Jun 30, 1997

TCI Media

TCI Media Services (Puget Sound) has added to its accounting staff in the Seattle office. Accountant Pam Wilson has moved from the Bellevue office. Heidi Ryan has joined the firm as advertising administrator and Shane Minden is an accounts payable coordinator. Engineer Jim Goodge has moved to the Seattle office to install and maintain digital computer equipment.

Jun 27, 1997

Excel Data

Excell Data Corporation has hired Melody Paul as territory manager and David Knight as account manager in the company's business development group. Excell Data provides information technology consulting and systems integration.

Jun 25, 1997

Shannon & Wilson

Andrea Amend and Richard Martin have joined the environmental division of Shannon & Wilson Inc. Amend has over seven years of experience as a quality assurance officer and environmental chemist. She will provide analytical, data analysis and chemistry support on the firm's large environmental and federal programs. With over seven years of experience in hydrogeology and computer simulation of groundwater flow and contaminant transport, Martin will serve as project manager and lead the firm's groundwater modeling efforts. Gerry Heslin and David Ward, Engineer-in-Training, have joined the geotechnical engineering division and civil engineers Bill Nashem and Mary Stiehler have joined the division as geologists. Helsin, Ward, Nashem and Stiehler will each perform slope stability and other subsurface soil evaluations in response to the past year's increased demand for these services. Rick Smith, a seven-year veteran with the company, recently relocated from Shannon & Wilson's Boston office, where he provided several years of geotechnical and instrumentation service to the multi-billion dollar Central Artery Tunnel project. Bob Mitchell has also resumed employment with the geotechnical engineering division. Mitchell is nearing completion of his doctorate in geotechnical earthquake engineering at the University of Washington. Stan Boyle is the firm's latest addition to the railroad division. He will be responsible for geotechnical engineering specialty services including geosynthetic reinforced retaining structure design and landslide and flood repair.

Onyx Group

Theresa Krug and "Mac" McDowell have joined the Onyx Group as CAD technicians. The firm is presently overseeing projects in Guam and Japan as well as U.S. Navy projects in Jim Creek, Port Hadlock, Tacoma, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and a research center in Bayview.

Jun 24, 1997

Waste Management sells French operations

LONDON - Waste Management International PLC said Monday it sold its remaining operations in France to Societe Industrielle de Transports Automobiles, or Sita SA, for 270 million francs, or $193.5 million. Waste Management said it will receive cash and notes to be paid over five years. It will retain a 50 percent stake in Auxiwaste Services, which operates a materials recovery plant in central France. The French operations provide waste management services to customers primarily in the Paris region, the company said. Waste Management, based in London, is an affiliated company of WMX Technologies Inc., the largest garbage hauling company in the United States.

Environmental conference on the Internet

Environment97, the first environmental conference to take place entirely on the Internet, is scheduled for Nov. 3-14. The international conference will open a dialogue between engineers, scientists and the general public on environmental issues. And, because attendees won't contribute to smog problems by traveling anywhere, this is one environmental conference that will not damage the environment.

The conference will feature:

• 150 technical and general papers, with discussion groups for each keynote paper;
• downloadable images of bad environmental practices;
• a life-cycle assessment comparing the environmental impacts of an Internet conference with the impacts of a real conference;
• and a chat bar for colleagues from all over the world.

Conference delegates will be able to hear audio interviews of 10 environmental experts and industrialists, who will share their views on future developments in environmental protection. The interviews will be broadcast daily during the conference. Text versions of the interviews also will be available.

Jun 23, 1997

Caribiner Communications

Watts-Silverstein and Associates (WS & A), a Seattle-based business communications and digital media production company, has been acquired by Caribiner International and will act as the Seattle office of Caribiner Communications. WS & A's digital media consulting and production staff will form the core of a new venture, Caribiner Digital Media Group (CDMG). Bruce Silverstein, executive vice president of WS & A, will act as the senior vice president and general manager of Caribiner Digital Media Group. Charlie Watts, WS & A's president, will be the vice president and creative director of Caribiner Communications in Seattle, and Cindy Krueger, vice president of WS & A, will act as vice president and general manager.