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New Associate Principal - Darryl Jaquess
PHOENIX – Lea+Elliott is pleased to
announce new Associate Principal
Darryl Jaquess.
Darryl has been
Lea+Elliott’s leader on the ground
for the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport’s
PHX Sky Train® work and is currently
the Project Manager for the Stage 2
expansion. Darryl has over 27 years
of experience in the transit industry ranging from planning,
design, and procurement to implementation and operations
& maintenance oversight. Darryl has provided transit system
expertise for over 60 transit projects worldwide ranging from
conceptual planning to implementation.
New Senior Associates
Lea+Elliott is pleased to announce new Senior Associates –
Laura
Espinoza, P.E.
;
David Ewing, P.E.
;
Scott Sipes
; and I
ris Yuan, AICP
.
DALLAS/FORT WORTH – Laura Espinoza
has nearly 20 years of planning,
cost estimating, procurement,
implementation, and operations
experience on APM transit projects,
including George Bush Intercontinental
Airport’s Skyway APM, Phoenix Sky
Harbor Airport’s PHX Sky Train® and
Chicago O’Hare Airport’s Airport Transit System Expansion and
Modernization. Laura is a member of Lea+Elliott’s cost estimating
committee, which leads the firm’s estimating of APM and transit
systems.
ATLANTA – David Ewing is the on-
site leader providing implementation
management oversight of Atlanta
Hartsfield-Jackson Airport’s APM
systems–the landside SkyTrain APM
and the airside Plane Train APM. With
over 10 years of experience in the APM
industry, he has managed greenfield and
brownfield APM projects at the busiest airport in the world. David
is leading the planning efforts for upcoming APM projects as part
of Atlanta Airport’s $6 billion master plan.
MIAMI – Scott Sipes has 30 years of
experience providing expertise in
transportation planning, procurement,
engineering, implementation and
operations and maintenance services
to APM projects around the world,
including Miami Airport’s three APM
systems–North Terminal Skytrain, MIA
Mover and the new eTrain that replaced the existing Satellite
E System. Prior to joining Lea+Elliott, Scott had a long history
working with Lea+Elliott through his years with Bombardier
Transportation where he had project management responsibility
for numerous turnkey transit projects.
SAN FRANCISCO – Iris Yuan is one of the
firm’s leaders in operations planning
and analyses for automated transit
systems, including Personal and Group
Rapid Transit (PRT/GRT) systems. With
15 years of experience, Iris has led
APM planning studies at airports and
urban areas around the world, including
Calgary, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
WTS International names PENNDot Secretary Leslie Richards 2018’s Woman of the Year
at its annual conference in May.
From left to right: Former USDOT Secretary Mary Peters, PENNDot
Secretary Leslie Richards, and L+E Chairman and former WTS Chair Diane
Woodend Jones