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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Former federal judge Abdul Kallon joined Perkins Coie's Litigation and Labor & Employment practices as a partner in the Seattle office. Kallon joins Perkins Coie after serving as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama for the past 12 years. Kallon will bring his experience and perspective as a practitioner and former jurist to assist clients with challenging litigation needs. He will also serve as an advisor on federal court advocacy. During his time on the bench, Kallon presided over a broad range of civil and criminal cases, including complex employment and commercial litigation and cases focused on constitutional rights. He served on the Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosures, the Federal Judicial Center's Advisory Committee on District Judge Education, and as a mentor judge for newly appointed judges. Kallon was nominated to the federal bench by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009. He started his legal career as a clerk for Judge U.W. Clemon of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Prior to joining the bench, he was a partner with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, where he focused on litigation and labor and employment issues during his 15 years at the firm. Kallon received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Perkins Coie has more than 1,200 attorneys in offices across the United States and Asia.
The Metropolitan Improvement District, a program managed by the Downtown Seattle Association, unveiled a new fleet of mobile machines that will enable the Clean Team Ambassadors to address cleaning and sanitation needs in downtown. Part of MID's $15.5 million budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year, the investment in 18 cleaning “trikes” will nearly triple the current fleet. In the last fiscal year alone (ending in June), MID's Clean Team collected more than 1.4 million gallons of trash from downtown sidewalks, alleys and curb lines, in addition to cleaning biohazard materials. The MID service area consists of six downtown neighborhoods: Belltown, Denny Triangle, Pioneer Square, Retail Core, West Edge and Waterfront. This coverage area equals 285 square blocks. Established in 1958, the Downtown Seattle Association is a nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to create a healthy, vibrant downtown.
Falkon, a go-to-market intelligence platform, announced a $16 million capital raise. The round, which brings the company's total funding to $20 million since its inception in October 2019, was led by OMERS Ventures, with participation from Greylock Partners, Trilogy Financial, Flying Fish Partners, and Madera Partners. Falkon unifies GTM data and delivers real-time operational intelligence. The Seattle-based startup will use the funding to accelerate growth and drive customer acquisition. Falkon was founded by Mona Akmal, Aakash Kambuj and Josh Zana, Seattle-based leaders of high-growth engineering and product teams. Founded in 1962, OMERS is a jointly sponsored pension plan, with 1,000 participating employers ranging from large cities to local agencies, and over half a million active, deferred and retired members. OMERS Ventures has made over 60 investments in disruptive technology companies across North America and Europe.
Trico Companies hired Chris Ramsey as a project manager based in the Tri-Cities. Ramsey has over 30 years of experience in the construction industry, with expertise as a carpenter, supervisor, superintendent and project manager. He has consulted on multifaceted projects and facilitated working relationships with a wide range of clients, contractors and key business partners. Trico Companies is based in Burlington.
EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Co. hosted 20 college interns and cooperative education students this summer as part of an initiative to build and inspire the future workforce. The program offers local students employment opportunities at the Hanford Site while they earn a degree, preparing them for potential careers in the nuclear cleanup industry. Program participants work a one-year internship — part time during the school year and full time in the summer — in areas such as engineering, finance and project management. Central Plateau Cleanup Co. is working on a formalized agreement with Columbia Basin College and Washington State University Tri-Cities to grow and foster the co-op program.
The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association Foundation awarded five $5,000 college scholarships to future transportation leaders. The scholarships are for those pursing an undergraduate or graduate degree in a transportation-related field of study. This year, Jasmine Platt from Boise, Idaho, was one of the recipients. Platt is studying for a doctoral degree in public policy and administration at Boise State University. The IBTTA Foundation is the educational and charitable arm of the worldwide association for the owners and operators of toll facilities and the businesses that serve them.
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