Keene, Carpenter Join HDR

FOLSOM-HDR, an Omaha, Neb.-based architecture and engineering firm, has hired John Keene as senior project manager and Lisa Carpenter as project manager. They will work in the Folsom office.

Prior to joining HDR, Keene was the project manager/senior scientist with Greystone Environmental Consultants Inc. in Sacramento. He brings extensive experience as a project manager and government environmental regulations specialist to HDR. Keene is very familiar with procedural and compliance requirements of state and federal environmental policies, preparation of environmental reports, feasibility studies and permitting strategies.

Carpenter was a project manager/environmental scientist at Greystone Environmental before she joined HDR. She has wide-ranging experience as a project manager and environmental scientist, specializing in water and power development projects, government regulatory policy analysis and compliance, and public involvement efforts. She is also a skilled technical editor and a trained mediator and facilitator.

Carter & Burgess Hires Murray

SACRAMENTO-Paul Murray has joined Carter & Burgess Inc. as a project manager in the firm's Sacramento Land Development Unit.

He comes to Carter & Burgess from Roseville-based Doucet & Associates Inc., where he was a managing engineer responsible for proposals for commercial land development projects, coordination with site architects and hiring subconsultants.

At Doucet, Murray managed and designed a retail development project in El Dorado County as well as four major retail projects in Roseville.

Before his stint at Doucet, Murray was a senior project manager performing flood studies in Austin, Tex.

He spent the first 15 years of his career in the Chicago area in various capacities ranging from a senior application engineer specializing in software training to civil project engineer on a $50 million Veterans Administration project.

Overalll, he has more than 18 years of experience in management, design, training and engineering consulting.

Chatfield Joins Huntsman as PM

SAN FRANCISCO-Patrick Chatfield has joined San Francisco-based Huntsman Architectural Group as a senior project manager.

He is currently working on a seismic retrofit and tenant improvement of a production studio in Emeryville.

Chatfield has been responsible for project management and architectural design of government, higher-education, institutional and high-tech facilities.

At previous firms, Chatfield served as a project manager for a 60,000-sq.-ft., warehouse-to-office conversion in Richmond; the San Ramon Olympic Pool and Aquatic Park facilities; and a 110,000-sq.-ft. physical sciences building for UC Davis.

He has also worked on the 140,000-sq.-ft. headquarters building for Carl Zeiss/Humphrey Systems in Dublin, a 57,000-sq.-ft. biosciences addition in Seattle, and a 200,000-sq.-ft. mixed-use development in Ghana, West Africa.

Chatfield is a registered architect in both California and Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and was a director of the Ottawa Regional Society of Architects.

Pieschala Named President

CALABASAS-Gregory A. Pieschala, a vice president of ValleyCrest Cos., has been named president of its golf course maintenance division.

Pieschala joins Thomas A. Donnelly, president of ValleyCrest Landscape Development; Roger J. Zino, president of ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance; and Robert L. Crudup, president of ValleyCrest Tree Co., to form the national leadership team of one of the largest landscape services and site development organizations in the United States.

Pieschala joined ValleyCrest Cos. three years ago from McKinsey & Co. in Los Angeles, where he served as the principal/co-leader of West Coast consumer and entertainment practices.

Pieschala received an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School.

Despite last year's slump in the golf industry, ValleyCrest added a variety of courses to its roster, including Youghiogheny Country Club in McKeesport, Penn.; Admiral Lehigh Resort in Lehigh Acres, Fla.; and Glenwood Country Club in Old Bridge, N.J.

Oltmans Promotes 2 Execs

WHITTIER-Joseph 0. Oltmans II, a third generation builder, and John Gormley have been named chairman of the board and president/CEO, respectively, of Whittier-based Oltmans Construction Co., one of Southern California's largest general contractors.

Oltmans, who previously served as president/CEO, assumes a post once held by his late father, 0.H. "Bud" Oltmans. His grandfather, J.0. Oltmans, founded Oltmans Construction Co. 75 years ago in Los Angeles.

Oltmans, 64, has been with the company since 1962. He will continue to oversee all company operations. He joins Robert M. Holmes as co-chairman. Holmes will continue to serve the company in an advisory role.

Gormley, 56, becomes president after serving as senior vice president since 1985. He has been with Oltmans for 28 years.

As president, Gormley will oversee all day-to-day construction activities of the company. He becomes only the fifth president in the firm's history.

Watts Named Senior VP/Marketing of ISI

LOS ANGELES-Helen Watts has been promoted to senior vice president of marketing and managing principal for Interior Space International, the interior-design unit of Chicago-based A. Epstein and Sons International Inc.

Watts was previously vice president of marketing. She has 20 years of corporate marketing, business development and merchandising experience.

Before joining ISI, she served as vice president/director of corporate marketing at Los Angeles-based Nadel Architects Inc. Prior to that, the South African native was the director of business development for TEG/LVI Environmental Services Inc. of Rancho Dominguez.

Roel Promotes 2 in O.C. Office

IRVINE-San Diego-based Roel Construction Co. has promoted Larry Geiser and Betty Lynn Senes.

Both are based in Roel's Orange County office.

Geiser is now vice president of Roel's Orange County general construction operations. He is currently involved with the construction of Petco Park in San Diego. He was president of Nielsen Dillingham Builders Inc. before it was acquired earlier this year by Roel.

Senes advances from group manager to vice president of Roel's Orange County tenant-improvement operations. She has been with the general contractor since 1998.