Movers & Shakers

BY VBJ STAFF

Ray Burney

RAY BURNEY

Stilwell Baker adds
vice president of engineering in Vancouver

Ray Burney has joined Portland-based engineering firm Stilwell Baker's Vancouver office as vice president of engineering. He will lead the company's contract engineering services. Burney was most recently a research and development section manager at HP, responsible for delivering analog ASIC technology, power systems, sensor systems and motion control.

Burney holds a master of business administration degree from Washington State University Vancouver, a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Southern University at Baton Rouge, and is a graduate of the Wisconsin Military Academy.

Greg Wallace

Carmen Villarma

GREG WALLACE
CARMEN VILLARMA

Clark Foundation board
adds business leaders

Two Vancouver business people have joined the board of directors for the Clark College Foundation.

Former HP leader Greg Wallace recently formed Mirus LLC, a strategic sales and marketing consulting business for high-tech companies. He also is a general partner in a newly formed private equity firm based in Vancouver. Carmen Villarma is president of Vancouver-based The Management Group Inc.

They each will serve three-year terms.

Diana Worthen

DIANA WORTHEN

Geotechnical engineer
joins PBS Engineering

Diana Worthen has joined PBS Engineering and Environmental's Vancouver office as a geotechnical engineer.

Her experience includes performing lab tests, construction observation and geotechnical drilling.  Worthen earned both a bachelor's degree and master's degree in civil engineering from Washington State University. 

Rep. Jim Jacks

JIM JACKS

Local representative selected as Toll Fellow

State Rep. Jim Jacks, D-Vancouver, is one of 40 state leaders from across the nation selected for the Toll Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Council of State Governments to develop the next generation of leaders from the legislative, executive and judicial branches of state government.

The program, held in September in Kentucky, will focus on trends analysis, policy development, media and constituent relations and leadership and institutional changes.

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

EOCF elects new board members

Vancouver-based nonprofit Educational Opportunities for Children and Families has elected four new members to its board.

They are: Tammi Olund, associate vice president and consumer brand manager at Vancouver-based First Independent; Kathryn Smith, an associate at Miller Nash's Vancouver law office; Janet Jewett, director of religious education for the Michael Servetus Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Program in Vancouver; and Bob Mandelson, owner of Vancouver-based RM Consulting.

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