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Doug McAllister, Marion Ashley, Barry Talbot
RIVERSIDE, CA—The Riverside Transit Agency (RTA) has elected Murrieta Mayor Doug McAllister as chairman of the agency’s governing board; District 5 County Supervisor Marion Ashley, first vice chairman; and Canyon Lake Councilman Barry Talbot, second vice chairman.

McAllister, a board member since 2005, succeeds District 1 County Supervisor Bob Buster as RTA board chairman.

Ashley joined the board in 2003 and Talbot has been a board member since 2008.

Jason Dunn
CINCINNATI, OH—Jason Dunn, director of multicultural affairs and community development for the Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau, has joined the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees.

Dunn develops and manages the bureau’s comprehensive multicultural strategy, working to more deeply engage the local community, region-wide partners, and the bureau’s sales team to provide support in analyzing and pursuing new business opportunities.

Fred Gilliam

DENVER, CO—Fred Gilliam, a 48-year veteran of the public transportation industry, has joined the transportation market group of RNL.

Gilliam retired in 2009 as president/chief executive officer of the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Austin, TX. Earlier, he was executive vice president for Chance Coach, a bus and trolley manufacturer in Wichita, KS, and executive vice president/chief operating officer for Houston’s Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County.

He began his public transit career in 1961 as a traffic checker for the Memphis Transit Management Company. Gilliam joined the Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority in Tulsa, OK, as operations manager in 1972 and was named executive director the next year. He returned to Memphis twice to serve as general manager of the Memphis Area Transit Authority and also has held transit leadership positions in New Orleans and Denver.

Gilliam is a former member of the APTA Executive Committee and currently serves on the Bus Operations Committee; Bus Safety Committee; Bus Standards Policy and Planning Committee; Legislative Committee; and Member Services Committee. He has received honors including Texas DOT’s Friend of Texas Award and the Texas Transit Association’s Outstanding General Manager and Lifetime Achievement awards.

Arul Edwin
OAKLAND, CA—Arul Edwin has joined AC Transit as director of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) program.

Edwin has worked on large-scale public transportation projects for 25 years, including as area traffic manager of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project in Boston for the Massachusetts Highway Department; project manager for Seattle’s I-405 Design-Build/BRT Project; and project manager for the Santa Clara County Measure A Program in San Jose, CA.

Ronald L. Epstein
ALBANY, NY—Ronald L. Epstein, chief financial officer (CFO) of New York State DOT since 2009, has received the President’s Transportation Award for Public Transportation from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. The award recognizes individuals who have performed exemplary service fostering and advancing activities that benefit transportation nationwide or on a regional basis.

As CFO, Epstein is responsible for developing the department’s annual budget, steering its financial policies, managing resource allocation, and ensuring fiscal accountability. Earlier he served New York State DOT as director of the Public Transportation Bureau.

He is a member of the APTA Executive Committee.

Barbara W. Reese
RICHMOND, VA—Barbara W. Reese, former Virginia deputy secretary of transportation and chief financial officer of Virginia DOT, has been named a Principal Consultant in the strategic consulting group of Parsons Brinckerhoff, based in the firm’s Richmond office.

Most recently, Reese was director of finance for the city of Richmond. Her career spans more than 25 years and also includes serving as deputy director of policy in the Virginia governor’s office.


Gary Schulman, Margarita Gagliardi, Tom Ragland, Jay McRae
DENVER, CO—CH2M HILL announced the following leadership appointments within its North American Transit and Rail business.

Senior Vice President Gary Schulman, formerly the Booz Allen Hamilton State & Local Government Consulting partner who led the firm’s U.S. transportation business prior to the August 2011 acquisition by CH2M HILL, is now the transit and rail market segment leader.

Margarita Gagliardi has been named the chief technologist. She formerly was a senior vice president with Halcrow Group Limited, which was acquired by CH2M HILL in November 2011.

Tom Ragland, a vice president at CH2M HILL, is assuming responsibility for Transit and Rail’s business development activities across North America.

Jay McRae, who previously managed the company’s highway and bridge business in the western U.S., is assuming the role of operations leader for the Transit and Rail market.

Also, CH2M HILL has reorganized its North America Transit and Rail Group into five geographic regions. Tom Donahue leads the Midwest and Southeast regions; Janet Gallegos, California Region; Dan Heilig, West Region; David Strong, Northeast Region; and Doug Willoughby, Canada.

James Monsees
NEW YORK, NY—James Monsees, senior vice president and technical director for underground structures at Parsons Brinckerhoff, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Tunnels & Tunnelling International magazine. He was honored for extensive contributions to the tunneling industry, both in technical accomplishment and as an inspiration to future tunnelers.

Monsees is an expert in the design and construction of underground structures and in soil and rock mechanics, with a career spanning half a century. His public transportation projects have included serving as chief tunnel engineer for the Los Angeles Metro Red Line; a senior advisor for the Eastside Extension of the Los Angeles Metro Gold Line; the Central Link light rail in Seattle; and the extension of MTA New York City Transit’s No. 7 subway line.

Ray Lopez
SAN BERNARDINO, CA—Omnitrans has named Ray Lopez as director of safety and regulatory compliance.
 Lopez has more than 21 years of transit experience. He comes to Omnitrans from VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio, TX, where he began his career as a coach operator and worked his way up to safety manager.

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