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Tony DeCresie
Tony DeCresie
Tony DeCresie brings a very diverse and extensive background spanning numerous industries and businesses – working with both public and private entities. He is a nationally recognized and awarded training manager with several different organizations over the past 25 years.
Tony’s primary area of focus revolves around transportation, highway & road work site safety training and heavy equipment operations safety.
Summary of Qualifications:
Ex-DOT Certified Safety Manager
Previous minority owner of Long Haul Trucking Business
Previous Director of Dump Truck Fleet Operations in private sector
CDL & Highway Road Work Site Safety Operations
Heavy Equipment Operations Management
Well versed in broad spectrum of OSHA and DOT Safety Training Topics
Freight Brokerage Association – Director of Training
Development of In-House Safety Training Programs
Trailering and Load Securement
Roadside Inspections, DOT Compliance Audits and Fleet Safety.
Excavation & Trenching Safety (Competent Person Certification)
Asphalt and Paving Operations
Road and Bridge Maintenance Operations and Safety
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William M. "Matt" Barret
William M. "Matt" Barret
Matt Barret is a Civil Engineer with the Virginia Department of Transportation in Richmond Virginia where he has worked within the Agency’s Location and Design Division since 2006.
Matt graduated from the JSRCC/ODU TeleTech program in 1997 with an Associates Degree in Civil Engineering. Since joining VDOT, Matt has been responsible for administering the VDOT GRIT training program, including training more than 5000 students, and instructing more than 200 classes. Matt was also involved in administering VDOT Guardrail crash testing in 2015 and 2016 in southern California.
Prior to his VDOT career, Matt spent 10 years with a private Engineering firm in Richmond where he was a Highway Design Project Manager.
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Stephen Rowan
Stephen Rowan
Steve has over 34 years in the Highway Transportation Infrastructure field. He started his career as a Highway Construction Inspector with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) in 1984 after graduating from Virginia Tech with a BA degree in Urban Affairs. Steve’s career at VDOT included a variety of technical and management positions in Construction Inspection, Contract Administration, Construction Management, Maintenance & Operations Management, Asset Management, Emergency Management, Facilities Management, Project Management, and Program Management. Steve completed a Master of Engineering Degree in Operations Research & Systems Analysis at Old Dominion University in 2002, as well as a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from The George Washington University in 2008. In addition, Steve was selected in 2011 to attend the Transportation Project Management Institute at the University of Virginia – Center for Transportation Studies. Steve was the Director of the Urban Program Management Office in the VDOT Hampton Roads District from 2011 until he retired in February of 2017. He worked closely with local government staff and the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization staff to deliver their federal and state funded transportation programs. Steve is a member of APWA, ASHE, ITE, PMI, and has been a credentialed Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2006.
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Trenton Clark
Trenton Clark
Trenton Clark is the President for the Virginia Asphalt Association based in Richmond. Trenton started with the Virginia Asphalt Association in January 2011 after spending the previous 12 years with the Virginia Department of Transportation. He serves on several technical committees within Virginia as well as with the Transportation Research Board, National Center for Asphalt Technology, and the National Asphalt Pavement Association. With VDOT he held the positions of Senior Pavement Management Engineer, State Pavement Engineer and State Asphalt Program Manager. Over his career he has been part of several pavement design and analysis software applications. Graduating from Virginia Tech in 1993, Trenton holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and is a licensed professional engineer in Virginia and Maryland. In his spare time, Trenton raises Hereford cattle, harvests vegetables, and plays golf. Trenton and his wife Nicky reside in Luray, Virginia; they have two grown children.
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Kelly Powell
Kelly Powell
Kelly Powell has been Safe Kids Coordinator and Program Director in Palm Beach County, Florida for over 18 years, and has been in the field of injury prevention for over 22 years in Florida.
Additionally, Kelly has been a National Child Passenger Safety Technician Instructor for 21 years and has been fortunate to train technicians nationally, and internationally; supporting the development of the child passenger safety program in Qatar.
Kelly has been working with the University of Virginia as a Subject Matter Expert for Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention with the Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) and now with the Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP).
Kelly has served on the Safe Kids Worldwide President’s Advisory Council on the Network and Advocacy Team. Kelly is a member of the Florida Injury Prevention Advisory Council’s Public Information, Education and Relations Committee and has been instrumental in developing a statewide child passenger safety program for transportation on ambulances. Also, in 2019 Kelly was selected as the Coordinator of the International Consortium for Children in Autonomous Vehicles; Public Information and Education team. She is a member of the Florida Safe Kids Advisory Board, Florida Occupant Protection Coalition and is an appointed member of the Florida Child Fatality Review Team. Kelly has served on the Florida Booster Seat Coalition and has been instrumental in passing the current booster seat law in Florida.
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Obenberger
Obenberger
Jon Obenberger is a lecturer for the Transportation Training Academy and the Essentials of Engineering Excellence (E3) Program for the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Virginia. Dr. Obenberger has over 36 years of experience with leading programs, policy initiatives, projects, and day-to-day activities related to the planning, design, and operation of highways and local streets for local, regional, state, and federal agencies. Jon is a Senior Transportation Research Engineer in the Office of Operations Research and Development for the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) in McLean, VA. He leads FHWA programs, initiatives and projects to support the development of the next generation of traffic management systems and centers (TMCs) with the capabilities to enable the acquisition, systematic provision and integration of data from connected vehicles (automobiles, transit, and trucks) and devices (travelers) to transform the active management and operation of the surface transportation system.
Dr. Obenberger serves on numerous national committees and task forces. Jon is the Chair (2023-2026) and member (2022 to present) of Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) ITS Committee. He was the former Chair (2012-2018) and member (2001-2012) of the TRB Freeway Operations Committee and member of the TRB Traffic Control Devices Committee (2013-2022). He is the former Chair (2017-2019) and member (2011-2021) of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. From 2004 to 2013 he was the secretary of the AASHTO Preconstruction Engineering Management Technical Committee. Dr. Obenberger earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, and his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Wisconsin.
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Ben Bowers
Ben Bowers
Dr. Benjamin Bowers is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Auburn University.
Bowers’ research is focused predominantly on asphalt materials and pavement geotechnics, with special attention paid to sustainable, resilient, and cost effective techniques. He is an expert on resilient infrastructure, working on numerous projects centered around how to adapt infrastructure assets to combat climate-related disruptions. Bowers has expertise in cold recycling and full depth reclamation, the art of using 100% recycled pavement materials.
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
M.S. Civil Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Chad Bowman
Chad Bowman
Mr. Bowman is Manager of the Richmond Operations at EI. With more than 20 years of professional experience, Mr. Bowman is an effective project manager and skilled health and safety professional. His professional experience involves all facets of occupational safety, occupational health, and industrial hygiene.
Mr. Bowman is an OSHA authorized instructor for 10/30 hr. In addition, Mr. Bowman is a Virginia Authorized instructor for Asbestos, Lead, and Mold disciplines as well as the Lead RRP Federal Regulation. Mr. Bowman was a member of the task force for the Virginia Board of Health on Development of Guidelines for Methamphetamine Decontamination and served on the advisor council for the development of the third-party Lead Examination for Virginia. Mr. Bowman currently serves on the Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspector Board for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Mr. Bowman also routinely performs comprehensive industrial safety audits to evaluate compliance with OSHA General Industry (29 CFR 1910), and Construction (29 CFR 1926) regulations. Evaluations have included, but are not limited to materials storage, overhead cranes, powered industrial trucks, machine guarding, energy control procedures, fall protection, scaffold safety, ladder safety, chemical safety, hazard communication, compressed gas cylinder safety, spray finishing operations, welding, electrical safety, and personal protective equipment use and maintenance. Additionally, Mr. Bowman has conducted safety and industrial hygiene evaluations for construction and demolition projects conducted in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.
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Zachary Bugg
Zachary Bugg
Zachary Bugg, PhD, PE is a senior engineer at Kittelson & Associates, Inc. and has seven years of experience in roundabout research, design, and operations. He has led dozens of roundabout peer reviews, visualizations, corridor studies, workshops, and feasibility studies in Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington. He is a co-author of NCHRP Report 772: Evaluation of Corridors with Roundabouts and has assisted in the development of new roundabout capacity models as part of the Highway Capacity Manual 6th Edition.
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Kim Carr
Kim Carr
Kim Carr has over twenty-years of practical experience in the areas of communication, public relations, event planning, and outreach. Kim holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism with a concentration in advertising and a minor in psychology from West Virginia University. Additionally, Kim holds a Master of Arts in counseling and is a certified facilitator of the Franklin Covey Seven Habits of Highly Effective People training.
Kim has been with the West Virginia Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) for the past eighteen years, which has allowed her to learn a lot about the world of public works and some of the common communication challenges. Kim enjoys helping others strengthen their communication skills.
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Matheu J. Carter
Matheu J. Carter
Matheu J. Carter, P.E., is a civil and environmental engineer, licensed as a Professional Engineer in six states. He received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at The George Washington University and his Masters in Civil Engineering from the University of Delaware. He joined Delaware’s T2/LTAP Center in August 2008 as the T2 Engineer and his primary focus is his role as the Municipal Circuit Rider, providing technical assistance, technology transfer, and training to local government personnel. Matt has been trained to teach the Designing Pedestrian Facilities for Accessibility, a two-day course developed by the Federal Highway Administration designed to connect the technical requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a better understanding of the challenges faced by a range of disabled pedestrians.
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Lorenzo Casanova
Lorenzo Casanova
Lorenzo Casanova, P.E.
He worked for 21 years for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during which time he served for over twelve years as Pavement, Materials and Technology Transfer Engineer. He also served as the Local Programs Coordinator and Asset Management Program Manager.
Early in his career he got involved in Construction Inspection and Contract Administration. Later in his career, he became interested in Statistical Quality Assurance/Quality Control, and Project Monitoring and Project Management. In addition, he has extensive practical experience in engineering and economic analysis; and has held different positions in the public and private sectors, as well as in academia.
Mr. Casanova has taught courses in Statics, Strength of Materials, and Physics at two community colleges. With a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering, he is a registered P.E. in Florida and Delaware and earned his Masters of Engineering degree from the University of Florida where he taught senior level courses in Pavement Design.
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Walter C. Catlett
Walter C. Catlett
Walt Catlett possesses over 25 years of experience in urban drainage and stormwater management, combined with over 30 years of safety experience from the concrete pipe industry, military, and consulting engineering. He is an effective trainer and educator responsible for the training of military personnel and public works professionals. He serves on Virginia’s Local Transportation Assistance Program (LTAP) Advisory Board. He also serves on the Arkansas Department of Transportation’s Research Advisory Council. He has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX and a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, PA. Mr. Catlett served in the United States Marine Corps and United States Army Reserves for a combined 30 years.
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Hyun Woong Cho
Hyun Woong Cho
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Hyun Cho
Hyun Cho
Hyun Cho is a research scientist at VTRC. He holds Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech and is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. His recent research has studied driver compliance of Variable Speed Limits in Virginia, characteristics of roadway departure and wrong-way driving crashes, and developed new network screening methods on Virginia roadways.
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Aimee Connerton
Aimee Connerton
Aimee Connerton, Technical Resources Professional, currently works for Rinker Materials in the Mid-Atlantic Region. She is head of the Education Committee for the American Concrete Pipe Association and Education Committee Chair for The Precast Concrete Association of Virginia. Aimee also serves as President of the Central Atlantic Precast Concrete Association in Maryland. Aimee holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from The University of Maryland, where she majored in Chemistry and minored in Economics. Aimee currently teaches Virginia Inspectors through the Virginia Community College Workforce Alliance, provides training through the Local Technical Assistance Program, and provides virtual training through the American Concrete Pipe Association.
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Benjamin H. Cottrell, Jr.
Benjamin H. Cottrell, Jr.
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Ben Cottrell
Ben Cottrell
Ben Cottrell is an associate principal research scientist at VTRC. He has been involved in transportation research with emphasis areas in traffic safety and traffic engineering. He received his master’s degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia and is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia.
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Jim Cromwell
Jim Cromwell
Jim Cromwell is the National Environmental Policy Act Programs (NEPA)
Manager with VDOT’s Central Office Environmental Division.
In this role, he manages the Statewide NEPA Program, working with NEPA
Practitioners in 9 different VDOT Construction Districts. Mr. Cromwell is also manages NEPA staff in the Central office, who facilitate NEPA compliance for all new location studies (“Greenfield projects”) in the state.
Mr. Cromwell has over 30 years of experience in the transportation sector,
with specific expertise in reviewing, interpreting, and implementing
environmental regulations including all levels of NEPA documentation, Section 4(f) Evaluations, Section 106 compliance, Air Quality, Noise, and
Environmental Justice. Some of the larger projects he was integrally
responsible for include the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Replacement Study (EIS), Capital Beltway Study (EIS), Springfield Bypass (EIS), and the Route 234 Bypass Study (EIS).
He has worked with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to
implement a Programmatic Agreement for an expedited approval of VDOT
PCEs and associated Reevaluations and Certifications. He has also
developed and delivered environmental training materials for a variety of
VDOT Divisions. Prior to coming to Central Office in 2003, Mr. Cromwell
served as the NOVA District Environmental Manager, Assistant District
Environmental Manager, and originally as a NEPA Practitioner.
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Bert D’Amico
Bert D’Amico
Bert D’Amico is an Operations Manager for the City of Norfolk – Department of Transit – Division of Transportation – Traffic Operations Center. He has over 21 years of experience working in the transportation industry. Bert is a VDOT-certified instructor for the VDOT Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Work Zone Traffic Control curricula. Bert is certified by the American Traffic and Safety Services Association (ATSSA) as a Traffic Control Supervisor. He also holds VDOT-certifications for Flagger Instructor. In addition, Bert was previously an active member and moderator of the International Municipal Signal Association (IMSA) over 10 years and held IMSA certifications in Work Zone, Traffic Signal Field Technician Level III, Traffic Signal Bench Technician Level II, Traffic Signal Inspector and Signs & Markings Level I.
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Brian Diefenderfer
Brian Diefenderfer
Brian Diefenderfer is a Principal Research Scientist at VTRC where he has worked for the last 20 years. His research focuses on pavement design, rehabilitation, and recycling techniques that can be used to reduce costs and improve the performance of VDOTs pavements network. Brian received his PhD in civil engineering from Virginia Tech in 2002 and is a Professional Engineer.
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Jason Dietz
Jason Dietz
Mr. Dietz has worked for the FHWA for 23 years in various field-engineering positions in two states, Washington D.C., Central and Eastern Federal Lands, and now the Pavement and Materials Technical Service Team at the FHWA Resource Center in Lakewood, CO. Five years consulting for public and private construction related projects. He is actively involved in developing, improving and implementing technologies for pavement and materials and has also been actively involved in design, construction, pavement management, pavement preservation, testing and rehabilitation of asphalt and concrete pavements. He also provides technical assistance in pavement forensic investigations and review of material and construction related specifications. He currently serves as co-lead for the Every Day Counts (EDC-4) Pavement Preservation When, Where and How advancement efforts, the project manager for FHWA Resource Center of Tack Coat Workshops nationally in cooperation with Asphalt Institute and lead in developing a new NHI course on “Inspecting Asphalt Pavement Construction Projects”.
Jason obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Mr. Dietz is a member of and provides support to various TRB subcommittees, and is a member of Association of Association of Asphalt Pavement Technologists (AAPT).
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Mark Doctor
Mark Doctor
Mark is a safety and geometric design engineer with the Federal Highway Administration. He provides technical services and training on deploying innovative and flexible design and safety practices on a national level. His focus areas are in freeway and interchange design, intersection safety, innovative intersections, and performance-based design solutions. Mark has served with the FHWA for over 28 years in a variety of positions and locations. Mark received his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Clemson University and his Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of Florida.
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Lance Dougald
Lance Dougald
Lance Dougald is an associate principal research scientist at VTRC. He has been involved in transportation research for 25 years and has over 40 research publications with emphasis areas in traffic engineering and transportation planning. He received his master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Virginia and is a member of ASCE’s Transportation and Development Institute’s Safety Committee.
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Ronald W. Eck
Ronald W. Eck
Dr. Ronald W. Eck, P.E., Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at West Virginia University is a Senior Advisor with the West Virginia Local Technical Assistance Program (WV LTAP). He has been involved in traffic engineering, including pedestrian transportation, for over 35 years. He is a member of the Pedestrian Committee of the Transportation Research Board. He authored the chapter on Pedestrians in McGraw-Hill’s Handbook of Transportation Engineering. He facilitates walkability audits and Walkable Communities Workshops for communities in West Virginia.
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Wayne Emington
Wayne Emington
Wayne Emington is the Safety and Operations Engineer with the Maine Division of the Federal Highway Administration located in Augusta, Maine. He is a member of the Every Day Counts – 5 Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian initiative, which will be promoting seven pedestrian safety treatments across the country in 2019-2020. Wayne has been involved with transportation safety and the planning, development, and delivery of bicycle and pedestrian projects by both state and local agencies for over twelve years at the Federal Highway Administration and the Michigan Department of Transportation.
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George P. Gardner
George P. Gardner
George P. Gardner, P.E., CMC is currently a Senior Construction Engineer in the Central Office – Construction Division at VDOT. George has also held several other leadership roles at VDOT including the Strategic Planning Manager, Staff Planning Manager, and Senior Policy and Planning Analyst positions. Overall, George has close to thirty years of experience in engineering, program/project management, production/distribution management, policy and legislative analysis, partnering/risk management, strategic planning, and process analysis/improvement leadership positions in the private sector, as well as the federal and state government. He holds an AAS and BS in Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, and is a graduate of the VDOT Executive and Advanced Leadership Institute. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE), Certified Management Consultant (CMC), and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB). At the Institute of Industrial Engineers, George has served on the Construction Division – National Committee, was Asst. Vice-President for the Mid-Atlantic Region, and President of the Richmond Chapter. Currently, he serves on the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a Program Evaluator, The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) with the PE Exam Development Committee, and is an Advisory Member to the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR) Board. He has conducted numerous presentations and workshops at various regional and national conferences on the subjects of project management, partnering, strategic planning, and performance management.
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Nishant Garg
Nishant Garg
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.
Nishant Garg is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2018. He completed his Postdoctoral research at Princeton University (2016-2018) and obtained his Ph.D. in Nanoscience at Aarhus University, Denmark in 2015. At Illinois, his research group focuses on the characterization and chemistry of construction materials, and is supported by agencies such as the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), US Department of Energy (DOE), National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). In 2021, he was awarded the Stephen Brunauer Award from the Cements Division of the American Ceramic Society.
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Jose Gomez
Jose Gomez
Jose Gomez served as Director of Research for the Virginia Transportation Research Council, the Virginia Department of Transportation’s research division. He first joined the Research Council in June of 1992 as a Research Scientist and spent 9 years conducting applied research and technical consultation in the areas of bridge engineering; focusing on field testing, computer modeling, the use of advanced structural materials in bridge design, and bridge management. Jose served the next 9 years as Associate Director of Research, managing the Structures, Pavements, and Geotechnical Research Team. He was named Director of Research in April, 2011, retiring in August 2016. Highlights of his career at VTRC include Principal or co-Principal Investigator on 16 external grants totaling over $5.4 million in research and implementation funds, author or co-author of 42 research reports, and co-PI to Rutgers University, the lead agency in the initial FHWA Long-Term Bridge Performance Program Grant. This grant total was $25 million, of which $5 million came to VTRC in support of the bridge research program. Jose is currently a Lecturer in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. He has a BS in Civil Engineering from VMI and Masters and Doctorate in Civil Engineering from U.Va. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Noah Goodall
Noah Goodall
Noah Goodall, Ph.D., P.E. is a senior research scientist with the Virginia Transportation Research Council, a partnership between the Virginia Department of Transportation and the University of Virginia. He researches traffic safety, operations, and autonomous vehicles. Noah earned his PhD in civil engineering at the University of Virginia.
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William M. (Billy) Green
William M. (Billy) Green
William M. (Billy) Green is the Principal and Instructor for StraightPath Consulting. He brings over 40 years of “hands on” experience in the construction inspection and management field. Billy started as an Inspector Trainee and advanced through the Inspection field to Inspector, Senior Inspector, Project Engineer and before retiring from VDOT was the Senior Construction Manager for the NOVA District. He worked as the State Construction Manager for Volkert, Inc. after retiring from VDOT before creating StraightPath Consulting which specializes in teaching Work Zone Safety, Local Area Project Audits, LAP project management, OSHA training and other training activities. Billy is ATSSA certified as a Traffic Control Supervisor, and certified to conduct VDOT Flagger, Advanced, Intermediate and Basic Work Zone Safety Control. He holds VDOT certifications in Asphalt, Soils & Aggregate, Concrete, Surface Treatment, Slurry Seal, ACI Concrete, E & S, Storm Water Management and Guardrail Installation (GRIT). He is also a certified OSHA 10 & 30 trainer as well as a Partnering Facilitator. He was the principal organizer, designer and instructor for VDOT in the implementation of Inspector Level I & II Technical Certification Schools, Plan Reading, Survey and Bridge Certification Schools. He has attended the Certified Construction Manager program. He was twice the recipient of the VDOT Commissioner’s Award for Excellence and twice awarded the NOVA District Administrator’s award for Outstanding Achievement. StraightPath Consulting has recently been honored by being selected at a certified S.W.a.M. and Micro Business.
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Kathy Gregory
Kathy Gregory
Kathy Gregory is a principal and consultant for the six fifty company in the areas of human resources, organizational development, leadership, technical editing, and public relations. With over 20 years of experience, Kathy works with a diverse group of transportation organizations including nonprofit groups, engineering service providers, government agencies, and manufacturing companies. She holds a master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and integrates the principles of adult learning with her passion for communications to create a fun and interactive learning environment.
Kathy also has 8 years experience with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). In her last VDOT position, she was District Human Resources Manager for the Staunton District.
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Sam Gregory
Sam Gregory
Sam Gregory retired in February 2012 after 36 years of working in the transportation community for various public and private employers. He is currently enjoying retirement by working part time conducting LTAP training, course development, and technical assistance support for local government public works agencies; instructing bituminous field certification and maintenance courses for North East Center of Excellence for Pavement Technology (NECEPT) out of Penn State University; and assisting in transportation related research projects for Navarro and Wright Consulting Engineers. He was past chairman of the Maintenance Technical Advisory Group for the Pennsylvania State Transportation Innovation Council (STIC).
The majority of his experience was 28 years of service with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in various positions culminating as the Highway Maintenance Manager in charge of Mifflin / Juniata and Perry County Maintenance Organizations. In this positon he directed multi-year strategic plan preparation and provided oversight of asset management that included 585 roadway miles and 582 bridges. It required administering a $12 million budget and overseeing labor management of 110+ employees.
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Marty Halloway
Marty Halloway
Marty Halloway, P.E., CCM is currently the District Project Controls Engineer for the Bristol District where he is responsible for assisting with the management of the day to day operations for the Construction program. Overall, Marty has over 15 years of experience in the transportation industry in construction engineering/management, land development, finance/budgeting, risk management, partnering, maintenance, strategic planning, traffic engineering, scheduling, and operations. He has served in leadership roles as Resident Engineer, Land Use Engineer, and District Area Construction Engineer. In his current role he is focusing on improving pre-construction activities to reduce risk, work orders, overruns, and other pit falls to help deliver the construction program successfully. Marty received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia College at Wise, and graduate degree in Engineering from Old Dominion University.
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Jakob Helmboldt
Jakob Helmboldt
Jakob Helmboldt is a transportation planner specializing in bicycle and pedestrian issues. He is currently the Pedestrian, Bicycle and Trails Coordinator for the City of Richmond, VA where he represents the City’s mayoral administration to develop and advance projects and initiatives to make biking and walking more viable and attractive transportation modes. Mr. Helmboldt was previously a Project Manager with Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB), a Transportation, Land Development, and Environmental Services firm. Prior to that Mr. Helmboldt worked for the Virginia Department of Transportation as the Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Coordinator and the Safe Routes to School Coordinator as well as previously doing environmental, land-use, and transit planning.
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Joseph E. Hummer
Joseph E. Hummer
Joseph E. Hummer, PhD, PE, is the Staff Engineer in the Mobility and Safety Division of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). Joe is one of the foremost authorities on unconventional intersection and interchange designs practicing today. He began researching the designs in 1990, has published numerous articles about them, and has invented several new intersection and interchange designs. His two-part series in the ITE Journal in 1998 helped spark interest in the area. More recently, he was a co-author of the FHWA informational report on six of the most promising designs, he was the Principal Investigator of the FHWA research project investigating the effects of diverging diamond interchanges, and he was the primary author of the FHWA guidebook on superstreets. Joe was a Professor at North Carolina State University and was Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Wayne State University before joining NCDOT in May 2016.
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Chuck Ingram
Chuck Ingram
Chuck has been in the pavement preservation industry for 43 years. He began work for Slurry Pavers, Inc. in March 1977. Early on in his career with Slurry, he worked as a laborer, foreman and superintendent for several company crews. For the past 29 years Ingram has been in charge of Business Development for Slurry in the Mid-Atlantic region.
For the past several years he has been an instructor for the Slurry Systems Certification programs for VDOT & SCDOT, and has taken part in training for the Asphalt Institute, World of Asphalt and the National Center for Pavement Preservation (NCPP).
He is active with APWA, the Virginia Asphalt Assn., Va. Transportation Construction Alliance, and the County Engineers Assn. of MD.
Lives in Lynchburg, Va. and has four daughters and four grandchildren.
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Lindsay Ivey-Burden
Lindsay Ivey-Burden
Dr. Lindsay Ivey-Burden is a faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia, where she has been teaching since 2012. Dr. Ivey Burden earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering at the University of Louisville and her Ph.D at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Ivey Burden specializes in geotechnical engineering and teaches courses in soil mechanics, foundation design, and laboratory testing. Her current research activities are in the areas of infrastructure management/ risk analysis, and geophysical testing.
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Pete Jenior
Pete Jenior
Pete Jenior, PE, PTOE has designed, analyzed, or peer-reviewed roundabout concepts for over 75 intersections in nine states and developed signal timing plans for over 140 intersections. Pete is a member of TRB’s Geometric Design Committee, and has taught short courses on applied roundabout design, performance-based design, and Highway Safety Manual. Pete has also served as a lead researcher for NCHRP Report 772 Evaluation of the Performance of Roundabout Corridors, developed guidelines for accessibility treatments at roundabouts as part of NCHRP Project 3-78a and 3-78b, and prepared guidebooks for FHWA on four alternative intersection forms and part-time shoulder use on freeways
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Paul Kelley
Paul Kelley
Paul Kelley is a certified VDOT Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Work Zone Training instructor. He is also an American Traffic Safety Services (ATSSA) Master Instructor for Traffic Control Technician, Traffic Control Supervisor, and Traffic Control Design Specialist work zone courses. He is retired from VDOT 12 years of service in the Engineering Services Section of the Location and Design Division and 13 years working in the Work Zone Safety Office in the Traffic Engineering Division. He participated in the development of and instructed both the work zone training and guardrail installation training (GRIT) courses. Mr. Kelley is also the recipient of ATSSA’s 2019 National Safety Award. Prior to VDOT, he was lead instructor and administrator for an engineering technology program at a community college. Mr. Kelley is also a Veterans Service Officer.
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Jeff LaMondia
Jeff LaMondia
Jeffrey LaMondia, PhD, is an associate professor in transportation engineering in the civil and environmental engineering department at Auburn University. Dr. LaMondia is an expert in travel demand modeling and travel behavior analysis, with a focus on inclusive planning methods, innovative data collection methods, long distance travel forecasting, and infrastructure LOS impacts on cyclist behaviors. His work utilizes unique travel survey methods, big data analyses, geographic information systems (GIS) and discrete choice modeling. His research has been funded through Federal Highway Administration, Centers for Disease Control, state Departments of Transportation, University Transportation Centers, and other agencies.
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Chien-Lun Lan
Chien-Lun Lan
Chien-Lun Lan is a research scientist at the Virginia Transportation Research Council. Holding a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, he has consistently contributed to traffic operations and safety. His research interests span both traditional and emerging topics in transportation – from estimating freeway congestion costs and identifying high-crash road segments to leveraging data analytics to monitor roadway performances.
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Matt Larkin
Matt Larkin
Matt Larkin is the owner of Larkin Safety Consultants, L.L.C. Matt is a VDOT-approved Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Work Zone Traffic Control instructor, an ATSSA-certified Traffic Control Supervisor, an ATSSA Flagger Instructor, an Authorized OSHA 10-Hour and 30-Hour instructor for both construction, and general industry, and an American Heart Association First Aid, CPR, AED instructor. Larkin Safety Consultants works with roadway and building associations in Northern Virginia such as the Heavy Construction Contractors Association, Northern Virginia Building Industry Association, and the American Traffic Safety Services Association.
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David Lee
David Lee
David Lee is the Vice President for the Virginia Asphalt Association based in Richmond. David started with the Virginia Asphalt Association in April 2019 after spending the previous 33 years with the Virginia Department of Transportation. He serves on several technical committees within Virginia and outside of Virginia. When he retired from VDOT, David held the position of Salem District Materials Engineer. Over his career he has been part of or lead numerous asphalt materials and paving initiatives. Graduating from Virginia Tech in 1984, David holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and is a licensed professional engineer in Virginia. In his spare time, David splits firewood and plays golf. David and his wife Gail reside in Catawba; they have two grown children.
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Marc Lipschultz
Marc Lipschultz
Marc Lipschultz, P.E., PTOE is a Senior Traffic Engineer with the Traffic Engineering Division of Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), where he is responsible for developing statewide standards and specifications related to signs and markings. He recently joined VDOT in November 2013 after 14 years of experience working with an engineering consulting company in their Philadelphia and Richmond offices, where he managed the design of traffic control device plans, as well as numerous traffic planning and analysis studies. He earned his bachelor’s in civil engineering at the University of Delaware and his master’s in civil engineering at Villanova University. Mr. Lipschultz is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia and Pennsylvania, and a registered Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE).
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Leo Liu
Leo Liu
Dr. Liu is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia. Dr. Liu has been working on both traditional geotechnical applications, such as geohazards, energy geotechnics, and seasonal and climatic effects, and more interdisciplinary innovations, such as intelligent geosystems, system resilience and climate change adaption, and “big data” solutions for transportation systems. His research has many direct applications in the safety, energy efficiency, environmental friendliness, autonomy, and resilience of infrastructure systems. With a P.E. from Michigan, Dr. Liu taught multiple design courses and has experience working with road agencies such as the FHWA, MDOT, WisDOT, MnDOT, and local road agencies.
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Ed Myers
Ed Myers
Ed Myers, PE has over three decades of experience in all facets of highway design, traffic engineering, and roundabout design including capacity analysis, signing, lighting, and marking and traffic control plans. He has managed and directed multiple studies to determine the feasibility and design of roundabouts, street and streetscape improvements, and traffic calming and other context-sensitive design features for a variety of communities. Ed is presently applying his skills as a roundabout designer in Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Florida, and Oregon, and has designed roundabouts in urban, suburban, and rural settings. He has received several professional excellence awards, particularly for his work on roundabouts; and also teaches professional courses on roundabout design and other topics and makes presentations to professional organizations throughout the country. Ed also contributed to both editions of the FHWA Roundabout Guide, NCHRP 3-65, NCHRP 3-78 and several state supplements to the FHWA Guide.
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Jon Obenberger
Jon Obenberger
Jon Obenberger is a lecturer for the Transportation Training Academy and the Essentials of Engineering Excellence (E3) Program for the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Virginia. Dr. Obenberger has over 36 years of experience with leading programs, policy initiatives, projects, and day-to-day activities related to the planning, design, and operation of highways and local streets for local, regional, state, and federal agencies. Jon is a Senior Transportation Research Engineer in the Office of Operations Research and Development for the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) in McLean, VA. He leads FHWA programs, initiatives and projects to support the development of the next generation of traffic management systems and centers (TMCs) with the capabilities to enable the acquisition, systematic provision and integration of data from connected vehicles (automobiles, transit, and trucks) and devices (travelers) to transform the active management and operation of the surface transportation system.
Dr. Obenberger serves on numerous national committees and task forces. Jon is a member of Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Traffic Control Devices Committee and the ITS Committee. He was the former Chair (2012-2018) and member (2001-2012) of the TRB Freeway Operations Committee. He is the former Chair and member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. From 2004 to 2013 he was the secretary of the AASHTO Preconstruction Engineering Management Technical Committee. Dr. Obenberger earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, and his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Wisconsin.
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Peter Ohlms
Peter Ohlms
Peter Ohlms, AICP, is a senior research scientist at VTRC. He holds a Master of Regional Planning degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a civil engineering degree from the University of Virginia. Current and recent research has examined multimodal innovations, transit ridership projections, prioritization practices for curb ramps, road diets, bike boxes, statewide bicycle and pedestrian counting programs, and a pedestrian- and bicycle-alert system for transit buses.
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Celik Ozyildirim
Celik Ozyildirim
Celik Ozyildirim is a principal research scientist at VTRC. He holds a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Virginia and has over 40 years experience researching concrete, admixtures, permeability, and workability issues, and is very active in the American Concrete Institute, including the committee on Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. the Transportation Research Board and American Society for Testing and Materials. He is a licensed professional engineer in Virginia.
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Afrida Raida
Afrida Raida
Afrida Raida is a Graduate Research Assistant at VTRC and a graduate student in Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia. Her research interests are in integrated multi-modal transportation, with her research so far focusing on public transit and safety of e-scooters.
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Angel Reed
Angel Reed
Angel Reed is the NEPA Programs Manager in VDOT’s Environmental Division. She has worked for VDOT for over seven years. In her current role, she is responsible for consistently implementing VDOT’s NEPA program and oversees a team of staff who lead the development of complex NEPA studies She has experience preparing and reviewing all levels of NEPA documentation, and regularly coordinating with local, state, and federal agencies. She has managed or supported several studies, including the Martinsville Southern Connector Route 220 EIS, Bowers Hill Interchange Improvements Study EA and EIS, Crystal City to DCA Multimodal Connector Study, I-495 Southside Express Lanes Study, Ashland to Petersburg Trail Study, and the Skiffes Creek Connector Study..
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Erin Robartes
Erin Robartes
Erin Robartes is a research scientist at the Virginia Transportation Research Council on the safety, operations, and traffic engineering team. She holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia where her previous research involved multimodal virtual reality simulation for behavioral transportation research.
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Lee Rodegerdts
Lee Rodegerdts
Lee has 24 years of broad experience in traffic operations, traffic design, transportation planning, and transportation research and education. He is recognized internationally for his expertise on roundabouts and has led national research and guide development on intersection planning, analysis, and design for more than a decade. He is a founding member of TRB’s Committee on Roundabouts and the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices’ Roundabout Task Force, and he previously served as chair of the Unsignalized Intersections Subcommittee of the Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service. He has taught over 70 professional short courses on highway capacity, intersections, roundabouts, and signal timing.
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David Rush
David Rush
David began his VDOT career in 1978 and has served in the following positions for the past 44 years:
- Engineering Technician at the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike – 5 yrs.
- Senior Construction Inspector for the Turnpike – 5 yrs.
- Transportation Data Analyst Supervisor at the Richmond District – 4 yrs.
- Transportation Engineer in the Traffic Engineering division (TED), CO – 10 yrs.
- Work Zone Safety Program Manager, TED CO – 20 yrs.
As the Work Zone Safety (WZS) Program Manager, David was responsible for the development of WZS policies and procedures, including Virginia’s version of Part 6 to the MUTCD (the Virginia Work Area Protection manual), WZS Guidelines for Temporary Traffic Control pocket guide, Flagger certification program, and VDOT’s Work Zone Traffic Control training program. He developed and taught VDOT’s Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Work Zone Traffic Control (WZTC) Training courses. David developed department responses to work zone safety issues, conducted annual work zone safety team reviews of projects statewide, and performed bi-annual FHWA Work Zone Safety Process reviews. Participated in NCHRP projects as a review team member and FHWA Peer Exchange on work zone safety issues. He was VDOT’s representative on several WZDx committees and represented the department in the Autonomous TMA Pool Fund Study.
He was a member of the Transportation Research Board WZ Traffic Control committee, and currently serve on the American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) Safety and Public Awareness committee and Innovation Council, and the VA Transportation Research Council Traffic and Safety Research Advisory committee (TASRAC).
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Geoffrey R. Scott
Geoffrey R. Scott
Geoffrey R. Scott, PE. Mr. Scott is the Technical Assistance Engineer for the New York Local Technical Assistance Program, also known as Cornell Local Roads Program, in Ithaca New York. Geoffrey has over 14 years working as a consultant to municipalities preparing stormwater related design plans for roadways, drainage systems, and erosion control plans, and has developed and maintained multiple Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans for municipal facilities and construction projects in New York and Connecticut. Mr. Scott earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Union College in Schenectady, NY with a concentration in water resources.
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Mary Sharifi
Mary Sharifi
Mary Sharifi is a research scientist at VTRC. She holds a master of engineering degree in civil engineering from the University of Virginia. At VTRC, she specializes in concrete characteristics and issues, bridge decks and overlays, establishing specifications, and sustainability issues. She is a member of the Transportation Research Board.
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Rosanne Simeone
Rosanne Simeone
Roseanne Simeone: Having earned her doctoral degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Virginia, Rosanne Simeone has taught English at the college and high-school levels. As a member of the University of Virginia’s Department of Science, Technology and Society Department (formerly the Division of Technology, Culture and Communication), she guided engineering students through their first forays into technical writing as well as their fourth-year theses. She taught professional writing at the Institute of Textile Technology, and she served as technical writer and Publications Director for the medical center’s Tissue Adhesive Center. Currently, she teaches Humanities, chairs the Capstone Thesis Committee, and advises the Honor Council at St. Anne’s-Belfield School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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John Simkins
John Simkins
John Simkins is the Planning, Environment, Realty, and Freight Team Leader for the FHWA Virginia Division Office. He has worked in the Virginia Division Office in the environmental area for over 21 years and has been responsible for managing the NEPA process for projects throughout the State with a focus on Northern Virginia, Richmond, and Hampton Roads. He has experience preparing NEPA documents, coordinating with federal regulatory and resource agencies, and reviewing and approving Categorical Exclusions, Environmental Assessments/Findings of No Significant Impact, and Environmental Impact Statements/Records of Decision. Some of the larger projects that he has managed through the NEPA process include the Interstate 64 Peninsula Study, Elizabeth River Tunnels project, MLK Extension project, Coalfields Expressway, Interstate 81 Corridor Study, Harrisonburg Southeast Connector, I-66 Outside the Beltway, I-66 Inside the Beltway, and I-495 Express Lanes Northern Extension.
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Brian L. Smith
Brian L. Smith
Dr. Brian L. Smith, P.E. is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, home of Civil, Systems, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia. He specializes in transportation systems engineering. Dr. Smith has taught courses in civil engineering design, systems analysis, surveying, construction management, and advanced transportation systems. He is the founder and director of the Virginia Transportation Project Management Institute (TPMI).
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Hari Sripathi
Hari Sripathi
Hari Sripathi, P.E. is the Director for the Office of Strategic Innovations at Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). His office leads transformative programs such as Data Science, Digital Twins, and also promotes and champions innovation all across VDOT. He has 29 years of Engineering, Traffic Management, and Technology experience. After working in private sector, he joined VDOT 23 years ago and had the opportunity to lead many programs in VDOT. He has a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering and he is a Registered Professional Engineer in Virginia.
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Ed Sundra
Ed Sundra
Ed Sundra is the Director of Program Development overseeing the planning, environment, right of way, and finance programs for the FHWA Virginia Division Office. He has worked for FHWA for over 34 years and in the Virginia Division Office over 32 years. Most of his time has been spent working in the environmental area where he has been responsible for coordinating, reviewing, and approving NEPA documents including Categorical Exclusions, Environmental Assessments/Findings of No Significant Impact, and Environmental Impact Statements/Records of Decision. During his career in Virginia, he has been involved with or managed the NEPA process for FHWA for a number large-scale projects including the Springfield Interchange, Woodrow Wilson Bridge, Interstate 73, SMART Highway, Charlottesville Bypass, Capital Beltway HOT Lanes, I-95 Express Lanes, Madison Heights Bypass, Southeastern Parkway and Greenbelt, Chesapeake Expressway, Grundy Bypass, Bi-County Parkway, Route 460, and the Hampton Roads Expansion Project.
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Hossein Tavakoli
Hossein Tavakoli
Hossein Tavakoli is a civil engineer with a strong passion for artificial intelligence and software development. As a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia, he contributes to the field of civil engineering through innovative research. His expertise is further demonstrated by his active participation as a speaker at several winter maintenance operation conferences, highlighting his commitment to advancing transportation engineering practices through AI.
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Rod E. Turochy
Rod E. Turochy
Dr. Rod E. Turochy, P.E. is the James M. Hunnicutt Professor of Traffic Engineering at Auburn University, where he has been teaching since 2001. He also directs the Alabama Transportation Assistance Program – Alabama’s LTAP Center. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering at Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. Before pursuing graduate studies, Dr. Turochy had four years of work experience with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). In his last position with VDOT, he was responsible for traffic design and work zone safety for the Salem District. At Auburn, Dr. Turochy currently teaches courses in traffic engineering and roadway design. His current research activities are in the areas of traffic engineering, traffic simulation, and road safety.
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Finley Vinson
Finley Vinson
Mr. Vinson is the Manager of the Little Rock Office at TEC which he opened in 2022. He has been involved in transportation/traffic engineering since 2003. His duties include project management, roundabout analysis and design, transportation planning, and traffic signal timing. Prior to his employment with TEC, Mr. Vinson worked for the City of Conway for twelve years where he held several titles including Traffic Engineer, Transportation Planner, Floodplain Administrator, City Engineer, and ultimately Transportation Department Director and as a consultant where he was responsible for civil design of various projects including public and private roadways and buildings.
Finley Vinson received a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Mathematics from Hendrix College in 2000 and a Master of Science in Transportation Engineering from the University of Arkansas in 2003.
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Kevin Waters
Kevin Waters
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Kevin Waters, Ph.D., P.E. is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University where he teaches courses in water resources and GIS at the undergraduate and graduate levels. A faculty member since 2016, he received the Teaching Excellence Award in 2022 from the Villanova University Engineering Alumni Society.
Dr. Waters has over 4.5 years of consulting experience, most recently as a Water Resources Engineer with Wood PLC in Chantilly, VA. In this position, he worked extensively in HEC-RAS and ArcGIS to conduct flood studies and flood impact analyses in support of FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program. He started in this type of work as a Senior Engineer at T.Y. Lin International-Medina in New Jersey, developing HEC-RAS models for numerous flood studies, including a 125-mile study of the Delaware River and streams in Erie County, NY. In total, Dr. Waters has developed and reviewed hundreds of miles of HEC-RAS stream models in VA, WV, MD, NY, NJ, and MO.
Dr. Waters completed his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia in 2014 with research focused in open channel hydraulics and sediment transport in unsteady flows. He earned his M.E in Civil Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, with a concentration in water resources, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Villanova University in 2007.
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Jeb Weymouth
Jeb Weymouth
Jeb Weymouth is a Safety Trainer for the Glen Allen, Virginia office. Mr. Weymouth has field experience working in the area of industrial hygiene and safety.
Mr. Weymouth completed his Bachelors in Environmental Science at Randolph-Macon College. Prior to joining The EI Group, Inc., he worked for 2 years at Froehling & Robertson, Inc. gaining experience in environmental and industrial hygiene work, client training, and understanding of OSHA regulations.
Mr. Weymouth has been training adults in the Asbestos, Lead, and Safety curriculums for more than 7 years. Mr. Weymouth is a Virginia approved instructor for Asbestos and Lead curriculums, he is an OSHA authorized instructor for the Construction Industry as well as an approved instructor for the federal EPA Lead RRP Regulation. Mr. Weymouth’s training expertise is tied closely with Construction industry topics such as Fall Protection, Aerial Lift, Confined Spaces, Equipment Operation, and Excavation. In addition to performing awareness training for various clients, Mr. Weymouth has also provided Competent Person and Train the Trainer Courses in Powered Industrial Truck, Aerial Lifts, Fall Protection and Excavation.
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Dan Widner
Dan Widner
Dan Widner has 36 years of diverse experience in GIS and Mapping in the federal, state and private sector. Most recently he was the Virginia State GIS Coordinator at the Virginia Geographic Information Network, where he provided strategic GIS coordination and leadership for Virginia state and local government and represented Virginia GIS at the federal and national level. His transportation GIS experience stems from eight years as GIS Program Manager at the Virginia Department of Transportation and from four years at a commercial GIS software firm. Dan has a Bachelor’s degree in Geography from Indiana University and currently is an independent consultant.
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Diann Wilson
Diann Wilson
Diann Wilson has had two years of experience as the State of Oklahoma Traffic Incident Management Coordinator. She is a Nationally Certified Master Trainer from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and a Certified National Instructor from the National Highway Institute (NHI). Diann has developed online curriculum for Virginia DOT, University of Virginia, Federal Highway Administration, and OKC MetroTech Technology Center. She also brings years of educating first responders on proper emergency response practices. She is the owner and consultant for Winning Strategies for 19 years. The services provided include grant writing, grant administration & management, fun raising consultant, and seminars and trainings. Diann served as a reserve deputy for the Seminole County Sheriff’s Department, as a Butner School Board Member for 10 years, and was a speaker for Victim’s Impact Panel for 22 years.
Overall, Diann is an experienced educator who combines hands on experience with effective research practices that produces an effective adult learning environment. One of her most proud accomplishments is being a mother of six children, grandmother to 22 grandchildren, and a great-grandmother to five great-grandchildren.
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Mo Zhao
Mo Zhao
Mo Zhao is a senior research scientist at the Virginia Transportation Research Council. Her current research focuses on big data analytics in transportation, system performance measurement, intelligent transportation systems, and highway safety. She has a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia.