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LINDA BOHLINGER
National Director of Management
Consulting, HNTB Corporation
With more than 30 years experience in the
transportation industry, Linda Bohlinger leads HNTB’s national
management consulting practice, which provides funding strategy
plans for major public transportation infrastructure projects,
public-private partnership negotiations and other innovative
financial strategies. Her clients include transportation providers,
governmental agencies at the local, state and federal level,
developers and public-private partnerships.
Her previous public-sector experience includes
Executive Director of South Florida’s Tri-County Commuter Rail
Authority (Tri-Rail), CEO and Deputy CEO for the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Deputy Director for Transit
Development with the California Transportation Commission and other
positions in regional government.
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Linda Bohlinger
HNTB Corporation
Chair
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HOLLIE E.
GREGORY
Business
Development Manager, Parsons
Hollie Gregory is
Business Development Manager for Parsons Corporation. Based out of
the San Francisco office, she is responsible for developing and effectively
implementing a strategic business development and marketing plan for
the
Northern California Road and Highway program. She is instrumental in
helping create opportunities to grow company business and client
relationships, developing marketing tools and preparing proposals
and presentations.
Hollie volunteers
her time as a Board member for the California Transportation
Foundation (CTF) as well as the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of
WTS (Women’s Transportation Seminar), as a member of the
Professional Development committee. She is also active in a
non-profit based in San Francisco
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Hollie Gregory
Parsons
Vice Chair
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SUNNIE HOUSE
Vice President,
URS Corporation
Sunnie is Vice
President, San Diego Office Infrastructure Department Manager and
Regional Highways and Bridges Market Leader for URS Corporation.
She has 25 years of experience in surface transportation and
infrastructure projects. Sunnie started career at Caltrans Los
Angeles District in 1984 and moved to the private sector after 5
years. She has managed numerous major transportation and
infrastructure projects and is highly skilled in the development of
PA/ED studies, PS&E, public outreach, staff and project management.
Sunnie has
served on numerous boards of nonprofit organizations for 18 years
including: International President of Women’s Transportation Seminar
(WTS), International Treasurer for WTS, State Board Director for
ACEC-CA, Treasurer and Board Director for APWA San Diego Chapter,
Chair of Transportation Committee for San Diego Regional Chamber,
Member of Public Policy Committee for San Diego Regional Chamber,
President of WTS LA Chapter. She is a member of WTS International
Scholarship Board. She has also been involved in numerous
fundraising efforts for WTS Scholarship, and APWA Scholarship.
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Sunnie House
URS Corporation
Treasurer
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ANN C. OLSON,
C.E., T.E., P.T.O.E.
President,
MRO Engineers, Inc.
Mrs. Olson is President of MRO
Engineers, a multi-disciplinary civil engineering firm in Rocklin,
California. She has 30 years of engineering experience and oversees
all traffic engineering, civil design, and planning projects of the
firm. Her project portfolio includes hundreds of traffic impact
studies, dozens of Project Study Reports/Project Reports, and many
preliminary and final designs for roadway widenings/realignments and
intersection modifications.
Mrs. Olson has degrees in both Civil
Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the University of
California, Davis. She is licensed as a Civil Engineer in California
and Nevada, a Traffic Engineer in California, and a Professional
Transportation Operations Engineer.
In addition to her professional
involvement, Mrs. Olson has served as the President of the Ophir
Elementary School District Board of Trustees and is very involved in
her church, Bayside Auburn, where she served as Chair of the 2008
Capital Campaign, taught Sunday School, and currently serves as a
Building Committee Member. In addition, she is the Area Coordinator
for the ten-county Sacramento Region for Operation Christmas Child –
a program which sends a message of hope to children in some of the
poorest countries around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes
that contain personal necessity items, school supplies, and small
toys. Nearly 8 million children received a shoe box gift in 2008.
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Ann Olson
MRO Engineers, Inc.
Secretary
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TONI BATES
Parsons
Brinckerhoff (PB)
Toni specializes in bus and rail
transit planning and project development. Her experience includes
project management, transit service and system planning, bus and
rail facilities development, short and long range transit service
planning, transportation-land use coordination, environmental
analysis and documentation, public involvement programs, and
interagency coordination.
Toni joined PB in 2006 after 20
years as Director of Planning and Development and Project Manager
for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board (MTDB), and
three years as Director of Transit Planning for the San Diego
Association of Governments (SANDAG). While with MTDB, she managed
the planning, preliminary engineering and environmental document
preparation for the San Diego Trolley Mission Valley West and East
light rail extensions, which opened in 1997 and 2005, respectively.
Toni has presented at professional
conferences, including the Transportation Research Board,
RailVolution and the American Public Transit Association, on topics
as diverse as public involvement programs, federal planning and
funding processes, and transit project development. She has
published papers in the Journal of the Transportation Research
Board. Toni is an active member of the Women’s Transportation
Seminar (WTS) and received the San Diego Chapter’s 1998 Pursuit of Excellence Award,
and 2001 and 2007 Member of the Year Awards. She is also a member
of the American Planning Association and the Transportation Research
Board Light Rail Subcommittee.
Toni earned her B.A. in Geography
from San Diego State University and her M.S.
in Urban Planning from UCLA.
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Toni Bates
Parsons
Brinckerhoff
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LINDA CLIFFORD
C.C. Myers, Inc.
Linda Clifford
has been a member of the public works transportation construction
industry since early 1986 after previously spending 14 years in
commercial & industrial construction. She is the CFO for C. C.
Myers, Inc, an employee-owned general engineering construction
company.
Linda is a member of Women in
Transportation Services (WTS), and participates with Associated
General Contractors (AGC), CFMA, Transportation California, and
ARBTA. She holds general contractors’ licenses in California and
several other Western states.
She also teaches Financial
Management and Construction Accounting for the University of
California, Davis, Construction Management Program, and serves as a
Governor’s appointed commissioner on the California Uniform
Construction Cost Accounting Commission.
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MARILYN DUFFEY
CEO and President, The Duffey Company
Work Experience: 35
years experience as transportation and environmental consultant with
emphasis on rail (commuter, high speed, and regional), corridor planning
and environmental review, environmental compliance monitoring (Golden Gate
Bridge Seismic Retrofit), and multi-modal transportation planning (Golden
Gate Park bicycle and pedestrian improvements, visitor shuttle, MUNI
improvements, traffic calming).
High-speed rail includes: Program
Manager on the PB team for California HSR; Environmental Advisor to the DesertXpress high speed passenger train project between Victorville
California and Las Vegas Nevada; and Environmental Manager for the Texas HSR,
Florida HSR, Nevada-California HSR, and San Diego-Los Angles HSR.
Heavy rail experience includes: Capital Express; Coast Corridor; and Caltrain
and Napa Valley Rail projects. Light Rail projects include: Mid-Coast
Corridor in San Diego with PB; Central Subway in San Francisco; and two
extensions of the Sacramento LRT.
Other
work experience: Stanford Research
Institute-SRI International (eight years); Woodward-Clyde Consultants
(six years); Vice President and Director of Transportation Department of
Environmental Science Associates (five years); and CEO and President of
The Duffey Company since 1985.
Board experience includes: TRB Intercity
Rail Committee Chair; WTS Co-Chair of National Appointments Committee; CTF
Board, ESA Corporate Board, and San Francisco Beautiful Board.
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Marilyn Duffey
The Duffey Company
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PATRICK J.
FLYNN, P.E.
Nolte Associates, Inc.
Patrick (Pat)
Flynn was recently the Pacific Region Transportation Director for Kleinfelder,
Inc., one of the largest providers of technical professional
services for geosciences, environmental and materials testing for
transportation, water, energy and commercial infrastructure projects
in the United States. He was most recently responsible for all
transportation projects business operations and business development
in
California,
Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Nevada.
Pat has 36 years of experience that includes significant
experience in the transportation field for both the public and
private sector in civil design, construction management, project
management and program management. He was formerly the City Engineer
for the City of Walnut Creek, CA and a Senior Civil Engineer for
Contra Costa County Public Works Department. Projects have included
planning, design, and management of multi-million dollar freeway
interchanges, highway bridges, commuter railroad and freight
railroad improvements, traffic, pedestrian and bicycle improvements.
Pat holds a B.S.
degree in Transportation Engineering from California Polytechnic
State University, San Luis Obispo, 1973, and has completed
engineering and business management graduate studies at U.C.
Berkeley and Golden Gate University. He is a licensed Civil Engineer
in California and Nevada.
Pat resides in
Folsom, California, has been married for 35 years and has three
daughters and a new grand-daughter. In his spare time he enjoys
golfing, snow skiing, road cycling, running, sports cars and great
action movies.
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Patrick Flynn
Nolte Associates, Inc.
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Carlton Haack
HDR, Inc.
Carl Haack, P.E,
is a Vice President with HDR, and has more than 19 years of
engineering experience in the transportation field, working in both
public and private sectors. Carl is HDR’s Northern California
Transportation Group Manager, and is responsible for the operations,
leadership and development, and financial performance of the group
of approximately 80 employees that performs highway, rail, transit,
and transportation planning projects throughout Northern California.
Prior to
joining HDR, Mr. Haack was with Caltrans, serving in various
District and Headquarters positions, from Resident Engineer to
Project Manager to Project Management Division Chief at Caltrans. In
each of these positions, Mr. Haack was instrumental in the
successful delivery of transportation projects and programs. As
Caltrans’ Project Management Division Chief, his leadership resulted
in a $2.5 billion annual statewide project delivery program.
As
HDR’s Northern
California Transportation Group Manager, Carl continues to work with
both local and state transportation officials in delivering
transportation projects, programs, and funding. He is a registered
civil engineer in California, and in addition to the California
Transportation Foundation, his professional affiliations include the
American Public Works Association, and the Women’s Transportation
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Carlton Haack
HDR, Inc.
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MATTHEW J. HENRY, P.E.
President
and CEO, Fehr &
Peers
Matt Henry is a
Principal with more than 22 years of experience in the civil
engineering industry. He is currently President and CEO of
Fehr & Peers, a transportation planning and traffic engineering
consulting firm with approximately 250 employees in 12 offices
throughout the western states including California, Nevada, Utah,
Colorado, and Washington. His corporate responsibilities
include leadership and oversight of the company’s strategic and
operational initiatives, as well as personnel issues and financial
performance.
He graduated
from the University of Memphis with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree
in Civil Engineering in 1987. Since joining Fehr & Peers in
1992, he has held the positions of Project Manager, Office Manager,
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Matthew Henry
Fehr & Peers
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Will Kempton
Chief Executive
Officer
Orange County
Transportation Authority
Will Kempton is chief executive
officer of the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), a
countywide transportation agency with 1,900 employees and an annual
budget of $1.2 billion. Under the direction of a 17-voting member
Board of Directors, he is responsible for planning, financing and
coordinating Orange County's freeway, street and rail development as
well as managing bus services, commuter-rail services, paratransit
van service for people with disabilities and a host of other
transportation programs. He has served in the position since August
2009.
Prior to joining OCTA, Kempton
served as the director of California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans), overseeing an annual operating budget of more than $13.8
billion with $10 billion worth of transportation improvements under
construction and 22,000 employees. Appointed by Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger in November 2004, Kempton also was responsible for
managing the day-to-day operations of California’s state
transportation system, including more than 50,000 lane miles of
state highways stretching from Mexico to Oregon and from the Pacific
Ocean to Nevada and Arizona.
Kempton, 62, began his career in
transportation with Caltrans in 1973. He held management positions
in the area of finance and the director’s office prior to being
appointed as assistant director in charge of legislative and
congressional affairs.
In 1985, Kempton was named executive
director of the Santa Clara County Traffic Authority, the state’s
first local sales tax program. The program he managed is widely
viewed as one of the most successful in the state, resulting in the
delivery of nearly $1 billion in highway improvements in less than
10 years. During his assignment as director of the Santa Clara
County effort, Kempton mobilized California’s sales-tax programs
into an effective coalition of “self-help” counties. Selected by his
peers to head this group, Kempton marshaled a coalition of agencies
and successfully lobbied Caltrans and the state Legislature to
create a state-matching program for locally funded projects. To
date, the partnership program has delivered more than $2 billion in
matching funds for local transportation projects. This
results-oriented approach – innovation to meet favorable objectives
and consensus-building among diverse partners – characterizes
Kempton’s leadership style.
Over the course of his career,
Kempton has cultivated extensive contacts throughout the
transportation community at all levels of public service. These
contacts include local, regional and state administrators, as well
as many key members of the state Legislature and the U.S. Congress.
Kempton has been able to utilize these contacts to accomplish many
policy and legislative objectives.
In January 2003, Kempton joined the
City of Folsom as assistant city manager for community services. He
was charged with overseeing the operations of the city’s Community
Development, Neighborhood Services, Parks and Recreation, Utilities,
and Public Works departments. Prior to his city appointment, he
served as a City Parks and Recreation Commissioner for eight years.
Kempton resides in Orange County
with his wife, Beverley. They have two adult children, Mark
and Christina.
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Will Kempton
OCTA
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James E. Moore II
Professor of
Industrial and Systems Engineering; Public Policy and Management;
and Civil Engineering,
University of
Southern California
Professor Moore received his BS
degrees in Industrial Engineering and Urban Planning in 1981 from
Northwestern University’s Technological Institute (now the McCormick
School of Engineering and Applied Science) in Evanston, Illinois.
He received his MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford
University in 1982, his Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree
from Northwestern in 1983, and his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering
(Infrastructure Planning and Management) from Stanford in 1986. He
specializes in transportation engineering, transportation systems,
and other infrastructure systems.
He joined Northwestern's Civil
Engineering faculty in 1986, and the faculty of the University of Southern
California in 1988. He is Director of the Transportation
Engineering program, Co-Director of the Construction Management
Program, and Chair of the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering in USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering. |
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James Moore
USC
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JOSÉ LUIS
MOSCOVICH
San Francisco
County Transportation Authority
Mr. Moscovich
has been at the helm of the San Francisco County Transportation
Authority for almost three years. He studied civil engineering and
music at the National University in Rosario, Argentina. He holds a
degree in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois in
Champaign-Urbana, and a master’s in Transportation Engineering from
the University of California at Berkeley.
Mr. Moscovich has worked
nationally and internationally as a strategic planning consultant,
for a wide variety of clients, from the Chicago Transit Authority,
to Amtrak, to Latin American cities. He was Deputy Director of the
Alameda County Congestion Management Agency in the late 80’s, and a
deputy Director at the San Francisco Transportation Authority
between 1993 and 1999. In his capacity as Executive Director of the
Authority, he administers the $1.2 billion Proposition B local sales
tax program, oversees development of the long range countywide
transportation plan, and directs the development of recommendations
for the programming of funds from a number of discretionary
regional, state and federal transportation programs. He is currently
working on the 30-year reauthorization of the local sales tax.
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José Luis
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SFCTA
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RACHEL
VANDENBERG,
P.E.
Vice
President, AECOM Transportation
Rachel
Coburn Vandenberg, P.E., is a vice president with AECOM and serves
as Transit/Rail Leader for the company’s West and Southwest/Mountain
regions. She has 21 years of experience in transportation
engineering and management, including 17 with AECOM. Ms. Vandenberg
began her career as a transportation engineer for Caltrans District
4, where she served as assistant resident engineer for construction
of the US101/I-380/SFO interchange. Over the course of her career,
Ms. Vandenberg’s responsibilities have included all phases of rail
and highway design and construction, from funding, programming,
environmental clearance, and design, to construction inspection and
administration.
Ms. Vandenberg has successfully managed numerous
rail transit programs, including preliminary engineering for the
Mid-City/Exposition LRT project, final design for the Metrolink
capital expansion, and regional environmental studies for the
California high-speed train project. She has supported agencies such
as the Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority, Alameda
Corridor Transportation Authority, and the Southern California
Regional Rail Authority in developing programmatic engineering
standards and procedures. Ms. Vandenberg has a B.S. degree in civil
engineering from UC Berkeley and an M.B.A. in real estate and
finance from UCLA’s Anderson School of Business.
She is
a registered civil engineer in California. In addition to the
California Transportation Foundation, Ms. Vandenberg’s professional
affiliations include the American Railway Engineering and
Maintenance-of-way Association; Women’s Transportation Seminar;
American Council of Engineering Companies; and the American Society
of Civil Engineers. She also serves on the Manhattan Beach Unified
School District’s Citizens Bond Advisory Committee. Ms. Vandenberg
is married and has two teenage sons.
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Rachel Vandenberg
AECOM
Transportation
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DONALD WATSON
Caltrans, Retired
Donald Watson graduated form
Penn State
University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.
His career in transportation began when he joined the State Division
of Highways, now Caltrans, in the Los Angeles office in 1954. During
his 34 years with Caltrans he held several top management positions,
such as Chief of Construction, District Director in Los Angeles,
Deputy Director of Resource Management and Interim Director.
During the
energy “crisis” in the mid-1970’s, he left Caltrans for five years
to serve as Chief of Energy Conservation at the State Energy
Commission. Following his retirement form Caltrans in 1990, he was
appointed Executive Director of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
He retired in 1994. Don reports “I have had the honor of serving on
the board of Directors of the California Transportation Foundation
for 11 years. It’s a labor of love and provides me the opportunity
to ‘give back’ to the transportation community.”
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Donald Watson
Caltrans, Retired
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AGNES WEBER
Executive Vice President And COO,
Vali Cooper & Associates, Inc.
Agnes Weber is an Executive Vice
President and the Chief Operations Officer of Vali Cooper &
Associates, Inc. Agnes oversees the daily operations of all VC&A
projects, including schedule, budget and quality control
objectives. In addition, she directs VC&A’s contract managers in
their project management duties. Agnes’ other duties include
employment transactions, IT support, vehicle/asset control, and
internal budgeting. She also oversees the training and safety
aspects of the organization.
Prior to joining VC&A in 1996, Agnes
spent 11 years working for Caltrans as an inspector, senior resident
engineer, and senior claims analyst in District 11 and Caltrans
Headquarters. Agnes is actively involved with the transportation
and construction management community through her involvement with
the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) and
American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). She served as
president of CMAA Northern California Chapter from 2003-2004. Ms.
Weber previously served as a Chair on the Prevailing Wage Committee
for ACEC – California and is currently Chair of the Infrastructure
Delivery Council. Ms. Weber graduated with a BS in Civil
Engineering from San Diego State University in 1985.
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Agnes Weber
Vali Cooper & Associates, Inc.
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WIN WESTFALL
Chairman Of The Board, Willdan
Group, Inc.
Win Westfall has served as Chairman
of the Board since May 2006, and has been a member of our board of
directors since 2001. Mr. Westfall was our Senior Vice President of
Corporate Relations from January 2004 to May 2006, and was a
regional manager in northern California from 1998 through January
2004. Mr. Westfall has over 35 years experience as a line manager
for consulting engineering firms, and has served as city engineer
for seven California cities.
Mr. Westfall received his B.S. in Civil
Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1962, and
a M.B.A. from Pepperdine University in 1980. Mr. Westfall is a
fellow of The Society of American Military Engineers and has been
active in numerous other professional associations. During 1997, he
served as the National President for The American Public Works
Association, the first private consultant to hold this position. Mr.
Westfall has served on and chaired national committees for the
American Council of Engineering Companies, and in 2004 was made an
Honorary CLOD (past president) of the County Engineers Association
of California, the first private consultant to be accorded this
honor, as well. He has held civil engineering registrations in
California, Colorado,
Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada and Washington.
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Win Westfall
Willdan
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TOM
ZLOTKOWSKI,
P.E., T.E., P.T.O.E
Executive Director, Capital
Southeast Connector JPA
In March of 2008, Tom became the
Executive Director of the Capital Southeast Connector JPA.
Previously, Mr. Zlotkowski was the Director of the Sacramento County
Department of Transportation where he oversaw the planning, design,
construction and ongoing maintenance & operations of 2600 miles of
street and highways located in the unincorporated areas of
Sacramento County. He was responsible for an organization of 375
employees, with a $160 million annual budget. Under Tom’s leadership
in Sacramento County, he has overseen the delivery of over $1
billion in capital transportation projects through the initiation
and execution of the annual Transportation Improvement Process over
the past 14 years.
Tom’s most recent professional
acknowledgements include the Institute of Transportation Engineers,
“2007 Distinguished Service Award” and the American Public Works
Association, “2006 National Transportation Manager of the Year.” Tom
is both a registered Civil and Traffic Engineer in the State of
California as well as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE).
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Tom Zlotkowski
Connector JPA
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