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LEO SCOTT, Gray‐Bowen‐Scott
As President, Leo provides leadership to the company’s staff working in four disciplines: project and program management; grants applications and management; encroachment permits and Federal compliance; and transit management agency operations. He is developing and adding staff in each discipline, which in turn increases the ability of Gray‐Bowen‐Scott to provide solutions for current and new clients around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Concurrently, Leo leads several project teams consisting of clients, Caltrans, and other agency members to ensure the successful delivery of projects. He employs his 30‐year history of relationships with Caltrans personnel and broad knowledge of Caltrans policy and procedures, transportation funding, and the political climate to assist the client. His strong listening ability and consensus‐building skills keep diverse groups working together toward the common goal of delivered projects.
SHEENA PATEL, Gray‐Bowen‐Scott
Sheena has 17 years of transportation design and management experience on projects in all delivery phases, ranging from design alternative analysis and feasibility studies through final PS&E and construction support. She has led projects that include components of pedestrian and bicycle facilities, state highways and local roads, freight rail, and commuter rail. While she is extremely knowledgeable of Caltrans’ methodology, she also enjoys the challenge of working on multi‐modal projects with a variety of stakeholders with differing perspectives and priorities. Sheena holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering/Transportation Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
MATTHEW TODD, Gray‐Bowen‐Scott
With over 26 years in the industry, Matt has extensive experience and knowledge to fund and deliver projects. Prior to joining Gray‐Bowen‐Scott, Matt was the Manager of Programming at the Alameda County Transportation Commission (ACTC), where he helped program and coordinate transportation funding and assisted local agencies in delivering and managing complex projects and programs involving multiple stakeholders. Matt is well versed in today’s regulatory and political environment, which often requires navigation through a maze of state, regional, and local agencies. Matt holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
GRACE DOI, Gray‐Bowen‐Scott
Grace has over 20 years of experience as a writer and communicator, which she now applies in her position as a grant writer at Gray‐Bowen‐Scott. Prior to joining Gray‐Bowen‐Scott, Grace worked as a Technical Writing Consultant at San Joaquin Regional Transit District (RTD) for seven years, where she was responsible for training and coaching staff in all levels of business writing and communication, including grant writing. Prior to the transit industry, Grace worked in marketing and as an instructional designer and adjunct faculty at post‐secondary institutions. With a high aptitude for learning, she enjoys finding creative solutions to problems and fine‐tuning writing (and processes) for optimum effectiveness and efficiency. Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from University of California, Los Angeles, and a Master of Arts in English Literature from University of Illinois at Chicago.
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ERIC ZELL, Zell and Associates
Eric is a specialist in public policy, governmental affairs, and political strategy. He has over thirty years of experience achieving successful implementation of difficult and high‐profile state and local public policy issues including the passage of state environmental, education and energy legislation; the establishment of Contra Costa County's Transportation Sales Tax and Growth Management Program; gaining approvals for state‐of‐the‐art energy facilities; and the passage of Contra Costa County's landmark Industrial Safety Ordinance. He has implemented public affairs and political campaigns on a variety of issues and for numerous candidates on the state and local levels as well as local ballot measures.
In 1991, Eric formed Zell & Associates, a highly respected government relations and public affairs consulting firm. Prior to forming his own company, Eric held the position of Vice President, Governmental Relations and Public Affairs, for William R. Gray and Company, a transportation consulting firm, for a period of four years. From 1980 through 1987, he served as local Chief‐of‐Staff to State Assemblyman Bob Campbell.
In addition, Eric is active in the local community, serving on the Board of Directors of the Contra Costa College Foundation and the East Bay Leadership Council. In 2010, he served as Finance Co‐Chair of the East Bay Regional Park District's successful Measure WW bond measure campaign. From 2007‐2016 he served as an elected member of the West Contra Costa Healthcare District Board of Directors.
He received his B.A. degree in political science from UCLA.
BOBBY WINSTON, Bay Crossings (subconsultant to Zell and Associates) Bobby Winston founded and ran the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival before joining a group advocating comprehensive regional ferry service that founded the Water Transit Authority (WTA), now WETA. He published ‘Bay Crossings’, the ferryrider’s newspaper, for 20 years and partners with working waterfront and community groups on initiatives including the ‘Working Waterfront Cohort’, training returning citizens for good paying jobs, and ‘Virtual Port’, a statewide collaborate aimed at digitizing port infrastructure to improve port congestion and emergency preparedness. He is also a property manager and investor who has been instrumental in bringing ferry service to Richmond.
JON MARSHALL, JMA Civil
Jon Marshall is the Founder and Principal Engineer at JMA Civil and has more than 25 years of experience in railroad facility design, consulting, and general civil engineering. Jon has completed over 200 railroad projects in his career, most with UPRR and BNSF Railway. Additionally, he has led the CPUC coordination role for several dozen rail grade separation and at‐grade crossing improvement projects.
His extensive experience includes designing projects and consulting for transit agencies including CAHSR, BART, Caltrain, Amtrak and VTA, and leading projects involving or impacting UPRR and BNSF Railway, especially in the Central Valley, Bay Area, and Northern Nevada.
Jon has managed projects through all stages of design, from analysis and planning to early concept and final design, through to construction support, with considerable cost estimating experience at each of these phases. Jon is also a polished public speaker. In 2017 and 2019, he was a main stage technical presenter at the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA) national conference where he addressed the innovative strategies and lessons learned from securing Union Pacific
3 Railroad and BNSF shoofly approvals for the CA High‐Speed Rail Program’s Construction Package 1 and 4.
Jon holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is a qualified SWPP Developer /Practitioner (QSD/QSP).
RYAN BISSEGGER, Mark Thomas and Company
Ryan has 18 years of experience in the engineering industry. He is Mark Thomas’ funding expert supporting local and regional agencies statewide. He is very knowledgeable of federal and state funding sources including the Senate Bill (SB 1) programs, Active Transportation Program (ATP), Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP), federal discretionary grant programs, and regional grant programs. He tracks the programs and is knowledgeable of call for project schedules. He has provided funding recommendations to agencies to pursue grant funds in order to implement improvements. His understanding of the funding programs is leveraged in the preparation of competitive grants. Over the past five years, Ryan has secured over $335 million in competitive funding. Ryan holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Business from Westminster College, and has completed training in Funding and Programming Transportation Projects in California, U.C. Berkeley Technology.
CHRIS WILLEGES, HDR
Chris Williges is the director of HDR’s economics and statistics practice. He has more than 30 years of experience conducting transportation planning, economics, engineering, and strategic assignments for public and private sector clients. Chris has used and overseen the development of a wide range of analysis tools, such as revenue forecasting tools, regional economic models, benefit‐cost and financial models, travel demand models, traffic simulation models, and asset management systems. For more than 20 years, Mr. Williges has overseen the development and subsequent revisions of the Cal‐B/C benefit‐cost model. He has also helped agencies prepare over than 40 grant applications. Chris holds an AB in economics from Stanford University as well as a Master of City and Regional Planning and a Master of Science in Transportation Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.