Mar 02, 2022

Environmental Science Associates

Richman

Wilton

Environmental Science Associates has added two new air quality and noise analysts to the companies Northwest team: Darren Wilton and Kurt Richman. Both come to ESA from working together at Ramboll, where they spent the past decade developing solutions for modeling challenges throughout the United States and internationally. Wilton, PhD, brings nearly 20 years of research and data analysis experience in atmospheric sciences, meteorology, climate change, and air quality modeling. He is well versed in preparing air quality impact assessments, facility air quality permits, health risk assessments, and geospatial analyses. His expertise focuses on dispersion modeling for data centers and large, complex projects requiring innovative technical solutions.

Richman has performed air quality and environmental noise impact modeling to assess compliance and evaluate potential impacts related to residential and commercial developments, mining, and transportation projects throughout his 15-year career. He leverages computer programming and scripting to automate modeling, calculations, and visualizations in support of air and noise discipline reports, environmental studies, health risk assessments, and permits.

Wilton and Richman created a software suite that streamlines the creation of inputs and postprocessing for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's AERMOD modeling system. The model platform includes additional tools that allow for meteorological analyses and big-data geospatial processing, and it can immediately respond to publication of regulatory model updates. Portable and scalable, the suite can be deployed on cloud-based high-performance computing clusters, enabling massive speed improvements in model runtime.

GGLO

Winans

GGLO announced that David Winans has been promoted to the role of principal. Winans is a strong advocate for sustainability, focusing the past 20 years on sustainable design. A LEED Accredited Professional since 2002, he co-leads GGLO's Climate Positive initiative, which concentrates on eliminating operational and embodied carbon emissions from all GGLO projects by 2030. He is currently part of BuildingGreen's national sustainable design leader's group. David brings more than 30 years of experience in retail, office, banks, schools, religious facilities, mixed-use multifamily, and hospitality.

Landau Associates

Weber

Jacob

Saltanovitz

Fellows

Halbert

Woerman

Hannuksela

McCaughan

Landau Associates is growing. Shortly after the onset of the pandemic in 2020, Chip Halbert succeeded Jay Bower as CEO. In 2021, Landau closed its Edmonds and downtown Seattle offices and opened a new office in Northgate. The firm hired more than 20 new employees and expanded its Northwest geographic footprint to include Boise, Idaho. Beginning in 2022, Jeff Fellows, PE, MBA will step into a newly created role as vice president of environmental services. Fellow's new position will allow him to focus on technical quality and risk management within both of Landau's environmental practice areas – remediation and permitting and compliance.

In addition to creating this new role, Landau promoted three senior managers to technical service director roles to help lead the operational management of the firm's full range of services. Katie Saltanovitz, PE will take over leadership of the Permitting & Compliance Technical Services Team while Clint Jacob, PE, LG will champion the Environmental Remediation Technical Services Team. Landau's organizational change also includes the creation of a Water Resources Technical Services Team, bringing focus to an important part of the firm's practice, and naming Eric Weber, LHG, CWRE as its lead. Geotechnical Engineering rounds out the firm's primary service areas and will continue to be led by Calvin McCaughan, PE. Other leadership changes include naming Tracy Hannuksela as vice president of people & support services and Scott Woerman, MBA as vice president of client strategy & risk management.

SABArchitects

Munizza

SABArchitects welcomed Kim Munizza as new director of interior design. Munizza brings over 40 years of experience in multidisciplinary concept-based design with extensive experience in the Workplace, Hospitality, Higher Education, and Healthcare market sectors.

Visit Seattle

Visit Seattle has hired Kelly Amig as national account director, Midwest. In this role, Amig will be responsible for promoting and selling Seattle and the region as a convention and meeting destination for associations and corporations by generating approved leads for the Washington State Convention Center and hotel bookings from assigned Midwest market segments. She will be responsible for generating and managing sales leads and presenting competitive bids to clients. Amig will be responsible for creating and maintaining a client base through relationship building and networks with association and corporate meeting clients. With 30 years of experience as sales professional, Amig recently served as the senior sales manager at Hyatt Regency Seattle. She has served as senior sales manager at Grand Hyatt Seattle/Hyatt Olive 8, account director at the Westin Seattle, and national account sales manager at the Doubletree Seattle Airport. Amig joins Visit Seattle as the organization continues to focus on tourism recovery by encouraging domestic and international visitors. She will work with Visit Seattle's convention sales and services team to create and maintain a client base in the Midwest market by attending tradeshows, sales missions, client events, networking meetings and local meetings. Visit Seattle has served as the official destination marketing organization for Seattle and King County for more than 50 years.

Itron

Dresser Utility Solutions and Itron announced the successful closing on the sale of Itron's European commercial & industrial (C&I) mechanical gas meter business, gas stations meter and pressure regulation business and global gas regulator business to Dresser Utility Solutions. As part of the sale, Itron employees supporting European mechanical gas C&I meters and stations and global gas regulators become employees of Dresser Utility Solutions. Itron will continue to develop and offer electricity, gas and water devices in Europe and globally. For more than a century, Dresser Utility Solutions has been a worldwide manufacturer of engineered products for critical infrastructure in the global utility and industrial sectors. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Dresser Utility Solutions has a global presence with approximately 750 employees and a sales presence in over 100 countries. Itron, based in Liberty Lake, Wash., enables utilities and cities to safely, securely and reliably deliver critical infrastructure solutions to communities in more than 100 countries.

Remitly

Remitly Global, a digital financial services provider for immigrants and their families, announced the appointment of Ankur Sinha as its new chief technology officer. In this role, Sinha will be responsible for leading Remitly's technology strategy with a focus on optimization of current platforms as well as ongoing innovation. Sinha brings more than 20 years of technology and leadership experience to Remitly, having worked on high-scale, high-performance products and transformative technologies in senior engineering and technology leadership roles at Google and Microsoft. Current chief technology officer Karim Meghji will transition into an executive advisory role. Remitly is headquartered in Seattle and has offices around the world, including London, Kraków, Manila and Managua.

Mar 01, 2022

UMC

Hauglum

Alvarez

Nguyen

Turpin

Mukilteo-based UMC promoted Troy Turpin from project executive to director of development, and made several other promotions in the Energy + Environment group: CV Nguyen to design and construction manager, Joe Alvarez to construction manager, Ryan Peery to general superintendent, Trevor Mays to project development lead and Mark Hauglum to energy engineer. Turpin has over 22 years of experience within the mechanical design and construction industry, with various roles in energy consulting, project management and business development. He is a Certified Energy Manager. Nguyen has been with UMC for 16 years, with roles that included lead estimator and senior construction manager. He is helping influence construction decisions to ensure designs meet the energy efficiencies guaranteed to UMC clients. Alvarez joined UMC in 2014 and is working on projects at Larch Corrections Center, Reynolds Work Release and Renton School District. Peery has been with UMC for nearly eight years, and has led several construction projects for the state Department of Enterprise Services. He is currently working on the Clallam Bay Correctional Center project. Mays has been with UMC for four years, most recently as senior project developer. Hauglum transferred into the E+E group from the Industrial group, and has been with UMC for nearly two years. UMC is a design-build mechanical and energy contractor, and facility service company.

Dept. of Commerce

Busch

Beason

The Washington State Department of Commerce Office of Economic Development and Competitiveness appointed two new industry sector directors. Alison Beason joined the team as director/sector lead for the life science and global health industry. Carolyn Busch was appointed to the new position of director of workforce innovation and industry sector program coordinator. Beason comes to Commerce with more than 20 years of experience in public service. She will spearhead efforts to advance Gov. Jay Inslee's ongoing work to grow and strengthen scientific communities through statewide industry sector development strategies. Before joining Commerce, Beason was integral to the development of equity, diversity and inclusion at the City of Tacoma and the Port of Seattle. Beason also held strategic roles at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Busch has 30 years of experience working in public policy. She will lead the department's work to address major workforce shortages, underemployment, degree inflation and disparate work experiences by gender and race. Prior to this role, Busch served as special projects manager for King County's Department of Human Resources and as chief of staff for the King County Council. She previously worked for the Washington State Senate Democratic Caucus, initially as the policy analyst for budget and taxes and finally as chief of staff.

soona

soona, a virtual photo and video studio for e-commerce, announced it is expanding operations to the Seattle metro area as of March 1, 2022. soona allows brands to create content for e-commerce and marketing through its virtual photo and video shoot technology. The company has over 9,000 brand customers and helps businesses meet the demand for e-commerce visuals through an online platform that provides everything a brand needs to plan and experience a photoshoot and then get their content entirely online. soona's pro services marketplace connects brands with models and stylists. As part of soona's Seattle expansion, they will be adding Northwest stylists, hair and makeup, and human and pet models to their pro services marketplace. soona's Seattle studio will be headquartered in the SoDo neighborhood, 4786 1st Ave. S., Seattle WA 98134. The location is a partnership with Saltbox, a premiere co-warehousing brand for e-commerce stores. In January of 2022, soona raised $35 million in Series B funding, led by Bain Capital Ventures. This funding will be used to fuel growth in both product and capacity, led by the expansion into the Northwest market. soona was founded in 2019 by Liz Giorgi and Hayley Anderson after the successful acquisition of their first business, Mighteor.

Data I/O

Redmond-based Data I/O, a global provider of advanced data and security deployment solutions for flash-memory based intelligent devices and microcontrollers, announced that Edward Smith has joined its board of directors. Smith is the CEO of SMTC, a global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on partnering with equipment manufacturers and emerging technology companies to provide the full range of end-to-end EMS services.. The addition of Smith expands the board to 6 directors, with 5 members being independent.

As CEO of SMTC since 2017, Smith led the company through 3 years of growth including a series of acquisitions until being acquired by an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital in 2021. Smith has more than 25 years' experience in the EMS industry and the electronic components distribution industry. Prior to joining SMTC, he served as president of Avnet for 7 years. Earlier, Smith served as president and chief executive officer of SMTEK International, a tier II manufacturer in the EMS industry. Smith is the founder and currently runs the We Will Never Forget charitable foundation in honor of the victims and first responders of the attacks on 9/11.