Seibold Named C&B Principal; Romzick Joins Sacramento Office

The Encino office of Carter & Burgess Inc. has named Joseph L. Seibold as a principal. He will continue to serve as vice president/national claims director and Encino office manager.

Seibold has been project director and manager for clients such as the Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Blue Line Construction Authority, Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, Port of Los Angeles and Los Angeles World Airports.

Seibold has been an active member of the Construction Management Association of America since 1987 and has served as a director on its national board for the last four years. He was recently elected national board secretary/treasurer for 2003.

Bill Romzick has joined the Sacramento office of Carter & Burgess as a project manager/planner in the urban design and planning unit. Romzick previously served as a project manager, developing landscape architectural and architectural guideline documents, facility analysis and generation of alternate building strategies.

Romzick also served as project planner and landscape architect for the championship Rugby Sports Complex at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.

He has a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Michigan.

Morford Named Pasadena PWD

Kerry Morford, a retired 22-year veteran of the Glendale Public Works Department, has been appointed interim director of the Pasadena Public Works Department. He replaces the previous director, Julie Gutierrez.

Morford advanced through the ranks at Glendale Public Works Department, beginning as an executive assistant in 1981 and becoming director of the department in 1996.

Swift to Lead TI Group

Vacaville-based Hearn Construction has hired Don Swift to manage its TI group.

Swift is charged with the responsibility of finding jobs, estimating costs, developing a construction schedule and staffing.

Tunny Joins Allen Matkins

The San Francisco office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, a real estate law firm, has added associate Thomas Tunny. He joins Allen Matkins’ land use, environmental and natural resources practice group.

Tunny comes to Allen Matkins from Sanger & Olson.

Tunny, 34, is experienced in issues pertaining to CEQA, local planning and zoning, the Subdivision Map Act and affordable housing. Tunny earned a J.D. from UC Hastings College of Law and a Master’s degree in city planning from UC Berkeley.

Melendrez Promotes 5

Melendrez Design Partners, a Los Angeles-based landscape architecture and urban design firm, has promoted five employees.

Deborah Murphy, Anthony Chacon and Scott D. Baker have been elevated to senior associate. Mike Williams and Steve Smith have been named associate.

Chacon, who has been with the firm since 1996, recently received the architectural design award for landscape and recreational projects from the Los Angeles Business Council for the project "Shane's Inspiration, a Boundless Playground."

Murphy joined MDP in 1998. She assumes the title of director of urban design and planning and will be responsible for the Griffith Park Master Plan and NoHo Arts District Streetscape project.
Baker joined MDP last year. He specializes in large-scale private development and urban-infill projects and resorts. He is responsible for Sunset & Vine, a mixed-use development in Hollywood; Del Mar Station, a transit-oriented mixed-use development in Pasadena; Cabazon Desert Resort and the Kaiser Permanente medical center in Ontario.

Williams has been responsible for the design of the new entry and sea lion exhibit for the Los Angeles Zoo, the landscape remodel at the Pacific Design Center and the Beverly Hills Water Treatment Plant’s reverse osmosis facility.

Smith has 16 years of experience in the design of parks, public facilities and historic restoration projects. He serves as senior designer and project manager for the Los Angeles-Pasadena Metro Gold Line project, three senior-housing projects and Wilshire BRT.

TCA Adds DuPont, Thornton; Promotes Hutson

Irvine-based Thomas P. Cox: Architects Inc. has named Roger DuPont as a project manager.
DuPont has extensive experience with both wrap and podium type residential projects, including the City Lights community in Aliso Viejo built by Shea Properties. DuPont will work on mixed-use, urban-infill projects with a high-density multifamily component.

Jim Thornton joins TCA as a job captain and designer. Thornton’s responsibilities will include taking projects from schematic design to construction documents while lending his design skills to TCA’s senior housing and multifamily projects.

His past experience includes assisted-living communities, hotels and restaurants. Thornton helped design the prototype design for the House of Blues.

Steve Hutson has been promoted to an associate and director of quality assurance.

Hutson’s project management experience at TCA includes Pinnacle at Talega for BRE Properties Inc., affordable apartment homes for Jamboree Housing Corp. and two developments for AvalonBay Communities Inc.

He worked for seven years with Irvine-based EBTA Architects and 10 years at Anthony and Langford Architects in Huntington Beach.

Haskell Selects Director of Western Regional Office

Jacksonville, Fla.-based The Haskell Co. has selected Michael Helton, current director of the firm’s aviation division, to lead its western regional office in Newport Beach.

Helton joined Haskell in 1996 as a project manager and has also served as senior project manager, director of construction, director of project development and aviation division director.

In his new position as director of the western regional office, Helton is responsible for continued project direction and further developing Haskell’s relationships with current clients, while also identifying new prospects and securing additional projects.

Vaccaro Joins Ware Malcomb

Joan Vaccaro has joined the Los Angeles office of Irvine-based Ware Malcomb as director of interior architecture and design.

She will be responsible for client and business development, as well as overseeing and directing the management of all interiors projects in the Los Angeles office.

Vaccaro has more than 20 years of interior design management experience for clients in the office, entertainment, institutional, technology and industrial markets.

She previously owned her own design firm.

Roberts Joins ADS Staff

Las Vegas-based ADS Consulting Inc. has named Dean Roberts as director of environmental services.

Based in Costa Mesa, Roberts will handle all environmental abatement activities in California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii.

Past projects managed by Roberts include: NASA Observatory, Hawaii (lead-based paint), Circus-Circus Properties, Las Vegas and Reno (asbestos); Ft. Huachuca Army Base, Az. (asbestos and LBP).

Gawith Named Managing Director of Europe

Long Beach-based Earth Tech has named Libby Gawith as managing director of its European operations.

Gawith previously served as chief operating officer for United Kingdom-based Aquator Group Ltd. She has more than 25 years of senior executive experience.

Gawith helped form the Aquator Group, a leader in the supply and operation of the submerged, flat-sheet-membrane wastewater treatment process. At Aquator, she managed business opportunities in the U.K. and Ireland. She was also responsible for managing the buy-out of technology from Wessex Water, her previous employer.

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