Commander Named to DDP Leadership Role/Norton, Milo, Perez Named to DRCOG Committee/Myers Takes Helm at ABC's Western Colorado Chapter

Gene Commander, vice chair of Shughart Thomson & Kilroy's construction practice group, will serve next year as chairman of the Downtown Denver Partnership. He has served on the DDP management group for the past four years.

Attorney Gene Commander of the Denver law firm Shughart Thomson & Kilroy was named the new chair-elect for the Downtown Denver Partnership, a nonprofit business organization that plans, manages and develops downtown Denver.

Commander, who will begin his term as chair in July 2007, is vice chair of Shughart Thomson & Kilroy's construction practice group and has more than 25 years of experience in real estate and construction law.

Debra Amsden, who has 20-plus years of experience, has joined Mark Young Construction Inc. as manager of work procurement. She is responsible for business development, marketing, sales and preconstruction services.

Martin/Martin Inc. Consulting Engineers added 14 new professionals to its structural and civil engineering departments in Lakewood.

New personnel in the civil engineering department are Chris Ascanio, PE, project engineer; Tamara Hockett, Ellie Montoya and Daniel Granda, Engineer I; Ronald Field, CAD Operator II; Larry Sager, CAD Operator I; and Chelsy Clark, intern.

Structural engineering department hires are Tonya Major, PE; and Garth Scholl, PE; Renee Anderson, Michael Renes, Erica Toren and Kevin Haas, Engineer I; and Markos Atamo, CAD Operator I.

Olsson Associates expanded its transportation services in Colorado with the hiring of Josh Barrett, PE, and Rick Dowling. Scott Dicke has transferred from the company's Lincoln, Neb., office to spearhead environmental sciences.

Eleven members of Lantz-Boggio Architects in Englewood have become Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-accredited professionals. They are principal John Quest, AIA; associates Dwight Miller and Vera Margheim, senior interior designer; project architects Bill Speck, AIA, and Peter Adams; and project coordinators Jeremy Keimig, Christian Fussy, Jim Mahoney, Stacey Rose, Matt Brinkman and Bill Parker.

CDOT Executive Director Tom Norton, Colorado Contractors Association Executive Director Tony Milo and CCA member Carla Perez, of Carter & Burgess, were among approximately two dozen community leaders appointed this summer to serve on an ad hoc committee on transportation finance established by the Denver Regional Council of Governments' board of directors.

Monroe & Newell Engineers Inc. added four new staff members to its Denver and Summit County offices. They are Ryan Barth, PE, Jeff Vandermolen and Cherie Shepherd, structural engineers in the Denver office; and Amanda Markey, a structural engineer in Frisco.

David Myers was appointed president and CEO of the Western Colorado Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors. Before relocating to Grand Junction for this new position, Myers served as director of member services for ABC Rocky Mountain Chapter in Denver.

Myers' replacement at the Rocky Mountain Chapter is Erin Corette. Lynette Reiling was also named ABC RMC's membership director.

Jeffrey Rittner joined Alliance Construction Solutions LLC in Loveland, where he will handle established partnerships and generate new partnerships throughout northern Colorado. He will also serve as Alliance's corporate liaison for organizations, affiliations and community relations.

Jerry Miller joined Bucher, Willis & Ratliff Corp. in Denver as project manager.

Before joining BWR, Miller held a similar position for 13 years with the city and county of Denver's capital projects management transportation division.

Four engineers at CTL/Thompson received their Colorado professional engineer's licenses this summer - Gregg Tateyama, PE, Tyra Sandy, PE, James Mesite, PE, and Gary Diewald, PE.

RNL added eight new people to its Denver office - Tim Flanagan, senior electrical engineer and Denver engineering studio leader; Carol McLanahan, domestic and international landscape and urban design projects; Rene Stremel, interior design; Komal Kotwal and Gabriel Kroll, architectural interns; Richard Ward, 3D graphics artist; Penny Anderson, graphic designer; and Lindsay Prall, human resources assistant.

Staffers Bill Arens and Sarah Rege also passed their architectural licensing exams.

Jim Wages joined RTA Architects' educational design team. Before joining the Colorado Springs firm, Wages served for 14 years as director of construction for Douglas County Schools, managing 80-plus major K-12 projects totalling more than $540 million.

Brad Martin was named manager of the engineering department at HDR, with responsibility for strategic oversight of the firm's engineering business practice in Colorado and Wyoming, including transportation, water and wastewater, environmental services, construction management and meteorology services.

David Goode was promoted to principal at MCG Architecture, where he will manage the Denver office, as well as staffing and project distribution. Goode joined the firm in 2002 as project director.

Eric Umholz joined Roche Constructors Inc. in Greeley as director of business development for Colorado. He has 26 years of experience in project development, construction management and architectural plan development.

Stan Andrews joined Denver's Anderson Mason Dale Architects as a senior associate and director of health care and research.

Andrews, principal and co-founder of Buscaj Andrews Architecture and Design, has a 25-year career focused primarily on health care and research projects.

Mark Lepore, PE, and Gregory Mondragon joined Swanson Rink Inc. - Lepore as a senior mechanical engineer and Mondragon as an electrical engineer. Other new staff members include Quang Lee, mechanical designer; Ellen Gallegos-Blaine, electrical designer; and Andrew Alger, computer programmer.

JG Johnson Architects added four new members to its staff - Katia Thomas, AIA, LEED AP; Robertino Limandibhratha, AIA; Jeffrey Smith, AIA; and Ryan Lawyer.

Dave Messerli, president of B-W Masonry Inc. in Eastlake, has completed the two-year-long masonry certification program at the Rocky Mountain Masonry Institute.

Sally Perisho joined Greenfield Architects in Denver as director of business development. Before that, Perisho worked at Christopher Carvell Architects.

Stanley Turner, AIA, was promoted to associate at Humphries Poli Architects in Denver. Turner, who has been with the firm since 2004, has 14 years of wide-ranging experience. His projects include Siena at Lowry and the Sunset Park Apartments.

Andrea Lawrence Wood and Louis Bieker, AIA, LEED AP, were named senior associates at 4240 Architecture. Wood is the firm's new director of interior design; Bieker has served as project manager, project architect and project designer on numerous projects in Vail.

Mary Lou Robles, NCARB, LEED AP, joined Ambient Energy as a green materials specialist.

Robles is founding principal of Studio Points Architecture + Research in Boulder and has taught design studio and architecture programming at the University of Colorado.

Jared Quillen, a project engineer with The Weitz Co., earned LEED accreditation. He is also certified as an EIT by the National Council of Engineers and Land Surveyors.

Kevin Brettmann, who has 24 years of experience in planning, cost estimating, construction and commissioning of life sciences, research and biotech facilities, joined JE Dunn Construction as director of life sciences.

The company also announced the following promotions: James Anderson, senior estimator; Doug Geist and Brett Hoopes, senior M/E coordinator; Mike Henney, senior project manager; Sean Mulholland and Vince Stellino Jr., project manager; and Judy Freeman and Krista Ring-Myhaver, senior project coordinator.

David Owen Tryba Architects promoted Dean Foreman, AIA, to principal; Collin Kemberlin, AIA, to associate principal; Keith Conner, AIA; to senior associate; and Jeremy Bieker, Carrie Bradley, Christy Collins, Ki Woo Kim and Jin Soo Park, AIA, to associates.

Audrey Koehn of Newman Cavendar & Doane in Denver will serve on the Junior Design Council Studio Exchange for Durkan Commercial and Karastan Contract - one of 12 designers nationwide named to the council and the only one from Colorado.

Randy Hays and Cory Mankin joined Taylor Kohrs in Denver - Hays as a superintendent and Mankin as a project engineer.

Stephen Brevig was named Eastern region director of Black & Veatch's Enterprise Management Solutions organization. In this new role, Brevig will guide strategies with utility clients focusing on asset management, information technology systems implementation and integration and business transformation strategy.

Jacob Beck, Cheryl Bicknell, Amanda Portman, LEED AP, and Jessica Reske joined SlaterPaull Architects.

Loris and Associates Inc. in Lafayette added Neal Dawes and Dana Kulbacki, both engineering interns, as project engineers assigned to the firm's civil design team.

Jeremy Hollands and David Yeingst of Cator Ruma & Associates passed the professional mechanical engineering exam.

Senior mechanical engineer Kirt Holloway, PE, joined The RMH Group after a 13-year career with Holloway Rylatt, now closed. Before that, he worked for BHCD of Denver for 16 years.

Todd Coleman, AIA, and Michael Bensky, AIA, were recently named senior associates at DTJ Design in Boulder.

JG Johnson Architects PC in Denver has promoted three members of its leadership team - Brad Bull, AIA, to principal; and Jane Dotson and Tobias Strohe to associate principals. They are joined on the leadership team by Patrick Bohler, associate principal; and Nicole Nathan, AIA, Fong Lee and Jovina Amor, LEED AP, as the key project designers.

OZ Architecture promoted eight staff members to associate positions - Doug Sault; Kathryn Janak; Steve Rogers; Maurice Salata, LEED AP; Eric Thuerk; Liz Rane; Matt Chiodini; and Kevin Schaffer.

Clare Kelly joined Andrews & Anderson Architects PC as marketing coordinator, where responsible for developing and executing a full range of activities that support firm's business development efforts.

J.L. "Whitey" Reed was promoted to vice president of sales for the West region at Lakewood-based Homesphere. In this newly created position, Reed will be responsible for managing and supporting the sales efforts of the company's western offices.

Patrick Lynch joined US SPEC, a division of US MIX Co., as its new Rocky Mountain representative. Lynch will provide service and support to US SPEC distributors and concrete contractors in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and New Mexico.

Three staff members of S. A. Miro Inc. completed their registrations as structural engineers in Nevada - associates Dave Renn, PE, SE; and Steven Marshall, PE, SE; Ben Roberts, PE, SE, a senior project engineer.