Jane Garvey, Chair
Areas of Expertise: Program & Agency Management, Finance
Ms. Garvey has almost 20 years of experience in the aviation and highway management industry. She was the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works (now Massachusetts Highway Department), director of Boston’s Logan International Airport, and served as acting administrator and deputy administer for the Federal Highway Administration. At the Federal Highway Administration, Ms. Garvey conceived and developed the Innovative Financing Initiative, enabling states to use federal highway funds more effectively. Currently, she is an executive vice president and chairman of APCO Worldwide’s transportation practice and is a lecturer and research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Transportation and Logistics. Ms. Garvey holds a bachelor’s degree from Mount Saint Mary College and a master’s degree from Mount Holyoke College.
Leroy E. Baker, P.E.
Areas of Expertise: Engineering, Management
Mr. Baker has over 35 years of experience on the design of major civil and structural transportation and public works projects and programs throughout the United States. He has a Master of Science with dual majors in structures and hydraulics from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering with distinction from the University of Nebraska. Mr. Baker led the risk identification and risk management task force for the 20-mile effluent and influent tunnels to the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant in King County, Washington. He also helped the Utah Department of Transportation develop a ‘best value’ selection process to select design-build contractors. Mr. Baker is currently a senior vice president for special projects at HDR, Inc.
Rodney L. Brown, Jr. J.D.
Area of Expertise: Environmental
Mr. Brown is a lawyer with over 20 years of experience practicing environmental law in Washington state. With a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas, Mr. Brown represents clients on issues related to environmental impact statements and permits; pollution control and waste management regulations; Endangered Species Act requirements, and environmental liabilities. He was on the Blue Ribbon Commission for Transportation, is a member of the Washington Department of Ecology’s Regulatory Performance Advisory Group, and serves on the board of the Washington Environmental Council. Mr. Brown has also been listed among the eight best environmental lawyers by Seattle Business Monthly and named a “Best Lawyer” by Seattle magazine. Mr. Brown is currently a partner at the Cascadia Law Group.
William Edgerton, P.E.
Areas of Expertise: Geotechnical Engineering, Tunnel Design & Construction
Mr. Edgerton has 35 years of experience in management, design and construction, contracting, construction management, claims and dispute resolution for infrastructure and tunnel projects. He has a Master of Business Administration in procurement and contracting from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Tufts University. Until recently, Mr. Edgerton was the project manager for the final design of King County’s Brightwater Conveyance System, a 13-mile effluent and influent system of tunnels. He also serves as the chairman for the American Underground Association’s steering committee, which is revising their “Better Contracting in Underground Construction” manual. He is currently a principal at Jacobs Associate.
Donald E. Forbes, P.E.
Areas of Expertise: Project Implementation, Risk
Mr. Forbes is a former Director of the Oregon Department of Transportation. During his eight year tenure at ODOT, he was responsible for managing the state's highways, bridges, and airports. Since then he has been involved with the Caltrans Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program - including construction of the $1.4 billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - Caltrans' Devil's Slide Tunnels Project Risk Management (oversight and technical assistance) and for the Illinois Tollway Reconstruction Program as Program Manager of this $5.3 billion, 10 year reconstruction program. His responsibilities included overall strategy for design and construction, consistent with the Quality Management Program conforming to FHWA quality guidelines.
Kenneth E. Kruckemeyer, AIA, ASCE
Areas of Expertise: Planning, Urban Design & Traffic
Mr. Kruckemeyer has nearly four decades of experience integrating the design and engineering of projects of public significance with the communities they serve. With a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Kruckemeyer was responsible for the engineering, architecture, and design of the Southwest Corridor transit, rail, arterial and urban development project in Boston. This $750 million project received a Presidential Design Award and was named the Outstanding Engineering Achievement of 1998 by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was then an Associate Commissioner of the Massachusetts Highway Department where he implemented a better urban design processes and made significant improvements to bridge design engineering & aesthetics. He is a recent research affiliate at the Center for Transportation and Logistics and lecturer in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
David L. McCracken, P.E.
Areas of Expertise: Construction, Cost Estimating
Mr. McCracken has 40 years of experience in the heavy construction industry. He has been responsible for engineering and management for many highway projects as well as canal and irrigation projects and airport runway construction. Mr. McCracken has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Maine. He worked on the $1 billion Central Arizona Project canal system, which required excavation and heavy concrete structure work. He has been responsible for the contractor’s selection of projects to bid, bid review, equipment selection, overview of project operations, cost control, and preparation and negotiations of construction claims. Mr. McCracken is currently self-employed as a construction consultant specializing in construction management and dispute resolution.
Carolyn (Lyn) Wylder, P.E.
Areas of Expertise: Project Management, Engineering
Ms. Wylder has over 30 years of experience ranging from conceptual engineering through construction and has had direct responsibility for major transportation projects. She is currently the project manager for the Federal Transit Administration’s program management oversight of transit and highway construction projects in lower Manhattan, worth $1.5 billion, which is reconstructing infrastructure damaged in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Previously as Chief Engineer then Vice President for Operations and Development with MARTA in Atlanta, she was responsible for design, construction, schedule, cost adherence and overall quality for a $700 million transit line extension. This project included 3,000 and 4,000-foot cut-and-cover tunnels and was completed early and under budget. Ms. Wylder has a M.S. and B. E. in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is currently a vice president at David Evans and Associates.