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Derek Benedict, PE Transit Project Manager

Derek has over 10 years of experience in consulting engineering and transit projects. He has demonstrated the ability to develop, communicate, and coordinate elegant solutions in complex urban environments, focusing exclusively on engineering and network planning for transit corridors and facilities. In addition to project management and technical leadership roles, Derek participates in the APTA Streetcar Subcommittee and has presented at Rail~Volution. Derek’s individual project experience includes:

Ju Kim Construction Operations Manager

• Connector Partnership JV, LA Metro, Los Angeles, CA • LA Streetcar Consultant Project Management Services, LADOT, Los Angeles, CA • Crenshaw North Extension Feasibility Study, LA Metro, Los Angeles, CA • Oklahoma City Streetcar, City of Oklahoma City, OK

• City of Tucson Modern Streetcar, City of Tucson, AZ • Dallas Urban Circulator Streetcar Project, Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), Dallas, TX • El Paso Streetcar Project, City of El Paso, TX • Red Line Service Improvements, Capital Metro, Austin, TX

Ju brings 29 years of professional experience in transportation engineering and project management. His career includes 21 years as a California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) senior bridge engineer, and as Division Manager of Construction for Orange county Public Works (OCPW), managing county’s construction projects for OCPW. His diverse structure experience includes cast-in-place (CIP) box girder bridges, T-girder bridges, precast I girder bridges and steel I-girder bridges. He also has an in-depth knowledge of mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls, various types of retaining walls, soil nail walls, tie back walls, pump plants, maintenance stations, stone columns, soil mixing, bridge retrofit, open channels, cofferdam construction, roadway rehabilitation, drainage and sewer. Ju’s individual project experience includes:

Portia Gonzalez, PE, QSD/QSP Drainage Lead and Area Manager

• San Gabriel Trench Grade Separation Project, SGVCOG, San Gabriel, CA • I-405 Improvement Project, OCTCA, Orange County, CA • SR-57 Widening East Katella Avenue to East Lambert Road, Caltrans, Orange County, CA

• I-5 Freeway Widening, Caltrans/OCTA, Buena Park, CA • SR-57/SR-60 Interchange, Caltrans, Diamond Bar and City of Walnut, CA • I-5/805 Interchange, Caltrans, San Diego, CA

Portia brings more than 27 years of experience. She has served as project manager for various transportation projects in California, Arizona and Nevada, and has served as drainage and stormwater manager for the California High-Speed Rail Authority electric- powered high-speed rail (HSR) system in California. She has worked with Caltrans (Districts 7, 8, 11 and 12), SBCTA, RCTC, OCTA, SANDAG and LA Metro, among others. Portia’s individual project experience includes:

• California High-Speed Rail, San Jose to Merced and Merced to Fresno Segment, CA • Metro Gold Line, Sierra Madre to Azusa, CA • Exposition Light Rail Transit, Los Angeles, CA

• sbX Bus Rapid Transit, San Bernardino to Redlands, CA • RCTD Avenue 52 Railroad Grade Separation, Coachella, CA • RCTD Avenue 56 Airport Blvd/Railroad Grade Separation, Thermal, CA

Timothy Kirkley Senior Construction Engineer/Transportation

Gabriel Rodriguez, PE Civil/Utilities Lead and Area Manager

Tim has close to 40 years of experience in transportation engineering, with expertise in construction project management, traffic signal systems, land and construction surveying, inter-government operations, engineering services and project management. He has administered contracts providing photogrammetry materials, including mapping and 3D survey data. Tim’s experience in construction project management encompasses railroad grade separations, bridge replacement, soundwall, traffic signal communication systems, as well as freeway landscaping and irrigation projects. His individual project experience includes:

Gabriel has more than 20 years of civil engineering experience in the design and management of transportation and public infrastructure projects. He has executed projects from preliminary engineering and alternative analysis through final design and construction management. Gabriel brings experience with a number of agencies, including LA Metro, Orange County Public Works, SBCTA, Riverside County Transportation Department, Riverside Transit Agency, as well as local agencies. Gabriel’s individual project experience includes:

• Expo Light Rail Blue Line Design/Build, Los Angeles, CA • OmniTrans sbX BRT Project, San Bernardino, CA • Palm Ave Railroad Grade Separation,San Bernardino, CA

• I-10 Pepper Avenue Bridge Replacement • SR-22 Garden Grove Freeway Improvement Design/ Build, Orange County, CA

• Rail Road Crossing Quiet Zone, SANBAG, Colton, CA • Caltrans District 7 Engineering On-Call, Los Angeles, CA • West Valley Connector, Omnitrans, San Bernardino County, CA • sbX “E” Street Corridor BRT, Omnitrans, San Bernardino, CA

• Dockweiler Extension, City of Santa Clarita, CA • Rancho Vista Grade Separation, City of Palmdale, CA • Avenue 52 and Grapefruit Grade Separation, City of Coachella, CA

Nazli Karimi Risk and Project Controls Manager

Nazli brings over 10 years’ experience in risk management, change management, cost management, subcontract management, project controls, project estimating and engineering. She has worked on numerous infrastructure projects from the proposal phase to engineering, construction and handover. Nazli brings extensive experience in qualitative and quantitative risk assessments for major projects, and has led risk management for major rail programs such as the Washington, DC Purple Line P3 project, California High Speed Rail and Denver North Metro Rail. For three years she worked closely with risk and project controls team on the Crossrail project, Europe’s largest infrastructure project, performing cost and schedule risk analysis. She has developed corporate risk libraries, risk management plans, risk register templates and selected risk information systems for quantitative and qualitative analysis - deploying them on 80 projects across the globe. Nazli’s individual project experience includes:

Sampson Ho, P.Eng., M.Eng., PMP Vice President / Chief Engineer of Transit

Sampson has more than 37 years’ experience in the rail and transit industry, primarily in director, project manager and project controls manager positions. He has directly worked on high speed railway, light rail transit, subway/rapid transit extension, tunneling, viaducts and at-grade guideway, storage and maintenance facilities, airport transit line, infrastructure works and other industrial facility projects. Sampson previously served as Director, Construction Zone South, for the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation, where he managed construction of the 180km high speed rail. Sampson’s individual project experience includes:

• Finch + Sheppard LRT, Metrolinx, Toronto, ON • Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Metrolinx, Toronto, ON • TTC Civil Infrastructure (LRT), Design and Construction, RTI, Toronto, ON

• Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp., Taiwan • Mass Transit Railway Corp., Operation & Maintenance Division, Hong Kong

• Purple Line Project (P3 Light Rail, 16-mile rail transit system), Washington, DC • Denver Metro North Rail, Denver, CO

• Whitechapel Station, Crossrail PDP, London, UK • Silver Line Metro Project, VA