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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEPTEMBER 2000 POST EARTHQUAKE HIGHWAY RESPONSE AND RECOVERY SEMINAR HELD IN ST. LOUIS MISSOURI
BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS
Deana Adam: is with the St. Louis area chapter of the American Red Cross. She is also a full-time employee there and her specialty is community education and outreach. She works very closely helping the community become very prepared and like most Red Cross employees, she is very aware of what they need to do.
Jerry B. Baxter: has 34 years with the California Department of Transportation and served a District Director in Los Angeles and Fresno. His major accomplishments include Project Manager for the I-105 project, which delivered the $2 billion project on schedule and within budget. He developed the $535 million Harbor Freeway Transit Way and planned and secured funding, including $500 million in local funding for the regional HOV Program. He also directed the recovery response to the Northridge Earthquake. He represents Los Angeles and Ventura Counties Transportation Commissions, and is a member of the Alameda Corridor JPA and I-5 Corridor JPA. He received his A.A. degree for Hannibal La Grange College, B.S.C.E. from the University of Southern California.
Dan Bement: is the chief of operations and planning on FEMA Region 5. He has 21 years of experience with FEMA, five years with defense council for preparation and civil preparedness agency. Three years at Western Michigan University, master's degree at Western Michigan University in political science and a master of science degree. He's a retired lieutenant colonel in United States Army Reserve.
Janet Benini:has been the Deputy Director of the Office of Emergency Transportation (OET) at the US Department of Transportation since November 1998. The OET manages the Departmental emergency preparedness and response programs, including national security and domestic crises as well as the integration of interagency programs both within and outside the DOT, and management of Emergency Support Function (ESF) #1: Transportation, for the Federal Response Plan. She led the DOT effort on Y2K activation for which she was granted the Eagle Award by Administrator Kelley Coyner. She coordinated a multi modal team, which assembled a package of relief programs for the countries devastated by Hurricane Mitch. This proposal was accepted by the U.S. State Department, and the projects are underway. She serves on advisory boards for the National Emergency Management Association and the Natural Hazards Research Center. She is a Certified Emergency Manager and was on the Commission for the International Association of Emergency Managers. Ms. Benini also worked in disaster response and recovery. She has been the Operations, Logistics, or Planning Chief for earthquakes, fires, floods, and a riot. Her bachelor´s degree is in Social Science from Colorado State University and her Masters in Public Administration is from the University of San Francisco.
Grady P. Bray, Ph.D. is a disaster psychologist with an international reputation as a lecturer, author, and trainer. A south Georgia native, Grady received his undergraduate degree in Biology from David Lipscomb College in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Georgia in August 1974 and went on to work as a clinical psychologist with the Georgia Department of Human Resources. Currently, Dr. Bray is President of Bray Associates, a consulting, training and crisis management firm based in Penn Yan, New York. He is an adjunct and frequent presenter for FEMA´s Emergency Management Institute and is the Behavioral Scientist for the Disaster Mortuary Operations Response Team, a part of the National Emergency Medical System. He worked the Oklahoma City bombing, TWA 800, KAL 801, Swiss Air 111 and the Egypt Air 990. He has worked with FEMA, state and local governments on terrorism preparedness and response and serves on the federal National Disaster Medical System´s NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) response team. Dr. Bray and his company have also provided assessment and training for the Executive Office of the President of the United States as well as international response teams for private corporations and government agencies.
David Clark:is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia and North Carolina. He became Onslow County´s first Public Works Director when two major hurricanes, Bertha and Fran, hit 55 days apart in July and September 1996. While El Nino surprised everyone in 1997, Onslow County had hurricanes Bonnie in 1998 and Dennis and Floyd in 1999 to clean up after. In addition to hurricane recovery, Mr. Clark is responsible for the County´s Water and Sewer Department, Solid Waste Division, and Mosquito/Vector Control activities. He served four years on active duty with the U.S. Army and attended the University of Virginia on the G.I. bill. After receiving his B.S. in Civil Engineering, he worked for the Virginia Department of Health, Division of Water Programs, for 4 years, serving in the Lexington and Richmond Regional Offices. He spent the next 15 years with James City County, Virginia, as Utility Operations Engineer, and later as Solid Waste Manager. While with the County, he obtained his Masters in Engineering Management from George Washington University.
Glenn Clinton: is with FHWA as the Program Delivery team leader in the California Division. He graduated from Fresno State College, California in 1962 with a B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering. In 1980, he received an Environmental Management Institute Certificate from the University of Southern California. He obtained a California Professional License as a Civil Engineer in 1966. He has been involved with several Freeway projects and private toll roads and the recovery efforts after the 1989 Loma Prieta and 1994 Northridge Earthquakes. He is currently assigned to manage the northern portion of California including the San Francisco Bay Area. He has more than 38 years of service with the Federal Highway Administration with about 26 years in the California Division Office.
Jim Cooper: is the technical director for bridge research and development for the Federal Highway Administration, the Office of Infrastructure Research and Development. He is responsible for examining the infrastructure of bridges after a disaster. He is a member of EERI. He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers.
Charles R. Cutrell: is currently a Disaster Services Planner and Earthquake Program Coordinator with the Illinois Emergency Management (IEMA). Some of his duties include organizing, planning, executing, and evaluating the operations of a variety of earthquake program-specific projects. He also plans and conducts field activities such as training workshops and seminars and assists local planning teams, coordinators, and Regional Coordinators by providing technical assistance in earthquake planning and preparedness. As the Earthquake Program Coordinator, he also produces publishing materials including audio/visual presentation materials, technical reports and materials for earthquake education efforts, working with schools, representatives of the State Board of Education, and other public and private agencies to develop, produce, and disseminate earthquake planning and preparedness literature. He has participated in several disaster response and recovery efforts including the Great Midwest Flood of 1993, tornado and other flood disasters responses in Illinois and participated in recovery efforts with the California Emergency Services and FEMA after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. He was an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering with Southern Illinois University and taught in the Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology program for 14 years. He is also a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Air Force Reserves with over 30 years of commissioned service.
James Drago: is from the California Department of Transportation. He started his career working as a reporter and editor for newspapers on the West Coast before accepting a position with CALTRANS. He has worked for CALTRANS for about 15 years and has led the media and the public relations parts of CALTRANS through Whittier, Loma Prieta, Northridge and leading to earthquakes just in the last two weeks.
Col. Robert A. Fitton: is Chief, Military Support Division, and Director of Military Support (DOMS) of the U.S. Army. He has been a battalion commander in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fort Dix, New Jersey, and Berlin. Colonel Fitton received his B.A. from USMA and an M.A. in Social Psychology/Adult Education from the University of North Carolina. He has had several military leadership and doctrine development articles published in leading publications.
Steven French: is a professor of city planning, director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems at Georgia Tech. He works with the Mid-America Earthquake Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has done research on the most recent earthquakes, including Northridge, Loma Prieta, and the Whittier Narrows. He is a member of the Earthquake Engineer and Research Institute.
Robert J. Frosch: is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He received his BSE from Tulane University and MSE and Ph.D. for the University of Texas at Austin, respectively. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked with Modjeski and Masters Consulting Engineers on several projects including the seismic retrofit of the San Mateo Bridge crossing the San Francisco Bay in California. He is active in the American Concrete Institute where he is secretary of the cracking committee (ACI 224) and a corresponding of the safety and serviceability subcommittee of the standard building code (ACI 318-C), the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. He was also awarded the Harold Munson Award from Purdue University for his excellence in teaching. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Louisiana.
Ed Gray: is the Earthquake Program Manager for the state of Missouri. He has been in this position for 13 and a half years and is the key representative for Missouri and the Missouri Seismic Safety Commission. He's a graduate with both master's and bachelor's degrees from Missouri Valley College in history and mechanics and has done some other advanced studies at Central Missouri State University.
WR Harper: is the appointed director of Arkansas' Department of Emergency Management by Governor Mike Huckaby, back in August of '97. Mr. Harper served in the governor's cabinet. He is vice-president of NEMA, representing Region 6. He is chairman elect for CUSEC. Prior to his appointment, he served as county judge for eight terms in Sebastian County, Arkansas. The county judge is the same as supervisor. He served as chairman of the local authority for conversion of Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. He represented United Nations Conference on base conversion in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Roger D. Hawkins: is the Division Traffic Engineer for North Carolina Department of Transportation. He is responsible for traffic control in six counties on the coast of North Carolina, including maintenance of more than 5,5000 miles of Interstate, Primary, Urban, and Secondary Highways. He was involved in Hurricanes Diana, Bertha, Fran, Bonnie, Dennis, and Floyd. He also assisted in Hurricane Hugo recovery efforts in the Charlotte area. Mr. Hawkins is a graduate of Gaston College.
Dwight A. Horne: is the Director of the Office of Program Administration in the Federal Highway Administration´s Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and is responsible for providing leadership, direction, coordination, and guidance in development of national policy and procedures to assure conformance of a variety of specialized activities with provisions of Federal-aid legislation and regulations. He has a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida. Mr. Horne served as Director of the Office of Highway Safety Infrastructure, Chief of the Federal-aid and Design Division, Region 1 Deputy Regional Administrator, and Connecticut Division Administrator. He has more than 29 years of experience with highway programs and technologies.
Henry Hungerbeeler: is the Director of MoDOT. He retired from the United States Air Force after a 30-year career, at the rank of Colonel. He served as base commander for both Andrews Air Force base and Charleston Air Force base and provided security for U. S. Presidents and other Heads of State. He advised the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Gulf Persian War, flew combat missions over Vietnam, graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in engineering management and microeconomics and he's a native of Shreveport, Louisiana.
David Bryan Johnson: is the Maintenance Operations Engineer, Division of Highways, for the Illinois Department of Transportation. He is responsible for coordinating disaster responses for the Division of Highways and is liaison with all districts, all central office bureaus, and other State, federal, and private agencies. Mr. Johnson has a B.S. in Construction Engineering from Iowa State University, a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Springfield, and is also a registered Professional Engineer.
Erol Kaslan: currently serves as the Senior Bridge Engineer and Branch Chief for the Division of Structure Maintenance and Investigations of the California Department of Transportation. He supervises an engineering section that is responsible for performing NBIS bridge investigation and providing bridge maintenance recommendations on about 400 bridges in 13 counties in Northern California. He is a member of the Caltrans Underwater Investigations Dive Team and the Structural Investigations Climb Team as well as Chairman of the Bridge Technical Committee for nondestructive Evaluation and Testing. He has performed construction related repairs and temporary shoring for damaged bridges in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, performed bridge damage assessments following the 1992 Humboldt Earthquake, and was Field Leader for bridge damage assessment efforts following the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Mr. Kaslan holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a registered civil engineer in the State of California.
Phil Kirk: is presently the Chief of the Community Mitigation Programs Branch in the Mitigation Division of FEMA Region VII, located in Kansas City, Missouri. FEMA Region VII includes the states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. In this capacity, he is responsible for overseeing several Mitigation Programs, to include the National Flood Insurance Program, the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, the Earthquake and Dam Safety Program, and the Flood Mitigation Assistance Program. He is also responsible for overseeing the Project Impact: Building Disaster Resistant Communities initiative at the regional level. Mr. Kirk served as the lead public affairs officer for one of FEMA´s three national emergency response teams, which may be deployed to a catastrophic disaster. He has also served as the lead congressional liaison officer for one of these national response teams. Born on September 11, 1966, Mr. Kirk grew up on a diversified crop and livestock farm in Decatur County of northwest Kansas, near the town of Clayton. He graduated for Jennings High School in 1985 and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture Economics from Kansas State University in 1989.
Ken Leiser: has been a newspaper journalist for 15 years, including the last two years as transportation writer at the St. Louis Post Dispatch. At 37 he worked at a handful of suburban newspapers in Northern and Southern California before moving to St. Louis in October 1998. During the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, he was night city editor of the Peninsula Times-Tribune in Palo Alto, California and helped plan the first-day coverage and subsequent articles for the afternoon paper. Mr. Leiser moved to the Torrance Daily Breeze in 1991 and contributed to the paper´s coverage of the Northridge Earthquake in January 1994. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from San Jose State University in 1985.
Stephen K. Leung: is the Chief of the Office of Traffic Investigations for the California Department of Transportation in Los Angeles, California. His primary responsibility is to provide and oversee safe and efficient operations of the 610 miles of freeways and 710 miles of State highways in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Mr. Leung was responsible for traffic handling and strategic planning immediately following the Northridge Earthquake. In addition, he directed the preparation, data collection, and completion of the 237-page comprehensive Northridge Earthquake Recovery Report. He has published reports and made presentations at various professional organizations such as FHWA, TRB, ITE, ITS, ITS World Congress, ASCE, MCEER, and PEER. Mr. Leung is a registered Professional Civil Engineer in the State of California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from California State University, Los Angeles.
Ronaldo Luna: is an associate professor at the University of Missouri in Rolla. He's in the civil engineering school and received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. He spent four years in the civil engineering department at Tulane before he came to Rolla.
Ray Mode: is a Professional Engineer and is Chief of the Office of Project Management and Critical Project Expediting, Division of Office Engineer, Engineering Service Center, California Department of Transportation. He manages the delivery of post-design projects through the final construction preparation, advertisement, and bid opening. His office analyzes workload, procures resources, and negotiates process steps and time frames necessary to accelerate critical projects to construction, as well as develops and publishes the "California Department of Transportation´s (Caltrans) Standard Specifications and Standard Plans" and the "Plans, Specifications and Estimates Guide" for preparing draft construction contract documents. The Office also develops technology application to automate the development advertisement and processing of Caltran´s construction projects.
Steven M. Mondul: served as Chief of Staff of the SIXTH Fleet Logistic Force, Senior US Officer for NATO Naval Forces Southern Europe, CNO/SECNAV briefer at the Pentagon, and Director of Operations, US Naval Base, Norfolk during his 30-year service career. After his retirement, Mr. Mondul accepted a position as Emergency Planning Officer with the Virginia Department of Emergency Services (VDES) where he served as State Hurricane Planning Officer. After two years with VDES, he accepted his present position as Director of Emergency Operations for the Virginia Department of Transportation where he coordinates statewide transportation-related emergency operations and planning. He also serves as the State Transportation Emergency Support Function point of contact for other states and federal agencies. Mr. Mondul holds a B.S. degree from Miami University (Ohio), an M.S. degree from George Washington University, and certificates of completion from the US Naval War College for both the Command and Staff, and Senior courses (M.A. equivalent).
Bill Moore: is a Professional Engineer who began his career in government service 33 years ago as a rodman on a survey crew. He studied Engineering at Georgia Tech and received his degree at Florida International University in Miami in 1975. He was responsible for maintenance operations in the southern part of Miami-Dade County when Hurricane Andrew destroyed the area in 1992.
Robert W. Moseley: is a Licensed Professional Engineer, and is Director of Office of Administrative Services at the Mississippi Department of Transportation. He served as President of the Mississippi Transportation Conference, General Chairperson of EMAC Transportation Task Force as well as SASHTO ´96. He was former Emergency Coordinator for MDOT and past Chairman of "Conference on Pavement Markings and Signing Materials" for SASHTO Region. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University.
Janette Peterson: is a safety manager with the Idaho Bureau of Land Management. She is a disaster coordinator and she teaches EMS and other medical activities for the state. She also runs the Medivac and the rescue efforts for that area.
Michael R. Peterson: has been a member of the California Highway Patrol for the past 27 years. He is Deputy Chief, currently assigned as the Division Commander for Golden Gate Division, which includes field operation responsibilities for the nine bay areas counties. He received his B.S. degree, Administration of Justice, San Jose State University and his graduate degree M.P.A., Pepperdine University.
James Roberts: is the Chief Deputy Director for CALTRANS. He has 47 years of experience, and with CALTRANS, a B.S. degree in civil engineering from UC Berkeley, a master's in structural engineering. His prime background is bridges and structures, and he's been involved as the chairman of the AASHTO subcommittee on bridges and structures. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 and he's been in a lot of disasters and a lot of earthquakes.
Ron Sampson: is the Director of Disaster Services at the St. Louis Area Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is responsible for disaster mitigation and preparedness response and recovery program for the American Red Cross in seven counties. The jurisdiction contains approximately 40 percent of the population of the state of Missouri and is at risk for a variety of disasters, both natural and manmade. Additionally, the chapter is the state coordinating chapter and state lead chapter for disaster services. Ron responds and coordinates activities related to large-scale disasters that occur anywhere in the state of Missouri. Ron also serves as the primary point of contact for the state emergency management agency and other agencies active in disasters. Prior to joining the American Red Cross in 1997, Ron served 30 years in the United States Air Force. He served in various locations throughout the world and retired in 1997.
David Wakeman: is the supervising engineer for the Reliability Services Department of the Ameren Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri, which he joined in 1982. He has a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Washington University. His current job responsibilities include organizational support and manning of Ameren's emergency operation center.
Stuart Werner: is President of Seismic Systems and Engineering Consultants in Oakland, California. He has 35 years of earthquake-engineering experience, with a specialty in evaluation of the seismic performance of transportation-lifeline structures and systems. Fro the past six years, he has been Principal Investigator of a research project for developing and applying new procedures for seismic risk and analysis of highway systems under the sponsorship of the Federal Highway Administration and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research. Mr. Werner is an active member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the American Society of Civil Engineering Technical Council for Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (TCLEE), where he served as Chairman of the TCLEE Highway Transportation Committee and Ports Committee. He has published 95 technical papers in various aspects of earthquake engineering.
Diane Wilson: is the emergency management specialist in response and recovery division in Region 7. She's worked with FEMA since 1979. She served as the regional exercise officer for over ten years and at the present time, she is the manager of FEMA's response and recovery division where she heads up the area search and rescue program. She's a regional program coordinator for the civil and military group base for planning with the Department of Defense and serves as the FEMA liaison concerning terrorism planning of other federal departments and agencies. She is also the lead planner within the division concerning coordination of federal resources, response activities to major disaster events and serves a FEMA´s liaison to the states.
Gerald Yakowenko: has worked for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for over 20 years, currently serving a Highway Engineer in the Office of Program Administration in Washington, D.C. He has also served in the Contract Administration Group since 1996. He provides guidance and directions for construction contracts and interprets statutes and FHWA regulations, including areas of innovative contracting, bidding procedures, suspension/debarment procedures, subcontracting issues, disadvantaged business enterprise, metrication, Buy America requirements, Davis-Bacon, Contract claims, and other contractual requirements which apply to FHWA-funded contracts. He also serves as the Secretary to the AASHTO Subcommittee on Construction, Contract Administration Task Force, and as a member of the Transportation Research Board Committee A2F05- Committee on Construction Management. Mr. Yakowenko is a 1977 graduate of Lehigh University and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Missouri.
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