Aug 13, 1996

McCarthy

St. Louis-based McCarthy has brought its World Wide Web site on-line at the address: http//:www.mccarthybldrs.com. The site offers background information about the firm's regional offices, including its Bellevue office of SDL McCarthy. Currently, 79 pages of information are available, including the company's history, news releases and construction project lists.

Aug 12, 1996

Metawave Communications

Dino Vendetti has joined Metawave Communications Corporation as vice president of product management. Formerly Vendetti served as director of Qualcomm Inc.'s CDMA Product and Business Management group. Headquartered in Redmond, Metawave Communications Corporation designs, manufactures and markets multibeam antenna systems and engineering services that allow wireless communications service providers to optimize call quality, coverage and capacity.

Aug 09, 1996

Seattle Goodwill

Seattle Goodwill, the non-profit organization largely supported by its thrift store revenues, has named H. Martin Smith, Jr., of Martin Smith, Inc., as the board chair. Seattle Goodwill also welcomes five new board members: Ed Belleba, Microsoft; Alan Cornell, Baugh Construction; Jan Sinegal, community volunteer; J. Shannon Sweatte, Fisher Radio; and Sue Tabor, Nordstrom's.

Elgin DDB

Elgin DDB, Seattle, has added new members to the following departments. In the media division, Julie Furlong has joined as public service director; Karyn Waas as co-op coordinator and Ryan Mendenhall as media assistant planner/buyer. The Emerging Technologies Group (ETG) has hired Chris Kent as account executive and Rick Keller as an administrative assistant. Sue Hurley joins Elgin DDB as public service planner. Elgin DDB is a full-service communications company and a subsidiary of DDB Worldwide.

Aug 07, 1996

AKB

Brian Unsderfer has been named systems manager at AKB Engineers, Inc. He was published in the 1994 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's conference proceedings and has served to advance the technology of passive and active damping to new and existing buildings. His seismic retrofit designs achieved notable results during the Northridge earthquake of 1994, and his current projects include the $38 million Green Hill School rehabilitation; the City of Seattle fire station retrofit program; and three new Washington Mutual Banks. Larry Harris of AKB has been accepted into a graduate program in structural engineering at the University of Washington, where he will complete his master's degree while continuing to work for AKB as a design engineer in the structural department. He is currently at work on the Olympic College Poulsbo Satellite Campus, the Washington Elementary School addition and St. Andrew's Townhomes. Ken Renner has joined the CAD department at AKB with over 30 years of experience in multidisciplinary drafting and in construction.

Meng

Amy Mooty has been promoted to project management coordinator at Meng. Her responsibilities include developing and monitoring project budgets and schedules, and providing contract administration and team coordination. Currently, she is capital projects coordinator on the $32 million modernization of Mercer Island High School. In addition, she is providing project coorination for the new $16 million Central Kitsap School District's Klahowya Secondary School, now in construction. Duane Jonlin joins as new architect. Jonlin specializes in facilities planning, accessibility design, and systems intergration with extensive experience in code compliance and agency procedures. Currently, he is the architect on the new Lake Washington School District's Prototypical Elementary School #24, which is under construction. Gene Haba joines as new construction administrator. He has extensive experience in value analysis, field operations, and design administration. Haba is the construction administrator for Central Kitsap School District's $16 million Klahowya Secondary School. James Harris, who joins Meng as a new CAD designer, brings over eight years of experience with multidisciplinary engineering projects. He specilizes in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering design. harris has participated in the design and drafting for the US Navy, Air Force and Army facilities. He has served as an AutoCAD instructor at Olympic College in Bremerton since 1989.

Public Television Digital Alliance

KCTS/9-Seattle, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) and WETA/Washington, D.C. have joined together to form the Public Television Digital Alliance. The goal of the alliance is to accelerate the implementation of digital television (DTV) for public broadcasting. The major activities of the alliance will be demonstrating DTV to the public, stimulating production and acquisition of programming tailored for digital broadcasting, working with manufacturers to develop equipment requirements for public stations to deliver digital television, developing marketing and promotion plans for DTV and providing expert assistance to other public stations as they make the transition to digital.

1996 GalaByte Games & Auction

The Washington Software Foundation (WSF) will host the 1996 GalaByte Games & Auction on Saturday, Sept. 4th from 6:00 p.m. to midnight at the Sheraton Hotel Seattle. The event will include an international food buffet, a live and silent auction of some of the world's most glamorous items, and global game entertainment created by ENTROS. Tracey Conway of "Almost Live!" will preside as Master of Ceremonies. Tickets are $85.00/$125.00 (patron level) for individuals and $850.00 and $1,250.00 (patron level) for tables of ten. To purchase ticket contact Lissa Gruman at (206) 889-8800 ext. #2008 or log on to the WSF web site at: http://www.wsdma.org. The WSF is the charitable trust of the Washington Software & Digital Media Alliance. The organization was formed in 1993 to close the technology gap for students, teachers and parents in communities at risk. The foundation funds community projects such as: college scholarships at select Washington universities coupled with internships, after-school and evening computer training for children and adults, and training for developmentally challenged students for work in Washington's software industry.