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Linda Gehrke Joins Parametrix
04.14.23
Linda Gehrke has joined Parametrix as a Principal Consultant based in Seattle. She has over three decades of experience working in the public transportation industry, providing planning, environmental, and cartography services across Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Linda is the former Regional Administrator for Region 10 of the Federal Transit Administration and spent over 15 years working for the United States Department of Transportation as a Community Planner and Deputy Regional Administrator.She holds a Master of Public Administration and a degree in geography with a concentration in cartography, environmental sciences, and planning. At Parametrix, she joins our strategic advisory services practice with an emphasis on transit clients, Tribal nations, and other public agencies throughout the Western United States.
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Tope Aderiye, PMP Joins Parametrix
04.11.23
Tope Aderiye, PMP has joined Parametrix as a Senior Planner. He has over 15 years of project management experience working in telecommunications, information technology, civil infrastructure, construction, and public utility environments. He comes to Parametrix from Program Management & Controls Services. Tope is a Certified Project Management Professional and holds a master’s certificate in project management. He has worked with clients such as the Chicago Transit Authority and the Chicago Department of Aviation.At Parametrix, he joins the firm’s Strategic Advisory Services group which offers business advisory, owner’s advisory, and delivery advisory services to clients across the Western United States.
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Tait Elder, RPA Joins Parametrix
04.05.23
Tait Elder, RPA has joined Parametrix as a Senior Consultant. He is a Secretary of the Interior qualified archaeologist with almost two decades of cultural resources experience spanning across the Western United States.Tait comes to Parametrix from ICF where he most recently served as Principal Archaeologist and Pacific Northwest Transportation Sector Lead. He is highly experienced at developing customized cultural resources deliverables and work programs in compliance with federal, state, and local cultural resources regulations. He also has experience leading multi-company cultural resources teams in support of large and complex infrastructure projects. He places particular emphasis on working with agencies and partners to developing thoughtful, defensible, and cost-conscious cultural resources work products. He has served as principal investigator on over 150 cultural resources studies in the Pacific Northwest since 2012 for agenc...
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Michael Dang, PE Joins Parametrix
03.28.23
Michael Dang, PE has joined Parametrix as a Senior Engineer. He has over a decade of experience working on water, utilities, site development, and transportation projects in the Puget Sound region.Michael comes to Parametrix from HDR where he served as a Utilities/Civil Engineer. He specializes in planning, utility design, coordination, and report writing. He has a civil and environmental degree with an emphasis on water and hydrology. He has worked with agencies such Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle Public Utilities, Sound Transit, City of Kirkland, King County Parks, and King County Solid Waste Division.At Parametrix, he joins the Greater Washington water division, which provides electrical and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), flood control, stormwater, wastewater, and drinking water services to cities, counties, water districts, and others throughout the state.
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Peter Geiger, ENV SP Joins Parametrix
03.23.23
Peter Geiger, ENV SP has joined Parametrix as a Senior Planner based in Portland. He has over 30 years of experience providing environmental evaluations for energy, port, transit, transportation, military, and telecommunication projects across the Western United States. Peter comes to Parametrix from WSP. His work includes alternative contract delivery, environmental compliance for multiple sectors, bridges, quality control and management, hazardous materials corridor studies, electrical transmission corridor studies, permitting, and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis. He has worked with agencies such as the Western Federal Lands Highway Division, Bonneville Power Administration, Oregon and Washington Departments of Transportation, City of Portland, TriMet, Lane Transit District, Pierce County Transit District, and Sound Transit.At Parametrix, he joins the Oregon/Idaho region Environmental Planning and Compliance team,...
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Kirk Paulsen, PE Joins Parametrix
03.16.23
Kirk Paulsen, PE has joined Parametrix as a Senior Engineer. He has over 10 years of experience designing transportation projects throughout Oregon, Washington, and California.Kirk comes to Parametrix from Alta Planning + Design where he served as a transportation design engineer. He specializes in active transportation design including on-street and separated bikeways, enhanced pedestrian environments, as well as off-street multi-use paths. He holds a master’s degree in civil and environmental engineering with an emphasis on sustainable transportation engineering.At Parametrix, he joins the transportation team in Portland, providing transportation and environmental planning, urban design, and traffic engineering services to the City of Vancouver, WA; Oregon Department of Transportation; and other clients across the Western United States.
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Jeff Hale, PE Joins Parametrix as Nevada Engineering Manager
03.08.23
Jeff Hale, PE has joined Parametrix as a Senior Consultant and Nevada Engineering Manager. He has over 30 years of experience designing, managing, and delivering transportation projects in Nevada.Jeff comes to Parametrix from the consulting industry where he served as Associate Engineer and Project Manager. Prior to working as a consultant, he spent nearly two decades with the Nevada Department of Transportation working in roadway design, construction, and project management divisions before serving as the Director of Engineering and Construction for the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Washoe County.His project experience includes the delivery the first phase of the I-15 North Expansion, the state’s first design-build project. He was also part of the largest RTC of Washoe County construction program with over $450 million in pavement rehabilitation and complete street projects and over $400 million in capacity impro...
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Cindy Clark, PE Selected as Regional Transportation Division Manager
03.06.23
Parametrix has selected Cindy Clark, PE to lead the firm’s Greater Washington Transportation Division. Cindy has been with Parametrix for over 25 years, serving as a project manager, group lead, and as a Trustee for the firm’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan.Cindy is experienced in project management, public involvement, traffic engineering, and transportation design. She has been responsible for dozens of public agency projects, including on-call support work for local cities such as Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland, SeaTac, Renton, and others.The Greater Washington Transportation Division includes over 130 transportation professionals providing transportation planning, engineering, and design services from locations in Seattle, Puyallup, Bremerton, and Spokane, WA.
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Parametrix Ranked #10 Best Company to Work for in Oregon
03.06.23
Parametrix has been ranked the number 10 best large company to work for in Oregon by Oregon Business. Large companies are those that have 100 or more employees in Oregon. The award was announced at an event held at the Oregon Convention Center on March 2, 2023. The ranking is based on employee survey responses, which include questions about work environment, management and communications, decision-making and trust, career development and learning, and benefits and compensation. Parametrix has Oregon offices in Portland, Bend, and Eugene, consisting of over 100 employee-owners providing services in transportation, environmental science, water, community building, climate, sustainability, and land surveying. As a 100% employee-owned firm, all employee-owners participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. The firm places an emphasis on work/life balance, provides opportunities for growth, and gives employee-owners the chance to work o...
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Parametrix Acquires Parisi Transportation Consulting,
Establishing Presence in California
03.01.23
Parametrix, a 100-percent employee-owned engineering, planning, and environmental sciences firm headquartered in Seattle, WA, has acquired California-based Parisi Transportation Consulting, with offices in Berkeley and Marin County, CA. Parisi was founded over 20 years ago with the philosophy of providing high quality services tailored to the unique transportation needs of individual cities, towns, and counties. Parisi is particularly well known for planning and designing complete streets and incorporating active transportation, as well as for providing traffic engineering and transportation planning services. “The merger of Parametrix and Parisi provides tremendous synergy through services offered and geographies served,” stated Parametrix CEO John Willis. “We’re thrilled to combine the benefits of Parametrix’s portfolio of transportation clients, employee ownership, and our reputation as a best place t...
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