Riviera Expands By 25/UCHSC Awards Anderson Honorary Doctorate/Four Colorado SMPS Members Earn CPSM Designation

Twenty five new hires have boosted the staff at Riviera Electric's at its Littleton, Colorado Springs and mountain offices, with most of the new employees are working on the Memorial Women's & Children's Hospital project.

Riviera Electric has hired 25 new employees. They are as follows:

Prefabrication department in Littleton - Francisco Hernandez, Jose Rodriquez, Oumar Ndiaye, Sean Keller and Armando Campuzano, apprentices. Ken Tatman, journeyman, returned to the company and is working at the Coors Brewery in Golden.

Line operations department in Littleton - Michael Maxwell, Dustin Johannsen, Chris Cabriales and Matt Gonzales, groundmen.

Roaring Fork High School project - Andrew Patchett, apprentice.

Memorial Women's & Children's Hospital project in Colorado Springs - Gene Denmark, Travis Hagen, Chad Pool, Nathan Scollon, Andrew Farris, Jerome Archer, Patrick Martinez, Brandon Freeman, Kevin Givens, Jack Young, Stephen Friend, Patrick Howie and Sean Whitlock, apprentices; and Ken Murten, journeyman

Dennis Hanneman, PE, was named geotechnical engineering group leader for Kleinfelder Inc.'s Denver area while Jeff Markovich has joined the firm's Colorado Springs office as program manager of military operations.

Gary Wegman, PE, returned to Swanson Rink team as a senior electrical engineer while Sondra Bonham and Matt Morroni, RCDD, joined the Denver-based consulting engineering firm as a project manager and telecommunications project designer, respectively.

W.E. O'Neil Construction Co. named two new project managers - Stephen Mager and Donald Missey; Lance Kitt is also now a project manager.

Denver architect John Anderson, founding principal of Anderson Mason Dale Architects, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree this spring from the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.

Sherri Goldstein was named senior commercial accounts manager at Land Title Guarantee Co., where she will oversee customer acquisition and commercial relationship management of broker, developer and attorney accounts.

Four members of the Colorado Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services earned their designations as certified professional services marketers - Pat Andrews, business development manager, CTL/Thompson, Denver; Tiffany Ehling, business development coordinator, MA Mortenson Co., Denver; Lori Slivensky, senior marketing coordinator, Swinerton Builders, Arvada; and Margo Waisanen, business development coordinator, Terracon, Wheat Ridge.

Laura Kannady, PE, and Matthew Schlageter, PE, LEED AP, were promoted to associate at Martin/Martin Inc. Consulting Engineers.

Two new members were also elected to the firm's board of directors - Jack Petersen, PE; and William Willis, PE. Board members who were re-elected are John "Trailer" Martin Jr., SE; Charles Keyes, PE, SE; Duane Jansen, PE; and Gary Thomas, PE.

Drexel, Barrell & Co.'s John Ewy, PE, CFM, was certified by the U.S. Green Building Council as a LEED-accredited professional.

Shelly Cockrell and Hillary Lewis of OZ Architecture passed the LEED accreditation exam, bringing to 18 the total number of LEED-certified staffers at the firm.

Molly Chan, PE, has joined TW Hartmann Inc. in Fort Collins as a principal. She is licensed in Colorado and Wyoming.

Davey Tree Expert Co. promoted John Bretsch to district manager, David Paricio to assistant district manager at the east Denver office and Vince Distrola to sales representative for the west Denver office.

James Brady, PE, was promoted to vice president at Wilson & Co. Inc. Engineers & Architects.

Thomas Harper was named to the newly created position of vice president of supply chain services at HomeSphere, a technology-leveraged service provider to residential home builders.

ASCG Inc., formerly McLaughlin Water Engineers, hired three civil engineers at its Lakewood office - Lisa Claus, EI, Darin Bartles, EI, and Chris Castelli, PE.

Michael Van Gilder was named chief executive officer of Van Gilder Insurance Corp., becoming the fourth generation to lead the 101-year-old organization. He succeeds his father, Dell Van Gilder Jr., who will continue to serve as chairman of the board of directors.

Zeppelin Development founder Mickey Zeppelin was recently awarded the Downtown Denver Partnership's third annual Rickenbaugh Community Service Award.

Katie Bisgard was promoted to senior project manager for Kieding Office Architects.

Nolin Renfrow joined the The Durrant Group Inc.'s Denver office as business development manager; and Ellen Wuori was promoted to marketing coordinator.

Landscape architect and urban designer James Hyatt joined ValleyCrest Companies to head Hyatt Studio, a newly-established landscape architecture and planning firm in Denver.

Buddy Poppitt joined M+O+A Architectural Partnership as a senior designer.

Dave Sandlin re-joined GE Johnson Construction Co. in the role of construction executive. He will be based at GE Johnson's newly expanded Denver office.

Pia Lindgren joined Studio NYL Structural Engineers as a junior engineer.

White Construction Group added three superintendents to its staff - Bill Davis, Mark Davis and Mike Garecht.

GEI Consultants Inc. in Centennial named Doug Charlton, PhD, as regional manager; and William Cincilla as senior engineering geologist.

Eric Rubottom, CTS, LEED AP, of Beaudin Ganze Consulting Engineers Inc., earned his Certified Technology Specialist certification from InfoComm International.

Michelle Jones joined Carter & Burgess as director of corporate marketing.

Heath Construction added a new member to its "steel team" - James McManaman, project engineer.

Joan Miller and Mark Lasswell were elected as new board members of CH2M Hill; chairman and CEO Ralph Peterson was re-elected to the board; and Nancy Tuor was named vice chair.

Rodd Merchant and Stuart Schmoker joined JE Dunn Construction Co. - Merchant as quality/building information modeling manager and Schmoker as senior estimator.

Rhonda Dick was promoted to principal at Nuszer Kopatz, where she manages the firm's planning studio.

Hyder Construction added two new superintendents to its construction team - Ruben Bravo and Pete Lagasse.

Joel Douglass joined Taylor Kohrs as vice president of operations.

Stephanie Brock was promoted to senior vice president in the Rocky Mountain/Southwest division of Riverstone Residential Group, formerly Trammell Crow Residential Services.