John Danish, Robert Strauss, Faye Moses-Wilkins, Richard Carrizales, Paul N. Wageman
DALLAS, TX—The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Board of Directors has re-elected John Danish, an Irving attorney, its chair. He joined the board in 2005 after serving Irving as a city councilman, deputy mayor pro tem, and chairman of the Irving Planning and Zoning Commission.

Dallas attorney Robert Strauss, also appointed to the board in 2005, was re-elected vice chair.

Faye Moses-Wilkins, who represents Plano and Farmers Branch, was elected secretary and Dallas member Richard Carrizales was re-elected assistant secretary. Wilkins, named to the board in 1999, is president of The Wilkins Group Inc., a telecommunications and systems integration firm based in Richardson. The Dallas City Council appointed Carrizales, an attorney in private practice, in 2010.

Board officers serve one-year terms.

Also, Paul N. Wageman, a shareholder of Winstead PC, has joined the DART Board of Directors representing the city of Plano. Wageman stepped down from the North Texas Tollway Authority Board of Directors in 2010 after 10 years of service, serving as its chairman for the last four years.

Pamela Ramirez
SALEM, OR—Salem-Keizer Transit announced the promotion of Pamela Ramirez to customer service representative. She joined the agency as a part-time receptionist in January 2012.

Ramirez is fluent in Spanish and is expected to help make public transit information more accessible to the region’s Latino community.

Before joining the agency, she worked in customer service for for the Adult and Family Services/Child Protective Services Division in California.

Lee Kemp
SCHAUMBURG, IL—Lee Kemp has joined MCI’s Public Sector Team as business development manager, Southern Region. He will represent the company to public sector accounts in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado.

Kemp was formerly Western Region sales manager for Daimler Buses North America, receiving the 2010 North American Salesman of the Year Award. Prior to that, he had a 17-year career with Stewart & Stevenson, a 110-year old manufacturer and provider of specialized equipment to a number of industries.  He began his public transportation career as a master mechanic with Denver’s Regional Transportation District (RTD), earning promotions and, eventually, responsibility for fleet operations quality control.

He currently is in his fifth consecutive term as chairman of the RTD Board of Directors, on which he has served since 2005. Kemp received APTA’s 2012 Outstanding Public Transportation Board Member award at the recent APTA Annual Meeting in Seattle.

David Wilkins
OAKLAND, CA—AC Transit has named David Wilkins, a veteran of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as program director for its Bus Rapid Transit program.

Wilkins retired from the U.S. Army Reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel after a 25-year career. He served an 11-month tour as the base engineer and director of public works at Bagram Air Force Base, the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan.

He also has worked as program manager and project leader for numerous other ventures, most recently as the Western Regional director for Luster National Inc., an international firm that specializes in the management of capital improvement programs.

Thomas P. Klin, Patrick King
NEW YORK, NY—CH2M HILL announced the promotion of nine-year employee Thomas P. Klin to vice president and Northeast geographic manager and the hiring of Patrick King as vice president and director of the firm’s ports and maritime business. Both are based in the company’s New York City office.

Klin most recently led the CH2M HILL integration of the Halcrow acquisition in North America. Prior to this assignment, he served as CH2M HILL’s transportation operations director for Latin America. He also has 13 years experience as a state regulator in coastal management and an environmental planning consultant for transportation projects.

King previously was a member of the Halcrow Maritime Global Management Team and technical director for the organization’s Engineering Divers Group. He brings more than 20 years of experience managing a wide variety of inspection, design, and construction projects.