May 14, 2025

Gensler

deViterbo

Gensler announced the leadership elevation of Bert deViterbo to managing director of the Seattle office. Recently transitioned from Gensler's San Francisco office, deViterbo brings 20 plus years of experience and a wealth of technical expertise, strong client relationships and market presence to his new role.

Since joining Gensler in 2011, deViterbo has played a significant role in expanding the firm's business. In the past year, he created strategies for growth for all the Northwest Region's practice areas. Prior to that, he led the NW Sciences Practice Area.

His award-winning portfolio spans a wide range of practice areas, across sciences, technology and professional services, and he has experience working in Latin America, Asia, and beyond.

May 07, 2025

Middle of Six

Flattery

Middle of Six, a marketing consultancy specializing in architecture, engineering, and construction has hired Julie Flattery as associate principal.

Based in Southern California, Flattery has been in the A/E/C profession for over 40 years and will contribute her significant knowledge in all areas of marketing to Middle of Six's team and clients.

She has been consulting for the past five years, providing the gamut of marketing services and teaching proposal workshops. She is also known for writing and speaking about the art of proposal creation, authentic interviewing, connecting with clients, and A/E/C marketing to professional organizations like the American Institute of Architects and EntreArchitect, and industry newspapers like Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce and DJC Oregon.

Prior to consulting, Flattery was marketing director for Bassetti Architects for nine years.

Parametrix

Morkert

Reynolds

Lisa Reynolds has joined Parametrix as a program manager with the firm's Advisory Services practice, providing owner advisory, business process improvement, organization development, and strategic consulting services to public agencies across the United States.

Reynolds has 30 years of experience in the environmental sector, including environmental permitting, compliance, and licensing; capital program planning; regional coordination; workforce development; allocation of investigation; and response costs at hazardous waste sites in the public and private sectors.

She comes to Parametrix from HDR Engineering, where she served as a utility planning lead. In this role, she provided utility planning support to municipal water and wastewater utilities, contributed to task order development, and conducted quality control reviews. Prior to that, she served as a principal engineer with the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Her expertise involves wastewater, environmental management, and quality control in design and implementation of utility projects.

Reynold's holds a Master of Business Administration from Purdue University Global and a Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She is certified by the Society of Human Resources Management and holds a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace certificate from the University of South Florida.

Parametrix has promoted Brian Morkert to director of information technology. Morkert brings over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity, infrastructure management, and digital transformation to the role, along with a proven track record of leadership within the firm.

Since joining Parametrix in 2015 as a senior consultant, Morkert has played a role in strengthening the firm's cybersecurity posture, modernizing infrastructure, enhancing service delivery, and helping drive innovation across business operations. He has also played a key leadership role in expanding client-facing data science initiatives, delivering custom dashboards, predictive analytics models, and technology solutions that directly support project delivery and client success.

In his new role, Morkert will oversee Parametrix's cybersecurity, infrastructure, and IT support functions. He will also guide the firm's broader technology strategy — advancing digital delivery capabilities, integrating AI-driven tools, and enabling seamless, secure collaboration across offices and project teams.

PLS Engineering

Weitzel

PLS Engineering has hired Jacob Weitzel. Weitzel is graduating from Oregon State University in June, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a minor in Economics. He will work part-time until graduation and will start his full-time career with PLS this summer.

His internships have included working with a local builder as a land development intern providing land plats, quantity takeoffs and assisting with reports in this department. He also worked with a civil and marine company on an outfall project in Wilsonville providing turbidity monitoring of the Willamette River and helped receive and compile daily reports from subcontractors.

Weitzel is an ASCE member as well as a member of NASTT.