Feb 03, 1999

ABKJ

Kelly Strand Anderson has joined Andersen Bjornstad Kane Jacobs as marketing manager. She was recently editor for a business-to-business newspaper for the telecommunications industry. Her previous experience also includes marketing, public relations and graphic design for companies such as Wolfe Internet Access. Michael Finnegan as joined the firm's program management department as an engineer. He was most recently employed by the Washington State Department of Transportation. He is currently working on several bridge replacement projects for Snohomish County.

Otak

Touta Phengsavath has joined the Kirkland office of Otak as an engineer-in-training. He spent seven years with Roth Hill Engineering Partners. Al Torrico has joined Otak's planning department in the Kirkland office. He recently worked for the City of Sumner as an associate planner. Mark Fluss has joined the engineering department in the Kirkland office. He specializes in hydrology and transportation management. Karin Magnelli has joined the administrative staff as receptionist in Kirkland. Otak has also added three new staff members to the Seattle office. Lindell Alderman has joined the information systems department as a computer support technician. He was previously an independent computer consultant. Michael Anderson has joined the architecture department at Otak. He was previously a project architect at Hewitt Isley. Keith Bates recently joined the landscape architecture department. He comes from Michigan, where he was a landscape design and drafting assistant.

Feb 02, 1999

Sellen Construction

Sellen Construction Co. recently hired two veteran project managers and promoted two existing employees to the role of project engineer. Al Bergman and Pat Burns are the company's new project managers. Bergman has 24 years of experience, including eight buildings and the Augusta project for Microsoft, Carillon Point in Kirkland and Sheraton hotels in Seattle and Monterey. Burns has 16 years of experience that has involved work on eight Nordstrom stores across the country, including the new flagship store in downtown Seattle. New project engineers at Sellen include Chris King and Ross Rosenow. King recently completed the Highline Community Hospital addition and Rosenow is working at Swedish Medical Center.

Jan 29, 1999

Artifex

Artifex, a web development and graphic design company, has recently moved to downtown Tacoma.

John L. Scott

John L. Scott Real Estate now offers a personal web address for each property for sale. J. Lennox Scott, company president said his company's Internet Property Link represents the ultimate application of Internet marketing for sellers' homes. Showcasing each listing with its own web address raises the level of the company's interactive marketing strategy, Scott added. Every John L. Scott ad or sign has the web address for each property. The company's main web address is http://www.johnlscott.com. Each property for sale is represented by a five-digit code. For example, http://www.johnlscott.com/67998 is for a new home in Bellevue.

Jan 28, 1999

Christensen O'Connor Johnson & Kindness

Daiva K. Tautvydas and Roger D. Wylie have recently become members of Christensen O'Connor Johnson & Kindness, a Seattle-based intellectual property law firm. Tautvydas and Wylie joined the firm as associates in 1996.

Jan 27, 1999

LMN

LMN Architects has announced that James M. Brown, Mark Hinshaw, David Matthews, Sherrill Myers, Wendy Pautz, Dave Schneider, and David Van Galen have been promoted to principal. Brown has been instrumental in the design of more than 10 convention centers and as well as Benaroya Hall's main auditorium and the Dane County Exposition Center Expansion in Texas. Currently, he is working on the Memphis Performing Arts Auditorium and Convention Center and an addition to the fine arts building at Adams State College in Colorado. As an architect and urban planner, Hinshaw has provided urban design and community planning services to local governments, prepared master plans for public facilities, developed design guidelines for public agencies, and created comprehensive commercial district plans. His major recent projects at LMN include urban planning for the city of Flagstaff, Ariz., the Downtown Tacoma Plan and a comprehensive plan for Lenexa, Kan. He writes a regular column on architecture for The Seattle Times and his book, "Citistate Seattle," will be published in March of this year. As LMN's quality assurance coordinator, Matthews has been responsible for developing the firm's construction document and administration standards. He has established overall LMN policies and procedures. His recent projects include Redmond Town Center, Washington State Convention and Trade Center Expansion, and Seattle Children's Theater Technical Pavilion. Myers has 25 years of experience and a national reputation in the design of theaters, performing arts facilities and large scale urban design projects. He was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts to author the "Theater Facility Impact Study," a comprehensive analysis of regional theater design and planning that received the NEA award for excellence. Currently, he is the project manager for the new Technical Pavilion wing of the Seattle Children's Theatre and Adams State College Performing Arts Theater in southern Colorado. Over the past three years, Pautz has been instrumental in the completion of several performing arts projects, including the Seattle Opera House Renovation Study and the Seafirst Performing Arts Center in Wenatchee. She is currently at work on the Museum of Flight expansion study. Schneider has over 14 years of experience in retail, commercial and education projects with a particular expertise in project management. Recently, he was involved in the planning, design and construction of over 20 buildings at Redmond Town Center. He is also currently the project manager for the Civica office complex in downtown Bellevue. Van Galen's recent work includes the Washington State Convention and Trade Center Expansion, project design for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Headquarters, and design team leadership for the exterior of Benaroya Hall. Currently, he is leading design of the Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Engineering Building for the University of Washington. David Arnold, Shirley Chiu, Vern Cooley, Wayne Flood, Jane Hendricks, David Johnson, Richard Johnson, Patreese Martin, Bob Mohr, Pragnesh Parikh, Christine Scharrer and Charles Stadler have been promoted to associate at LMN. Recently joining LMN as associates are Robin Dalton, director of interior design, and Jim Gearhard, CAD manager. Dalton has 12 years of experience in a wide variety of architectural projects that have included commercial, hospitality, health care, restaurant, performing arts and residential work. She comes to LMN from Kaplan-McLaughlin-Diaz following nine years with NBBJ. Gearhard has over 14 years of architectural production experience with a focus on developing and refining the standards and techniques used in computer-aided drafting and design. Gearhard was recently the studio CAD lead for Callison Architecture's retail studio, where he developed many of that firm's current CAD production standards.

R.W. Beck

Khurram Khan has joined R.W. Beck, adding to the firm's expertise in telecommunications engineering. He was recently with Edmonton Power in Alberta, Canada, where he has involved in the design specification and commissioning of communication systems for operating several telecommunications technologies, managing capital projects and offering operating and maintenance advice.

CG Engineering

Jeff Haynes has joined CG Engineering of Edmonds as civil project manager. He is currently working on site development plans for a design-build medical facility in Bothell. Frank Unocic has been staff engineer for a year and is currently working on Rodland Toyota while finishing his master's degree in structural engineering at the University of Washington. Other additions to the staff at CG Engineering include staff engineer Kevin Sabler, CAD specialist and designer Sharon Koch, and bookkeeper/marketing coordinator Amanda Jones.

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs has added Daniel D. Woo as Of Counsel in the Seattle office. Woo advises and represents companies in intellectual property matters and litigation. Woo formerly served as a sole practitioner and a shareholder in Misterek & Woo.

Speakeasy

The Speakeasy, a Seattle Internet cafe and Internet Service Provider, now provides high speed DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) services to both business and residential customers.