Feb 22, 2023

Parametrix

Miller

Shelley Miller, PLA, AICP, PMP has joined Parametrix as a senior planner. She has over 15 years of experience providing public transportation planning services to agencies across the United States.

Miller comes to Parametrix from OAC Services where she served as a senior project manager. She specializes in transit corridor asset project management and construction, including urban design, landscape, stations, and vehicles and their amenities.

Her project experience includes work for King County Metro, the Port of Seattle, and TriMet.

Miller is a professional landscape architect and project management professional and is certified through the American Institute of Certified Planners. She holds master's degrees in regional planning and landscape architecture.

She joins the firm's Seattle Transportation team, providing planning services to clients throughout the Puget Sound region.

Art Anderson

Tucker

Bremerton-based multidisciplinary engineering services firm Art Anderson has hired Jennifer Tucker as their new accountant. Tucker comes to the team with decades of experience in multiple areas of finance and accounting and experience working for other engineering firms.

Ankrom Moisan

Grimm

Godwin

Crosby

Chapman

Scalf

Lama

Grove

Fagerlun

Kim

Kamath

Vu

Pakingan

Nikolov

Ankrom Moisan recently promoted 34 staff members across its three offices including 13 in the Seattle office.

In Seattle, Casey Scalf was promoted to director of The Society, Ankrom Moisan's independent hospitality design firm.

Jenny Chapman, Scott Crosby, Cara Godwin and Kimberleigh Grimm were promoted to associate principal/architecture.

Nandita Kamath and Megan Kim have been promoted to senior associate/architecture and Hans Fagerlund, Doug Grove, Michael Lama, Annabell Nikolov and Melanie Pakingan have been promoted to associate/architecture.

Minh-Toan Vu has been promoted to junior systems administrator.

Feb 15, 2023

Berger Partnership

Abbott

Leslie

McGuirt

O'Connell

Berger Partnership has promoted Anna O'Connell and Brad McGuirt to principal, Shannon Leslie to associate, and Christine Abbott to project manager.

O'Connell, PLA, ASLA, is a team leader for the firm's Microsoft Campus Modernization project and also holds leadership roles in mentoring and hiring. She manages large-scale projects and is a trusted advisor to clients of diverse project types. O'Connell served as a member of the University of Washington's Professional Advisory Committee.

McGuirt is also a leader for the Microsoft Campus Modernization project. He is recognized for modeling a balanced approach to management and leadership, guiding with clarity and a high level of technical efficiency.

Leslie is a leader with the firm's growing residential market. She supports the entire office with her extensive plant material expertise, ensuring Berger's ethos of ecologically responsive design resonates with all projects. Leslie joined the firm as an intern, producing a report exploring the fundamentals of integrated design and how Sustainable Sites Initiative and the Living Building Challenge apply to landscape architecture.

Prior to joining the firm, Abbott was a visiting Assistant Professor at the Sam Fox School of Arts and Visual Design at Washington University in St. Louis. She forwarded her passion as a professor teaching architecture and landscape architecture history to leading the firm in work on historic and Olmsted Brothers' designed parks. She leads the firm's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee and launched the firm's limited series podcast, Clear Umbrella. Outside of the office, Abbott is a member of the University of Washington's Professional Advisory Committee and the Volunteer Park Trust Steering Committee.

MKA

Clifton

Sean P. Clifton, PE, SE, senior principal at MKA, has been named an Engineering News-Record Top 25 Newsmaker for 2022. ENR editors selected this group of change-makers for their leadership skills, industry advancements, and commitments to making their communities better places to live and work.

ENR recognized Clifton for his efforts to advance Performance-Based Wind Design (PBWD), which aims to enhance safety and reliability while reducing materials, costs, and embodied carbon in high-rise structures. He is the principal-in-charge for the structural design of 321 West 6th Street — a 671-foot-tall building in Austin, Texas, representing the first American skyscraper to incorporate PBWD into its design. Clifton was critical in developing a parallel, conventional design for the tower and sharing PBWD's advantages with developers, architects, and local building officials. He has presented on PBWD to the American Concrete Institute, Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, and the Los Angeles Tall Building Design Council.

Clifton oversees MKA's project portfolio in Southeast Asia and is a leader in the design of high-rise structures, especially Performance-Based Design towers. His design portfolio includes mixed-use, office, and residential projects worldwide, including many high-profile developments in the Philippines, such as the Bank of Philippine Islands headquarters, Empress, Glaston, Maven, One Legacy Grandsuites, and The Estate Makati. In addition, he was a project manager for the development of Hines' Embodied Carbon Reduction Guide.

Clifton graduated from the University of Texas, Austin, with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Structural Engineering. He joined MKA in 2008. At age 38, he is the youngest of MKA's 13 shareholders.

Olson Kundig

Grant

Kenton Grant has joined Olson Kundig as director of technology. In this role, Grant will oversee design and information technology across the firm's Seattle and New York offices. Working with owners, principals, and other firm leaders, he will develop and implement strategic technology plans in order to drive innovation, digital exploration, and experimentation in support of Olson Kundig's design practice.

Grant has 20 years of experience in the field, focused on delivering quality projects for every client. Prior to joining Olson Kundig, he was design technology manager at Gensler. Throughout his career, he has worked for several architecture and engineering firms across diverse segments of the AEC industry, including a Fortune 500 defense contractor.

TCA Architecture + Planning

Hooker

TCA Architecture + Planning has promoted Forest Hooker, NCARB, AIA LEED AP BD+C to principal. Hooker joined the TCA team in 2004 and has become a leader in the architectural design and management of municipal, federal, and fire facility projects over the past 20 years. He lectures and consults nationally and has published on approaches to municipal facility design. Among Hooker's recently completed projects, the city of Kirkland Fire Station 24 received the gold award in a national facility design competition in the fall of 2022.

WJE

Skondre

Frazier

Wong

Rebecca Wong, PMP, was promoted to senior associate. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Regis University and a Master of Arts in Historic Preservation from Savannah College of Art & Design, and has been with WJE since 2013. A leader in the practice of Historic Preservation and Material Conservation, Wong helps contractors, building owners, and architects preserve and repair existing structures, with an emphasis on materials science, both historic and contemporary. Her most recent contributions to the region's historic preservation community include serving as a 2022 chapter director of APTNW and as a Pro Tem instructor at the University of Oregon, Portland. She is also affiliated with the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and the Project Management Institute, and is an architectural historian in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards.

Robert M. Frazier, P.E., was also promoted to senior associate. Frazier joined WJE in 2019 and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in civil and structural engineering, respectively, from Oklahoma State University. His practice focuses on the evaluation and repair of concrete structures and inspection and load testing of facade access equipment. His professional affiliations include ACI, ICRI, and SEAW.

Becky Skondre, P.E., was promoted to associate III, and has been with WJE since 2018. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington and a Master of Science in Structural Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Skondre's practice focuses on structural assessment and repair of existing buildings, including concrete, steel, timber, and masonry materials. She serves as the WJE Seattle safety officer, and is a member of SEA. She also participates in the ACE mentor program in Seattle.