Business Beat

Architecture

David Hipp, associate principal at Bernardo|Wills Architects, has completed the requirements for certification as a designated design-build professional. The certification highlights Hipp as having mastered best practices associated with the entire design-build process, and allows design and construction under one contract. He is currently working on two such projects: the BCT Complex, unaccompanied enlisted personnel housing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, and the Washington state Department of Transportation North Central Region Administration Facility in Wenatchee.

Engineering

DCI Engineers has hired project engineers Devin Marcy and Chad Schluter to its Spokane office. Marcy interned at Boeing for three months in the company’s structural division and is currently working on the Kootenai Health Orthopedics building in Coeur d’Alene. Schluter, who interned with DCI last summer, is working on a bridge crane refurbishment project for Wenatchee’s Rocky Reach Dam powerhouse.

Finance

The Spokane office of RBC Wealth Management has hired Robert Hawley. His expertise is in institutional and private wealth management. Hawley has 19 years of experience.

Medicine

Drs. Judy Swanson and Geoff Jones have been hired by the University of Washington School of Medicine and will join the UWSOM-Gonzaga University Regional Health Partnership. Swanson, an internal medicine physician, has practiced in Spokane since 1995 and has been named assistant clinical dean for Spokane. Jones, a family medicine physician, has been teaching during UWSOM clinical rotations at the Newport Community Hospital for 15 years. He has been named assistant dean for Eastern Washington.

Miscellaneous

Vicki Croft has been elected a fellow of the Medical Library Association, among the MLA’s highest honors. Croft is the retired head of Washington State University’s Animal Health Library and has been involved with the MLA for 40 years, including the International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists. In her 38 years with WSU, she worked to preserve literature and history of veterinary medical resources, including digitization, publications, oral histories and presentations.