Trade Winds

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• Architect DEAN FUKAWA, a member of Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo's Honolulu office since 1993, has been named an associate in the architecture, design, planning and consulting firm. Fukawa is a veteran of design and project management for hotels and resorts, commercial and office facilities and multifamily housing, and has worked on a number of projects, including Honolulu's Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center. WAT&G has offices in Honolulu; Newport Beach, Calif.; Orlando, Fla.; Los Angeles; Seattle; London; and Singapore.

• Laser Eye Center of Hawai'i has named MICHIYO NAKAMURA Japan Division manager. Calling on both her optometry experience and Japanese language proficiency, she will also be responsible for Japanese marketing. The Tokyo native, with Laser Eye Center since 2000, was previously front office assistant, and before that, was with Tanaka Waikiki Vision Care.

• MARCIE FARIAS, who helped pioneer such well-known community events for The Honolulu Advertiser as The Jingle Bell Run, Hawai'i State Spelling Bee, The Jefferson Awards and Pigskin Picks, has joined communications company Hastings & Pleadwell as manager and project coordinator. Farias has more than a quarter century of experience coordinating projects, events and promotions for both businesses and nonprofit organizations, including Girl Scouts of Hawai'i, Aloha Festivals, Mission Houses Museum, American Cancer Society and Roberts Hawai'i. She also operated her own Blue Moon Events company.

• RON ADACHI, who has worked in sales and marketing for top global corporations such as General Electric, SmithKline Beecham, Upjohn Pharmaceuticals and Kaiser Permanente, has been named vice president of business development for Honolulu-based NetEnterprise. Adachi, who joins the information technology firm as a senior member of its executive team, is former director of business development for Hoike.Net. In addition to telecommunications, networking and healthcare experience, Adachi has served as vice president and as a director of Pacific Software Inc.

• RICHARD C. LIM, president and chief operating officer of City Bank, has additionally been named a bank director. Lim, president of International Savings when it was acquired by City Bank parent company CB Bancshares Inc., was subsequently named executive vice president in 1998, and president and chief operating officer in 2000.

• SUE BIAS, former vice president of human resources for Liberty House Hawai'i and Barclays Bank of California, has been named to the same position with Kuakini Medical Center. In addition to workplace planning, she will also assume gradual responsibility for the center's labor relations. Additionally, she will oversee the management training and development program, and the departments of Volunteer Services and Education Services.

• VELMA HULIHE'E-CARSTENSEN, former director of marketing at Aloha Tower Marketplace, has been named sales and marketing manager for Morton's of Chicago, The Steakhouse, the chain's 61st worldwide, and first in Hawai'i. Hulihe'e-Carstensen is one of the original founders, and first president, of the Concierge Association of Hawai'i.

• Former family and district court per diem judge, JERILYNN ONO HALL, has joined the Waimea, Big Island, office of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing as attorney of counsel, with a focus on litigation, arbitration and mediation. She was most recently with Carlsmith Ball in Hilo, and has also practiced with Belles Graham Proudfoot & Wilson, Kaua'i, and Lynch Ichida Thompson & Kim, Honolulu.

• Hawai'i Pacific University assistant professor of nursing, PATRICIA BURRELL, has been named assistant dean of nursing effective June 1. The HPU faculty member, with clinical expertise in mental health, psychiatric and transcultural nursing, currently serves on the executive board of the Honolulu Black Nurses' Association and is president-elect of the local chapter of the American Psychiatric Nurses' Association. The HPU instructor also serves on the University Learning Assessment committee and is chairwoman of the College of Nursing Evaluation Committee.

Announcements of promotions and job changes can be sent to: Trade Winds, Business Section, The Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802, or faxed to 525-6763. Photographs may be included, but must be identified on the back.