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RUSS A. YUREK (AASHTO Chair) has had a distinguished 34-year career with the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA). He began his a career as a maintenance worker and worked various levels within a maintenance shop. He was the resident
maintenance engineer for Harford County, the assistant district engineer of Maintenance for the Baltimore Metropolitan District, and has been the director of the Office of
Maintenance for past 14 years. Yurek also chaired the Maintenance Management System Task Force and was the vice-chair of the Sub-Committee of Maintenance for AASHTO. He is currently Maryland’s delegate for the AASHTO Subcommittee of Maintenance. Yurek has led multiple teams that have been recognized at the state and national levels, including AASHTO Pathfinder Awards for the Rest Area and Peer Review Teams; AASHTO Trailblazer Award, Maintenance Activity Guidelines Team; SHA Quality Conference Team of the Year Award, Rest Area Team; and SHA Quality Conference Customer Award, Rest Area Team.
NANCY ALBRIGHT is the director of the Division of Maintenance of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. In this role, she oversees the day-to-day operations of the division, manages the maintenance budget for the cabinet, develops and applies
maintenance policies, and ensures coordination with other divisions within the cabinet and with external agencies. Before coming to maintenance in 2000, she worked in other areas of the cabinet, including the Division of Planning, developing long-term corridor development plans; the Division of Traffic Operations, developing the cabinet’s Intelligent Transportation System; and the Division of Program Management, assisting in the
development of the Six-Year Highway Plan. Albright received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky and is a licensed professional engineer in Kentucky.
JENNIFER BRANDENBURG is the state road maintenance engineer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). In this position, she is responsible for monitoring the performance of the department’s maintenance program through the setting and measuring of maintenance and operations performance measures. This role includes the administration of the department’s Maintenance Management System and Maintenance Condition Assessment Program. In her 24 years with NCDOT, she has held various maintenance and construction positions monitoring both contractor and employee performance and communicating results to senior management, legislators, and the traveling public. In addition to various national research committees, Brandenburg currently serves on the AASHTO Subcommittee on Maintenance as vice-chair of the Pavements Technical Work Group. She is the past chair of the Performance Measures Focus Group, which coordinates the Maintenance Quality Assurance document library Web site for benchmarking of common maintenance measures. Brandenburg is a graduate of North Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and is a licensed professional engineer in North Carolina.
administrator in the Office of Maintenance for the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT). Haubrich administers the Maintenance Quality Assurance (MQA) program for the Iowa DOT, coordinating the annual collection and reporting on maintenance quality for more than 5,500 sample road segments representing Iowa’s 24,000+ lane-mile primary road network. He is also tasked with supporting and growing the DOT’s nascent asset- management efforts. Haubrich has been with the Iowa DOT since May 2010 and has served in various other roles in Iowa government, most recently as bureau chief for Research and Statistics at the Department of Human Services. He has more than 15 years of experience in performance measurement, survey research, and statistical analysis. Haubrich holds a bachelor’s degree in statistics and a master’s degree in business administration from Iowa State University and is a certified public manager.
LONNIE HENDRIX is the assistant state engineer for Maintenance for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). His group is responsible for oversight of the state’s highway maintenance program, including budget, policy, contracting, permits, maintenance management, and emergency management. He assisted in the development of ADOT’s level-of-service and performance-based budgeting system. Hendrix has served in his current position for seven years and in highway maintenance for more than 14 years. He has been an active member of the AASHTO Subcommittee on Maintenance and TRB Committee AHD10 on Maintenance and Operations Management for more than 10 years. Hendrix is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and holds a master’s degree in civil engineering from Arizona State University. He is a licensed professional engineer in Arizona.
DON HILLIS is the director of system management for the Missouri Department of
Transportation (MoDOT). In this position, he directs the statewide efforts for the Divisions of Maintenance, Highway Safety, Traffic, and Motor Carrier Services from MoDOT’s
central office in Jefferson City. He has served in his current position for 10 years. Prior to that, Hillis served as state maintenance engineer and transportation planning director, and assistant district engineer in the Northwest District in St. Joseph. He was involved in the development of MoDOT’s maintenance performance indicators and the department’s Tracker performance measuring tool. He began his career with MoDOT in 1984 after graduating from the University of Missouri–Rolla with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in Missouri and a member of the AASHTO Subcommittee on Maintenance.
LUIS M. RODRIGUEZ is a senior pavement and materials engineer and team leader of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Resource Center–Pavement & Materials Technical Service Team. He provides technical assistant to state and local highway
agencies and FHWA field offices in the areas of pavement management, preservation, and smoothness and transportation asset management. Before moving to the FHWA Resource Center in 1999, Rodriguez worked as a pavement management engineer at the FHWA
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Office of Pavement Technology in Washington, D.C., for seven years. He also had field assignments in the Alabama and Georgia FHWA Division Offices. Rodriguez was one of the developers and instructors of the FHWA Pavement Management Multiyear Prioritization training course. He received his bachelor degree in civil engineering from the University of Puerto Rico in 1983. He is a registered professional engineer in Georgia and a former member of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Pavement Management Systems (AFD10).
KATHRYN A. ZIMMERMAN (Subject Matter Expert) is the president of Applied Pavement Technology, Inc. (APTech), a company she founded in 1994. Throughout her career, Zimmerman has worked with both state and local agencies to address the organizational and technical enhancements needed to support the use of asset-man- agement principles for making investment decisions for pavements and other roadway assets. She has led Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) projects, including the development of a 10-year road map for pavement management and a Guide to Maintenance Condition Assessment
Systems. She developed a training course on maintenance management systems for the National Highway Institute and currently serves as the lead instructor for the course. Zimmerman serves as the chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation Asset Management, as a member of the TRB Maintenance and
Operations Management Committee, and as a panel member for NCHRP Project 14-25: Guidelines/Methodology for Developing Cost Effective and Cost Efficient Levels of Service. Zimmerman is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where she earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She is a licensed professional engineer in Illinois and 29 additional states.