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Who's Doing What in the Industry

Diana C. Mendes

LOS ANGELES—AECOM has named Diana C. Mendes director of transit/rail, design and consulting services, Americas.

Mendes has more than 25 years of management experience. Her previous positions with AECOM include national director of transit planning and transit director for the U.S. West Region, director of strategic investments for North American transportation and most recently, Chesapeake District general manager.

For APTA, she is a designated committee chair director on the Board of Directors, vice chair of the Legislative Committee, immediate past chair of the Policy & Planning Committee and a member of numerous other committees.


William Tsuei

PHOENIX—Valley Metro announced the hiring of ­William Tsuei as its chief technology officer. Tsuei has more than 25 years of information technology experience, including tenures as IT senior manager for Access Services in Los ­Angeles and IT director for Omnitrans in San Bernardino, CA.

He is a graduate of the Leadership APTA Class of 2012, currently chairs the APTA IT Committee and is a member of several other committees.

Alireza Edraki


TORONTO—Alireza Edraki has joined Gannett Fleming as a vice president of Canadian operations for Gannett Fleming Transit and Rail Systems, based in Toronto. Edraki, a member of the APTA Rail Safety Committee, is a frequent speaker on system safety and security topics who has addressed numerous conferences.







India Birdsong

NASHVILLE—The Nashville Metro­politan Transit Authority and Regional Transportation Authority have named India Birdsong their new chief operating officer. Birdsong previously worked for the Chicago Transit Authority, most recently as senior manager of bus supervision and instruction for the central region.







Melissa Bynum

KANSAS CITY, MO—Melissa Bynum has joined the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority Board of Commissioners, appointed by Mayor Mark Holland of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, KS. She fills the seat left vacant by the death of A.J. Dusek earlier this year.

Bynum is a member of the Unified Government’s Board of Commissioners and executive director of the Shepherd’s Center of Kansas City, KS, which advocates for the aging.

Dale Schiavoni
LAKE COUNTY, OH—Dale ­Schiavoni, an employee of Ohio DOT District 12 from 1974 until his retirement in 2012, has joined the Laketran Board of Trustees, appointed by the Lake County Commissioners. He served as the district’s transportation planning and engineering administrator in 2011-2012 and was its transportation planning and programs administrator for the previous 20 years.

He succeeds Ed Podojil and will serve a three-year term.



Cleveland Ferguson III, Cami Haynes, Aleizha Batson

JACKSONVILLE, FL—The Jack­son­ville Transportation Authority (JTA) announced the appointments of ­Cleveland Ferguson III, vice president of human resources, compliance and risk management; Cami Haynes, assistant vice president/safety and compliance officer; and Aleizha Batson, senior manager of multimedia and community relations.

Ferguson joined the Jacksonville city government in 2012 as deputy chief administrative officer; earlier he was a professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law as a professor and a member of the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission.

Haynes has served JTA as ethics and compliance officer since 2013. She formerly practiced corporate law for Bank of America and Xerox.

Batson came to the city government as deputy director of communications in 2012 after working as manager of public outreach for the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority in Washington.

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