Sep 07, 2022

Architects West

Johnson

Architects West hired Zach Johnson as a landscape designer. Johnson brings over 20 years of experience to the firm. He earned his bachelor of landscape architecture from the University of Idaho and is also a certified permit tech. He previously worked for both the public and private sector including municipal planning departments, homebuilders, and architectural firms. His portfolio includes design of planting and irrigation for Sprague Avenue, Kalispel Way right of way, and Northern Quest Casino parking. Other projects involved design and platting, watershed restoration, and streambank stabilization. Some of his current projects include Terminal 7, Atlas Waterfront, Children's Village, and the Othello Ambulance Facility.

DCI Engineers

Singh

Patterson

Richie

Bradford

Cazares

DCI Engineers announced the addition of 13 new associate principals and associates to its leadership team. Ivan Cazares, CPA, has been promoted to associate principal in the Seattle office. Cazares is a leader within the accounting team. He is also part of the Society of Universal Planning committee in the Seattle office, which helps plan team office events throughout the year. Mark Bradford, PE, has been promoted to associate principal in the Missoula, Montana, office. Bradford has contributed to various projects throughout Missoula, such as public schools, medical facilities, commercial buildings, low-rise apartments, and tenant improvements. He has also developed client relationships outside of Montana, with a primary focus on modular construction and precast. He is currently a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Natasha Richie, PE, has been promoted to associate principal in the Austin, Texas, office. She has provided senior project management and construction administration support since she joined the firm. With more than 20 years in the industry, her structural engineering portfolio includes high-rise, student housing, multifamily residential, commercial mixed-use, and hospitality projects. Her notable project accomplishments include Centrum 606 in Chicago; Grand Solmar Resort Phase II in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; Sonesta Hotel in Bee Cave, Texas; and the Waterloo Tower and Inspire Student Living in Austin, Texas. Tim Patterson, PE, SE, has been promoted to associate principal in the Bozeman, Montana, office. He is known for his expertise in designing and managing high-end residential projects throughout the country. His current projects include luxury homes at Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Big Sky, Montana; an indoor practice facility for the Bozeman Bucks American Legion Baseball team; and a two-story office building in Helena, Montana. Patterson is a member of the Structural Engineers Association of Montana and the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations and regularly attends NCSEA's annual summit and leadership retreats.

Sibley

Wheeler

Saed

Kracht

Munj

Sumandeep Singh has been promoted to associate principal. He oversees BIM support from the San Francisco office, providing modeling and project coordination for all of DCI's 13 offices. He was essential in growing the firm's satellite design office to 15 support staff, which he continues to lead today. In addition to developing drawing standards for the San Francisco office and leading internal BIM education, Singh manages large, complex projects, often coordinating between clients directly to improve quality and efficiency. He has produced a variety of drawings for mixed-use, hospitality, residential, commercial, education, parking structures, and shop drawing production. His portfolio includes the 1 De Haro office building in San Francisco; Miro Towers in San Jose, California; Yerba Buena Island Townhomes in Yerba Island, San Francisco, and Project One in Oakland. Nina Munj, PE, has been promoted to associate in the San Francisco office. Over the years, she has built her portfolio with concrete and podium residential projects, along with concrete and steel commercial office, hospitality, and mixed-use projects. Munj's current Bay Area projects include the UC Berkeley Helen Diller Anchor House, a 14-story student housing development: 642 Quarry Road, a multi-structure steel life-science commercial complex; and 130 Townsend, a concrete multi-structure commercial complex. She is a member of in-house technical committees for wood, concrete and foundations.

Andrew Kracht, PE, has been promoted to associate in the Seattle office. Over the last nine years, his primary focus has been mixed-use apartment buildings, but has also managed and designed medical office buildings, parking structures and high-rises. His notable Washington state projects include The Schoolhouse District in Woodinville; Centre 415 in Bellevue; East Lake Sammamish Mixed-Use; and 1124 Columbia Medical Office Building in Seattle. Kracht developed in-house tools and engineering processes to expand team efficiency and has mentored other engineers. Kracht has also taken the role of team leader at DCI's Everett office. He works alongside with principal Danielle Jacobs in growing and leading the office group. Hanna Saed, PE, has been promoted to associate in the Seattle office. Saed has provided structural engineering support for various commercial office, parking garage, residential, and industrial projects. Hanna is the go-to resource on the Sustainable Living Innovations volumetric structural assembly option, making him a business development asset. He is currently managing the SLI 3rd and Battery, 6500 Roosevelt, 8600 Aurora Avenue, and other SLI projects throughout western Washington and California. He has also taken the lead design and management role of the Block 38 project in Seattle.

David Wheeler, PE, has been promoted to associate in the Seattle office. Wheeler has design experience with all common construction types including concrete, steel, masonry, cold-formed steel, and wood. His project portfolio includes commercial, residential, tenant improvement, industrial, high-rise, and specialty structural engineering projects. His notable Washington state projects include Northup Way Mixed-Use and SOMA Phase II in Bellevue; and Murano Senior Living tower and the Park Shore upgrade project in Seattle. He is a member of the American Institute of Steel Construction. Melissa Sibley, PE, has been promoted to associate in the Austin office and will lead the Houston office. She has been with DCI for seven years and has worked on a variety of projects throughout the country. Sibley has worked on a wide array of projects from small single-story medical office buildings to affordable multifamily housing to bond-funded public schools to complex hybrid steel/concrete high-rises. She serves as a lead mentor for several younger engineers in the Texas offices, and as a mentor with ACE Mentor Program.

Vaughn

Lovgren

Quintero

Tom Quintero, PE, has been promoted to associate in the Austin office. He brought forensic engineering experience upon joining the firm. At DCI, Quintero has shown engineering design aptitude with tenant improvement, adaptive reuse, and residential projects. He is currently managing high-end residential projects in the Austin area: Hope Alliance; the expansion of the Million Air facility at Austin Bergstrom International Airport; and structural rehabilitations and retrofits in central and east Texas. Quintero contributes to the office's recruitment effort, which includes expanding its university outreach. He is a member of the Structural Engineers Association of Texas and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Jon Lovgren, PE, SE, has been promoted to associate in the Bozeman office. Since joining the firm, Lovgren has been involved with the structural design for high-end single-family residences, religious facilities, commercial-use pavilions, schools, visitor centers, barns, and renovations. He is best known for his engineering contributions to the Shodair Children's Hospital in Helena; The Villages at the Turn and Yellowstone Club in Big Sky; and Bozeman High School — all projects in Montana.

Tim Vaughan, PE, SE, has been promoted to associate in the Missoula office. Since joining the firm, he has managed a wide range of commercial, educational, and residential projects containing steel, concrete, masonry, or light-framed wood framing systems. He is an invaluable resource for precast concrete design. His notable projects include the Hayward Field Addition in Eugene, Oregon; Washington-Grizzly Champions Center at the University of Montana, and Lolo Elementary & Middle School in Montana.

Historic Seattle

Isarankura

Blue

Historic Seattle has two new members, Evan Blue and Olivia Isarankura. Blue joined the team as an engagement coordinator. His passion for historic preservation was cemented during a 2014-2015 term on the Pioneer Square Preservation Board and an internship on Seattle City Light's Historic Preservation team. While his professional career progressed in a different direction as an environmental consultant, Blue has always hoped to one day return to support the industry in a professional manner.

Isarankura joined as an office administrator. She is a recent graduate of Gonzaga University where she studied studio art with a concentration in printmaking and figure drawing. Isarankura spent her first year out of college working for a small letterpress business in Shoreline called Ilee Papergoods.

Aug 31, 2022

BCRA

Frey

Melissa Frey has joined BCRA's marketing department as a communications coordinator. Her professional background is in nonprofit senior housing and home remodeling firms. She will bring skills honed as an author, editor, and writing coach to internal and external communications and marketing efforts at BCRA. She is based in the Tacoma office.

Elcon Associates, Inc.

Arnzen

Ralphs

Elcon Associates, Inc. has promoted Dean Ralphs principal. Ralphs joined Elcon in 2001 and serves as project manager, senior electrical engineer, and office manager in the firm's Tukwila office. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and is licensed in Washington, Oregon, and 10 additional states as a professional electrical engineer. He serves as the electrical project manager on Elcon's on-call contracts with Seattle Tacoma International Airport, King County, and more. Ralphs provides electrical and lighting design services for municipal and international airports, and transit, water/wastewater, university, and marine facilities.

The firm also promoted Travis Arnzen to principal. Arnzen serves as a project manager and senior electrical engineer in Elcon's Beaverton, Oregon office. He joined Elcon in 2010 and has served as project manager for Elcon's electrical engineering contracts with TriMet, Oregon Metro, City of Portland, and Port of Portland. As an electrical engineer, Arnzen provided power distribution design for the Sound Transit twin-bore 4-mile Northgate Link Tunnel with two underground stations at University District and Roosevelt and an elevated station at Northgate. Travis is licensed in Oregon, Washington, and three additional states.

Herrera

Johnson

Jerauld

Herrera welcomed environmental planner, Katie Jerauld to its Seattle office. Jerauld is a recent graduate of University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and a minor in Environmental Science. Her expertise consists of solid waste management and policy analysis, having worked with multiple clients around Washington State. As part of Herrera's sustainable development team, she will assist with planning and engineering services for managing waste materials that covers the full spectrum from prevention to diversion and disposal with development of solid waste management plans and zero-waste plans tailored to our clients' unique infrastructure and communities.

Herrera also welcomed Rachel Johnson to the team as an engineer based out of the firm's Seattle office. Johnson brings 5+ years of experience in environmental science, policy, and engineering, in addition to her expertise in project management, technical communication, planning, and field data collection. She was most recently a resilience program manager at NOAA. Johnson has two master's degrees from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Biological Systems Engineering and Water Resources Management. In her new role at Herrera, she will support green infrastructure and water quality initiatives across the Pacific Northwest.

Makers

Johnson

Arsenault

AlfaroZierten

Makers architecture and urban design recently hired three staff in its Seattle office. Paco AlfaroZierten joined Makers as a facility planner. He recently graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a bachelor's degree in city and regional planning and was involved in several planning and design student organizations. At Makers, he supports the federal facility planning team providing services for Department of Defense clients and other federal agencies.

Grace Arsenault is a planner on the facility planning team. She holds a bachelor's degree in community, environment, and planning from the University of Washington, with a focus on green stormwater infrastructure. Prior to Makers, she worked as an airport facilities planner on aviation projects around the world.

Markus Johnson joined Makers as a planner/urban designer and provides graphics and planning support for the urban design and community planning team. He holds master's degrees in urban planning from the University of Washington and environmental science and policy from the University of South Florida. His academic background includes studio work with the City of Seattle on its Comprehensive Plan and work with the Nehemiah Initiative developing housing projects for Black churches in Seattle.

Osborn Consulting Inc.

Browning

Osborn Consulting Inc. announced the promotion of Liz Browning, PLA, ASLA, to practice lead of its Landscape Architecture and Urban Design practice. Browning brings extensive experience managing and designing projects in the public realm, from parks and educational campuses to streetscapes and pedestrian facilities. She has served as a lecturer and studio instructor for the University of Washington's Landscape Architecture Department and has delivered many award-winning projects throughout the Puget Sound Region. Browning has stepped into the practice lead role formerly held by Kas Kinkead, PLA, FASLA, who now serves as principal emeritus of landscape architecture and urban design at OCI. Kinkead will serve as a mentor and provide senior design guidance to the team in her new role. She has served the greater Puget Sound community of cities, counties, tribes, and school districts for more than 30 years, leaving a lasting impact on our public schools, pedestrian spaces, playgrounds, sports fields, and more.

Parametrix

Hoffman

Claire Hoffman has rejoined Parametrix as a senior scientist based in Seattle. She has over 20 years of experience as a biologist and environmental planner in Washington State. Hoffman comes to Parametrix from Environmental Science Associates where she served as a project scientist. She was previously with Parametrix from 2008 to 2014. She specializes in conservation, wetland ecosystems, and environmental planning. Hoffman is a Professional Wetland Scientist and holds a master's in environmental sciences with a major in ecology and evolution. Her project experience includes work for Sound Transit, Washington State Department of Ecology, Washington State Department of Transportation, King County, Tulalip Tribes, and cities throughout Western Washington.

At Parametrix, she joins the Seattle Environmental Planning and Compliance team, supporting environmental compliance and permitting for agencies across the Puget Sound region.