D2-4_Discipline 2_Bios.pdf
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- BPM007068
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- Arizona
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This document is a team qualifications and experience summary for Discipline 2 Transit Planning Tasks submitted as part of a proposal response to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) On Call Transit Consultant Services solicitation (BPM007068). The file details the expertise and credentials of ten key personnel assigned to transit planning activities, including transit network design, timetable development, vehicle and crew scheduling, route optimization, operational efficiency analysis, transit improvement planning, capital needs studies, transit modeling, marketing analysis, pre-engineering, environmental requirements, and stakeholder engagement. The proposal team includes professionals with specialized experience ranging from 13 to 40 years, with team members holding relevant certifications such as PE (Professional Engineer), AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners), PTOE (Professional Traffic Operations Engineer), and CNU-A (Congress for the New Urbanism Accredited). Key personnel include Shanthi Krishnan (Senior Transportation Planner with 32 years experience), Jamey Dempster (Senior Transit Planner with 16 years experience), Carl Siefert (Senior Transportation Planner with 14 years experience), Philip LaCombe (Transportation Planner with 13 years experience), Kyle Keahey (Principal Transit Planner with 40 years experience), and supporting staff in environmental planning, public involvement, roadway engineering, and traffic operations analysis.
The document emphasizes the team's recent and relevant experience on comparable projects across multiple states, including work with Valley Metro in Phoenix, transit authorities in Washington and Oregon, the Texas Department of Transportation, and the Utah Transit Authority. Team members demonstrate expertise in FTA project development processes, with one member having managed over $6 billion in capital infrastructure investment through fixed guideway projects. The qualifications matrix indicates comprehensive coverage across transit planning and operations, travel modeling and operational analysis, and stakeholder and community engagement disciplines. Educational backgrounds include advanced degrees in civil engineering, transportation engineering, planning, and environmental planning. All presented team members carry professional registrations and maintain memberships in relevant professional organizations such as the Institute of Transportation Engineers and American Planning Association, positioning the firm to deliver integrated transit consulting services across the range of disciplines required under the ADOT on-call contract.
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ADOT On Call Transit Consulting Services [BPM007068] pg. 1
Experience and Qualifications of the Project Team DISCIPLINE 2: Transit Planning Tasks The table below illustrates our team’s expertise and qualifications as they relate to providing the activities described under Discipline 2. Additional qualifications and experience in the form of biographies and resumes have been provided on the pages following the table.
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Page 2ADOT On Call Transit Consulting Services [BPM007068]
Shanthi Krishnan,PE,PTOE, RSP1 – Senior Transportation Planner Shanthi has over 32 years of experience in transportation engineering and multimodal planning specializing in the planning, design, and operations of transportation facilities. In addition to being a skilled project manager and a safety advocate, Shanthi is considered a premier ‘Plangineer’ and is highly regarded for developing high-quality multimodal alternative improvement concepts, evaluating system performance, formulating transportation plans, developing performance measures and targets, and conducting public involvement activities. With a keen eye for detail, Shanthi applies performance-based criteria and utilizes her technical prowess to develop practical and achievable solutions.
Jamey Dempster, AICP – Senior Transit Planner Jamey is a transportation planner with 16 years’ experience creating practical, outcome-oriented plans that advance community mobility. Jamey’s transportation analysis and policy work spans modes and includes performance measurement, program development and evaluation, public transportation systems and corridors, financial and economic analysis, and facilitating regional decision processes.
Recent & Relevant Experience: Background and Credentials
� Town of Queen Creek Mobility Options and Connectivity Feasibility Study, Queen Creek, AZ; 2025. Role: QA/QC
� Valley Metro Capitol Extension, Valley Metro, Phoenix, AZ; 2025. Role: Sr. Traffic Engineer
� Valley Metro Northwest Lightrail Extension, Valley Metro, Phoenix, AZ; 2023. Role: Sr. Traffic Engineer
| � Years of Experience / w Firm: 32 / 20 |
| � Education: MS, Civil Engg (Transp.); BS, Civil Engg. |
| � Registration(s)/Certification(s): PE, PTOE, RSP1 |
| � Membership(s)/Affiliation(s): Institute of Transportation |
Engineers � Corporate Title: Transportation Department Leader/Senior
Project Manager
Recent & Relevant Experience: Background and Credentials
� Seattle Airport Employee Commuter Bus Study, Port of Seattle, WA; 2025. Role: Project Manager
� Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Priority Intercity Bus Network Study, ODOT, OR; 2025. Role:
Project Manager
� Washington State Ferries Origin Destination Study, Washington State Ferries, WA; 2023. Role: Project Manager
� Valley Regional Transit Long Range Transit Plan, WA;
2025. Role: Project Manager
| � Years of Experience / w Firm: 16 / 5 |
| � Education: Master of City and Regional Planning; Bachelor |
of Arts
| � Registration(s)/Certification(s): AICP |
| � Membership(s)/Affiliation(s): American Planning |
Association � Corporate Title: Transportation Project Manager
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Carl Siefert, AICP – Senior Transportation Planner Carl has 14 years of transportation planning experience, with the last seven years spent overseeing bicycle and pedestrian modal planning projects. He is passionate about active transportation, complete streets, and multi-modal solutions to the challenges facing Texas. Carl has a thorough understanding of Transportation Alternatives funding, long-distance bicycle routing, bikeway design, and active transportation datasets due to his seven-year tenure as an on-site consultant for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). He has also worked on various statewide efforts related to safety analysis, safe bikeway design, and improving project development processes. Carl’s portfolio also includes environmental assessments, feasibility studies, alternative analysis, corridor analysis, and other GIS-based analysis.
Philip LaCombe, CNU-A – Transportation Planner Philip plans sustainable transportation systems that improve people’s quality of life and reduce emissions. In his more than 13 years of experience in multi-modal transportation planning, Philip has focused on expanding transit systems, elevating the transit customer experience, and improving transit operations. Philip delivers value to clients through thoughtful research and analysis, organized project management, and effective communication. Based in California, Philip works with clients across the United States.
Recent & Relevant Experience: Background and Credentials
� Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Support, Texas Department of Transportation; 2025. Role: Project Manager
� Texas Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, TxDOT, Austin, TX;
2023. Role: Project Manager
� Strategic Direction Report for TxDOT’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Program, TxDOT, Austin, TX; 2022. Role:
Project Manager
� Best Practices for Regional Bicycle Plans Strategic Direction Report For TxDOT’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Program, TxDOT, Austin, TX; 2021. Role: Project Manager
| � Years of Experience / w Firm: 14 / 9 |
| � Education: Master of Urban and Regional Planning; |
Bachelor of Arts
| � Registration(s)/Certification(s): AICP |
| � Membership(s)/Affiliation(s): American Planning |
Association � Corporate Title: Transportation Project Manager
Recent & Relevant Experience: Background and Credentials
� Valley Connect 3.0 Long-range Plan Update, Valley Regional Transit, Boise, ID; 2025. Role: Lead Transit Project Planner
� Sacramento Regional Transit Network Plan, Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG), Sacramento, CA, 2024. Role: Deputy Project Manager
� Central Maryland Regional Transit Plan, Maryland Transit Administration, Baltimore, MD; 2020. Role: Lead Transit Planner
| � Years of Experience / w Firm: 13 / 9 |
| � Education: Master of Community Planning; Master of and |
Historic Preservation; Bachelor of Arts
| � Registration(s)/Certification(s): AICP |
| � Membership(s)/Affiliation(s): Congress for the New |
Urbanism Accredited (CNU-A) � Corporate Title: Senior Transportation Planner
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Kyle Keahey, AICP – Senior Transit Planner Kyle is an experienced transit program director, having managed 10 significant fixed guideway projects through the FTA project development process, resulting in over $6B in capital infrastructure investment. He has more than 40 years leading clients and project teams through planning, environmental, preliminary engineering, funding, and public engagement efforts necessary to deliver challenging transit projects.
Recent & Relevant Experience: Background and Credentials
� Sound Transit Everett Link Extension, Sound Transit, Seattle, WA; 2023. Role: Planning/Environmental Task Lead
� Urban Rail Lead to City of Austin and Capital Metro, Austin, TX; 2021. Role: Urban Rail Lead
| � Years of Experience / w Firm: 40 / 5 |
| � Education: PhD, Transportation Engineer |
| � Registration(s)/Certification(s): PE |
| � Membership(s)/Affiliation(s): N/A |
| � Corporate Title: Principal Transit Planner / West Central |
Practice Lead
Debi Bohnet – Public Involvement Specialist Debi brings an in-depth understanding of southern Nevada’s transportation industry and challenges and a well-developed network of agency contacts, representatives of the business community, stakeholders, neighborhood leaders, and elected officials. With 24 years of experience, her ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders provides a solid foundation of trust for projects to build on as they move forward from planning to construction. Debi works seamlessly between public agencies, stakeholders, the public, and project teams to facilitate communication and transparency.
Recent & Relevant Experience: Background and Credentials
� SR101L/I-10 System Interchange DCR, Environmental and Final Design; ADOT, Phoenix, AZ; 2025. Role: Public Involvement Specialist
� SR303L DCR and EA from Lake Pleasant Pkwy to I-17, ADOT, Phoenix, AZ; 2023. Role: Public Involvement Specialist
� I-10 and Quartzite TI, ADOT, Quartzite, AZ 2025. Role.
Public Involvement Specialist
| � Years of Experience / w Firm: 25 / 25 |
| � Education: BS, Marketing |
| � Registration(s)/Certification(s): N/A |
| � Membership(s)/Affiliation(s): N/A |
| � Corporate Title: Public Involvement Lead |
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Sharan Dhanaraju, PE, PTOE – Senior Transportation Engineer Sharan Dhanaraju is a Senior Transportation Engineer with extensive experience in traffic forecasting, advanced traffic operations analysis, and transportation systems modeling. He is highly proficient in a wide range of industry-standard software, including Aimsun Next, CORSIM, Synchro/SimTraffic, SIDRA, and HCS. Sharan specializes in developing and calibrating complex microsimulation models for major freeway corridors and interchanges to evaluate operational alternatives and support design decisions.
Sharan has directly applied these advanced modeling skills to managed lane and transit projects, including developing forecasts for HOV lanes, modeling HOV lane operations, prioritizing HOV system improvements, and analyzing the operational impacts of dedicated bus / light-rail only transitways.
Kim Wheeler, PE, LEED AP – Roadway Engineering Kim brings over 31 years of expertise in managing and delivering preliminary and final design services for transportation projects with ADOT, MCDOT, and various Local Public Agencies (LPAs).
Her experience spans both federally funded and self-certified LPA projects, with a focus on arterial roadways, local streets, multi-use paths and trail systems, pedestrian and ADA improvements, and civil site development. Kim is highly skilled in coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and facilitating stakeholder engagement, consistently earning client trust through her deep knowledge of transportation and civil engineering.
Recent & Relevant Experience: Background and Credentials
� Van Buren Street to I-10 West HOV Bus-Only Connection, Phoenix, AZ;
2025. Role: Senior Transportation Engineer
� Southern Nevada HOV Plan Update Project, Clark County, NV; 2015. Role:
Senior Transportation Engineer
| � Project NEON (Phases 1 & 2), Clark County, NV; Ongoing |
| � Henderson Interchange Feasibility Study, EA, and Design-Build Program |
Management, Henderson, NV; 2024. Role: Senior Transportation Engineer � I-15/Tropicana Interchange Feasibility Study, EA, Clark County, NV; 2019.
Role: Senior Transportation Engineer � NDOT Traffic Forecasting Guidelines Document, NV; 2012. Role: Senior
Transportation Engineer
| � Years of Experience / w Firm: 16 / 14 |
| � Education: MS, Civil Engg; BE, Civil Engg. |
| � Registration(s)/Certification(s): PE, |
PTOE, PTP
� Membership(s)/Affiliation(s): Institute of Transportation Engineers � Corporate Title: Senior Transportation
Engineer
Recent & Relevant Experience: Background and Credentials
� Indian Bend Wash Multi-Use Path DCR & Final Design, Scottsdale, AZ;
2024. Role: Project Manager
� Miller Road: Pinnacle Peak to Happy Valley Road, Scottsdale, AZ; 2024.
Role Project Manager
� Downtown Alley Redevelopment Study of Hall Way and Washington Street Alleys, Chandler, AZ; 2022. Role: Project Manager
� Camelback Road Corridor Pedestrian Improvements, Scottsdale, AZ; 2022.
Role: Project Manager
� 43rd Avenue: Safety & Mobility Improvements, Phoenix, AZ; 2020. Role:
Project Manager
� Rio Salado Pathway: 32nd Street to University, Phoenix, AZ; 2017. Role:
Project Manager
| � Years of Experience / w Firm: 32 / 1 |
| � Education: BS, Civil Engineering |
| � Registration(s)/Certification(s): PE, |
LEED AP
| � Membership(s)/Affiliation(s): WTS |
| � Corporate Title: Senior Transportation |
Project Manager
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Nancy Shelton – NEPA Environmental Planner Nancy is a Senior Environmental Planner with more than 25 years of experience serving as a project manager on a variety of federal, state, and local agency projects. Nancy is passionate about successfully executing projects, from preparing proposals through final billing, by collaborating and guiding project teams, closely monitoring budgets and schedules, and coordinating with clients to deliver the project as they envision it. To accomplish these things, Nancy effectively delegates responsibilities, works with team members to provide them with needed information to execute their tasks, assists and mentors team members when appropriate, and encourages a positive working environment with open communication. Nancy’s reputation as a problem solver and her attention to detail proves her value as a key team member for ensuring high-quality project
Recent & Relevant Experience: Background and Credentials
� Utah Transit Authority, Midvalley Connector Bus Rapid Transit EA, Multiple Cities, UT; 2022-2024. Role: NEPA lead
� ADOT, On-Call Environmental Planning, Statewide, AZ;
2024-2025. Role: Contract/Project Manager
� ADOT, US60X Sossaman Road to Meridian Road Comprehensive Transportation Study, Mesa, AZ; 2018.
Role: Led environmental overview and provided QA/QC for project deliverables
| � Years of Experience / w Firm: 25 / 10 |
| � Education: MEP, Env. Planning and Natural Resources |
| � Membership(s)/Affiliation(s): Arizona Association of |
Environmental Planners � Corporate Title: Senior Environmental Planner, Designated
Project Executive/Manager of Projects
| 3_Discipline 2_Skills Matrix |
| Experience and Qualifications of the Project Team |
| DISCIPLINE 2: Transit Planning Tasks |
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