued her work in K-12 and commercial architecture and completed her professional internship. She holds bachelor's degrees in architecture and art history from the University of San Diego. Wenaha Group is a Native-owned construction management consultant with five offices in Washington, Oregon and Arizona.

ABC Western Washington

Two firms recently joined the Associated Builders and Contractors of Western Washington: Drake Electric of Fall City and T&T Traffic Control of Seattle. Drake works on tenant improvement, commercial, service and underground projects. It is led by Shawn Drake. T&T provides flaggers and traffic laborers, as well as traffic control setup/takedown of signs, cones and arrow boards. It is led by Tracey Freeman.

Transblue

Seattle-based Transblue plans to open 30-35 new franchise locations by year-end. Transblue is a national construction, sales and project management concept for franchisees. It has 16 locations open and two more in development. Last year, it launched 13 franchise locations throughout California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Texas, Virginia and Washington state. The company was founded in 2004 and began franchising in 2019. It specializes in residential, commercial and multifamily exterior design. Clients include Wells Fargo, Starbucks and Walmart.

AGC of America

The Associated General Contractors of America launched an initiative to address climate change by pushing for construction of less carbon-intensive projects while also making the process of building projects more efficient. The association says construction activity accounts for less than 2% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., yet the built environment accounts for about one-third of those emissions. As a result, while the new initiative includes steps construction firms can take to operate more efficiently, most of the effort focuses on pushing public and private project owners to build more efficient projects and having the construction industry support that. Included are strategies to modernize federal buildings to make them more efficient, invest in infrastructure, and expedite permitting for projects that improve efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases.