Jul 13, 2022

Barghausen Consulting Engineers Inc.

Dow

Varas

Dawson

Palmer

Manning

Anderson

Van Zandt

Huerta

King

Cory

Hubbell

Inigues

Wecker

Barghausen Consulting Engineers Inc. has promoted a total of 14 employees so far in 2022. Jennifer Manning was recently promoted to project coordinator. Manning was an intern on the firm's planning team during the Summer of 2019 and returned to work full-time for the Permitting and Compliance team in June of 2021. She is actively engaged in learning the permit processing protocols for site modifications, the procedures needed to bring fuel facilities back into compliance after receiving violations, and engaging Agency reviewers for permit issuance based upon our client's needs.

Megan Palmer and Haley Dawson were both promoted to senior project engineers. Palmer has been with Barghausen since June 2014 when she moved back to Washington from Nevada. She began working on a mix of commercial and fueling projects for several years before joining one of the firm's commercial teams, dedicating her skills to one client. Dawson has been with Barghausen and the Costco team since May 2017. She moved to Washington from Florida where she worked as a civil engineer for an Orlando firm for more than four years. She has a stormwater modeling background and manages a large engineering team on a large and diverse portfolio of projects.

Vicente Varas, from the firm's residential team, was recently promoted to project engineer, along with Cassie Thompson from the Oregon office. Varas started with Barghausen in June 2018 and has been a key piece of the Barghausen residential team. Varas works from the Kent office on small and large residential development projects for several national homebuilders from Pierce County to Snohomish County. He continues to grow his knowledge of residential plats and directly trains a design engineer. Brian Dow, out of the firm's Long Beach office, was promoted to design engineer for his efforts on a major fueling client account. Dow started with Barghausen in January 2014 and has been a key part of the Long Beach, CA office. He has taken on the responsibility of master drawing coordination and maintenance for a major retail fueling client.

Jordyn Cory was promoted to marketing coordinator and recently earned a drone pilot's license. Cory has been an integral part of the success of the marketing department since she started in 2019. Cory is now starting to fly project sites with her drone. Sandy King, from the firm's Oregon office, was promoted to project manager. King has been with Barghausen since September 2016, serving in various roles on both the engineering and planning sides of the firm. King has a unique skill set based upon her years of engineering experience.

Rhonda Huerta received a promotion to senior project accountant and David Van Zandt was promoted to senior CAD technician. Huerta has been with Barghausen since July 2018. She juggles many high-profile clients, challenging portals, and billing requirements and develops tools to track contracts and keep monthly billing as high as possible. Van Zandt started with Barghausen in September 2017. Since then, he has been expanding his knowledge on everything CAD related and has become an integral part of the team. He provides site plan options and civil plans to clients.

The firm also announced four new shareholders to its leadership team including senior planners, Sean Anderson, and Nick Wecker; permitting and regulatory compliance manager, Alexia Inigues; and senior project engineer, Jason Hubbell. Anderson is a senior planner and joined the company in early 2014, with most of his expertise focused on a nationwide fueling program. He has led the internal team on a gas program for many years. He has been instrumental in expanding the firm's footprint with the client into the Midwest, the East Coast, and gaining additional market share in Southern California and the Bay Area. Wecker is a senior planner who joined the company in 2013, quickly proving his value as a project manager for a substantial portion of the firm's corporate commercial work. He is responsible for developing and sustaining many key accounts with multisite commercial programs that span across multiple U.S. states.

Inigues is Barghausen's permitting and regulatory compliance manager who joined the company in 1997. Several years ago, she took over management of the firm's compliance program, leading a talented team ensuring a nationwide retail fueling client remains in compliance with a myriad of regulations and permit renewal requirements over all 50 states. Hubbell is a senior project engineer who also joined the company in 1997. Most of his early career with Barghausen involved helping clients get their projects designed and permitted. His client base includes a wide range of commercial, industrial, and residential projects.

Confluence Environmental Company

Huynh

Michniak

Douglas

Confluence Environmental Company has hired three staff members for its Seattle office. Calvin Kelly Douglas has been hired as a senior ecologist, Audrey Michniak as a project biologist I and Alexis Huynh as a staff scientist.

Kelly Douglas has 25 years of experience as a natural resource scientist and permit specialist, with expertise in local, state, and federal government regulations; permitting; and regulatory compliance issues. Field experience includes wetland, stream, and wildlife surveys in urban, rural, and undeveloped parts of the greater Puget Sound region, as well as in Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, Alaska, New York, Missouri, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Michniak has four years of experience conducting environmental and engineering consulting projects in support of land development proposals, corporate real estate portfolios, and industrial facilities development. She has performed wetland delineations; stream and nearshore surveys; fish exclusion; research and synthesis; mitigation monitoring; GIS analysis; and soil, groundwater, soil vapor, and outdoor air quality sampling.

Huynh works on freshwater and marine projects conducting critical areas studies and stream and nearshore surveys, analyzing complex data using GIS software, and preparing environmental documentation for permit applications. Huynh recently graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Management and Protection, and Minor in Geographic Information Systems, from California Polytechnic State University.

D.A. Davidson

Ramtin

D.A. Davidson announced that Nick Ramtin has joined as managing director in the Financial Sponsors Group, where he will be responsible for further developing the financial sponsor coverage platform, with a focus on broadening and deepening relationships with middle-market private equity firms in the Midwest and on the West Coast. Ramtin has 13 years of industry experience, having served as a principal investor and advisor to private equity clients throughout that time. Most recently, he was with principal Direct Lending, where he provided debt and equity financing to support leveraged buyouts, add-on acquisitions, and recapitalizations for middle-market sponsors. He began his career with BMO Capital Markets and he has worked with several middle-market focused banks including William Blair and KeyBanc. D.A. Davidson Companies is an employee-owned financial services firm offering a range of financial services and advice to individuals, corporations, institutions and municipalities nationwide. The company was founded in 1935 with corporate headquarters in Great Falls, Montana, and regional headquarters in Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Omaha and Seattle.

Strom Manufacturing

Compass Precision, a Charlotte-based manufacturer of custom, close-tolerance metal components for mission-critical applications, announced it has acquired Strom Manufacturing, located in North Plains, Oregon. Strom Manufacturing was founded in 1974 and owned solely by Bill Strom since 2008. Strom serves a select group of high-tech customers and consumer products customers, primarily in the Pacific Northwest. Bill Strom is Strom's President and will continue in his current role going forward. Strom's entire management team and workforce are remaining with the company including Mike Strom, Bill's brother who does much of the firm's CNC programming. Also joining Compass are Strom sales manager Paul Sonderen and quality manager Brian Kedroske. Strom Manufacturing will become the seventh operating company under the Compass umbrella, and the third situated outside the Charlotte area. Together, Compass's operating companies serve a diversified group of customers in the aerospace & defense, space, medical, industrial automation, power generation, telecommunications, high tech, and specialty industrial markets.

Jensen Investment Management

Jensen Investment Management, a 100% employee-owned active equity investment management firm, appointed Phil Bennett as its new director of institutional sales and client service. An industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience, Bennett has built and managed large, complex relationships with both consultants and plan sponsors. He joins Jensen from Thornburg Investment Management, where he spent four years as regional director of its institutional group, servicing the firm's institutional client base, as well as leading business development in the Western United States and Canada. Previously, he spent four years at Mellon Capital Management, where he was head of global consultant relations, also in the Western United States. In addition, he has held senior positions at GMO, Causeway Capital Management, and EnnisKnupp. Jensen Investment Management is headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Jul 12, 2022

Middle of Six

Takehara

In Tacoma, Middle of Six, a marketing consultancy specializing in construction, architecture and engineering, hired Grace Takehara as a pursuit strategist. Takehara has over six years of marketing, business development and branding expertise. She previously drove in-house marketing efforts and pursuit strategy for KMB architects and AHBL, an engineering, planning, landscape architecture and land surveying firm. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with a marketing concentration, from Pacific Lutheran University.

Zuper

Schiltz

Zuper, a solutions provider to scale and modernize fast-growing field service organizations, announced the addition of Matthew Schiltz to its advisory board. As an experienced SaaS CEO of both public corporations and private tech start-ups, Schiltz brings extensive executive management and leadership skills. Schiltz is a current member of the board of several growth SaaS companies including Conga, Symend, Showpad and Parachute Health. Zuper's advisory board connects experienced SaaS professionals and entrepreneurs to provide Zuper with intelligent counsel to better serve its customers and improve business performance. Zuper's platform integrates with industry-leading apps and CRMs and comes with personalized support, as well as reporting and analytics. Founded in 2016, Zuper is headquartered in Seattle with offices in India and the Middle East.

Carney Badley

Wiese

Matt Wiese joined Carney Badley Spellman as the chair of the Carney's Estate Planning Practice Group. He focuses primarily in the areas of trusts and estates, closely held family business structures, and international and domestic taxation for high-net-worth individuals. He helps clients through all stages of estate planning, including probate and trust administration. He advises foreign and domestic clients on U.S. federal income, gift, and estate tax matters. Wiese has also worked on significant sales of privately held companies and helps business owners with succession planning and general business law.

Nintendo

Pritchard

Nintendo of America named Devon Pritchard executive vice president of sales, marketing and communications, following her tenure as the acting executive in that role since November 2021. A member of the Nintendo of America team for 16 years, Pritchard previously served as executive vice president of business affairs and publisher relations. While serving as the acting head of sales, marketing and communications, Pritchard has overseen major Nintendo Switch game launches like Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Nintendo Switch Sports. Moving forward, Pritchard will oversee strategy and execution across the U.S. and Canada. In her new role, Pritchard will be report to Doug Bowser, president of Nintendo of America. Nintendo of America, based in Redmond, serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Americas.