Aug 19, 2020

WSP USA

Peduzzi

WSP USA, an engineering and professional services consultancy, promoted Jacqueline (Jackie) Peduzzi to alternate delivery leader for the West region to lead the selection of and manage the relationship with contractor and concessionaire partners in Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. She is currently a vice president and area manager for construction services in Denver and involved in projects that include Texas High-Speed Rail in Fort Worth. Since being hired in 2011, she has been operations manager for construction services and project manager. Her previous experience in transportation design, project and construction management includes infrastructure improvements, underground tunnels, elevated railways, transit facilities and highways.

Perkins and Will

Xu

Wood

Wuttig

Palushock

Kleiner

Hakim

Forman

Ramsey

Herzer

In Seattle, Perkins and Will promoted Devin Kleiner and Ed Palushock to associate principal, Oliver Wuttig, Christa Wood, Bill Xu, Holly Herzer, Ryan Ramsey and Patricia Forman to senior associate and Ana Hakim to associate.

Kleiner is a senior project architect and “Living Design” leader for the Seattle studio, serving as a sustainability resource for project teams, connecting them with firm-wide research. His 17-year career has also included teaching art and special education at an elementary school. His work has been recognized by AIA Seattle Energy in Design, the Society for College and University Planning and the Living Building Challenge. He worked on the University of Washington's Life Science Building, completed in 2018.

Palushock is an architect with 28 years of experience. As a project manager, he oversees commercial, institutional and higher education projects. He is working with Martin Selig Real Estate on the Federal Reserve Building in Seattle, which will be done later this year.

Wuttig is a project designer who has specialized at Perkins and Will in the programming, design and detailing of science/technology and corporate, civic and commercial projects. He has experience in environmental graphics and as an exhibition designer at a science museum. He is working on Franklin Antonio Hall in San Diego, with University of California San Diego. Its anticipated completion is 2022.

Wood is a designer II who joined the Seattle office in 2013. Wood's work has focused on science and technology, the human experience and supporting her clients' work, from technical R+D labs and offices to emergency homeless shelters. She also co-leads the studio's pro-bono social purpose efforts. She is working with Mary's Place on Seattle-facility transformations and was on the design team for the University of California San Diego's Center for Novel Therapeutics in La Jolla, which opened 2019.

Xu, is a senior project designer with 18 years of experience. He has worked in the commercial, residential, mixed-use, higher education, hospitality and science and technology sectors. He leads design teams through complex projects of varying scales. He is working on an office project in Boise, Idaho with Rafanelli & Nahas and a KeyBank office modernization in Anchorage, Alaska with Peach Investments that is expected to be done by 2021.

Herzer is a project architect who was hired 13 years ago. She has worked as a civic, healthcare and corporate interior designer. She is responsible for project ideation, management and detailing as well as contact administration and consultant coordination. In recent years, she worked with Vulcan Inc. on the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and King County Library System on the Tukwila Library.

Ramsey is a medical planner who joined the company in 2009, and has a background in project delivery and building information modeling. He recently worked on Kaiser Permanente specialty clinics in Silverdale, Ballard (Seattle), Smokey Point and Olympia, as well as St. Joseph's Medical Center Master Facility Plan with Virginia Mason, all completed last year.

Forman is regional general counsel. She reviews contracts and oversees claims and other legal matters for the firm's Western studios. She was in private practice from 2006-2013, at Gensler from 2013-2016 and joined Perkins and Will in 2016.

Hakim is a project architect with 14 years of industry experience. She has participated in projects based around the world, ranging from large institutional and commercial developments to single-family residential remodeling. She collaborates with project managers, leadership and stakeholders on healthcare and corporate, civic and commercial projects. She also oversees the company's mentorship program. She is working on Seattle-based projects, including Swedish First Hill North Tower with Providence Health and Services.

Perkins and Will is a global architecture and design firm.

Aug 12, 2020

Blueline

McWain

Blueline hired Alan McWain as director of landscape architecture. McWain has 20 years of experience assembling multi-discipline teams and working with public and private clients. Most recently, he was the director of landscape architecture at Katerra, and was with Hewitt prior to that. He will lead the landscape architecture studio at Blueline. The firm provides civil engineering, land use planning and landscape architecture services.

Cary Kopczynski & Co.

Hakim

Vincent

Featherstone

Penzin

Policarpio

Structural engineering firm Cary Kopczynski & Co. hired Joel Policarpio, Dmitriy Penzin and Amanda Featherstone as design engineers, and promoted Stephanie Vincent to level 3 design engineer and Allina Hakim to senior marketing coordinator in the Bellevue headquarters and Chicago office. Policarpio has nine years of experience in structural analysis and design of urban buildings including commercial and mixed-use developments. His current projects include BB6, a mixed-use development comprised of two 480-foot towers atop a seven-level podium, and 9th & Howell, a 30-story hotel over a six-story podium adjacent to the new Hyatt Regency, both in Seattle. Penzin has 15 years of experience in structural design of residential projects in the U.S. and internationally. He will assist project managers and principals with coordination and design. Among his current projects are Calle De Luna which includes three 12-story residential towers atop a shared podium in Santa Clara, California. Featherstone has 13 years of experience in gravity and lateral design of structures for educational, office, residential and mixed-use buildings. She will assist project managers and principals with coordination and design of building elements and is working on Harbor Point Block P6, a 15-story residential tower in Stamford, Connecticut. Vincent has five years at CKC. She engineers complex building systems while handling design coordination and calculations. Her current projects include Belltown 36, a 29-story mixed-use tower in Seattle; and 325 7th Street, a twin tower development comprised of 27 and 13 stories in downtown Oakland. Hakim will continue to lead in preparing responses to complex, multi-million-dollar pursuits while managing the company's business relations and mainstream marketing initiatives.

Art Anderson

Jamison

Art Anderson, a Bremerton-based multidisciplinary engineering services firm, hired Matthew Jamison as a CAD designer. Jamison will work in the marine division, and do detailed design and drafting of ship systems. His experience as a shipfitter, which allowed for hands-on problem solving, will be an asset.