Mar 13, 2013

VIA Architecture

VIA Architecture's Seattle office has hired Jim Bodoia as a director, Bethany Madsen and Guy de Lijster as architects, and James Underwood as an intern architect. Bodoia has more than 40 years of experience that includes high-density housing and urban place-making. He previously was a principal at Mithun. Madsen has experience in sustainable design, historic preservation and transit architecture. She previously worked at LMN, The Miller Hull Partnership and Mithun. De Lijster specializes in transit architecture, including multi-modal facilities, bus rapid transit systems, subway stations, and high speed and light rail stations. He previously worked at IBI Group and Otak. Underwood has experience in residential, infrastructure and commercial projects. He was with Schemata Workshop. VIA provides architecture, infrastructure, planning, and community building, and also has an office in Vancouver, B.C.

Otak

Otak hired Michael Fadden as a civil engineering designer in its Kirkland office. He has experience in roadway and site design for municipal projects, and worked for King County Department of Transportation's bridge unit. He is working on projects for Bothell and Kitsap County. Otak provides engineering, urban design, architecture and planning, with offices in Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Abu Dhabi.

Murray, Smith & Associates

Murray, Smith & Associates public works engineering firm named Troy Bowers as president. Bowers joined MSA in 1990 and has been senior vice president since 2008. He has led the firm in transportation engineering and been instrumental in its expansion. He replaces David Leibbrandt, who stepped down after 27 years. MSA said Leibbrandt guided the expansion from a Portland office to a six-office firm, with record revenues in 2012. MSA provides water, wastewater, stormwater, transportation planning, design and construction management services in the Northwest.

Bernardo|Wills Architects

Bernardo|Wills Architects hired Brian Page as a project architect/manager and Michelle Widner as an interior designer. Page worked for the firm from 2004 to 2011. He has 30-plus years of architectural experience, specializing in governmental, educational, commercial and corporate projects. He is project manager for renovations at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane. Widner has 10 years of interior design experience, focusing on corporate, retail, education and health care. She is working on the Newtech Skill Center in Spokane. The Spokane-based firm provides architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and master planning.

Mahlum Architects

Mahlum Architects promoted Niki Lesko to director of marketing for the Portland and Seattle offices. Lesko was hired in 1998, and has been marketing manager for eight years. She also will oversee business development and help the executive team with new initiatives. Mahlum designs for health care, pre-K-12 education, and higher education/student housing.

Soundview Consultants

Soundview Consultants hired Rick Fuller as a senior environmental scientist in the stormwater unit, Denali Halsey as an environmental scientist and Hannah Harper as an administrative assistant/field technician. Fuller focuses on identification and elimination of pollution sources and infiltration, environmental compliance and flow modeling and metering. He has 25-plus years of experience, including with Tacoma. Halsey has a background in environmental toxicology and marine ecology. Harper holds a double major in environmental science and resource management, and in aquatic and fisheries sciences. Soundview is an environmental, natural resource and land use consulting firm.

Mar 06, 2013

Tiscareno Associates

Tiscareno Associates promoted Dan Nelson to associate principal, and hired Hillary Collins as a project designer and Charles Wright as a project architect. Nelson has been an architect for 18 years and joined Tiscareno in 2009. His projects include the East Link 130th Street Station in Bellevue and Legacy Town Square in Redmond.

Parametrix

Parametrix hired Bob Carr as a senior project manager to work on facilities and infrastructure, and business development. Carr has 25-plus years of experience developing capital programs and managing complex projects for institutional, industrial and retail clients. His projects have ranged in value from tens of thousands of dollars to more than $100 million. Parametrix provides planning and environmental sciences.

Ankrom Moisan Architects

Ankrom Moisan Architects hired Erin Couch as a senior health care architect in the Portland office, and promoted several people to associate in the Seattle office: Sadaf Quddusi, Matt Engelmann, JP Emery, Levi Rippy, Megan Roos and Steve Jones. Couch has more than 28 years of experience in health care, most recently as associate and project manager at Clark/Kjos Architects. She has also worked at KMD and Giffin Bolte Jurgens. Her projects include the West Tower at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis, Ore. Ankrom Moisan provides architecture, interior design, urban design and branding.

Farallon Consulting

Farallon Consulting promoted Amy Essig Desai to principal. Essig Desai has been a senior manager on large projects and has more than 15 years of experience in environmental investigations, cleanups, source control evaluations, due diligence, and environmental compliance audits. She has been with the firm for nearly 11 years and a partner since 2008.

Optimum Energy

Seattle-based Optimum Energy provides software and services to help make HVAC systems more energy efficient. It promoted Ben Erpelding to chief technical officer and appointed Christi DeCuir as vice president of engineering, Adam Goldberg as vice president of sales, Jack Reader as vice president of strategy and alliances and Chris Boscolo as vice president of development. Erpelding is a mechanical engineer with 14 years of experience. He is in charge of developing software. DeCuir was an executive with Cisco Systems in Seattle, New York and Bangalore. She manages Optimum's engineering services, from site assessment through energy optimization. Goldberg was senior manager of global sales and business development for Cisco Systems' real estate arm. He is in charge of getting new customers. Reader has three decades of experience in the industry, including as a senior architect at Cisco working on the smart-building business. At Optimum, he will head business strategy and partnerships. Boscolo has 20 years of experience developing products. He will manage software development.