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Three Clark County businessmen have joined the Clark County Skills Center Foundation board of directors. A fourth has opted to serve on the foundation’s investment committee. Joining the board are Ted Davis, district manager for Wells Fargo Bank; CPA Jim Fenstermaker of JF & Associates LLC; and Tim Probst, Chief Executive Officer of the Washington Workforce Association. Rick Van Hoose, VP of wealth management and trust services at Columbia Credit Union, has joined the foundation’s Investment Committee.

Quoc Nguyen has joined Roggenkamp Erickson & Associates as a designer. Nguyen holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University. He is responsible for the structural design of a wide variety of projects.

In other staff accomplishments, design engineer Scott Howard has received his California Professional Engineer’s License. Sherry Erickson, business manager, has received a Master of Business Administration Degree from Washington State University.

Alex Garcia has been named branch manager for First Independent’s La Center office. Garcia joined First Independent in April 2005 as a management trainee. Prior to this, Garcia served as a personal banking officer for the Bank of America in Woodland. He has been in the banking industry since 1988.

Sharif Burdzik has been appointed branch manager of the Hazel Dell office in Vancouver. Burdzik has more than 15 years of banking experience and has served as branch manager for Washington Mutual and US Bancorp prior to joining First Independent. Burdzik earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology and Mathematics from the University of Kansas.

Sarah Del Moral has been appointed branch manager of the Cascade Park office. Del Moral comes to First Independent with more than 15 years of experience in management and buying with Nordstrom, where she received multiple awards for her excellent leadership and management skills.

Mersy-Frank holds a master’s degree in architecture with honors distinction from Lawrence Technological University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. He has served as an adjunct professor at multiple colleges in Michigan.

Olson Engineering Inc. (OEI) has hired Bart Stepp, PE, to manage its new water and wastewater services. Prior to joining OEI, Stepp most recently worked for CH2MHill in the Southwest Washington area. He brings more than nine years of experience designing practical and environmentally sound solutions for water and wastewater management.

Kevin Wann, president of Pacific Lifestyle Homes, has been honored as the 2005 Builder of the Year by the Building Industry Association of Clark County. Wann was chosen for this award based on his business practices, product design and charitable work. Wann served on the BIA board of directors from 2002 to 2005.

Port of Vancouver USA Commission President Robert J. Moser has been named the recipient of the Life Member Award from the Washington Public Ports Association. Moser, who will retire on Dec. 31, has served 18 years on the port commission, making him the fourth longest serving commissioner in the port’s 93-year history. He served as an officer and president of the WPPA from 1999 to 2004 and was only the second commissioner in Port of Vancouver history to hold the state association presidency.

During his tenure on the WPPA executive committee, Moser assisted in the formation of the WPPA Educational Foundation as an advisor, fundraiser and vice president.

Moser has also volunteered with the Fort Vancouver Seafarers Center. He founded and coordinated the annual Seafarers Center International Festival. He also led the effort in 1995 to move the Seafarers Center from downtown Vancouver to its current location at Terminal 4.

Moser received the 2002 Val Joshua Racial Justice Award from the YWCA of Clark County. Moser came to the port near the end of his 32-year career as an administrator at Clark College. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English and an master’s degree in journalism, both from Oklahoma State University. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict.

Lynne Griffith, C-Tran’s executive director, was elected vice president of the Washington State Transit Association for a two-year term. The association includes 25 transit agencies in the state.

Safefreight Technology has hired Philip W. Seeley as its chief financial and information officer. Previously, Seeley worked for a CNF corporate organization ending as an executive vice president of sales and marketing for their largest business unit. Seeley has also been the managing director of a $40 million venture capital fund focused on logistics and supply chains. He has most recently spent seven years as the CEO of an IT consultancy. Seeley is a graduate of the University of Oregon with a mathematics and computer science degree. He holds an MBA from Portland State University and is a graduate of the Executive Program for Management Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Business.

Seeley is also a board member of SmartStop, a general partner in Case Management and a past director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Claremont Technology.

District Court Administrator retires
District Court Administrator Bob Winsor is planning to retire in January 2006 after 30 years of service with Clark County. Winsor started working for the court as a security officer in 1975. He was promoted to deputy administrator in 1986 and became administrator in 2001. Ela Selga will be appointed as court administrator after Winsor’s retirement.