Appendix B: Team Members

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* Affiliations at time of scanning study. Addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses current at time of publication.

TEAM MEMBER BIOGRAPHIES

Tommy Beatty (Team Co-Chair) is director of the Office of Pavement Technology in the Infrastructure Core Business Unit of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in Washington, D.C. He directs a multilevel staff that promotes innovative pavement technology, such as Superpave (superior performing asphalt pavement system), mechanistic design, high performance concrete, recycled materials, quality, and performance analysis. His staff formulates and promotes FHWA policies on pavement design and rehabilitation, and updates guides, national reports, and technical publications related to pavements. Earlier, he served as division administrator for Delaware, where he administered the State's Federal-aid highway program. Before that, Beatty served as implementation coordinator for the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP), a results-driven program to develop and evaluate innovative techniques and technologies to improve pavement performance and highway safety for the 21^st Century. In this position, he provided leadership, management, and policy direction in developing the national program to implement and evaluate SHRP products and technologies. As chief of the Technology Assessment Branch, Beatty led FHWA's efforts to develop and coordinate programs in the technology transfer area, including development of procedures to evaluate new and innovative technologies both domestically and internationally. Earlier, Beatty had FHWA assignments in Maryland, Virginia, Kansas, California, and Alabama. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Prairie View A&M University in Texas.

Frank Danchetz (Team Co-Chair) is chief engineer for the Georgia Department of Transportation. He is responsible for design, construction, and operations of the State's highway system. A major priority is preserving the existing system to maximize pavement life and reduce capital expenditures for reconstruction. He has been involved in research activities at the State and national levels involving Superpave (superior performing asphalt pavement system) and other pavement issues. Early in his career, he gained extensive pavement design experience. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and attended management courses at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Indiana University. Danchetz is a licensed professional engineer in Georgia. He is a member of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and served as vice chair for the AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways, as well as on the Transportation Research Board and other committees dealing with asset management and pavement.

Duane Blanck is the county highway engineer for Crow Wing County in Brainerd, Minnesota. He is responsible for 600 miles of local roads, including all aspects of maintenance, engineering, and construction. He also is responsible for transportation-related planning activities and several management functions, including pavement management. In addition to extensive county engineering experience dating back to 1975, Blanck has experience in municipal engineering, railroad engineering, structural engineering, research, and education. Blanck has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of North Dakota and a master's degree in construction management from the University of Missouri. He is a licensed professional engineer in Minnesota and serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for Pavement Preservation. He has served on technical advisory committees for the low-volume road portion of the Minnesota ROAD test facility and as president of the National Association of County Engineers.

Dan Dawood is pavement engineer for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is responsible for developing and issuing statewide policies and procedures for pavement design and management features used in transportation programs. He also has a role in researching and implementing innovative technology in the pavement field in Pennsylvania. Dawood has been with the department for more than 16 years and has more than 20 years' experience in transportation engineering for State highway administrations and private engineering firms. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Pennsylvania State University and is a licensed professional engineer in Pennsylvania. He chairs the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' (AASHTO) DarWIN Task Force, and serves on AASHTO's Joint Task Force on Pavements and several other technical committees of the Transportation Research Board.

Jerry Fay is national program director for public works for HDR Engineering, Inc., where he focuses on local government transportation. In 2001 he retired from his post as executive director of the State of Washington Transportation Improvement Board. The board provides funding for local government transportation projects and works with local governments on pavement management systems. Fay has more than 33 years' experience in the field of public works in State and local government, with the past 12 primarily in transportation. He is immediate past president of the American Public Works Association (APWA). Fay recently helped develop and moderate an APWA national teleconference on pavement management issues called "Moving Roadway Maintenance into the 21^st Century." He serves on the national APWA TEA-21 Reauthorization Task Force. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Washington and is a licensed professional engineer in Washington and Arizona.

Bob Ford was division chief of the Federal Highway Administration's Office of International Programs in Washington, D.C., and in that capacity heads up the International Scanning Program. Ford also has 15 years' experience in pavement management and design, having served as pavements engineer in FHWA's Washington, D.C., headquarters office, Kansas City regional office, and Nevada division office. He worked for the State of Wyoming for seven years as resident and project engineer in charge of major paving projects. His experience includes overseeing one of the nation's first asphalt recycling projects in the early 1970s in Las Vegas, Nevada, and establishing the first long-term pavement-monitoring projects in eight pilot States. Ford was a member of the first scanning study team on asphalt pavements. He brings with him a background in air quality, having served as air quality engineer in Kansas City and Nevada. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Wyoming and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Kansas. He holds professional engineer and land surveying licenses.

Dennis Jackson (Report Facilitator) is senior project manager for Kristen Betty & Associates, construction management specialists in Bellevue, Washington. He provides support to staff and clients for technical and administrative issues relating to civil engineering and construction management. He also serves as an instructor for National Highway Institute courses on hot-mix asphalt construction and pavement preventive maintenance. For the past 10 years, Jackson has been involved with national and international initiatives on pavement preservation and maintenance. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Michigan. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Washington and serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for Pavement Preservation.

David Keough is Federal Lands Highway Program coordinator for the Intermountain Region of the National Park Service. Keough manages a $40 million annual highway improvement program for eight States and 80 parks in the Rocky Mountain West area. He is responsible for implementing program direction and managing program funds in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration's Federal Lands Business Unit. Keough also works on pavement preservation strategies as a member of a National Park Service-FHWA task force on using pavement management within the National Park Service. He has pioneered the use of pavement condition data to assist in making funding allocation decisions for the National Park Service's Intermountain Region. He has worked for the National Park Service for nine years as a program manager and general roadway designer. Before that, Keough served as a geotechnical engineer for the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon and Washington State. Keough has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in geotechnical engineering from Oregon State University.

James Moulthrop is systems manager with Koch Materials Company in Austin, Texas, where he promotes and applies innovative processes for pavement preservation. Previously, he served as a staff member of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Moulthrop spent 20 years with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in various positions, including district and regional soils engineer, chief field materials control engineer, chief of the Materials and Testing Division, and director of highway maintenance. He spent five years in product development, technical marketing, and application of asphalt modifiers with Lubrizol Corp. and Exxon Chemical Americas. He graduated from St. Joseph's College in Indiana and holds a master's degree in engineering geology from Kansas State University. Moulthrop is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania. He is chairman of the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Pavement Maintenance and on the Executive Committee of Road and Paving Materials. He is a member of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists and the Canadian Technical Asphalt Association. He also serves on the Technical Steering Committee for the Ninth International Conference on Asphalt Pavements and on the Steering Committee for the Fifth International Conference on Managing Pavements.

Luis Rodriguez is the pavement management engineer at the Federal Highway Administration's Southern Resource Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Rodriguez provides technical assistance to State and local highway agencies and FHWA field offices on pavement management, preservation, and smoothness. He has worked for FHWA in various job assignments since 1985. Before moving to the Southern Resource Center, he worked as a pavement management engineer at the FHWA Pavement Division (now Office of Pavement Technology) in Washington, D.C., and in field assignments in Alabama and Georgia. He developed and served as an instructor of the FHWA pavement management multiyear prioritization training course presented throughout the United States and at the Fourth International Conference on Managing Pavements in Durban, South Africa. He prepared the technical report on the Georgia Department of Transportation Pavement Preservation Program and Smoothness Requirements, one of the key technical products of the FHWA Pavement Smoothness Initiative. Rodriguez has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Puerto Rico. He is a registered professional engineer in Georgia and a member of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Pavement Management Systems.

Gary Taylor is chief engineer and deputy director of the Bureau of Highway Technical Services for the Michigan Department of Transportation. He directs the central office engineering functions required to carry out bureau programs. His duties include oversight of road and bridge design, traffic and safety, construction field support, central maintenance, real estate, and research. Before that, he served as engineer of construction and state bituminous engineer. He has worked for the Michigan department for 30 years. Taylor has bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from the University of Michigan and is a licensed professional engineer in Michigan. He serves on the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' Standing Committee on Highways and Standing Committee on Research, and is vice chair of the Technology Implementation Group. He also is a member of the Transportation Research Board's Long-Term Pavement Performance Committee.

Michael Voth is a pavement engineer for the Federal Highway Administration at the Central Federal Lands Highway Division in Denver, Colorado. Voth is responsible for managing the division's pavement project scoping, design, and preservation programs. He is developing a pavement preservation team composed of representatives from the Federal Lands Divisions and their agency partners. He also serves as a member of FHWA's Pavement Preservation Expert Task Group. Earlier, Voth served as pavement engineer in the FHWA Kansas Division. He has a bachelor's degree in physics from Bethel College in Kansas and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He also has a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Kansas. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Zane Webb is director of the Maintenance Division of the Texas Department of Transportation in Austin, Texas. He is responsible for all maintenance activities on the State's 187,000 lane miles, including oversight of preventive maintenance, maintenance operations, field engineering, vegetation management, marine operations, and architectural services. Webb provides oversight to the Preventive Maintenance Program, which Texas established as a formally funded program in 1986. His past Texas experience includes seven years as an area engineer in which he selected, designed, and oversaw the construction of overlays, seal coat, and microsurfacing. Before that, Webb was director of maintenance at the Waco District Office, where he was responsible for all maintenance activities in that area. Webb has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a licensed professional engineer in Texas and is chairman of the Western Association of State Highway Officials' Committee on Maintenance.