DiNunzio Promoted by W. E. O'Neil

W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. of California has promoted Senior Estimator Vincent DiNunzio to chief estimator.

His 13 years of senior estimating experience includes budgeting projects for Harrah’s, City of Los Angeles, Disney, Baxter Healthcare and Universal Studios.

Ware Malcomb Adds 2 Designers

Irvine-based architect Ware Malcomb has hired designers Jinger Tapia and Jason DeHann.

Tapia has extensive experience in the design of a variety of commercial, corporate and academic facilities.

DeHann has a strong background in design, including model building, renderings and computer graphics. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Montana State University.

Clark & Sullivan Adds 2 to Sacto Staff

Reno-based Clark & Sullivan Constructors has hired Brendan Mulholland as a project manager and John Biery as a project engineer. Both will be employed in the general contractor’s Sacramento office.

Mulholland will supervise the construction of Placer High School and the new San Joaquin Council of Governments building. He has more than 10 years of construction experience, and most recently served as construction manager for a $15 million medical center and ambulatory building project.

Biery will work as a cost and scheduling engineer, assisting superintendents and project managers with meetings and job site visits as well as updating job schedules.

Prior to joining Clark & Sullivan Constructors, Biery worked as an assistant project manager.

Alameda Corridor Agency Hires New Director

John Doherty has been named director of construction and engineering for the $2.4 billion Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, the Carson-based public agency that built the Alameda Corridor freight rail expressway.

Doherty, who for seven years served as the director of construction for the agency’s joint venture Alameda Corridor Engineering Team, succeeds Timothy B. Buresh.

Doherty will oversee all engineering design and construction management firms hired by ACTA. The authority’s current focus is building the Pacific Coast Highway Grade Separation, a 1-mi.-long bridge that will carry street traffic over Alameda Corridor mainlines, branch rail lines and Alameda Street in the Los Angeles port community of Wilmington.

Prior to his service on the Alameda Corridor, Doherty performed consulting roles for DMJM + Harris and Morrison-Knudsen on the Metrolink Commuter Rail Project, Honolulu Rapid Transit and California High Speed Rail Study.

Doherty was formerly the vice president of operations of the the nation’s largest commuter railroad, the Long Island Railroad, where he served 24 years in various engineering, construction and operations capacities.

Martinez Joins Snyder Langston

Irvine-based Snyder Langston has hired Frank Martinez as vice president, business development. He has more than 12 years of experience in construction sales and marketing.

Martinez was most recently with Orange-based DMJM Holmes & Narver. He has worked for Sverdrup and CRSS.

In his role with Snyder Langston, Martinez will help coordinate and support Snyder Langston’s project executives in the company’s core markets of industrial, office, retail, automotive and hospitality.

Gehry Joins Jury of Pritzker Architecture Prize

Frank Gehry of Santa Monica-based Frank O. Gehry & Associates will rejoin the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury that selects a laureate each year.

Gehry is known for many architectural accomplishments including the American Center in Paris, Concord Amphitheater in northern California, Experience Music Project in Seattle, the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Gehry won the Pritzker Prize in 1989 and subsequently served as a juror from 1993 through 1995, resigning when the requirements of his practice demanded his full attention.

The Hyatt Foundation sponsors the 23-year-old Pritzker Architecture Prize.