Owner, Echo Alpha Projects

Project Management and Owner Representation

Erica delivers generalist project management and owner representation services. She ushers through the lifecycle of built spaces, partnering with with Owners, Designers and Contractors in a range of roles. Erica is a translator, producer, and activator, maximizing partners to do their best work. Leading with empathy and technical strategy, her firm Echo Alpha sets the team up to shine. Her work combines Interior Design, General Contracting, and Project Management for a holistic Owner Representation.

Owner, Hillson Creative

Proposals and Marketing Consulting

Kaitlin is a B2B marketing professional focused on proposal development, branding, and sales enablement for firms in the AEC and real estate industries.

She has worked with established global firms and startups alike, and understands what it takes to tell your story.

With a knack for extracting key themes, articulating technical language, and developing brand identities, Kaitlin takes a personalized approach with every client. She lives for the "aha" moment when a technical expert sees their passion and experience translated into clean, powerful messaging.

Owner, Collette Collins Design

Master Carpentry

As an architectural artist, Collette custom-sculpts residential, commercial and public spaces into functional design. In other words, she creates architectural art for extraordinary environments.

Her award-winning creations are showcased in restaurants, feature films, museums and private homes. Collette’s works closely with her clients and they appreciate her meticulous artistry and solid craftsmanship

Her honesty and flair for the dramatic makes her built environments stand out from the crowd in ways that are surprising, intuitive, and modern ~ a perfect blend of art, function and organic elegance! Her experience in designing and building unique furniture and cabinetry spans 30 years.

Owner, 1029 Consulting

Operations Mastermind, Speaker, Author

Educated as a civil engineer, Jessica draws on her love of systems to help business owners develop processes to improve operational performance. She takes leaders on an infinite voyage of growth and transformation, helping to envelop them in a sea of knowledge.

Jessica is energized when leaders discover possibilities and go beyond their perceived limitations. As a consultant, advisor and coach, she helps business executives navigate ambiguity, complexity, and change while cultivating trust and building agile, high-performing teams. One of Jessica’s strengths is translating complex roadmaps into optimized tools and solutions supporting nimble employee engagement which results in successful business outcomes.

CSI, CCS, LEED AP

Managing Partner, Applied Building Information

Construction Specifications

Beth is a Certified Construction Specifier with over 15 years of specifications experience. Prior to starting an independent practice in 2013, she wrote specifications for large architecture firms in the Seattle area. Beth has produced specifications for new buildings and renovations of existing facilities, for public and private clients, design/bid/build, design/build, and negotiated contracts. Her experience in the construction industry began as an assistant to her father’s residential general contracting company. Then she went on to become a field engineer for a large general contractor. This grounding in the construction industry provides her with a unique view of specifications – and how they can be used to solve problems on the job site.

MS, NCIDQ, LEED AP

Owner, Space Advocate, LLC

Facilities Planning

Tristen is an Owner's Rep for Interiors with a proven track record of creating public funded space packages that meet the needs of the occupants, are sustainable and follow state mandates related to sustainability, flexibility, and scale. Tristen specializes in working with the owner to develop a project charter that anticipates the needs of the occupants, and improving the architectural design process by streamlining decisions and goals. She also specializes in increasing the WBE participation in Interior-related commodities. Her background enables Space Advocate LLC to leverage the complex processes of project requests and funding, while supporting organizational wellness.

PE, LEED AP BD+C

Owner, HVAC Double Check

Mechanical Engineering

Tricia is an experienced, LEED certified mechanical engineer with over a decade working in Washington State. Over her career, she has helped hundreds of architects and contractors design mechanical systems for commercial, healthcare, retail, and hospitality projects.

Tricia thrives on designing creative solutions for the challenging problems that arise in the construction industry, and her focus on HVAC comes from a love of puzzle solving and collaborative work. HVAC Double Check provides holistic mechanical systems solutions from design to HVAC system selection, permit submittal, and construction administration.

PE, LEED AP, CESCL

Principal and Owner, LPD Engineering

Civil Engineering

Laurie takes a proactive role in the design process and provides her clients with well-researched advice and direction.

Her firm LPD Engineering establishes relationships with regulatory agencies in the early stages of design, and promotes ongoing communication with agency staff throughout the project. This allows them to guide developments through the permitting process without significant changes by the jurisdiction when projects are submitted for permit. By looking beyond standard civil engineering design approaches, LPD is able to deliver more cost effective solutions with long-term functionality to clients.

CPE, LEED AP

Managing Director, DCW Cost Management

Cost Management

Trish is a cost management professional specializing in vertical construction. Throughout her 29+ years in the construction industry, she has participated in the creation of structures that have shaped cities and defined their significance.

Trish is passionate about her work and believes that there are ways to maximize design while working within a budget. She believes that project cost over runs can be avoided by developing a team strategy focused on cost and by engaging a cost manager early in the design process. She believes these things because their reality is consistently proven on functional projects.

Owner, Dossier Seattle

Document Control Management

Karla is a Senior Technical Editor/Document Control & Deliverables Specialist experienced in assisting project engineers and management with client deliverables, technical editing, quality audits, and documenting all project-related design and construction information.

With almost 20 years of experience, Karla has managed, maintained, and archived copies of all project-related records for capital projects including Sound Transit’s West Seattle and Ballard Link Extension.

She manages user access, conducts training sessions, provides technical editing support, updates project matrix and data collection files, retrieving as-builts, and project files for the team as requested. Beyond her role in document controls, she has also performed as a Communications Specialist on project deliverables through writing, formatting, and editing technical reports for client submittals.

AIA NCARB

Founding Principal, Dean Alan Architects

Architecture

Angela believes in the power of architecture to augment the power and value of places. She leads her firm with her vision and her unbending commitment to outstanding client service. With these values, Dean Alan Architects offers a holistic approach to projects, bridging form and function far beyond the just their physical components.

Angela has over 25 years of experience in architecture and has been involved in a variety of project types such as Commercial, Public, Industrial, and Mixed Use. As Principal at Dean Alan Architects, she has direct oversight of the management of projects and architecture services, as well as the owner’s representative services the firm offers. Dean Alan Architects has offices in Seattle and Tucson, and are registered architects in WA, TX, AZ, NM, and NV.

Owner, Hawke Connection

Project Management

Nancy is an experienced Senior Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the construction industry with a focus on healthcare, life sciences and complex, fast-paced, design/build. Skilled in Preconstruction, Construction, Contracts Management, and Client Relations. Occupied acute-care, clinical, medical, life science and office settings are her specialty.

AIA, NCARB

Owner and Principal, Scharrer AD

Architecture

Christine Scharrer, AIA has practiced architecture for over 32 years serving public clients and leading design teams on complex, urban design and transit projects in the Pacific Northwest. Christine has been a contributor to AIA Women’s Leadership Summits since 2010, and in 2015 she co-chaired the Women’s Leadership Summit in Seattle. She founded the AIA Seattle Women in Design Committee and served as chair from 2013-2015. She was the AIA Seattle Board Secretary from 2015-2018 and has been a Design in Public board member since 2015. Christine started ScharrerAD in 2013. The firm specializes in public, infrastructure, and transit design projects across the Puget Sound Region including Sound Transit Tacoma Dome Link Extension, and station designs for Sound Transit’s West Seattle to Ballard Link Extension, Everett Link Extension, and Lynnwood Link Extension.

Principal/Owner, Edition 82 LLC

Interior Design

Laura spent the past twenty years designing outstanding interiors for notable tech, corporate, educational and residential clients. She is a sharp wit driven by an intuitive gut. She holds a Bachelors in Interior Design from Cornish College for the Arts. 

Laura has enjoys the large scale and fast pace of commercial projects and the intimate scale and leisurely pace of residential projects that unfold over time. Working on both project types keeps her nimble and allows her creative freedom to flourish.

Laura excels at creating rich and complex palettes, with her signature touch focusing on a high contrast of materials, that results in the perfect balance of wow and staying power. Your history should tell a story in your space, even if your project is brand new. Laura loves the challenge of helping you find that piece of your story or working in that ugly lamp that you love and just cannot live without.