D3-4_Discipline 3_Bios.pdf
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- BPM007068
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- Arizona
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This is a staff biographies document for the Jacobs team responding to the Arizona Department of Transportation's (ADOT) On Call Transit Consulting Services Request for Proposal (RFP BPM007068). The document outlines the qualifications and experience of nine key personnel assigned to Discipline 3: Transit Operations Planning, which encompasses route planning, schedule development, service cost estimation, fleet and operational support, transit modeling, and operational analysis activities. The proposed team includes senior-level professionals with specialized expertise in transit planning, traffic engineering, and transportation analysis, with individual experience ranging from 13 to 40 years in the transportation sector. Team members hold relevant professional certifications including PE (Professional Engineer), AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners), PTOE (Professional Traffic Operations Engineer), and CNU-A (Congress for the New Urbanism Accredited) designations. The contract is structured as an on-call arrangement with an initial twelve-month term potentially extending to forty-eight months total, with task assignments issued on an as-needed basis for multimodal transit consulting services across Arizona.
The proposal demonstrates comprehensive capacity across multiple transit-related disciplines with staff qualified to support planning studies, operations tasks, strategic planning, and mobility management projects. Key team members highlighted include Shanthi Krishnan (Senior Transportation Planner with 32 years' experience and transportation department leadership), Kyle Keahey (Principal Transit Planner with 40 years' experience and management of over $6 billion in FTA capital infrastructure projects), and Sharan Dhanaraju (Senior Transportation Engineer specializing in advanced traffic operations analysis and microsimulation modeling). The team's recent and relevant experience includes projects for Valley Metro, Sound Transit, Washington State Ferries, ODOT, and various regional transit authorities, demonstrating proven success in long-range transit planning, network planning, and feasibility studies. Reimbursement will be based on hourly rates for actual work performed, with specific scope, deliverables, and performance metrics to be defined in individual task assignments. The contract is funded through federal transit programs including FTA Sections 5311, 5310, and 5305, with proposals due September 10, 2025.
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Route Planning ● ● ● ● ● ●
Schedule Development ● ● ● ●
Estimating Service Costs ● ● ● ● ●
Fleet and Operational Support ● ● ●
Defining Alternatives ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
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Demand Forecasting
Estimate Travel Times ● ● ● ● ●
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Operations and Maintenance Cost
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Experience and Qualifications of the Project Team
DISCIPLINE 3: Transit Operations Planning The table below illustrates our team’s expertise and qualifications as they relate to providing the activities described under Discipline 3. Additional qualifications and experience in the form of biographies and resumes have been provided on the pages following the table.
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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
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.
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
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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
� 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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