Feb 02, 1998

Deloitte & Touche

Deloitte & Touche, based in Seattle, announced the formation of Enterprise Risk Services, a new national practice designed to help corporations address risk and control issues. Enterprise Risk Services resulted from the unification of three separate practices: computer assurance systems, outsourcing and risk solutions.

Jan 30, 1998

Snohomish County

Colin D. Bottem has joined Snohomish County as director of the county's department of information services. Bottem will be responsible for providing computer, telephone, printing and records management services necessary for the government to function. Bottem was previously information services manager and consultant to Lewis and Yakima counties.

Seneca Group, Domoto

The Seneca Real Estate Group and Domoto Co. have announced plans to merge. The Seattle-based Seneca Group is a real estate development and management advisory firm whose clients include the Seattle Mariners, Pine Street Development, Obayashi Corp., City of Seattle, YMCA and Adobe Systems. Domoto Co. is a Seattle project management firm which specializes in owner representation in development, design and construction of office, manufacturing and other projects. Founded by Laura Domoto in 1989, the firm has managed projects worth over $250 million collectively. Current Domoto clients include Visio Corp., Optiva Corp., AT&T Wireless, File Net and the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority.

Jan 28, 1998

Seattle Times

The Seattle Times Co. has appointed Mei-Mei Chan director of circulation. Chan will oversee circulation for the both the Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Chan formerly served as manager of strategic initiatives for the Seattle Times Co.

Glumac

Richard C. Gerber has been named the fourth partner at Glumac International in Portland. He leaves Pittsburgh, where he has had a long engineering career with the Peter F. Loftus division of Eichley Engineers specializing in health care facilities and higher education. He is currently project manager for the Veterans Administration Cancer Research Center and the Doernbecher Children's Hospital building. Leslie J. Franken was promoted to associate with the firm. She joined the firm in 1986 as accounting and financial manager. Jerry M. Yudelson has joined Glumac as director of business development. He was previously CEO of World Envirotech Services & Technologies, Inc., and has served as vice president of sales and marketing for two national public companies. Sara J. Titus has joined the office as marketing coordinator. She was previously with Boyd Coffee Company.

DLR/John Graham

DLR/John Graham Associates has added several new members to the staff. Electrical engineer Allan Robertson is working on Boeing's 4-81 Building in Renton and on a women's prison intake center in Oregon. Deborah Conway has also joined the electrical engineering department and is working on two school projects. Steven Gray, a recent civil engineering graduate, will assist in as-built drawings for the Boeing Renton project and in a school remodel. Structural engineers Louis (Bill) Heaton and Michael Chamberlain have joined the structural department, and mechanical engineers Laurence Nicholson and Terry Christian have also joined the firm. Uilani Smith-Munoz has joined DLR/John Graham Associates as project administrator for the National Housing Authority. Christa Moore has joined the accounting department, and Monica Lyon and Alfredo Africa have been hired as CAD technicians.

Jan 27, 1998

Nadine Romero leaves Ecology to join AHR

OLYMPIA -- Nadine L. Romero has left her job with the state Department of Ecology to join Applied Hydrogeologic Research Inc. (AHR) as a senior associate hydrogeologist and chemist. Romero worked as a senior hydrogeologist for Ecology from 1991 to 1997. During that time, she worked on water-rights issues and wrote the Washington State Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Regulations. She also worked on environmental cleanups with Weyerhaeuser. Romero was chairwoman of the first and second Symposiums on the Hydrogeology of Washington State. She teaches a national groundwater training program for tribes. AHR was founded in 1994 by Mark Varljen, who used to work at Hart Crowser Inc., and, before that, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. AHR now has five employees who work in Seattle, Olympia and South Carolina. "We all had a background or an interest in research rather than just consulting," Varljen said. "We're trying to be the bridge. ... We're a consulting firm that believes in staying in touch with the research community." AHR specializes in hydrogeology, hydrology, computer modeling and information management. The company works on contamination assessment, remediation, facility siting and water-supply exploration projects.

Huntington sells oxidizer system

SPOKANE -- Huntington Environmental Systems Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of MPM Technologies Inc. of Spokane, has received a purchase order valued at $1.2 million for a regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) system. Based in Schaumburg, Ill., Huntington Environmental will supply the RTO system to a printing business in Pennsylvania that emits volatile organic compounds into the air during its printing operations. "This system includes an RTO and process air collection ductwork," said Curtis McKey, vice president and general manager of Huntington. "We capture the VOCs and put them through our system, and water and carbon dioxide are what come out rather than the harmful solvents." McKey said Huntington has installed about 150 of the RTO systems all over the United States and in France, England, Canada, Mexico and Thailand. Huntington Environmental was acquired by MPM Technologies in April 1997. "It's been wonderful," McKey said of the acquisition. "We're more streamlined. ... MPM management has been great." Huntington is one of three MPM subsidiaries. MPM's other two subsidiaries are:

• Nupower Inc. of Spokane, which is involved in the commercialization and marketing of "Skygas," a patented process for converting carbon-based material into clean-burning fuel gas; and
• MPM Mining Inc. of Spokane, an exploration and development company.