CSG Team | Photo by Mike Melling 2022
Meet the Team
The people of CSG
CSG is comprised of a team of dedicated professionals with expert knowledge in K-12 capital facilities projects. With combined design and construction industry experience of more than 500 years and offices throughout the Pacific Northwest, CSG’s team of specialists understands the challenges faced by districts implementing large and small capital projects. Our experienced team helps districts navigate this complex landscape both efficiently and effectively.
Executive Director
Kirk Pawlowski, AIA, LEED AP
Executive Director
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Kirk Pawlowski is a nationally respected education and community architect and planner and former principal at the Portland/Seattle architectural firm SRG Partnership. Prior to working with CSG and SRG, Kirk was a university architect for the Oregon Health and Sciences University, executive director of capital planning & development for both Washington State University and Oregon State University, and assistant vice provost for capital resource planning at the University of Washington. Kirk has had accountability as the senior institutional representative for the successful planning, project management, and commissioning of capital bond program portfolios in excess of $200M per year over the past 20 years of his professional career.
Pacific Northwest Directors
Keith Bloom, CCM, LEED AP, VMA
Director Western Region
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Keith Bloom leads all CSG projects in Pacific Northwest Western Region and is an experienced program manager and project leader with 50 years of capital facilities development experience. Keith is a Certified Construction Manager, and a LEED accredited professional. Keith led Washington State University’s Construction program for nearly twenty years before joining CSG.
Dax Logsdon, CCM
Director Eastern Region
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Dax Logsdon serves as director of CSG’s Pacific Northwest Eastern Region team. He has over twenty years of experience in school construction management and planning, with the last 18 years dedicated specifically to owner-based construction management for school projects. Notable projects he has managed include ones in Camas, Hockinson, Freeman, Richland, Ritzville, Pullman, Walla Walla and Washougal School Districts.
The Hive
Janet Cordes
Operations Coordination
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Janet Cordes has worked in administrative and management support for over 20 years in a wide variety of industries. She has expertise in office contract administration, accounts payable|receivable and office administrative support and management.
Construction Operations | Projects
Jennifer Halleck, Assoc. DBIA
Associate Director
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Jennifer Halleck has 17 years’ experience working with school operations and construction. Her expertise is in school district capital facilities master planning and bond program execution. She has proven success in performing key milestones activities such as rigorous and detailed pre-bond preparations, portfolio management, project management, long and short-range planning, state study and survey writing, grant writing, resource conservation and community services. Before joining CSG, she was a key team member for Vancouver School District in planning, passing, and facilitating their $458M general obligation bond, $43M grant, $66M state assistance and $12M impact fees for an overall projected $579M bond program.
Dolly Ramminger, CCM, ODE Certified Assessor, OSPI BCA, VMA
Associate Director
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Dolly Ramminger has over 30 years of construction management, contract management, accounting, and human resource management experience. Over the past seven years with CSG, she has provided construction management services for a variety of school projects throughout Eastern Washington including projects in Colton, Davenport, Moses Lake and North Franklin School District.
Capital Facilities | Bond Planning
Heidi Hansen
Associate Director
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Heidi Hansen has two decades of experience managing capital construction programs in the Puget Sound region, overseeing projects from design and permitting to construction and occupancy. With over 15 years of experience as director/manager of K-12 capital projects departments at Monroe, Arlington and Mukilteo School Districts, she has expert knowledge of how K-12 bond projects are managed, including contract negotiations, budgeting, state funding assistance and community engagement.
Facilities | Grant Projects | Constructability Reviews
Ken Kuiken, ODE Certified Assessor, OSPI BCA
Associate Director
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Ken Kuiken has over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry, with over half of his time spent on K-12 or higher Education projects. Most recently, Ken served as project superintendent for the new Bellingham, Washington SD Sehome High School, which opened in the Fall of 2019. Ken is a subject-matter-expert in developing project schedules, efficient construction sequencing, and construction budget management.
I was totally comfortable knowing that the project and any risk to the school district was in very capable hands. If you have a need for any construction or capital project consulting, I highly recommend reaching out to Ken Kuiken, Kirk Pawlowski and the whole CSG 112 team. They are the absolute best help you will find.
Furniture Fixtures | Equipment PM
Peryll Gray-Ayersman, NCIDQ
Project Manager, Regional Business Development
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Peryll Gray-Ayersman leads CSG’s furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E) team and she brings 25 years of industry licensed interior design experience. She has her bachelors of fine arts degree from the University of Idaho and some of her most notable projects prior to CSG include interior design of the Clark County Public Service Center, and work with North Clackamas School District and Gresham-Barlow School District. Her impeccable follow through and organization is what sets her skills apart from the rest. She is here to help districts from conception to occupancy and every step of the way.
Project and Construction Management
Mike Melling, OSPI BCA
Associate Director
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Mike Melling is a CSG Associate Director in CSG’s Eastern Region, and is recognized as a K12 school facilities project expert and leader entirely committed to each school district’s success. Mike knows that every school district and every project is unique and that no single approach will work as a “one size fits all” solution. By understanding what is most important to your school district, he is able to direct his expertise and experience in the areas which bring them value. Under Mike’s guidance and leadership, project teams have successfully completed projects on schedule, within budget, and the quality expected from your school district teachers, staff, and students. From pre-bond planning to project completion, and to the periods after your project is completed, Mike is with you every step of the way to ensure success
Tex Ladish, OSPI BCA
Senior Project Manager
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Tex Ladish has over 40 years of construction management, project management and facilities construction experience. Over the past 18 years with CSG, he has effectively provided project and construction management services for a variety of public school projects including Nooksack Valley, Lynden, Meridian, Ferndale and Marysville School Districts.
Dan Purefoy
Senior Project Manager
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Dan Purefoy has worked with CSG for the past decade and has managed a number of complex projects for school districts throughout Eastern Washington. He has extensive experience and a thorough understanding of the school construction process and has managed projects in school districts including Walla Walla, Othello, North Franklin, College Place, Liberty, Royal, and Brewster School Districts.
Dan Gordon
Senior Project Manager
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Dan Gordon is a Senior Project Manager for CSG’s Eastern Region. A subject matter expert in K12 school construction, his professional experience includes 20 years with the U.S. Naval Seabees and 21 years in the private sector, providing school construction administration and project management in CSG’s Eastern Region. Dan’s recent project management leadership includes K12 school projects for the Pullman, Colfax, Ritzville, Freeman and Moses Lake, Washington school districts.
Lawrence Barney, OSPI BCA
Project Manager
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Lawrence Barney has worked in construction management for a decade, the past eight of which have been with CSG. He is an experienced project manager, having worked on numerous local school construction projects in the Tri-Cities including Sacajawea Elementary in Richland, Marcus Whitman Elementary in Richland, North Franklin Region Transportation Cooperative in Connell and the Teaching Learning Administrative Center (TLAC) in Richland.
Karen Soderquist
Project Manager
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Karen Soderquist is an experienced project manager located in Brewster, Washington. She and her husband owned an architectural metal building construction company for over 20 years before she became a professional project manager. In her time with CSG, Karen has helped to manage projects at Brewster School District including the modernization of its elementary school, additions to its middle school and the construction of a new high school, along with a New modular unit and procurement of multi Grants for this District. She has also helped manage the Bridgeport School District modernization of the ES and MS, procuring grants along the way to help with mold mitigation and roofing issues. Her most recent enjoyment with the Brewster School District is a Transportation CO-OP and at Bridgeport school district an Animal Barn for FFA and CTE classes along with a HS modernization project!
Thomas Eller
Project Manager
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Tom Eller is a project manager for CSG’s Eastern Washington Division. He has been involved in both the residential and commercial construction industries for over 28 years. His experience ranges from custom, single and multi-family homes, to private and public sector commercial construction projects such as casinos, health care, dormitories and modular building projects. He also has extensive experience within the land development-master planning arena as well. Most recently, Eller worked for the Department of Energy Hanford site as a senior estimator assisting with the development of the upcoming prime contracts that range from $4 to $13 billion. He has also previously worked for a modular building company providing both relocatable and permanent school buildings (Richland SD – Three Rivers Homelink) at school districts throughout Eastern Washington.
Project and Construction Management | Value Engineering Studies
Philip Iverson, OSPI BCA, VMA
Senior Project Manager, VE Manager
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Phil Iverson is a senior project manager and leads the CSG Value Engineering Team. Phil is an Air Force veteran with eighteen plus years working in Montana for Cut Bank Public Schools, Montana State University Bozeman and most recently in Washington for the Centralia School District, serving as their director of facilities.
Andrew Twyman, ODE Certified Assessor, OSPI BCA, VMA
Project Manager, VE Manager
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Andy Twyman is a Project Manager for CSG’s Western Region. His background includes more than 20 years of experience as both a designer and project manager in architecture and project management firms. His diverse portfolio includes successful projects in K12 education, healthcare, commercial, multifamily housing, and both public and private sector master planning. Andy is a certified Value Methodology Associate (VMA), and, in addition to his project management and project prebond planning services, is a member of the CSG Value Engineering and Constructability Review teams.
Troy Lomax, OSPI BCA, VMA
Project Manager, VE Manager
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Troy Lomax is a project manager with CSG. Troy has over 25 year of experience in the construction industry working as a foreman, superintendent and project manager. Troy has a diverse portfolio of projects including single family housing, multi-family housing, small and medium size commercial and industrial projects for a wide range of clients. Clients include the Department of Defense, State and Federal Court Systems, Army Core of Engineers and a number of school districts in three different states. Troy’s lasts position before CSG was working as the Facility Manger for the Longview School District.
Mechanical System Design | Construction Review
Steven Nunez, CxA+BE, ODE Certified Assessor
Senior Project Manager
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Steven Nunez has more than 30 years of experience in the area of building commissioning. He is experienced in project management estimating, training and quality assurance to deliver the highest quality mechanical system. Steven is AABC certified and a Qualified Commissioning Provider (QCxP).
Vlad Tyutyunnik, BECxP, QCxP
Project Manager
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Vlad Tyutyunnik has 15 years of experience in construction quality and building commissioning, particularly building controls systems. The many projects he has worked on include Pasco High School, Liberty High School and Kamiak Elementary School.
I was totally comfortable knowing that the project and any risk to the school district was in very capable hands. If you have a need for any construction or capital project consulting, I highly recommend reaching out to Ken Kuiken, Kirk Pawlowski and the whole CSG 112 team. They are the absolute best help you will find.