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TriMet’s McFarlane Announces Retirement
PORTLAND, OR—Neil McFarlane, general manager of the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) since 2010, announced that he will retire in early 2018. McFarlane joined TriMet in 1991, serving as executive director of capital projects and project control director for the Westside MAX light rail project before being named to the top position.
| For APTA, he is past chair of the Rail Transit Committee and Rail Transit CEOs Subcommittee and a member of numerous committees.
WASHINGTON, DC—Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has appointed Greg Hull, former APTA assistant vice president, public safety, operations and technical services, and former National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark V. Rosenker to the Metro Safety Commission. The regional agency will oversee safety at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
WASHINGTON, DC—Bonnie Murphy stepped down Nov. 1 as president of Operation Lifesaver Inc. (OLI) to join Dallas Area Rapid Transit as vice president, commuter rail and railroad management. Murphy, who came to OLI in 2016, has more than 30 years of experience, serving as general manager with Massachusetts Bay Commuter Rail, FRA deputy associate administrator for safety compliance and program implementation and regional administrator in Texas, and director and chief operating officer of Trinity Railway Express in Dallas/Fort Worth.
ISELIN, NJ—Mott McDonald announced the appointments of Todd Heacock as a senior vice president of structural engineering for North America, based in Iselin; Margaret Simmons-Cross, senior vice president, based in Seattle, as division general manager for the company’s Greater West Division; and Andrew Gardner, a vice president and light rail expert based in Vancouver, British Columbia, transportation planning practice leader for the firm’s West and Canada units.
Heacock has 40 years experience in consulting and structural engineering,
Simmons-Cross has worked for Mott McDonald for 12 years, most recently as construction manager for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s BART Extension. The Bay Area Chapter of Women’s Transportation Seminar honored her as Member of the Year in 2015.
Gardner has more than 25 years of light rail development, planning, design and financing experience in Canada, the US and the UK.
SACRAMENTO, CA—California Gov. Jerry Brown named Nancy Miller to the California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors. She is senior counsel for Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP (Public Law Group) and has more than 30 years of legal experience.
SAN DIEGO—Cubic Transportation Systems announced the appointment of Danny Beh as business development director of the Asia-Pacific region. He joins the company after leading the Asia Smart Cities and Security practice for Thales and holding senior executive roles with several high-tech companies.
DALLAS—The Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors announced four new members: Ray Jackson, Jon-Bertrell Killen and Dominique Torres, representing the city of Dallas, and Catherine Cuellar, representing Dallas and the city of Cockrell Hill.
Jackson is managing partner of the Jackson Law Firm. Killen helps companies manage their data as a solution architect at Slalom Consulting in Dallas. Torres operates the Torres Law Office. Cuellar is director of partnerships for RefillWise, a free pharmacy discount and rewards program.
CLEVELAND—The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) has appointed Floun’say Caver deputy general manager of operations following the retirement of Michael C. York.
Caver originally joined the agency in 2000, left in 2002 to complete his Ph.D. in public affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas, and returned in 2006 as RTA’s manager of budgets. He is the creator and original leader of TransitStat, a data-driven performance management initiative that has reduced costs, improved processes and changed the agency’s work culture, and created the RTA’s Management Trainee Program.
LAKEWOOD, WA—Pierce Transit announced the hiring of Hugh (Skip) Huck as executive director of maintenance. Huck previously was commanding officer of the Navy’s Southwest Regional Maintenance Center in San Diego and has held other positions managing equipment, facilities and maintenance for the U.S. fleet.
COLUMBUS, OH—Stefphanie Galloway has joined the Central Ohio Transit Authority as director of marketing. Galloway most recently served as chief marketing officer for the city of Columbus and previously served in the city’s department of technology and as special projects coordinator for the mayor’s office.
SAN FRANCISCO—Jean Banker, an executive with 25 years experience in public service and transportation policy, has joined Mott MacDonald as vice president, transportation delivery, based in the firm’s San Francisco office. She joins the firm after 10 years with the port of Oakland, CA, and earlier 13 years as deputy director of programs for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
CHICAGO—Transdev announced the hirings of Arthur Rader as vice president of business development for the Northeast Region; Panya Chhoeuy in charge of the company’s contract with the Regional Transportation District to administer Access-a-Ride paratransit in Denver; and Stephen Buckner to vice president of business development for Intelliride, the company’s paratransit and non-emergency medical transportation brokerage division.
Rader comes to Transdev from DILAX Systems, where he was vice president of sales. Chhouey has more than 24 years of public transit experience, most of them with the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System. Buckner has served since 2003 as director of business development, a division he started and grew from a regional to national level, for LeFleur Transportation in Mississippi.
RIVERSIDE, CA—Bob Bach has retired as maintenance director for the Riverside Transit Agency, a job he held since 2007. He has 32 years of public transit experience, including positions with the Orange County (CA) Transportation Authority and Omnitrans in San Bernardino, CA.
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