Sep 25, 2019

MSNW Group

Bushey

Taji

Madison

MSNW Group promoted Jessica Madison to operations manager of the Seattle branch, and hired Hamza Taji as operations manager of the Portland branch and Joseph Bushey as human resources manager at its Ferndale headquarters. Madison started at MSNW as a janitor and moved her way up. She assists Jason Sullivan in running the Seattle branch. Taji was a service delivery team manager at Relay Resources from before joining MSNW. Bushey was a district manager at Aramark in Bellingham and served 24 years in the Army. MSNW provides facilities management, janitorial, landscaping, maintenance and specialty services.

Total Reclaim

Farris

Bobby Farris is the new CEO of Seattle e-waste recycler Total Reclaim. Farris was a general manager for TerraCycle, a company that collects “hard-to-recycle” materials such as lighting, batteries and electronics. Prior to that, he was vice president of business development for appliance recycler Jaco Environmental and director of electronics recycling services at Waste Management.

Vesta

Lake Oswego, Oregon-based Vesta hired Tan Truong as chief information officer. Truong has over 15 years of experience in financial technology, most recently developing a global issuing platform for SVM, a provider of gift and prepaid cards for the incentive industry. Vesta provides e-commerce payment and fraud detection solutions.

Roto-Rooter

Roto-Rooter Services Co. paid $120 million for HSW RR's franchise operations and Western Drain Supply. HSW was Roto-Rooter's largest independent franchise operator of plumbing and drain cleaning services, with 14 branches in California, Texas, Arizona, Utah and Oregon. Roto-Rooter, a subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Chemed Corp., is buying franchises to boost productivity, market share and profitability.

Toole Design

Daleo

Zdeb

Widstrand

In Seattle, Toole Design hired Eric Widstrand as Northwest regional traffic engineering director. In Portland, it promoted Jessica Zdeb to the Portland office director and hired Sharon Daleo as director of engineering for Portland. Widstrand has over 25 years of experience in traffic engineering in the public and private sectors. He was the city traffic engineer for the city of Seattle and Long Beach, California. Zdeb has nearly a decade experience planning for walking and bicycling at scales ranging from corridor to campus to region. Daleo brings 20 years of experience to conceptual designs of multimodal facilities, including active transportation networks and facilities, bus transit and bikeways in urban arterial environments, and trails/paths/greenways. Toole Design is a national firm focused on planning and engineering for active transportation.

HNTB Corp.

Woodward

Darold Woodward joined HNTB Corp. as electrical department manager based in the Bellevue office. Woodward coordinates project priorities and staffing assignments, does technical coaching and mentoring, and meets clients' electrical consulting needs on infrastructure projects. He has over 25 years of electrical engineering experience, including work in control and electrical system design for transportation, water, wastewater and energy facilities. He has managed projects, led electrical technical teams, and directed detailed design of electrical and control systems. He was a senior electrical engineer for another consulting firm. HNTB is an infrastructure firm.

Hart Crowser

Klee

Nguyen

Simbeck

Woodhouse

In Portland Hart Crowser hired Kevin Woodhouse as a geologist. In Honolulu, the firm promoted Simone Simbeck to associate and hired Anthony Nguyen as a staff engineer and Mikki Klee as a project engineer. Woodhouse will be Hart Crowser's Portland health and safety officer. His 13 years of experience includes in-situ treatment and remedial excavation environmental cleanup projects. He has worked on projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Navy, including remediation at Navy bases in San Francisco to facilitate redevelopment of closed bases. He has also supported clients with stormwater pollution prevention plan development and compliance inspection.

Simbeck is an environmental scientist who has been with the firm for 1.5 years and has 13 years of experience in environmental assessment, stormwater management, environmental sampling design, dredge management and regulatory compliance. She has contributed to projects in the Hawaiian Islands, contiguous United States, New Zealand and New Caledonia. Nguyen has a bachelor's in chemical engineering from Stanford University. He will work on stormwater and environmental compliance projects. Klee has eight years of experience. She was with the county of Maui Public Works, Design Division, where she managed multimillion-dollar capital improvement program projects and federal aid projects involving stormwater, roadway, drainage system and flood control. She has six years of experience in National Pollution Discharge Elimination System compliance. Hart Crowser is an engineering, science and consulting firm headquartered in Seattle.

SH Architecture

Panars

SH Architecture promoted architect Dennis Panars to partner. Panars joined the firm in 2012 and has been integral to the growth of its higher education, health science and medical portfolios. Projects he has led include the Boulder City Hospital expansion, the College of Southern Nevada Health & Sciences Building and remodels at North Vista Hospital in Las Vegas where he is based. He also heads up college development projects in Seattle, where SH also has an office.

Parametrix

Moore

Craig Moore joined Parametrix as a senior construction manager in the Puyallup office. Moore was with Jacobs. He has 19 years of experience providing construction management for transportation, light rail, stream and habitat restoration, drinking water, wastewater, and aviation infrastructure projects. That includes the SR 520 bridge replacement project. Parametrix provides engineering, planning and environmental sciences.