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Anita Gulotta-Connelly
MILWAUKEE, WI—Anita Gulotta-Connelly, managing director of the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) since 2007, has announced her plans to retire effective April 1.

Gulotta-Connelly has been an MCTS employee for more than 31 years and also is the current president of the Wisconsin Urban and Rural Transit Association.






Robert Gave
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Robert Gave, P.E., joined Gannett Fleming as a senior project manager in the Program Management Practice, based in San Francisco.

Gave has 25 years of experience in transportation systems technology, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), information technology infrastructure, electronic fare collection equipment, and rail vehicles.





Gary Cumbie, Rosa Navejar, Gary Havener, Jesse Martinez, Janet L. Saltsgiver

FORT WORTH, TX—Gary Cumbie, donor relations officer of the Tarrant County College Foundation, has been elected chairman of the Fort Worth Transportation Authority. He succeeds Bob Parmelee, a Fort Worth attorney who had been chairman since 2008.

Rosa Navejar, executive director and president of the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, was named vice chair, and Gary Havener, a real estate developer, was re-elected secretary.

Two new members also joined the board: Jesse Martinez, a retired executive with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, and Janet L. Saltsgiver, a retired Continental Telephone management employee and a public relations entrepreneur and lobbyist.



Paul F. Parker
BUFFALO, NY—Urban Engineers of New York, P.C., has named Paul F. Parker, P.E., vice president and office manager for the firm’s Buffalo location. He brings more than 30 years experience managing design and construction projects in the transportation industry throughout New York to this position.

Parker joined Urban in 2006 following a 24-year career with New York State DOT.







Sam Hout, Rock Miller, Sherry Nour

IRVINE, CA—Stantec has expanded its regional leadership presence in southern California with the additions of Sam Hout as Southern California transportation practice leader, Rock Miller as transportation area principal, and Sherry Nour as senior program director.

Hout has more than 28 years of experience in multi-faceted engineering and infrastructure projects, most recently with an international professional services firm. Miller joins Stantec from a nationally known transportation engineering firm and has worked in traffic planning, design, and operations for more than 30 years. Nour most recently served as project director for an international professional services firm as part of her 26 years of experience.



Khani Sahebjam

MINNEAPOLIS, MN—HDR announced the appointment of Khani Sahebjam as a vice president and north central area program manager for transportation, based in the Minneapolis office.

Sahebjam, a licensed professional engineer with nearly 26 years of experience in civil and structural engineering, spent the past two decades with Minnesota DOT, most recently as its deputy commissioner/chief engineer at the state level.



Douglas Zeigler
NEW YORK, NY—New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced the appointment of Douglas Zeigler as its director of security. He succeeds retiring Chief William A. Morange in overseeing security for the MTA, including coordinating the authority’s efforts with the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, the National Guard, New York Police Department (NYPD), and state police, as well as the MTA Police Department.

Zeigler, a 37-year NYPD veteran, began his law enforcement career in 1973 and served in a variety of positions including chief of the Community Affairs Bureau, chief of the Organized Crime Control Bureau, chief of the Housing Bureau, and borough commander for Patrol Borough Queens North.





Frank Golemis, David Griffis, Ray Cole

BUFFALO GROVE, IL—Vapor Bus International-A Wabtec Company, has promoted Frank Golemis to director of engineering; David Griffis to manager, new products and standards; and Ray Cole to national service manager/mid-Atlantic sales and service engineer.

Golemis served Vapor previously as manager of engineering, manager of statistical engineering and mechanical engineer. He will be responsible for engineering and new products and will also lead the Ricon Corporation engineering department. Vapor and Ricon are both subsidiaries of Wabtec Corporation.

Griffis has held positions in sales and engineering, serving recently as business development manager. Cole will add coordination of service and training activities nationwide to his current customer support duties in the mid-Atlantic area.



Jim Durrett, Barbara Babbit Kaufman, Juanita Jones Abernathy, Frederick L. Daniels Jr., Robbie Ashe, Rod Edmond, Wendy Butler, Adam Orkin, Noni Ellison Southall

ATLANTA, GA—The newly restructured Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Board of Directors recently convened its first regularly scheduled meeting. Because of a change in the state law enacted last year, the formerly 18-member board now includes 11 voting members and one non-voting member, the executive director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority.

MARTA board officers are Jim Durrett of DeKalb, chairman; Barbara Babbit Kaufman of Fulton, vice chair; Juanita Jones Abernathy of Atlanta, secretary; and Frederick L. Daniels Jr. of DeKalb, treasurer.

The five new members of the MARTA board are lawyers Robbie Ashe and Rod Edmond, representing Atlanta; attorney Wendy Butler of DeKalb County; and from Fulton County, Adam Orkin, chief executive officer of a real estate consulting and investment firm, and Noni Ellison Southall, senior counsel at Turner Broadcasting.



Danny Crenshaw, Alan Rowland, Juan Gonzalez, David Wu
INDIANAPOLIS, IN—Danny Crenshaw, a member of the Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation (IndyGo) Board of Directors since July 2003 appointed by the City-County Council, has been elected chairperson of the board. He is the founder of Crenshaw Insurance.

Alan Rowland, appointed to the board in June 2008 by the City-County Council, is the new vice chairperson. He is the business development manager for CompTIA’s education program which serves the academic and not-for-profit communities.

The new secretary/treasurer is Juan Gonzalez, appointed to the board in September 2009 by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard. Gonzalez is a vice president and senior business banking relationship manager at Key Bank.

Also, the mayor appointed David Wu to serve on the IndyGo board. Wu is vice president of business intelligence and analytics for Angie’s List, a ratings and reviews web site for local services, who earlier worked as a policy advisor to the Indianapolis mayor and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels.








Sean Rugless, Dr. Margaret C. Gutsell, Suzanne Burke

CINCINNATI, OH—Sean Rugless has been re-elected chair of the Board of Trustees of the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) for 2011. He has been on the board for more than two years and was named SORTA chair in October 2010.

Rugless is president and chief executive officer of the Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce. He previously worked in brand management at Procter & Gamble.

Dr. Margaret C. Gutsell, a board member since 2007, has been elected board vice chair. She is the principal and owner of Inclusive Quality, a training, consultation, and technical assistance company.

Also, Suzanne Burke has joined the SORTA board. She is chief executive officer of the Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio, a position she has held since 2005.



Gary R. McVoy, Gregg Albright, Victoria Cross Kelly, Frank Ames, Rebecca Kohlstrand, Vanessa Forbes

NEW YORK, NY—Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) has announced the following recent appointments:

Gary R. McVoy will serve as PB’s transportation sustainability practice leader, based in the Washington office. He joins the firm after a 31-year career with New York State DOT, where he most recently served as director of operations. McVoy also is a founding board member of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Center for Environmental Excellence and received the AASHTO President’s Award in 1999.

Gregg Albright has been named a senior planning manager in the Sacramento, CA, office, serving as PB’s planning director for the California High-Speed Rail project. Albright comes to PB after serving as deputy secretary for environmental policy with California’s Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency and deputy director of planning and modal programs for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).

Victoria Cross Kelly, an employee of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey for more than 30 years, has joined PB as strategic operations manager for the Northeast Region. She served the port authority most recently as director, tunnels, bridges, and terminals, and is a former deputy director of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation.

Frank Ames has been named a senior resident inspector at PB, responsible for oversight of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s procurement of 75 new bi-level coaches in Boston. He comes to PB after serving MTA New York City Transit as customer resident inspector.

Rebecca Kohlstrand has been named a vice president in the San Francisco office of PB, serving as planning and environmental manager for California. She has more than 30 years of experience in transportation planning, most recently as co-founder and principal of EnviroTrans Solutions, a transportation and environmental planning consulting firm.

Vanessa Forbes has been named global head of health and safety at PB, based in the London office. She has been with Balfour Beatty, PB’s parent company, since 2008 when she joined as group health, safety, and environmental manager.











Daniel T. Blomquist
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Daniel T. Blomquist, P.E., has joined Gannett Fleming as a project manager in the Program Management Practice, based in the San Francisco regional office.
Blomquist has more than 10 years of experience in transportation and civil engineering,







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