PEOPLE

Hirings, promotions and other moves at local businesses

ACCOUNTING

The Newport Beach office of Macias Gini & O'Connell LLP hired May Zhang as a senior auditor. Prior, Zhang was an audit supervisor at Maze & Associates.

ARCHITECTURE

Newport Beach-based healthcare architecture and interior design firm Taylor named Damon Barda, Tachen Lee and John Vaught as architects, Gretchen Loufek as director of finance, Alyssa Scholz as children's practice leader, Jun Gang and Joe Dunn as project managers, Juan Coronado as designer and Adrian Juarez as CAD manager.

James Farnell joined Little Diversified Architectural Consulting's retail practice group in Costa Mesa as a director of design. He'll be charged with expanding the firm's international focus in the Australian-Asian market. He specializes in retail design and has completed work on behalf of Apple Inc., Procter & Gamble Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. His work has been featured in Gourmet Traveler and Vogue Entertaining & Travel.