Janine Messina
Senior Marketing+Communications Specialist
CPSM
Janine feels at home in the world of marketing since it combines her passion for art, writing and graphic design with her natural ability to organize, strategize, and analyze. While she enjoys her day-to-day responsibilities, facing new challenges, and the many opportunities to apply her creativity, her favorite part about her job isn’t even marketing-related; she loves working with people and getting to know everyone in the company top-down—from estimating to IT to the hundreds of hard-working craftspeople out in the field.
Jim Elliott
Principal+Senior Project Manager
A principal and shareholder of the firm, Jim serves as GLY’s healthcare and biomedical construction specialist. Much of Jim’s career has focused on developing the innovative practices that stay ahead of trends in healthcare design and construction. He’s built projects large and small for nearly every major healthcare provider in the region, and is deeply involved in providing leadership to clients and projects. Jim implements Integrated Project Delivery [IPD], Lean approaches, and Prefabrication to help project teams create the best outcomes, and support GLY’s commitment to continuous operational improvement. He is currently engaged in a major campus expansion for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in South Lake Union.
Andrew Ellis
Senior Design Engineer
RA, LEED AP BD+C, Associate DBIA™
Andrew spent 14 years immersed in his original calling: Architecture. He found that the most enjoyable and rewarding moments occurred while collaborating with builders. Deciding to blend two passions together—design and construction—Andrew now leverages robust VDC tools to better understand, communicate, and help execute a project’s design intent. Simply put, he constructs the building virtually to iron out any wrinkles before it’s built in the field. Outside the office, Andrew can’t get enough of the mountains. The numbers speak for themselves. He’s made his way to the summit of Mount Rainier via 16 different routes!
Mohammed Mhjazi
Project Engineer
Mohammed’s building career began in the United Arab Emirates where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the American University of Sharjah. He worked on several projects in the area ranging between mixed use, commercial and infrastructure sectors. Mohammed is an intrinsically detail-oriented team-player, and always emphasizes proactive planning on his projects. He exercises these same skills on the field while playing his favorite sport: soccer!
Cathy Decater
Project Accounting Manager
Cathy is a key player on our Accounting team, where her great smile and attitude make you happy to be talking about numbers. In her spare time, Cathy hangs out with her family, watches baseball [her sons all played college ball], works out, and bakes [especially if it involves chocolate]. Cathy also enjoys gardening, although not the deer, moles, and slugs that go with it.