RNL Design Increases Southern California Staff

Edward Carfagno was promoted to associate principal and Lissy Ziesing was elevated to senior associate in Denver-based RNL Design's Los Angeles office.

In additional moves, Kim Valino, Victoria Dolsen and Ed Hoagland joined the firm in various capacities.

Carfargno, formerly an RNL senior associate, is working on a bus maintenance facility project in West Los Angeles for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He has about 30 years of architectural experience in project management.

Zeising was promoted from associate. She has 25 years of experience in architecture and construction.

Valino joined RNL as an architectural specialist. She 27 years of domestic and international experience both domestically and internationally.

Dolsen is a project coordinator, currently working on the 105,000-sq.-ft. Fontana Library.

Hoagland is an architectural intern. He joined RNL from ASI Design, a design/builder specializing in custom structures.

Swinerton Builders Promotes Linda Pearson

Swinerton Builders recently promoted Linda Pearson to vice president and Northern California region business development manager.

Pearson started with Swinerton Builders in 1989 and has worked in marketing and business development and as a project engineer.

Prior to joining Swinerton, she worked for architectural firms Whisler-Patri and Studios Architects.

Jon Rubin to Head Bay Area Regional Transportation Agency

Jon Rubin, who has served for the past decade as the San Francisco mayor's appointee to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, was elected chair of the regional agency.

Rubin is a former political director of the California Democratic Party. In 1992, Rubin was appointed to the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, the tri-county governing body for the Caltrain railway system. He served from 1988-91 as chief of staff for Sen. Quentin Kopp, who was chair of the Senate Transportation Committee.

Barnhart Inc. Promotes Denny McMahon, Chris Helbock

Douglas E. Barnhart Inc., a San Diego-based construction manager and general contractor, has promoted Denny McMahon to operations manager and Chris Helbock to assistant operations manager in the Stockton office.

McMahon was promoted from construction manager. Helbock previously was a senior project manager.

Dieter Joins Mid-State Precast; Firm Promotes Luczenczyn

David B. Dieter has joined Corcoran-based Mid-State Precast as vice president and general manager, and Jerry Luczenczyn has been promoted to vice president of engineering.

Dieter will be responsible for plant operations, new product development, customer service and sales. He previously served as general manager for American Concrete Products in Omaha, Neb., and Enterprise Concrete Products in Dallas. He has 20 years of construction industry experience.

Luczenczyn will be responsible for conceptual design, engineering and estimating. He has been with Mid-State since 2001, and has more than 30 years of experience as a design-build engineer.

RSA Promotes Wendell Salvador

Wendell C. Salvador, leader of the interior workplace sector at Los Angeles-based Rothenberg Sawasy Architects, has been promoted to senior associate.

Since joining RSA in 1999, Salvador has led design teams on a wide array of projects including Hispanic Broadcasting Company, Technicolor Digital Imaging, Lawyers Title, Union Bank of California, Commonwealth Land Title and Water & Power Community Credit Unions.

In prior posts, Salvador's interior design commissions included Tom Hanks Productions, Eddie Murphy Productions and Texaco's Regional Headquarters.

Steinberg Architects Promotes Robert Barthelman

San Jose-based Steinberg Architects promoted Robert A. Barthelman, educational facilities director, to senior associate.

As educational facilities director, Barthelman worked on New Helms Middle School in San Pablo, Holy Family Educational Center in San Jose, St. Joseph Parish's new Church in Fremont, Lynbrook High School in San Jose and Dominican Sisters' Residence remodel in Fremont.

Barthelman has been with Steinberg for 11 years.

Richard Pollack & Associates Hires Leif Glomset

San Francisco-based Richard Pollack & Associates, an interior architecture firm, hired Leif Glomset as a senior associate and project manager.

Glomset joined Pollack from San Francisco-based Studios Architecture.

His most recent project was a 165,000-sq.-ft. office in Foundry Square for law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. As project director in Asia, Glomset managed the interior design process for the then-tallest building in the world, Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His other projects include work for Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer and Jones Lang LaSalle Partners.

Gayleen Hart Joins Carter & Burgess in Sacramento

Gayleen Hart has joined land development unit in the Sacramento office of Carter & Burgess.

The project engineer previously was a project manager for Century Meadows, a residential subdivision in Lodi and also worked as a design engineer for the Chase Chevrolet expansion in Stockton. She has four years of experience with commercial, residential and industrial site design, and is a former treasurer of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Mary McGrath Joins Ratcliff, Will Head New Unit

Emeryville-based Ratcliff, a 99-year-old architecture firm, has hired Mary McGrath, a specialist in fire station design.

McGrath, a LEED-accredited architect, will direct the firm's new civic architecture practice.

McGrath worked on about 40 firehouses on the West Coast while at San Luis Obispo-based RRM Design Group. She is an editorial advisory board member for the International Association of Fire Chiefs Foundation

McGrath also participated in the design of the Avila Beach Front Street Enhancement Plan for the Port of San Luis Obispo. Her experience also includes such academic projects as a new elementary school in Cambria, and ADA entry projects for California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

EUCA Names Leslie Lord Deputy Director

The Engineering and Utility Contractors Association promoted Leslie Lord, director of labor and member services, to the position of deputy director.

Lord will continue to focus on the growth of EUCA's labor services. She has managed the EUCA core business of labor and member services for 15 years.

MBH Architects Adds 4

MBH Architects has added staff to its Alameda home office and regional branch in Newport Beach.

Mansoureh Karimian, a senior project manager, was added to the specialty retail studio. Karimian had been running her own boutique architecture firm. Prior to that, she was the director of in-house architecture for Fashion 21 in Los Angeles.

Michael Kouvaris, senior drafter, to the special projects studio joined MBH from Danville-based William Wood Architects in Danville, where he worked as a project manager on various residential projects.

Toby Black, a senior drafter, also joined the specialty retail studio. He previously worked as a designer at Oakland-based Arthur Tam and Associates.

Yean Jong, a drafter, joined the restaurant studio, and Ana Nino, a drafter, joined the CAD Studio.

In Newport Beach, MBH hired Gabriel Agraso as job captain in the developer retail studio. He previously worked for Ontario-based HMC Architects.