Portland Pacesetters Briefs: February 12, 2007

Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR), Feb 12, 2007 by DJC staff

CONSTRUCTION

Matt Leeding, vice president and long-standing employee of Walsh Construction Co., has been named president of Walsh Builders and Contractors Equipment Co.

Leeding, a graduate of Oregon State University, joined the company in 1980. He has held positions over the years from laborer to carpenter, project engineer, assistant superintendent, superintendent, project manager, senior project manager and vice president.

Leeding's primary role in this position is to ensure that all resources of the companies are managed in an efficient and professional manner in order to make a profit and perform within project budgets and schedules.

DESIGN

Hennebery Eddy Architects Inc. has promoted two new associates: Doug Reimer and Kyle Womack; and hired four new architectural staff members: Philip Schmunk, Erica Dunn, Robert Kroster and Dan Bedard.

Reimer recently joined Hennebery Eddy Architects as a senior project architect / project manager with 25 years of experience. He brings an extensive background in a wide variety of project types including higher education and laboratory work to the firm.

Womack has been promoted to associate. Since joining Hennebery Eddy Architects in 2001, he has been a key team member for planning and design of higher education, commercial, public, and single and multifamily residential projects. He graduated, with honors, from the University of Oregon School of Architecture.

Schmunk is a LEED-accredited professional who brings several years of experience on large-scale urban projects. He has contributed to complex transportation projects in Singapore, Shanghai and Seattle. Schmunk attended Rice University in Houston as an undergraduate and completed the Master of Architecture in urban design program at Harvard.

Dunn is a LEED-accredited professional with a Bachelor of Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon. She has three years of experience in residential architecture with an emphasis on additions and remodels of Craftsman homes.

Krotser received his Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon and his bachelor's in architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His three years of experience include urban design and historical rehabilitation projects in the Chicago area.

Bedard recently graduated from the University of Kansas school of architecture with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. His interest is in the study of materials and their practical use.

Giffin Bolte Jurgens has promoted Gerhard D. Bamler to an associate of the firm.

Bamler joined the firm in 2001 after relocating to the United States from New Zealand. He served as project manager on the recently completed tenant improvement portion of The Oregon Clinic, a 100,000-square-foot medical office complex.

Bamler earned a B.A. in architecture from Georg-Simon-Ohm Fachhochschule, Nuremberg, Germany. A registered architect of New Zealand, he was a team member receiving the "Home of the Year 2000 Award," one of New Zealand's most prestigious awards.

Both the environmental graphics group and the landscape architecture group of Mayer/Reed, Portland, have announced additions to their professional staffs.

Konstanze Ulland joined the firm as a designer after earning a master's in architecture and completing a graduate teaching fellowship at the University of Oregon. She taught Web design and three-dimensional modeling software as well as other graphics programs at UO. Ulland holds the equivalent of a Bachelor of Architecture from Dresden University of Technology in Germany, where she also interned at an architectural firm prior to moving to Oregon.

Ron Heiden served as lead designer and project manager at Otak prior to his position as landscape architect at Mayer/Reed. Professionally registered in both Oregon and Utah, Heiden received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Utah State University. He has worked as a landscape architect for nearly 20 years on public and private projects throughout the West. He won recognition from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2000 for Cascade Streamwatch, a recreation project on Mount Hood.

Otak Inc. has added seven professionals to five offices domestically and abroad.

In its Lake Oswego headquarters, Otak hired three professionals: Ian Fabik, Rose Rotter and Drew Butler. Fabik, a transportation engineer, has held engineering positions with both the City of Portland and City of Gresham and has experience coordinating public works, residential and commercial projects. Rotter, an engineering designer on Otak's development services team, has extensive experience with hydraulic engineering and soil analyses in Texas and New Mexico. She is also a member of Engineers Without Borders and a past recipient of the Society of Women Engineers' Outstanding Member award. Butler, meanwhile, joins Otak as a marketing coordinator with nearly a decade of relevant marketing experience.

Otak's Yakima, Wash., office hired Randal Leek, an engineer with Otak's water and natural resources team. Leek has been involved with reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts worldwide, from India and Somalia to Albania and Tajikistan. He has two master's, one in biological systems engineering from Washington State University, and one in intercultural management from the School of International Training.