Jul 20, 2022

3form

Ruckel

Materials manufacturer 3form announced that its senior vice president of sales, Jennifer Ruckel, has been appointed to the International Interior Design Association's International Board of Directors. She joined 3form in 2010 as a materials consultant in Denver, Colorado, and has since grown to take on 3form's architecture and design, dealer partnerships, national account, and international sales channels. Ruckel has experience in tile, lighting, office furniture sales and interior design.

Ruckel was inaugurated to IIDA's International Board of Directors on June 12 at IIDA's Annual Meeting in Chicago. She will continue her role with IIDA for the 2022-2023 term. 3form is a manufacturer of architectural decorative resin and glass products, acoustic solutions, and markerboards. The firm has an office and showroom in SoDo.

Hewitt

Nagele

Hewitt announced the promotion of Julia Nagele to senior principal. Nagele also serves as director of design – architecture, and is an assistant affiliate professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington. Nagele has been with Hewitt for more than a decade and is responsible for the design of many of the studio's most notable buildings, including towers such as The Emerald, Mama Tower, Skyglass and 888 Bellevue, as well as the Capitol Hill Transit-Oriented Development and Luna Apartments. Her current projects include OneU and 1107 - two residential towers in the University District.

Nagele joined Hewitt in 2011 and was named a principal in 2018. She previously worked at LMN Architects and began her career at Ayers/Saint/Gross Architects. She graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Lehigh University. Nagele completed her Master of Architecture degree from the University of Maryland's School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and this year, delivered the commencement address at her alma mater and was named a Distinguished Alumni. In 2021, Nagele was recognized by Seattle Met as one of the most influential people in the city.

Milbrandt Architects

Erlandson

After passing her final test in June, Milbrandt Architects announced that Elizabeth Erlandson has officially earned her architect license. After earning her license she was promoted from project manager to project architect. Erlandson graduated from the University of Washington with her bachelor's degree in Architectural Studies in June 2014. She has been with Milbrandt for just under 8 years and is currently working in a blend of single family and townhomes for a variety of clients.

Parametrix

Willis

Grandstrom

Craig Grandstrom, PE, has joined Parametrix as a senior consultant based in Seattle. He has over 20 years of experience providing transportation and transit engineering and planning services to municipalities and agencies throughout the Puget Sound region. Grandstrom joins Parametrix from Jacobs Engineering where he served as a senior transportation manager. His experience includes bus and light rapid transit, multi-modal corridor studies and design, highway and interchange studies, traffic analysis and forecasting, and providing guidance on Federal Transit Administration-funded projects. He has worked with clients such as Sound Transit, the City of Seattle, King County Metro, and the Washington State Department of Transportation.

At Parametrix he joins the firm's transportation team providing engineering and planning services to clients throughout the Puget Sound region.

Parametrix has also selected John Willis, PE, as president, transitioning into the chief executive officer role in early 2023. Willis is succeeding the current CEO, Jeff Peacock, PE, who has served in the capacity since 2008. Willis joined Parametrix in 2017 and has served as the senior vice president overseeing the operations in Oregon and Southwest Washington prior to being appointed as president. Under his leadership, the Oregon and Southwest Washington regions of the firm have grown significantly. He has over 25 years of experience in the A&E industry in a variety of leadership roles and has managed some of the region's most significant infrastructure projects including the Interstate Bridge Replacement, TriMet's Portland to Milwaukie Light Rail, and the Dreamlifter Operations Center for Boeing.

WJE

O'Brien

Gilroy

Corvell

Skondre

Simon

Stanton

O'Shea

Stutts

WJE Seattle welcomed several new staff members. After a tenure as WJE Boston's unit manager, architect Anita Simon is returning to WJE Seattle, and engineer Becky Skondre, nee Gilbertson, is returning to Washington from the firm's DC branch. New hires include geotechnical engineer Mike Coryell and Joseph Gilroy. Coryell previously held positions with McMillen Jacobs Associates, CDM Smith, and the United States Air Force. Gilroy is completing his PhD at University of Texas-Austin and held positions with Peloton Land Solutions and Sanger Learning Center, both of Austin. Finally, Daniel O'Brien, a civil engineering student at Seattle University, has joined as a 2022 intern.

WJE also announced that Zachary Stutts earned his structural engineering license in Washington and was recently promoted to senior associate, and that Sean O'Shea and Andrew Stanton were promoted to associate III.

SeekOut

Seattle-based SeekOut, an Enterprise Talent Optimization Platform, announced the launch of its Healthcare Talent Pool for companies to source candidates for hard-to-fill healthcare positions. With the newly expanded capabilities, SeekOut's platform provides companies with access to a large pool of U.S. healthcare candidates. According to the World Health Organization, the supply of healthcare workers is forecasted to reach a shortfall of 14.5 million healthcare workers by 2030, and the industry's need for a specialized workforce makes it difficult for organizations to reach experienced talent. The new sourcing feature also provides aggregate data on candidates' skills, locations and employment history. Founded in 2017, SeekOut has raised $189 million in funding, is backed by Tiger Global Management, Madrona Venture Group, Mayfield and Founders Circle Capital. In 2022, SeekOut was named on the Forbes annual list of America's Best Startup Employers and CEO Anoop Gupta was named GeekWire's CEO of the Year.

Radisys

Radisys, headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Radisys' Engage Digital Platform (EDP) as a 2022 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award winner. A programmable communication and digital engagement solution, EDP enables service providers to offer differentiated speech and video analytics APIs, SDKs, and turnkey conversational AI applications. The Engage Digital Platform is built on Radisys' media server technologies that support applications in over 150 operators' networks serving more than 1.7 billion subscribers.

Jul 19, 2022

T-Mobile

Any T-Mobile, Sprint, Metro by T-Mobile and Assurance Wireless customers who text 988 will now be able to connect to a professionally trained crisis counselor for free, at one of over 200 nationwide 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline centers. This new option follows T-Mobile's launch of 988 calling in November 2020, nearly 20 months before the July 16, 2022, national rollout deadline for all providers set by the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to the launch of 988 texting, T-Mobile worked to make sure texts would go directly to Lifeline without first being translated to Lifeline's existing 1-800 number. This solution, which became shared across providers and industry partners, means that anyone texting 988 will receive a text back from 988 as expected and not from a different, unrecognizable number.

Nyhus Communications

Spokane-based DH has acquired Nyhus Communications, including its clients and its nine-person team. The combined agency will comprise more than 50 people with offices in Spokane and Seattle. DH and Nyhus have been IPREX partner agencies for more than a decade. IPREX is a network of independently owned agencies, with 96 offices worldwide. Marc Berger, Nyhus president and partner, will become executive vice president and Seattle market leader for DH. Berger currently leads the Nyhus team and oversees the firm's work. Nyhus was founded in Seattle by CEO Roger Nyhus in 1994. The 10-person agency specializes in crisis, high-stakes and health care communications. Along with the private transaction closing on June 30, Roger Nyhus announced his retirement from the agency. DH is a branding, advertising, public relations and social change agency. The firm designs and implements integrated media and community engagement campaigns for private and public sector organizations. The firm employs nearly 50 communications strategists and creatives and has operated for more than 25 years. The new company will be rebranded at DH.

Lasher Holzapfel

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson announced that George Holzapfel was recognized for excellence in the 2022 Chambers High Net Worth Guide: Private Wealth Law. Holzapfel serves as general legal counsel to hundreds of private and family companies and also serves as estate planning counsel to the owners of virtually all of these businesses. In addition, he acts as estate planning counsel to senior and other executives of publicly held corporations and their families. Holzapfel also handles the estate administration for many clients, including assuring that advanced estate plans and trusts are properly implemented. Additionally, Lasher Holzapfel's Family Law Practice Group and two of the group's attorneys, Linda Ebberson and Lisa Sharpe, were recognized in the 2022 Chambers High Net Worth Guide: Family/Matrimonial. Ebberson specializes in complex, high-value divorce cases and is an experienced litigator. Sharpe advises high net worth and prominent individuals on complex and high-value divorce matters, as well as custody cases and financial issues. The Chambers High Net Worth guide covers global private wealth management work and features in-depth editorial about leading lawyers and law firms providing wealth preservation and estate planning. Chambers Research is conducted by 200 Research Analysts, across 200 jurisdictions and provides nearly 6,000 rankings tables. Annually they collect hundreds of thousands of responses from clients, the majority via in-depth interview. Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson was founded 49 years ago in Seattle.

ABC of Western Washington

DeWitt Electric of Tacoma joined the Associated Builders and Contractors of Western Washington. DeWitt is a residential and commercial electrical contractor, specializing in remodel and service work. Brent DeWitt is president.

Apprenticeship Ambassadors

The Department of Labor selected six Washington state workforce development organizations to join the inaugural group of Apprenticeship Ambassadors, a program that promotes, expands and diversifies apprenticeships to grow the national workforce. The firms from Washington are Apprenti of Issaquah; ApprenticePath of Redmond; Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Employment for Women (ANEW) of Renton; Microsoft of Redmond; Spokane Community College; and The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture of Spokane.