TRICO Companies, LLC has hired Travis Binschus as Project Engineer. Binschus worked as an architectural designer and manager for A/E firms at a semiconductor fabrication facility in Oregon. Previously he worked for Microsoft as a GIS (Geospatial Information Systems) analyst designing terrain for a flight simulator on Flight X, and for Spokane WSDOT building a state-wide road network database using GIS. He has a bachelor’s in landscape architecture from Washington State University.