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RUSSELL ZIEMAN, PTSCTP-SSO, TSSP-RAIL

PROJECT ROLE:

Engineer

OFFICE LOCATION:

Spokane, WS

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, 2016

PROFESSIONAL

CERTIFICATIONS:

Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Transportation Safety Institute (TSI), Public Transportation Safety Certification Training Program (PTSCTP) Certificates for SSO Track and Rail Track; Certified Transportation Safety and Security Professional for Rail (TSSP); OSHA 30

YEARS EXPERIENCE

9 Years

YEARS WITH FIRM

5+ Years

EMPLOYMENT

Head of Field and Technical Service, Construction Robotics (June 2017 –April 2019) Transit Safety and Security Specialist, Dovetail Consulting (May 2019 – Present)

STRONG WORKING

KNOWLEDGE OF:

49 CFR Part 674, State Safety Oversight; 49 CFR Part 673, Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan;

49 CFR Part 672, Safety Certification Training Program; 49 CFR Part 671, Roadway Worker Protection; 49 CFR Part 670, National Public Transportation Safety Program; 49 CFR Part 630, National Transit Database; 49 CFR Part 625, Transit Asset Management

SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS

RELATED TO PROJECT

• State and other Government

Agency Reporting and Coordination

• Application of System Safety during all Project Phases:

Concept, Planning, Design, Construction, Testing, Pre- Revenue, Operations and Maintenance

• Program Standards

• Public Transportation Agency

Safety Plan (PTASP)

EXPERIENCE PROFILE

Russell Zieman has 9 years of professional experience in the construction and engineering fields as the head of a field service department. Since joining Dovetail, he has experience as a safety and security consultant for our projects with the Arizona Department of Transportation, Charlotte Area Transit System, Georgia Department of Transportation, and Sound Transit in Seattle, Washington. Mr. Zieman has years of onsite experience in the construction field working with Construction Managers, Project Managers, Foreman, and site management to help reach production goals as well as in training masons and laborers. Mr. Zieman managed a team of engineers and technicians responsible for the field service and support of a $13.5 million fleet of equipment across the United States and Canada. In addition to construction project analyses, he has done hazard analyses, written manual documentation, and designed a training program for high level robotics-based equipment used on construction sites.

With Dovetail, Mr. Zieman has continued to demonstrate high technical proficiency and gained experience supporting the development and implementation of rail safety and security standards, policies and procedures for Departments of Transportation that serve as designated state safety oversight agencies. He has developed a strong understanding of the transit industry including the federal and state laws, regulations, and guidance, as well as the operations and maintenance to add to his experience of on-site inspection, analysis, and resolution of safety concerns.

Since joining Dovetail, Mr. Zieman has successfully prepared review checklists for multiple transit agency’s first PTASPs under the new federal rule 49 CFR 673. This task has helped build a strong working knowledge of both historical and current federal rail safety rules. He also has conducted or participated in ad hoc meetings with RTA and SSO staff to provide guidance on technical questions related to federal guidelines and requirements, participated in Quarterly Hazard Management Meetings to discuss system operations, maintenance and other related safety and security activities; strategies, processes and procedures that resolve open items with system safety plans, policies and procedures, and participated in Three-Year On-Site Rail Safety and Security audits including interviews of staff at all organizational levels; document reviews of 100’s of rail safety related plans, policies, procedures, and logs; trend analyses on years of transit agency operational data, participated and supported Preliminary Hazard Analysis workshops and a Tabletop Exercise.

During his time with Dovetail, Mr. Zieman has refined his technical proficiency through preparation of technical memorandums, audit reports, Preliminary Hazard Analysis reports, and plan review checklists. He has assisted in the preparation of technical memorandums as necessary to document meetings and provide guidance and clarifications on federal rules and requirements. In audit reports as well as Preliminary Hazard analysis reports, he has performed trend analyses on large sets of transit agency operational data and FTA reportable rail safety events to identify and provide risk assessments for hazards.

Over the past five years, Russ has provided technical leadership to a series of critical ADOT state safety oversight activities including the conduct of the three year audit of Sun Link Streetcar in 2021 and 2024; conduct of the Safety and Security Readiness Review of the Tempe Streetcar project in 2022; the conduct of the Safety and Security Readiness Review of the Northwest Extension Phase II in 2023; the conduct of the three year audit of the Valley Metro’s rail system in 2023; and the Safety and Security Readiness Review of the Valley Metro South Central Extension/Downtown Hub project.

RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE

State Safety Oversight Engineer – Provides technical leadership in the development and implementation of Program Standards, review of Public Transit Agency Safety Plans, review and reconciliation of safety event investigation reports and information to determine if events are being reported properly according to Program Standards and Transit Agency Plans, preparation of audit materials, preparation of documentation for investigations, eviews Security and Emergency Preparedness Plans, Hazard Management Plans, Event Investigation Procedures, Internal Audit Program Plans, System Safety Certification Program Plans, Testing Program Plans, Construction Safety Plans, Configuration Management Program Plans, and Corrective Action Program Plans; reviews and performs compliance assessment of Anti-Retaliation Policies, Technical Training Plans, SMS Implementation Plans, Maintenance Procedures and Manuals, and other Standard Operating Procedures necessary to implement a Safety Management System; supports and conducts three-year on-site safety and security audits, assists in the trend analysis of accidents/ incidents and assists with preparation of reports of safety events and hazards, corrective action plans or other program information at the request of FTA, supports SSOs as a technical resource while being audited by FTA including attending the audit sessions preparing a factual review in response to the FTA’s draft audit report, and assists preparing SSO annual reports for delivery to the Governor’s office for the following SSOs:

• Arizona Department of Transportation –Supports oversight of the Valley Metro bus and light rail system in Phoenix, AZ, a 20-mile at-grade light rail transit system connecting the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa; Sun Link Streetcar began revenue service in 2014; it is a 3.9-mile route has 23 stops and connects the University of Arizona and the 4th Avenue Business District with Mercado District and Downtown Tucson.

RUSSELL ZIEMAN, PTSCTP-SSO, TSSP-RAIL

• Security and Emergency

Preparedness Plans (SEPP)

• Safety Management System

(SMS)

• Safety Management Policy

• Safety Risk Management

• Safety Assurance and

Performance Monitoring

• Safety Promotion

• Hazard Management, Threat and Vulnerability Management

• Safety Event Notification, Investigation, Reporting

• Safety and Security Reviews /

Audits

• Corrective Action Plans

• FTA Reporting, Advisories, General and Special Directives

• Safety and Security

Management Plans (SSMP), Safety and Security Certification Plans (SSCP), Safety and Security Readiness Reviews

(SSRR)

• PTSCTP Curriculum and Reporting

• Transit Asset Management

• Risk Based Inspection (RBI)

• Roadway Worker Protection

(RWP)

Familiarity with Light Rail:

• Valley Metro

• Sound Transit

Familiarity with Streetcar:

• Charlotte Streetcar (Gold Line)

• Tempe Streetcar

• Sun Link Streetcar

On-Scene Response Time:

• 2-hour flight

• Georgia Department of Transportation – Supported oversight of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, a bus and heavy rail system in Atlanta, GA and the Atlanta Streetcar System in Atlanta, GA. The heavy rail system includes 318 rail cars, 38 stations, and 45.4 miles of track, and is comprised of subway, at grade, and elevated rail sections.

• Oklahoma Department of Transportation – supported oversight of the Oklahoma City Streetcar system in Oklahoma City, OK; a system running 6 vehicles on 5 miles of track.

Rail Safety / Security Engineer – Provides technical leadership in the review of design drawings, review of Design Criteria Manuals and requests for design change or deviation, preparing and reviewing Preliminary Hazard Analysis worksheets, Certifiable Items Lists, and design and construction verification documentation, review event investigation reports and information to perform trend analyses as part of the Preliminary Hazard Analysis process, assists conducting Preliminary Hazard Analysis and Operating Hazard Analysis workshops, reviews RTA safety plans, policies, and procedures including Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans, Security and Emergency Preparedness Plans, Corrective Action Program Plans, Accident/Incident Procedures, Operations and Maintenance procedures to support the tabletop exercise process; supports conducting of tabletop exercise process, for the following Transit Agencies:

• Charlotte Area Transit System, Phase 2 and 3 – supports the implementation of the Safety and Security Management Plan (SSMP) and Safety and Security Certification Plan (SSCP) that document that all system, equipment, facilities, plans, procedures, and training programs are systematically reviewed for compliance with established system safety and security requirements, and so verified prior to implementation of revenue service for the project. Work closely with the Safety and Security Certification Manager in the performance of design criteria, construction / installation, and testing verification activities. Assists in the performance of Preliminary Hazard Analyses and Threat and Vulnerability Assessments for the streetcar alignment. Phase 2 opened in 2021. Phase 3 was awarded in late 2021.

• Sound Transit DRLE – supports the safety and security certification process on the Downtown Redmond Line Extension (DRLE) project in Seattle, WA. The Downtown Redmond Link Extension is adding two new light rail stations by 2024 in southeast Redmond, serving Marymoor Village near Marymoor Park, and in the downtown residential and retail core. The project includes a double-track elevated, retained cut and at-grade light rail guideway and includes heavy civil, buildings and systems.

One at-grade station is in SE Redmond and one elevated station is in downtown Redmond. The project also includes bus transit, a 1,400-stall parking garage adjacent to the station which also houses a bus transit loop, structured and surfaced multi-use trail facilities, systems, civil and site work, roadway work, restoration landscaping, and wetland and stream mitigation work.

• Sound Transit PSAI – supports the safety and security certification process on the Puyallup Station Access and Improvement (PSAI) project. The Puyallup Garage project includes a five level parking garage between 5th and 6th Street and adjacent surface level parking lot. Approximately 500 parking spaces will be designed and constructed for the access to Puyallup Station in the garage. Significant focal points of the project include the garage itself, and intersection improvements at four intersections including 7th Street and Stewart Avenue, Meridian and Stewart Avenue, 2nd Avenue and 5th Street, and 3rd Avenue and 7th Street. The project also involves coordination with BNSF for train signal timing with street lighting and access to right of way and work adjacent to the track.

With Construction Robotics, Mr. Zieman has served as the Head of a Field Service Engineering department.

In this role, he managed a team of engineers and technicians responsible for outward field service of a fleet of 112 masonry assist robotic machines. As Head of Field Service, he visited clients on construction sites to install equipment; document, review and analyze site conditions and performance; and meet with site management to understand onsite contractor needs and to help plan how to reach production goals. Mr. Zieman was also often called upon as a technical resource by the mechanical engineering team to perform analyses on equipment designs or prepared manual documentation such as hazard assessment and mitigation, criteria for machine readiness and maintenance requirements, machine maintenance guides, user manual guides, machine safety training and employee training considerations. He trained construction crews and management and was considered an equipment subject matter expert for the following clients:

• HOAR (Roanoke, VA): Supported the Construction Manager and construction contractor on the Poff Federal Building project where over 250,000 bricks were laid up to 225 feet in the air.

• Avila Masonry, G&G Masonry, Atlas Masonry, Recreate Masonry Services (Phoenix, AZ): Assisted 4 companies in utilizing 12 machines on 6 projects across the Phoenix area

• Leidal and Hart (Detroit, MI): Supported the Leidal and Hart crew and management on masonry projects for the Ford Dynamometer lab, Romeo High School, University of Michigan, and the University of Michigan Medical Center

• Irwin Construction Equipment (St. Louis, MO): Supported equipment company and their clients on projects in St. Louis and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• Berich Masonry (Denver, CO): Supported the masonry construction team and project management on 6 projects across the Denver area

• A1 Masonry (Reno, NV): Supported the masonry construction team and project management at the University of Nevada Reno