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Lynne Griffith
LAKEWOOD, WA—Lynne Griffith, chief executive officer of Pierce Transit since 2006, has announced her plans to retire effective Dec. 31.

Griffith is a member of the APTA Bus and Paratransit CEOs, Legislative, and Mid-Size Operations committees.

Libby Downey, Tony Barrera, Marie Orozco
MONTEREY, CA—The Monterey-Salinas Transit Board of Directors elected Monterey City Councilmember Libby Downey as its chair and Salinas City Councilmember Tony Barrera as vice chair. Downey has served on the MST board since 2005 and Barrera joined the board in 2013. Maria Orozco, the former board chair and mayor of the city of Gonzales, remains on the board.

Richard Chess
POMPANO BEACH, FL—The South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA) has named Richard Chess director of finance, effective July 21.

Chess joins SFRTA after serving as director of finance and accounting for the city of College Park, GA.




Bruno Barreiro, James A. (Jim) Cummings
POMPANO BEACH, FL—Miami-Dade County Commissioner Bruno Barreiro has been elected chair of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority Governing Board. Broward County businessman James A. (Jim) Cummings was elected vice chair.

Barreiro was first elected as board chair in 2006 and re-elected in 2007 and 2010. He earlier served on the former Tri-County Commuter Rail Authority Board of Directors, including service as vice chair and chair.

Cummings joined the board in 1997, served as vice chair in 2000-2001 and as chair in 2001-2002. He and his partners started James A. Cummings Inc. in 1981.

Marsha Moore
MISSISSAUGA, ON—Marsha Moore has joined Trapeze Group as chief technology officer for Trapeze Group North America. Moore has worked in information technology for more than 30 years, most recently as chief technology officer for MV Transportation.

Michael J. Petrisko, John A. Arnold
MARLTON, NJ—Hill International announced the appointments of Michael J. Petrisko as senior vice president and chief information, based in the company’s headquarters in Marlton, and John A. Arnold as senior vice president and managing director (Europe) for Hill’s Project Management Group, based in Madrid, Spain.

Petrisko previously served the company in this position from 2007-2012. He has more than 30 years of information technology experience.

Arnold was Hill’s senior vice president and international corporate counsel before his promotion. He has more than 40 years experience.


Vickie Miller, Thomas Algatt
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Operation Lifesaver Inc. has named Vickie Miller to lead its North Carolina branch, succeeding Vivian Bridges, and Thomas Algatt to head the Pennsylvania state program, succeeding Don Lubinsky.

Miller has 20 years of public service experience at the state and local levels. Algatt, a web designer and professional IT consultant, is a 22-year veteran of the Pennsylvania State Police.

Steve Brunner
SAN DIEGO—Cubic Transportation Systems has named Steve Brunner vice president of operations, North America.

Brunner joined Cubic in 1983 and most recently was vice president and regional director for the Eastern U.S.




Patrick Anderson, Joseph F. Miller, Brigette Thomas, Rex Plummer, Robert (Bob) Clifford, Charles (Chuck) Reed
NEW YORK—Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) has announced the following appointments:

Patrick Anderson has been named Texas transit and rail manager, based in Austin. He previously was director of transportation
programs for an international engineering firm.

Joseph F. Miller is joining the Dallas office as a senior systems supervising engineering manager. He has more than 40 years of rail system experience, working earlier with PB from 1997-2004.

Brigette Thomas is the new U.S. West business development manager in PB’s San Francisco office. Previously she was marketing manager for a global engineering and environmental firm.

Rex Plummer has been named PB’s San Diego area manager. He has more than 40 years experience and joined the firm in 2010 as a senior engineering manager.

Robert (Bob) Clifford, executive director of the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority from 2009-2014, has joined PB as vice president and Tampa area manager. Clifford has 28 years of experience in transportation planning and construction.

Charles (Chuck) Reed has joined PB’s New York City office as a supervising communications and security engineer. He has more than 15 years of security and communications systems design and engineering experience.

Anderson	Miller	Plummer

Clifford	Reed

Ramon Cisneros
FRANKLIN, TN—Ramon Cisneros has joined the Franklin Transit Authority board, appointed by the city’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Cisneros is president and chief executive officer of Millennium Marketing LLC. He is a safety and environmental engineer with experience in transportation and project management.






William Crosbie
NEW YORK—William Crosbie, president and chief executive officer of SYSTRA USA since 2012, has been appointed senior vice president of SYSTRA North America. Crosbie earlier served as Amtrak’s chief operating officer.

Doug Allen
WASHINGTON, DC—Doug Allen, chief executive officer, Virginia Railway Express, has joined the advisory board of the Getting America to Work coalition.

This coalition is working to educate Congress about the critical need to find a sustainable funding solution for public transit systems.


Karen J. Kacynski
MUSKEGON, MI—The Muskegon Area Transit System announced the hiring of Karen J. Kacynski as transit marketing specialist. Kacynski has more than 25 years of marketing and communications experience.







Patricia (Tricia) Walsh
PASADENA, CA—Patricia (Tricia) Walsh has joined Parsons’ transportation business unit as vice president and director of business development-Midwest, based in Chicago. Walsh has worked in the transportation sector for more than 18 years.


Debra A. Johnson
LONG BEACH, CA—Long Beach Transit has named Debra A. Johnson its deputy chief executive officer.

She has more than 20 years of public transportation leadership experience, most recently as interim chief operations officer with Los Angeles Metro.





Gary L. McArthur, JoAnn Shea
DENVER—Gary L. McArthur is joining CH2M HILL as executive vice president and chief financial officer. McArthur comes to the firm from Harris Corporation, where he served as chief financial officer since 2006.

JoAnn Shea, who had served as acting chief financial officer, will return to her position as chief accounting officer and controller.

Leslie Samel
ISELIN, NJ—Leslie Samel, P.E., has joined Hatch Mott MacDonald as a senior project manager in the Jacksonville, FL, office.

Samel has more than 14 years experience. Most recently she was client service leader and senior project manager for a large engineering firm.





Jon Kugler
YORK, PA—Jon Kugler is the new human resources director at rabbittransit. He succeeds Patricia A. Miller, who retired. Kugler has 18 years of human resources experience, serving most recently as a human resources director in the public school system.







Patrick G. Emery, Rogers Anderson, Bill Lockwood, Mark Robbins, Julian L. Bibb
FRANKLIN, TN—The TMA Group has elected the following officers for 2014-2016: chairman, Patrick G. Emery; vice chair, Rogers Anderson; secretary, Bill Lockwood; treasurer, Mark Robbins; and immediate past chair, Julian L. Bibb.

Emery is president of Spectrum | Emery, a commercial real estate company. Anderson is currently serving his third term as Williamson County mayor. Lockwood is a vice president with Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon Inc. and a registered landscape architect. Robbins is a restaurateur.

Emery	Anderson
Lockwood	Robbins

Gary Wildish, Carl Yeh, Julie Grossman, Ed Necker
EUGENE, OR—The Lane Transit District Board of Directors has elected Gary Wildish, a retired civil engineer, to a two-year term as its president. He is completing the term of Greg Evans, a former member of the APTA Executive Committee and APTA Board of Directors.

Carl Yeh, the new vice president, is director of student conduct and community standards at Oregon State University. He is in his second year on the board.

Julie Grossman, associate executive director of the Eugene YMCA, was named secretary.

Ed Necker, treasurer, was appointed to his second term on the LTD board by Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber. He is a veteran, a retiree, and a disability rights activist at the local and state levels.

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