18th Annual

Southern California APWA

April 19, 2017 – Carson Community Center

Agenda Registration 7:30 a.m. Welcome 8:00 a.m. to Official Welcome and opening of conference 8:30 a.m. Vendor Exhibits All Day

Session I 8:30 a.m. to ROOM A ROOM 107 ROOM 111 ROOM 132 10:00 a.m. Complete Streets:

Success Stories

Rock Miller, Stantec, Senior

Principal

Ryan Snyder, Transpo Group, Principal

Plans, Specs, & Estimates 101

Steve Bucknam, Bucknam & Associates, President

Jerome Ruddins, Michael Baker International, Vice President

Erik Updyke, LACDPW, Section Head

Wayne Richardson, MARRS Services, Infrastructure Group Leader

3D Survey Technology & Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)

Matt Rowe, PLS, Psomas, Principal

Anissa Voyiatzes, P.E., Psomas, Associate and Vice President

Dave Moritz, PLS, Psomas, Principal

Nick Loera, C Below, Business Development Manager

Smart City Technology

Jim Filanc, Southern Contracting Company, Director

Timothy Hirou, Convergence Wireless, Inc, Founder, President and CEO

Scott Smith, City of Irvine, Deputy Director of Public Works

Moderators: Jason Gabriel & Steve Forster

Moderator: Kash Hadipour Moderator: Jackie Martinez Moderator: Tran Tran

Break 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Southern California APWA April 19, 2017 – Carson Community Center

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Session II 10:30 a.m. to ROOM A ROOM 107 ROOM 111 ROOM 132 12:00 p.m. Complete Streets:

Sustainable Streetscapes/Placemaking

Matt Benjamin

Kekoa Anderson, Gateway CCOG/KOA Consulting

Suzi Furjanic, City of Santa Ana, Associate P/L Planner

Derek Fretheim, Acire – BikeConnect, President

Digital Infrastructure

Joe Bollinger, Tanko Lighting, Sales Director

David Pelser, HR Green, Manager of Local Government Services

Christy Lopez, Best Best & Krieger LLP, Of Counsel

ADA Accessibility

Ron Lorenzen, City of Los Angeles, Assistant Director for BSS

Arsen Voskerchyan, P.E., City of Los Angeles, Senior Civil Engineer for BOE

Harold Davis, HDR, Inc., Director

Traffic Management Using Protected/Permissive Left Turn Phasing

Jamie Bourgeois, P.E., City of Irvine, City Traffic Engineer

Eric Cowle, CVAG, Transportation Program Manager

Moderators: Jason Gabriel & Steve Forster

Moderator: Allan Rigg Moderator: Susan Shu Moderator: Kamran Saber

Lunch 12:00 p.m. to Orange County Streetcar with Jim Beil, Executive Director, Capital Programs, OCTA and Terry Nash, Associate Vice President, 1:30 p.m. Transit and Rail, HNTB

Session III 1:30 p.m. to ROOM A ROOM 107 ROOM 111 ROOM 132 3:00 p.m. Complete Streets:

Active Transportation Safety/Vision Zero

Brian Oh, City of Los Angeles, Transportation Planner

Corey Wilkerson, City of Santa Ana, Active Transportation Coordinator

Drusilla Van Hengel, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Principal

Construction Management Best Mgmt. Practices

Louis Abi-Younes, P.E., City of Ontario, City Engineer

Scott Walker, Danken

Securing Grants & Understanding Assessment Districts

Paul Martin, OCTA, Active Transportation Coordinator

Jeff Cooper, PencoEng, Vice President and COO

Ana Marie LeNoue, Avante-Garde, President and CEO

Advances in Pavement Management

Shakir Shatnawi, Ph.D., Shatec Engineering Consultants, President

Amir Ghavibazoo, Ph.D., Twining, Inc., Senior Pavement Engineer

Keith Mozee, City of Los Angeles, Assistant Director

Moderators: Jason Gabriel & Steve Forster

Moderator: Ghazala Khan Moderator: Michael Bruz Moderator: Harry Lorick

Sponsored by: Southern California APWA Engineering and Technology Committee

18th Annual

Vendor List

Carson Community Center

April 20, 2016

Advanced Drainage Systems

Terence Zhao

Robert Charles

American Geotechnical, Inc.

Sherie Dunbar

Michelle Hatcher

AndersonPenna Partners, Inc.

Cherie Hughes

Angelus Block Co.

David Quinn

Arcadis

Natasha DeBenon

Beehive Industries

Zach Stivrins

California Nevada Cement Assn.

Nathan Forrest

Jeff Wykoff

Cannon

Stephanie Hunting

Melanie Mills

C Below, Inc.

Tiffany Kurimay

Nick Loera

Chambers Group

Eunice Bagwan

Larry Maes

Civil Source, Inc.

David Niknafs

Ebonie Bender

Crafco, Inc.

Gary Lewis

Rob Manriquez

CSG Consulting

Cyrus Kianpour

Peykan Abbassi

Earth Systems

Jon Jaeger

Chris Allen

Ennis-Flint

Lino Ramirez

John Koch

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions

Tom Hicks

Todd Vargason

Gallagher Asphalt Corporation

Anthony Hoag

GHD

Sarmad Farjo

Griffin Structures

Kelly Boyle

Dustin Alamo

HNTB

Patrick Somerville

Johnson North America

Russel Dysard

Scott Carey

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14th Annual

Vendor List (continued)

Souther

Carson Community Center

April 20, 2016

Labelle Marvin

Griffin Marvin

Ed Perez

Lake Traffic Solution, LLC

Art Lake

LAN

Fred Wickman

Cenk Yavas

Michael Baker International

Margaret Novak

Michael Bruz

NCE

Lisa Senn

Juanita Martinez

Pacific Emulsions, Inc.

Lance Allan

Jim Farnell

Pavement Recycling Systems

Craig Harrington

James Emerson

Penco Engineering

Jeffrey Cooper

Psomas

Arief Naftali

Vincent Hellens

RJM Design Group, Inc.

Larry Mouri

Craig Sensenbach

RKA Consulting Group

Natalie Vinales

Cody Howing

RRM Design Group

Brian Hannegan

Bill Strand

South Coast Lighting

Kevin Sakamoto

Tensar Corp.

Lars Nelson

Dennis Rogers

US CAD

Jeff Rachel

Chris Keck

Western Emulsions

Matthew Conarroe

Kevin Donnelly

Willdan

Francesca Fuentes

Adel Freij

Complete Streets: Success Stories

Room A

Rock Miller, P.E. , P.T.O.E.

Rock Miller is a registered Traffic Engineer in California and is a Registered Civil Engineer in

California and Hawaii. A graduate of UC, Davis, he has over 35 years of experience in a wide

variety of disciplines of traffic engineering. In 2012, he served as President of the Institute of

Transportation Engineers (ITE) after serving in similar roles for his home ITE District and

Section.

Rock’s experience includes work as a municipal Traffic Engineer and for various consulting

firms. He is currently serving as Senior Principal – Traffic and Transportation for Stantec

Consulting. Rock also teaches several one-day courses in Traffic Engineering for UC Berkeley

Institute of Transportation Studies, including Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering and the

MUTCD. He serves the California Traffic Control Devices Committee (CTCDC) and on the

National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (NCUTCD), two committee that

oversee the evolution of the MUTCD. Rock was appointed to represent bicycling and walking

interests.

Rock has extensive experience in designing enhanced facilities for pedestrians and bicycles. His

work has helped cities to earn Pedestrian Friendly and Bicycle Friendly status through national

designation programs. He was recently named to the Transportation Research Board Bicycle

Committee that coordinates all National Bicycling research and results. He has projects

completed or underway Redondo Beach, Baldwin Park, Hermosa Beach, Long Beach, and

Calgary, Alberta. He has also contributed to various downtown streetscape and place-making

projects.

Ryan Snyder

Ryan Snyder is Principal with Transpo Group, a transportation planning and engineering firm

that prepares sustainable transportation plans. Snyder is a member of the Bicycle Technical

Committee and the Autonomous Vehicle Task force of the National Uniform Traffic Device

Committee. He has recently produced a policy paper on autonomous vehicles. Snyder serves on

the faculty at the UCLA Urban Planning Department. He holds an M.A. in Urban Planning and a

B.A. in Economics from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

Plans, Specs, & Estimates 101

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C. Stephen Bucknam, Jr., P.E.

Biographical Summary

EDUCATION

B.S., Civil Engineering, Loyola University of Los Angeles - 1967

M.S., Environmental Engineering, Loyola University of Los Angeles - 1972

PROFESSIONAL DATA

Registered Professional Engineer, States of California (No.20903) and Washington (No.17310)

California State Community College Teaching Credential (Lifetime)

Lecturer, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine

Former Lecturer, Engineering at Saddleback College, Mission Viejo

Fellow and Life Member, American Society of Civil Engineers

Member, American Water Works Association

Life Member, American Public Works Association

Life Member, Orange County Water Association

Member, Water Environment Foundation

Member, California Farm Bureau

Honorary Member, Chi Epsilon

Former Chair, Member of the Board of Directors, Urban Water Institute

Past President, Civil & Environmental Engineering Affiliates, University of California Irvine

EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW

Forty-six years’ experience in the administration, management, planning, design and

construction management of public works, water resources and development programs and

projects in the fields of water, wastewater, transportation and drainage.

Specific functional responsibilities have included: program planning, program management,

master planning, infrastructure planning and maintenance programming, grant writing and

administration, environmental studies, street, highway, alley, storm drain, water and sewer

system design, rate studies, emergency planning, facilities design, groundwater studies, wells,

reservoirs, site studies, pump stations, lift stations, intergovernmental negotiations and

agreements, hydrology, treatment facilities, building design, grants, regulatory permitting,

system appraisals, R/W negotiations, acquisitions and documentation, project management,

production control, operations studies, capital improvement programming and budgeting,

hydroelectric projects, underground utilities, assessment districts, surveying, mapping, legal

testimony to public boards, commissions and councils, and direction of technical advisory

committees to joint powers agencies and water districts.

CURRENT POSITION - President, Bucknam & Associates, Inc., since 1996

FORMER MANAGEMENT POSITIONS

Deputy City Manager - Public Works, City of Norwalk

Assistant Executive Director / Chief Engineer Utilities Agency - City of Santa Ana

City Engineer - Cities of Arcadia, Norwalk & Pacifica, California

Vice President - IWA Engineers

Vice President - Perliter & Ingalsbe Consulting Engineers

Vice President - Regional Manager, HDR Engineering

Vice President - Regional Manager OTT Engineers

Manager of Engineering – Mission Viejo Company

Design Section Engineer – City of Newport Beach

Bucknam & Associates, Inc.

25004 La Plata Drive, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677-1905

(949) 363-6461, (949) 363-6505 Fax, Email: steve@bucknam.net

Jerome Ruddins, R.C.I., QSP, CISEC

Vice President

Manager Construction Services West Region

Education:

B.S., 1985, Construction Management, California State University, Long Beach

Years of Experience:

29

Registration:

1989, Registered Construction Inspector, Division IV Public Works, CA, 5153

1989, Registered Construction Inspector, Division I Engineering, CA, 5153

2008, 30 Hour OSHA Construction Safety & Health Certification

2011, CISEC 0783, QSP 21030

Professional Affiliations:

Past Member, Executive Board, Construction Management Association of America,

Southern California Chapter

Member, Registered Construction Inspectors Association

Speaker APWA Streets and Technology Program 2009 - 2013

Member, American Public Works Association

Member, American Public Works Association, Career Guidance Program

Speaker, Construction Inspection Practices, American Public Works Association

Past Committee Member, GREENBOOK Committee, Asphalt Rubber Hot Mix,

American Public Works Association

As the Vice President of Construction Services Western Region, Mr. Ruddins is responsible for

management of the Construction Services Team. During the last 29 years he has been

responsible for CMS on over $2 billion of public works and private construction projects. His

vast experience includes Design Build, Multiple Prime and Design Bid Build project delivery.

He works closely with owners during the planning and execution of complex construction

projects. He is a member of the Baker Safety Council and Construction Services Safety Council.

He is a regular panelist for the annual Southern California APWA Streets and Technology

Conference.

Projects within Mr. Ruddins experience includes tilt up, CMU and metal buildings, bridges,

highways, traffic signals, seismic retrofits, airports, park and sports facilities, parking

structures, reservoirs, correctional facilities, dams, water pumping and distribution systems,

water treatment, waste water treatment and conveyance, and drainage channels.

As a Program Manager he works closely with Owners, Engineers, Resident Engineers, Design

Builders, Contractors, Architects, Developers, Transportation Agencies, Environmental Teams,

and Material Testing Firms. He routinely chairs construction site meetings, reviews construction

schedules, and pay estimates. Other responsibilities have included quality control of inspection,

constructability reviews, value engineering panelist, risk analysis, prequalification programs,

specification quality control, and construction safety. He has chaired claim review panels, and

worked closely with legal counsel to resolve contract changes.

Mr. Ruddins’ skill in managing critical issues of cost, time, and quality, coupled with his

knowledge of construction, standards, and regulations, ensures all projects are completed to the

full satisfaction of the Client.

ERIK UPDYKE

LACDPW

Erik Updyke is the Section Head of the Specifications and Environmental Compliance Section in

the Construction Division of the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works. Erik has

over 31 years with the County serving in various positions in the Road Maintenance, Design and

Construction Divisions. Erik has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maine and

an MBA from California State University, Long Beach. Erik is a Registered Civil Engineer in

California. Since 2005, Erik has been the APWA Co-Chair of the Greenbook Committee of

Public Works Standards, Inc., and is also one of two voting members representing Los Angeles

County.

Wayne Richardson, PE, LEED AP

Clients value Wayne’s creative solutions and communication excellence in

delivering major complex Projects on schedule and within budget. With

over 25 years of public and private Industry service and recognition,

Clients have confidence in Wayne’s capabilities to deliver quality while

meeting challenging economic and regulatory constraints.

Capital programs and projects alike benefit from Wayne’s cost estimating

skills, including versatility with multiple disciplines, value engineering, and

use of technological tools. Wayne recently lead the cost estimating effort

for the $60 million Quantas Hangar Facility and the $90 million West

Maintenance Area at LAX, to within 2% of the actual bid. Wayne also recently led the Cost

Estimating Team for the hundreds of utilities on the 1.5 Billion I-405 Highway Improvements

for OTCA. Public Agency Clients have sought him for training their staff in the “Principles of

Cost Estimating”. He advocates proactive identification of challenges early, including site

constraints, externalities, third parties and accounting for the regulatory environment.

Complementing Mr. Richardson’s professional degrees in both City Planning and

Civil/Architectural Engineering is his expertise in Real Estate Finance and Construction.

Education BS, Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Texas, 1986

BS, Urban Planning, Univ. of Virginia, 1983

Project and Construction Management, UCI/Various

Registrations Licensed Professional Engineer, CA No. 46808

LEED Accredited Professional

Member, American Public Works Association Chair, Streets & Technology Committee

American Planning Association - Transportation Advisory Council

3D Survey Technology & Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)

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Most modern Infrastructure improvement projects are being designed and constructed within the

existing built environment. These improvement projects will most likely encounter both known

and unknown buried utilities which will have a direct negative impact on project costs, schedule,

and worker’s safety. Projects that invest in adequate utility mapping and detection to support the

design process will save significant costs in the project construction.

This presentation is based on the American Society of Civil Engineers 38-02 Subsurface Utility

Engineering (SUE) Guidelines, industry best practices and applying lessons learned from the

execution of infrastructure improvement projects to locate and map subsurface utilities and

structures. This discussion will provide a progressive process to manager risk associated with

the location, identification and depiction of existing underground facilities by using Quality

Level (QL) assignments to each noted utility. The QL notation provided owners, surveyors,

engineers, contractors and stakeholders with an understanding of the reasonable level of

accuracy for the existing utility information shown maps and plans.

This discussion will cover the following topics as they related to buried utilities:

Utility Research

Utility mapping

Utility detection technology and methods

Utility potholing

Utility designation and final mapping (QL Levels)

Matt Rowe, PLS

Matt Rowe, a Principal of Psomas, has 34 years of professional surveying experience including

design, large-scale, and ALTA surveys (both single-site and multi-site, as well as multi-state)

and record mapping (including many 3-dimensional maps). He has coordinated, managed, and

supervised a multitude of projects that have included the services of field survey, aerial

photogrammetric mapping, digital orthophotos, utility surveys, title report review, boundary

analysis, and preparation of maps and exhibits. In addition to survey management, Mr. Rowe

also instructs employees of major law firms and title insurance companies in the process of the

ALTA survey. His seminar features the components of ALTA/ACSM Land Title surveys, the

ALTA process and legal requirements, legal descriptions and some of the associated pitfalls, as

well as instruction on interpreting information from an ALTA survey.

Anissa Voyiatzes, PE, ENV SP, QSD

Ms. Voyiatzes, an Associate and Vice President of Psomas, has 23 years of experience in civil

engineering planning, design, and program and project management for transportation and public

works projects. These projects have included public facility projects that required utility

engineering, vehicular and pedestrian bridges, roadway widening, site grading, flood control

facilities, drainage systems, sewer and water systems, parking lots and retaining walls. She

specializes in public works engineering. Her experience includes project management and design

that incorporate sustainable design practices.

Dave Moritz, PLS

Dave Moritz, a Principal of Psomas, has over 27 years of experience in the survey industry,

including right of way program management, pipeline mapping, Subsurface Utility Engineering

(SUE), ALTA surveys, design surveys, control surveys, utility surveys, base mapping, Records

of Survey, and legal descriptions. More recently, Dave was responsible for developing a SUE

program for a large pipeline testing/replacement project in Southern California. The program

required over 1000 miles of testing and over 200 miles of replacement in urban, suburban and

rural areas. A good SUE program was the key to the program’s success. He developed work

flows and standards that follow the ASCE 38-02 SUE guidelines and implemented the program

with over 20 different surveying and pipeline engineering consultants.

Smart City Technology

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James Filanc, LEED AP

Director, Business Development

Southern Contracting Company

Mr. Filanc has been in the energy design-build construction industry for nearly 40 years. He has

worked on refinery, oil & gas and petrochemical projects around the world as project engineer,

project controls manager, project manager and business development / marketing manager for

major companies, including Fluor, Brown & Root, Halliburton and Jacobs Engineering.

Since 2007, Mr. Filanc has been the Director of Business Development with Southern

Contracting, a leading utility contractor serving Southern California since 1963. He has led the

company into new markets, including renewable energy and energy efficiency. Since 2010, he

has helped Southern Contracting become a leading design-builder of LED streetlight projects,

having audited, designed, and/or converted to LED and induction technologies more than

150,000 streetlights. Southern provides turnkey streetlight programs, including streetlight

auditing, illumination engineering, material procurement, installation, utility rebates, financing

assistance, and on-going operations and maintenance.

Mr. Filanc has also been a pioneer and active in advancing the streetlight market from an

industry that just provides roadway lighting to becoming market where streetlights now serve as

a service hub to deliver wireless communications technology adaptive lighting controls, sensing

technology (optical, environmental, etc.). He has published numerous white papers that have

been influential in guiding the development of smart streetlight applications for cities such as

San Diego and Oceanside, California. He also coordinated the formation of a formal research

project comprised of SDG&E, (local utility), the Cities of San Diego and Chula Vista, and the

California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) to investigate the nexus of dimming savings

with roadway lighting output. This has directly led to the creation of the state’s first TOU-

metered streetlight tariff rate, slated for implementation in 2018. This tariff has been strategically

developed to capture additional LED dimming savings while providing metered power to IoT

devices, small cells, and sensors atop streetlights.

Mr. Filanc sees LED streetlight conversions as a strategic down payment on a city’s plans to

build a strategic roadmap to becoming a smart city, leveraging the unlocked savings to invest in

smart infrastructure and support the rapid advance of the mobile internet atop streetlights.

Timothy L. Hirou Timothy L. Hirou is Founder, President & CEO of Convergence Wireless, Inc.

(CWI). Mr. Hirou has earned his own personal patents as well as co-inventing

and patenting the communications, hardware, and software technologies (54

separate inventions) supporting CWI’s wireless outdoor and in-building control

and monitoring solutions. Mr. Hirou founded CWI in June 2006 to develop,

productize, and bring these disruptive wireless communications and control technologies to

market with an initial focus on wireless lighting controls for commercial buildings, with an

extended focus on fine-tuned HVAC controls, security and in-building tracking/”Indoor GPS”

Location Based Services (LBS) capabilities which simultaneously delivers a control channel

backbone for in-building wireless telecommunications. Large client opportunities have pulled

CWI into the other major area of their patents, outdoor lighting based solutions.

Prior to founding CWI, Mr. Hirou held senior executive positions with several technology firms.

These included roles as: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President of Sales and

Marketing for Pro-Dex Corporation (2004 & 2005), a publicly traded company and market

leader in rotary devices and motion control technology for the medical markets globally;

Director of Business Development for ThinGap Technologies (2003 & 2004), a worldwide-

patented electric motor and amplifier technology; and multiple Executive Management positions

for Minarik Automation & Control (1989-2001), the nation’s largest automation and motion

control manufacturer, distributor and representation organization. At Minarik, Mr. Hirou had

responsibility for setting the technical direction for the manufacturing, the distribution and

representation divisions, including product offerings as well as features sets and pricing on the

manufacturing side, product mix on the distribution side. In this role, Mr. Hirou successfully

created an entire new market by deploying real-time PC based control to replace incumbent PLC

technology – a strategy which drove compounded double digit highly profitable sales of

Minarik’s motor control, hardware, switchgear, sensors, and motion control technology year

after year. By the time Mr. Hirou left Minarik, over 80% of the firm’s $100 MM of total

revenues were comprised of technologies established by Mr. Hirou during his tenure with the

company.

Previous engineering roles also included serving as Motion Control Engineer for Motion

Technology, Inc. (1987-1989), a leading manufacturers' representative for motion control

technologies, and as Electro-Mechanical Engineer for Hackett Precision, Inc. (1985-1988), a

custom machine builder, strong in the assembly automation, automotive industry applications,

and the large press industry. Mr. Hirou earned a B.S. from UCLA’s interdisciplinary Honors

Program, graduating with Magna Cum Laude honors.

Relevant professional affiliations and standards body participation

Vice President of the Internet Protocol for Smart Objects Alliance www.ipso-alliance.org

Specification Contributing Member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) www.ietf.org

(U.S. Smart Grid Communications Standard Body)

Specification Contributing Member of the ZigBee Alliance www.zigbeealliance.org

Author of Edison Electric Institute White Paper on “Customer Side of the Meter Load Control”

www.eei.org

Speaker at Connectivity Week for “Demand Response Business Models”

www.connectivityweek.org

Speaker at GridCom East “How Internet Protocol will be used in the Smart Grid”

www.gridcomforum.com/GCFEast/conference/schedule/Session_B2.aspx

Speaker at Smart Grid Energy Summit for “Standards Contribution to Smart Grid Effort”

www.parksassociates.com/events/smart-energy-summit

Scott Smith, P.E., P.L.S

Deputy Director of Public Works

City of Irvine

Mr. Scott Smith is a Registered Civil Engineer, Licensed Land Surveyor, and Licensed General

Contractor. He has been working on municipal implementation of wireless connectivity and

smart city concepts for over five years. He’s presently working for the City of Irvine as the

Deputy Director of Public Works. Previously, while City Engineer at the City of Oceanside, he

was the lead for Oceanside’s US DOT “Beyond Traffic: The Smart City Challenge” grant

competition and served as the city’s advocate in Washington D.C. concerning this opportunity.

Mr. Smith’s private and public sector experience lends to a practical approach, which takes into

consideration near, mid, and long term solutions, while also considering sustainability.

Complete Streets: Sustainable Streescapes/Placemaking

Room A

Derek Fretheim

Mr. Fretheim has been developing technology gfor the transit and transportation sector since

1997. This includes software, hardware and business solutions that are catered to each clietn. He

has served as chief architect developing Ridematchin gSoftware Programs, Commute Tracking

Systems, Advanced Traveler Information Systems and Transit Wayfinding Systems. Mr.

Fretheim developed BikeConnect’s secure access technology which includes member

management, on-line payment system and remote management solution. In addition, Mr.

Frethiem has provided consulting services to municipal governments and county transportation

commissions. He has secured over funding for projects totaling over $150 million.

Digital Infrastructure

Room 107

The public right of way has become the location for the expansion of technology throughout the

nation. Come listen to speakers on acquiring your streetlights as a base for Smart technology,

creating your own broadband network, and regulating cell sites to minimize impacts on your

residents.

Joe Bollinger Sales Director, Tanko Lighting Joe Bollinger brings decades of experience ranging from product design, manufacturing support, software instruction and support, through project management. He currently serves as Tanko Lighting’s Sales Director, in which he applies his foundational knowledge in renewable resources to create a comprehensive nationwide prospect pipeline and sales process for the company’s LED turn-key energy retrofit projects. In this position, Mr. Bollinger performs extensive market analysis into utility tariffs, rebate programs, product offerings and state and federal grant offerings, provides business development efforts to establish project management needs, identifies and creates additional business opportunities, and supports the company’s client base from pre-sales through project completion. Further, Mr. Bollinger provides training and management of internal sales associates and the company’s external national team of key distributors. Prior to joining Tanko Lighting, Mr. Bollinger served in a variety of engineering roles, including as a Design Consultant for Sano Intelligence, in which he designed a glucose monitoring medical device. As a Design Consultant for other clients, Mr. Bollinger also integrated design and specification of the LEAP Motion controller, designed a high efficiency internal combustion engine component, prepared AutoCAD designs and drawings for photovoltaic utility-scale power plants, designed fixed tilt, single and dual axis PV trackers and azimuth PV trackers, and completed a prototype CAD design of a 3MW windmill generator and support structure. Prior to his tenure as a Design Consultant, Mr. Bollinger served as a Electro-Mechanical Engineer/Manager/Designer for S&R Precision LLC, Raytheon, Inc., OptiSolar, Inc., and Belectric, Inc. In these roles he managed engineering teams during the design of a 2.5 MW solar inverter prototype. He also led the electro-mechanical designs of integrated military shelter systems and provided engineering support for silicon wafer capital equipment. Mr. Bollinger also served as an Applications Engineer/Software Instructor for Ideate, Inc., in which he provided sales support, training, curriculum development, and technical support for AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Vault. Mr. Bollinger holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering from the California Polytechnic State University. He also is an Autodesk Inventor Certified Expert, and is certified in High Energy Electron Beam Welding.

Mr. Bollinger has developed turn-key streetlight conversion projects with numerous municipalities

nationwide, including: Leominster, MA, Andover, MA, Watertown, MA, Everett, MA, Warren, MA,

Wayland, MA, Goffstown, NH, Berlin, CT, Vernon, CT, New London, CT, Wolcott, CT, Darien,

CT, Groton, CT, Meriden, CT, Glastonbury, CT, West Hartford, CT, East Lyme, CT, Montville, CT,

Hartford, CT, Old Lyme, CT, Bristol, CT, and Putnam, CT.

www.tankolighting.com 220 Bayshore Blvd | San Francisco, CA 94124 | P 415.254.7579 | F 415.822.3626

David A. Pelser, Manager of Local Government Services

HR Green

dpelser@hrgreen.com

562.298.8476

David has managed the planning, design, construction, and operation of transportation facilities,

water and wastewater systems, and waste management programs. He has been a City Engineer,

City Traffic Engineer, County Engineer, Public Works Director, Utilities Director, and

consultant. As a consultant, David has served local governments, the State of California, US

Department of Defense, National Park Service, and private industry. He helped improve water

treatment systems in rural Vietnam; developed a solid waste management system and improved

wastewater operations for Jabalpur, India; and designed a modern sanitary landfill for Saipan.

David has extensive experience managing public sector utility enterprises for competitive levels

of service and financial returns that benefit the broader community. His most recent utility

enterprise interest is gigabit municipal broadband.

David is a graduate of the School of Engineering at the University of California, Davis and he

holds a masters degree from Biola University. He has held professional engineering licenses (PE

– civil, environmental) in five states and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands. He is

Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) with the American Academy of Environmental

Engineers.

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ADA Accessibility

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Mr. Lorenzo and Mr. Voskerchyan will present about the effort to comply with the American

with Disabilities Act and a recent Settlement Agreement, the City of Los Angeles has embarked

upon an ambitious Sidewalk Repair Program (SRP). The SRP plans to address non-accessible

pedestrian facilities (sidewalks, curb ramps, etc.) within a thirty-year program and spend

approximately $1.4 Billion in that effort. The SRP is divided into three primary sub-programs:

Program Access Improvements, Access Request Program, and the Rebate Program.

As a significant portion of the sidewalk damage is pursuant to the presence of street trees, the

SRP will require creative solutions to street tree/sidewalk conflicts to ensure the City's street tree

canopy is not diminished and continues to provide all the ecosystem benefits now provided.

Mr. Davis will show and discuss common accessible path of travel deficiencies in the public

right-of-way and solutions to those deficiencies.

Ron Lorenzen

City of Los Angeles

Mr. Lorenzen is the Assistant Director for the Bureau of Street Services (BSS) in the Department

of Public Works of the City of Los Angeles. He joined the City of Los Angeles in 1992 and

promoted through ranks in the BSS. He has BA degree in Interdisciplinary Study with Minor

emphasis in Environmental Studies.

Arsen Voskerchyan

City of Los Angeles

Mr. Voskerchyan is the Senior Civil Engineer with Sidewalk Division in the Bureau of

Engineering (BOE), Department of Public Works, City of Los Angeles. He joined the City about

10 years ago and worked in various Divisions in the BOE. He is a Registered Professional Civil

Engineer in California since 2010. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering, with an

emphasis on Structural Engineering from UC Irvine.

Harold Davis

HDR Inc.

Mr. Davis is the West Region Quality Director with HDR inc. He has over 31 years of

experience in the industry with more than 20 years of accessibility related work in public and

commercial design, review and remediation.

He has degrees in Architecture and BS in Environmental Design. He is a certified Access

Specialist; LEED accredited Professional and registered Architect in the States of Indiana and

Wisconsin.

Traffic Management Using Protected/Permissive Left Turn Phasing

Room 132

Ms. Jaimee Bourgeois Bio

Ms. Bourgeois has 18 years of municipal and private sector experience and currently serves as

City Traffic Engineer for Irvine. Her broad experience includes local and regional transportation

planning, as well as traffic engineering, including signal design and operations, traffic calming,

safety and public relations. Ms. Bourgeois is a Registered Civil Engineer and Traffic Engineer

by the State of California.

Eric Cowle, CVAG, Transportation Program Manager

Eric has a degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis,

and has served as the Long Range Planning Engineer for the Missouri Department of

Transportation, and as a Director of Public Works for a St. Louis suburb. Eric and his wife of 30

years have four children and relocated to the Southern California Desert over 10 years ago to

work in the private sector for Stantec Consulting, Inc. He currently serves as the Transportation

Program Manager for the Coachella Valley Association of Governments.

Lunch Session

Orange County Streetcar

Complete Streets: Active Transportation Safety/Vision Zero

Room A

Brian Oh

Brian is a Transportation Planner with the City of Los Angeles. He is one of the lead planners on

the City’s Vision Zero efforts. As a life-long Angeleno, he is currently re-exploring the City

through his 1-year old daughter’s eyes and height.

Cory Wilkerson

Active Tranportation Coordinator

City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency

Cory is a transportation professional with a true passion for getting things done! His primary

responsibility is the planning and implementation of Santa Ana’s active transportation program.

In the two-years since he started with the City, he has managed a progressive Vision Zero Plan

through Council adoption, planned and fully funded a Complete Streets Plan for Downtown

Santa Ana, tripled the miles of on-street bicycle infrastructure, and successfully pursued $24-

million in grant funds. But he will tell you there is a lot more work to do.

Drusilla van Hengel

Principal

Drusilla has more than 20 years of transportation planning and operations experience, including

10 years of research. She is an expert on bicycle and pedestrian master planning, healthy

communities, and safe routes to schools and parks. She has helped Los Angeles bring safe and

walkable streets to life and spearheaded Santa Barbara’s efforts that earned the City both Walk

Friendly and Bicycle Friendly Community status. With her experience in land development,

traffic operations, and community planning, Dru helps make walking and bicycling viable

options for people of all ages and abilities. From Chicago to rural eastern Washington, she is

renowned for delivering built projects, implementable plans, and innovative practices.

Construction Management: Best Management Practices

Room 107

Louis Abi-Younes

Abi-Younes is the City Engineer for the City of Ontario for the past 8 years. He leads a

department of 46 full time employees including 14 registered engineers with an annual budget of

$100 million. With over 30 years of experience he is responsible for the department operations of

4 divisions focused towards the planning, development, and delivery of current and future city

transportation and infrastructure needs. That includes the development of Ontario Ranch an 8200

acres of agriculture land that will develop into 45,000 residential units with a backbone

infrastructures cost of $1.5 billion.

Scott Walker

Walker is a respected leader in the construction industry with over twenty five (25) years of

transportation infrastructure experience. Mr. Walker has a bachelor of science degree in civil

engineering from California State University, Long Beach and is registered as a professional

civil engineer in the states of California, Nevada and Arizona.

Mr. Walker has been involved in construction, construction management and design projects

throughout Southern California serving in project roles that have included principal-in-charge,

project manager, resident engineer, structures representative, claims specialist, construction

scheduler, cost estimator, design engineer-of-record, structure and roadway inspector.

In the past 16 years he has developed two thriving construction management businesses with

field offices throughout Southern California which have focused on niche markets of providing

professional construction management services to local agencies for Caltrans interchange, Union

Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway grade separation projects.

Recent Professional Achievements

2011 – WEC awarded APWA Building Excellence Sharing Tomorrow (BEST) Recreation and

Athletic Facilities for Lions Field Sports Complex ($14.8M) – City of Fullerton, CA

2014 – Danken Construction Engineering Group awarded ASCE Los Angeles Section Bridge

Project of the Year for the North Milliken Avenue UPRR Grade Separation Project ($25.3M) –

City of Ontario, CA

Securing Grants & Understanding Assessment Districts

Room 111

Advances in Pavement Management

Room 132

This session will have three seasoned Pavement Management practitioners who will cover

different topics from systems processes to actual pavement application and strategy and the

establishment and maintenance of a Pavement Management system; including data collection,

decision making and system establishment. Actual pavement alternatives strategies from a

systems implementation prospective that can be used will be outlined with both theoretical and

practical consequence.

Shakir Shatnawi, Ph.D.

President, Shatec Engineering Consultants, LLC

El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

sshatnawi@shatec.net

916-990-6488

Dr. Shakir Shatnawi is the owner and president of Shatec Engineering Consultants, LLC since

2010. At this capacity he directs and works on pavement design, highway design, engineering

specifications and consulting services. He worked for Caltrans for 20 years and was the Caltrans

State Pavement Engineer prior to his retirement in 2010. Shakir has extensive experience in

pavement design, rehabilitation, preservation, pavement management, materials and

construction. When he worked for Caltrans, he was the approving authority over Caltrans

pavement standards. He worked on many projects over the years such as long life pavement

projects, asphalt rubber projects, Superpave, investigations of pavement distress, and projects

under the Accelerated Pavement Testing Program. He led the development of numerous manuals

and design guides.

Education:

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Pavement Engineering & Materials), 1990

Master’s in Civil Engineering (Construction Management), 1985

B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1982

Amir Ghavibazoo, Ph.D.

Dr. Amir Ghavibazoo is the Senior Pavement Engineer at Twining, Inc. He is directing and

working on pavement design, engineering specifications, and pavement performance analysis.

He joined Twining Inc. in 2014 after graduating from his Ph.D program in civil engineering.

Amir has extensive experience in pavement design, rehabilitation, preservation, pavement

management, Asphalt concrete materials and construction. He is working with several cities and

public agencies regarding their mix designs, pavement constructions inspections, and pavement

designs. Also, he is involved in several technical committees in California, helping to develop

new specifications and update the existing ones. He worked on many projects over the years such

as asphalt rubber projects, Superpave mix design and specifications, investigations of pavement

distress, and green technologies in pavement construction. He also works as part time adjunct

professor, teaching pavement design course, at California State University, Long Beach.

Keith Mozee

Assistant Director

Bureau of Street Services - Department of Public Works

Keith Mozee entered City service as an employee of the Department of Public Works in 1989 and

was appointed Assistant Director in 2016. After having worked in nearly all areas in the Street

Maintenance, Special Projects, Resurfacing and Reconstruction Division, he also administers the

Bureau’s risk management efforts.

As Assistant Director he is responsible for:

Oversight of the 2400 Lane Mile Pavement Preservation Program

Maintenance of stairways, bridges, and tunnels, guardrails, and constructs access ramps.

Risk Management, as it pertains to, civil litigation loss control and prevention, health and

safety

Compilation of the Bureau’s Strategic 5-year Resurfacing Plan.

Preparation of complex reports and studies regarding Bureau programs and projects (cost

estimates, feasibility studies).

Interaction with other city and non-city agencies to coordinate construction activities.

Coordination with over 200 utility companies to obtain project clearances.

Representing the Bureau in Public Works committees, community meetings, media, and

other events.

Fleet Manager

Mr. Mozee received his Undergraduate Degree in Urban Studies at California State University

Northridge and currently serves as an adjunct professor at LATTC.

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