
At Viking
We Work Together As a Team
Builds relationships with our valued customers
Designs with attention to detail
Fabricates with precision
Manages with dedication
Follows leadership that's guided by our core beliefs
Ty Allan
Design / Sales / IT
SeattleDave Bateman
Designer
PortlandMike Baxter
Estimator / Area Manager
MedfordDwight Bickler
Senior Estimator
SeattleRandy Bowron
Estimator
NampaGary Coltes
Design Manager
SeattleJennifer Etcheson
Estimating / Project Coordinator
NampaLucia Fung
Fire Sprinkler Designer
SeattleRob Hash
President / Co-Owner
SeattleDevin Ganz
Designer
PortlandChris Green
Design Tech
NampaRickie Johnson
General Manager
IdahoHeather Knight
Assistant Bookkeeper - Payroll
PortlandDonald Koval
Designer
SeattleGrant Victor Laine
Vice President / Contact Manager
PortlandBrett Lawatch
Senior Designer
BoiseKish Marler
Service Dept Sales / PM
SeattleDebbie Miner
President/ Co-Owner
PortlandEmma Mayfield
Purchasing Assistant
PortlandDan McLuen P.E.
Engineer
SeattleRyan Melton
Safety Director
SeattlePaul M. Nipper
Protection Designer
PortlandJosh Nordwell
Service Manager
PortlandPortland Shop Crew
Shop Crew
PortlandJake Perdue
Designer / Estimator
MedfordDavid Ray
Field Superintendent
PortlandBrian Schroeder
Design
MedfordSeattle Shop Crew
Shop Crew
SeattleBrianna Stalwick
Purchasing Agent
Christina Tilson
Vice President - CFO
PortlandNick Valentine
Service Manager
IdahoDavid Wagner
Field Superintendent
PortlandRachel Warnke
Service Admin
SeattleBernie Wester
Vice President / OPS Manager
SeattleGarrett Wester
Field Superintendent
SeattleTom Wylam
Purchasing / Shop Superintendent
Portland
Ty Allan
Design / Sales / IT, Seattle
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Seahawks
Favorite Viking Project: Sierra Pacific Saw Mill – Shelton, WA
Best sprinkler skill: Using Autocad, Navis and Revit
Secret Talent: I can typically fix anything, from computers to cars
Favorite food: Club Sandwich
Hobbies: Woodworking & golf
Dave Bateman
Designer, Portland
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite Viking Project: Lamb Weston Pasco Exhaust Ducts
Best sprinkler skill: Getting along with coworkers
Spirit Animal: Snuffleupages
Secret Talent: It's a secret
Defining Characteristic: Little dark cloud
Favorite food: Pizza
Mike Baxter
Estimator / Area Manager, Medford
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: OSU Beavers
Favorite Viking Project: Roseburg Jordan Cover underground
Best sprinkler skill: Underground
Spirit Animal: Duck Billed Platypus
Secret Talent: I can play the trumpet
Favorite food: Mexican
Hobbies: Livestock, ranching
Dwight Bickler
Senior Estimator, Seattle
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Seattle Mariners
Favorite Viking Project: Working with outside contractors
Best sprinkler skill: Estimating difficult projects
Spirit Animal: Tiger
Secret Talent: Getting along with anybody
Defining Characteristic: Sense of humor
Favorite food: Mexican
Hobbies: Snow skiing, poker and woodworking
Randy Bowron
Estimator, Nampa
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Detroit Tigers & Lions
Best sprinkler skill: Bidding 'em
Spirit Animal: Horse (Not Jack-Ass!) It's been confused before.
Secret Talent: It's still a secret.
Defining Characteristic: Friendly
Favorite food: Texas BBQ
Hobbies: Dirt bikes, road bike / Harley's, RV'ing
Gary Coltes
Design Manager, Seattle
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Hawaii Warriors / Washington Huskies
Favorite Viking Project: Under Pier Projects
Best sprinkler skill: Field survey of existing conditions
Spirit Animal: Whale
Secret Talent: Amazing aim with blow gun
Defining Characteristic: Extremely efficient
Favorite food: Chicken wings, all types
Hobbies: Projects around the house
Jennifer Etcheson
Estimating / Project Coordinator, Nampa
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite Sports Team: Michigan State Spartans
Best Sprinkler Skill: Running & jumping through them
Spirit Animal: Bull
Secret Talent: Rodeo Queen – Nyssa Night Rodeo Queen 1992
Defining Characteristic: My work ethic
Hobbies: Riding horses, gardening, watching MSU sports, watching NASCAR, and boxing.
Lucia Fung
Fire Sprinkler Designer, Seattle
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Seahawks
Favorite Viking Project: Miller Middle School, P234 NAS, Pier 54 Building
Best sprinkler skill: Planning, design, document, survey
Spirit Animal: Doggie
Favorite food: Italian Pasta
Hobbies: Cooking
Rob Hash
President / Co-Owner, Seattle
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Seahawks – I find Pete Carrol inspirational
Favorite Viking Project: Sierra Pacific Industries – Shelton, WA
Best sprinkler skill: Working with our customers
Spirit Animal: Turtle
Secret Talent: Running man
Defining Characteristic: Loves a good sweater vest!
Favorite food: Turkey Sandwich
Hobbies: Boating, golfing
Devin Ganz
Designer, Portland
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: 1995 Chicago Bulls
Best sprinkler skill: Best at everything
Spirit Animal: Fox
Secret Talent: If someone has told then it’s not a secret!
Defining Characteristic: Always cold
Favorite food: Bacon Cheese Burgers
Hobbies: Beer & Board games
Chris Green
Design Tech, Nampa
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Dallas Cowboys and the St. Louis Cardinals
Favorite Viking Project: Simplot Foods
Spirit Animal: Rottweiler
Secret Talent: Won the world dart championships in 2009 and played 3rd base for a softball team that won the World Series in 2016.
Defining Characteristic: Laid back and easy going
Favorite food: Hot wings or prime rib steak
Hobbies: Whitewater rafting, fishing, softball and darts
Rickie Johnson
General Manager, Idaho
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Steelers
Favorite Viking Project: Ilani
Best sprinkler skill: Customer knowledge
Spirit Animal: Deer
Secret Talent: Investigative skills
Defining Characteristic: Voice of Viking
Favorite food: Mexican “Nachos”
Hobbies: Adventures, crafts
Heather Knight
Assistant Bookkeeper - Payroll, Portland
Years in the Industry: . I worked for 8yrs in the banking industry before transitioning into the Payroll/Accounting field in 2015.
Years at Viking:
Spirit Animal: Butterfly
Secret Talent: Billiards
Defining Characteristic: Kind & Personable
Favorite food: Pizza
Hobbies: Scrapbooking and spending time with my family
Donald Koval
Designer, Seattle
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Seahawks
Best sprinkler skill: Autocad and 3d autocad
Secret Talent: Can tear apart and fix almost anything
Favorite food: Pizza
Hobbies: Snowboarding, riding motorcycles, playing with my son, fishing, playing video games
Grant Victor Laine
Vice President / Contact Manager, Portland
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite Viking Project: St Clair Apartments
Best sprinkler skill: Getting irrationally excited about projects.
Spirit Animal: Majestic soaring falcon
Defining Characteristic: Laugh can be identified from blocks away
Favorite food: Pho
Brett Lawatch
Senior Designer, Boise
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Seattle Mariners – There’s always next year…
Favorite Viking Project: In-rack sprinkler system at Simplot in Caldwell that protected frozen potato products at -10°. The project included 6 separate double inter-lock pre-action systems and over 2,500 sprinkler heads in the racks.
Spirit Animal: The online quiz says I am a bear… I do like to hibernate.
Defining Characteristic: What defines me more than anything is my amazing dad skills. I don’t mean to brag but my kids are awesome and I know I’ve played a significant role in their lives.
Favorite food: Give me a medium-rare prime rib with some creamy horseradish, a loaded baked potato and a cold beer and I will be a happy guy.
Hobbies: I really enjoy the game of baseball. I play a lot of rec league softball and coach my boys baseball teams. I also have a decent bobble head collection that continues to grow.
Kish Marler
Service Dept Sales / PM, Seattle
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: The St. Louis Cardinals (Sorry, I’m not originally from Seattle)
Favorite Viking Project: Industrial Containers (My first Viking job)
Best Sprinkler Skill: All of them, I just really love being a Sprinkler fitter
Spirit Animal: An Eagle
Secret Talent: Feeding people & making people laugh
Defining Characteristic: Loyalty
Favorite Food: Steak and Dr. Pepper (Dr. Pepper is a food group in my family
Hobbies: Being a Dr. Pepper connoisseur, finding amazing local restaurants and dive joints, baseball, running, reading, movies, music (I am a music fanatic) trivia, eating, cooking, and anything that involves large groups of people.
Debbie Miner
President/ Co-Owner, Portland
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Seahawks
Favorite Viking Project: Tarr Tank
Best sprinkler skill: Figured out how my lawn sprinklers work.
Spirit Animal: Lion
Secret Talent: Musician
Defining Characteristic: One way conversations
Favorite food: Roasted garlic with warm brie cheese
Hobbies: Cooking, sewing, crafts, our farm, family
Emma Mayfield
Purchasing Assistant, Portland
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Best Sprinkler Skill: Pointing at ceilings in restaurants.
Spirit Animal: One quiz said Condor, another said Beaver – not sure what the take away is.
Defining Characteristic: Determined
Favorite Food: Chicken strips with ranch
Hobbies: Being active, time with family and my dog Cooper.
Dan McLuen P.E.
Engineer, Seattle
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Maple Valley League (Grandsons)
Favorite Viking Project: 255 S King St (North Lot)
Best sprinkler skill: All around knowledge
Favorite food: Hamburgers
Hobbies: Motorcycle riding, golf
Ryan Melton
Safety Director, Seattle
Years in industry: Safety 6, Sprinkler: 2.
Years at Viking: 2.
Favorite Sports Team: Meateater.
Favorite Viking Project: St. James Cathedral. Seattle
Best Sprinkler Skill: Absorbing complaints from Fitters.
Spirit Animal: Blacktail Deer.
Secret Talent: Attention to detail on an OCD level.
Defining Characteristic: Ability to get along with just about anyone.
Favorite Food: Well marbled ribeye steak.
Hobbies: Spending time with my wife and 3 kids, hunting, exploring, off-roading, tending livestock, working on and building vehicles in my shop.
Paul M. Nipper
Protection Designer, Portland
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: “Give them bread and circuses, they will never revolt” Juvenal
Favorite Viking Project: CHS Kalama Grain Terminal
Best sprinkler skill: Complex, industrial, retrofit --- you know the stuff that has VIKING written all over it!
Spirit Animal: Ssssssnake
Secret Talent: Writing and speaking. Whether on camera or microphone, or in print, I was granted the gift of using language to express myself rather well.
Defining Characteristic: I am a spiritual Being, temporarily in this human experience.
Favorite food: Thai!!
Hobbies: Raising kids / being a Dad… not a hobby but I’ve been at it for 23 years now, and have 14 or so to go… I better like it! Organic gardening, hanging out with friends and family, camping, spiritual retreats with family / the Tribe, writing, and deep philosophical discussions and Spirituality with fellow Church members: the conversation never ends… WHO are we, WHY are we here… what does it all mean.
Josh Nordwell
Service Manager, Portland
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Boston Redsox
Favorite Viking Project: Astoria Coast Guard inspections
Best sprinkler skill: critical thinking through problems
Spirit Animal: Raven
Defining Characteristic: Always willing to help
Favorite food: Cheese Berger
Hobbies: hiking , hunting, golfing, spey fishing
Portland Shop Crew
Shop Crew, Portland
Jake Perdue
Designer / Estimator, Medford
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Bronze Medal winning 1992 US Men’s curling team of Rob Nichols, Raymond “Bud” Somerville, Tim Somerville, Mike Strum and Will Strum.
Favorite Viking Project: Columbia Plywood in Boardman, OR. It was the first mill site I got to design entirely from underground, to roof systems, to under machinery and catwalks.
Best sprinkler skill: I don’t know if it is my best, but I have enjoyed getting and doing more pump and pump room design.
Spirit Animal: According to the failsafe methods implemented by brainfall.com, it’s the whale
Secret Talent: I bake a pretty darn good chocolate chip cookie
Defining Characteristic: It would be between my perfectly symmetrical and breathtakingly handsome face and my modesty.
Favorite food: Turkey Pot Pie
Hobbies: Spending time exposing my daughters to the outdoors that I have loved my whole life. Fishing, softball, woodworking.
David Ray
Field Superintendent, Portland
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Secret Talent: Coming Soon
Brian Schroeder
Design, Medford
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: None, I don’t really follow sports
Favorite Viking Project: Any that I have been a part of
Best sprinkler skill: To soon to tell
Spirit Animal: Cat
Secret Talent: That information is G15 classified
Defining Characteristic: Easy going
Favorite food: Brownies
Hobbies: Mountain biking, radio controlled cars, metal working and general “tinkering”
Seattle Shop Crew
Shop Crew, Seattle
Brianna Stalwick
Purchasing Agent
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Chicago Cubs
Favorite Viking Project: Community of Hope – Charitable events
Best sprinkler skill: Learning new sprinkler skills
Spirit Animal: Honey Badger
Secret Talent: I can flip my eyelids
Defining Characteristic: Determined & Reliable
Favorite food: Chicago stuffed pizza
Hobbies: Team Mom
Christina Tilson
Vice President - CFO, Portland
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Seahawks
Favorite Viking Project: Charitable Events
Best sprinkler skill: Making sure the job earns money
Spirit Animal: Owl
Secret Talent: Cake decorating
Defining Characteristic: Honest
Favorite food: Peanut Butter
Hobbies: Fitness, time with family and movies
Nick Valentine
Service Manager, Idaho
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Portland Winterhawks
Favorite Viking Project: Washington High School
Best sprinkler skill: Being mean to apprentices.
Spirit Animal: Donkey
Secret Talent: Yo-Yo Skills
Defining Characteristic: Swamp Rat
Favorite food: Mexican
Hobbies: Motorcycle riding, shooting guns.
David Wagner
Field Superintendent, Portland
Favorite sports team: WSU, Go Cougs!
Favorite Viking Project: Teton Hangar
Best sprinkler skill: Keeping things in perspective.
Spirit Animal: Turtle
Secret Talent: Hammock fabrication
Defining Characteristic: Contemplative
Favorite food: There are too many good foods to choose a favorite.
Hobbies: Always something, never the same thing.
Rachel Warnke
Service Admin, Seattle
Favorite sports team: Seattle Sounders
Favorite Viking Project: Fire pump test at Fiberon
Best sprinkler skill: Hunting down the fitters for paperwork
Spirit Animal: Liger
Secret Talent: Handling my service manager on a day-to-day basis
Defining Characteristic: Sarcasm
Favorite food: Pizza
Hobbies: Golf and Reality TV
Bernie Wester
Vice President / OPS Manager, Seattle
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Mariners
Favorite Viking Project: North Lot
Best sprinkler skill: Project Management
Secret Talent: Sweet talking Chrissy
Defining Characteristic: Hobbit feet.
Favorite food: Spicy food
Hobbies: Reading
Garrett Wester
Field Superintendent, Seattle
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Tom Wylam
Purchasing / Shop Superintendent, Portland
Years in the Industry:
Years at Viking:
Favorite sports team: Mariners - Seahawks
Favorite Viking Project: Any job that Clarence does cause it fits.
Best sprinkler skill: Talking
Spirit Animal: Bull Elk
Secret Talent: Understand Derek
Defining Characteristic: Understanding Donny
Favorite food: Ribeye steak
Hobbies: Grandkids, hunting and fishing