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2008 Transportation Short Course:
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Speaker Information and Needs

Session 3
Maintenance
Tuesday, October 14
Room: 601 Rudder Tower

Speaker: Kelly Selman
Title: Director of Transportation Operations
Company: Texas Department of Transportation
Location: Dallas, TX
Presentation Title: report from the Task Force
Presentation Summary: Report on Total Asset Management and Performance Based Contracts
Bio/Expertise Highlights: As an Area Engineer I worked with maintenance and construction contracts for 17 years.
A/V Needs: podium with microphone, LCD projector
Speaker: Richard Schiller
Title: Director of Maintenance
Company: Texas Department of Transportation
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Presentation Title: Barnett Shale Gas Exploration - Impact on TxDOT Roadways
Presentation Summary: This presentation will show the amount of truck traffic (loads) to drill and put into production a gas well in the Barnett Shale and the resulting roadway impacts.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: 23 years experience in roadway maintenance, design, and construction with TxDOT and Tarrant County.
A/V Needs: podium with microphone, LCD projector
Moderator: Robert Blackwell
Title: Director of Maintenance Operations
Company: Texas Department of Transportation
Location: Austin, TX
Presentation Title: Afternoon Moderator
Presentation Summary: Moderator of afternoon session of Maintenance Session.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: I possess 20+ years of applicable roadway maintenance engineering experience with the Texas Department of Transportation.
A/V Needs: podium with microphone
Speaker: Brian Crawford
Title: Director of Maintenance
Company:
Location: Abilene, TX
Presentation Title: Windfarm Construction and Related Pavement Damage - Abilene District Perspective
Presentation Summary: Explain how wind turbine farm construction has resulted in pavement damage and outline steps that may be taken to help deal with this situation.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: I have 24 years experience in the design, construction, and maintenance of highway systems. I currently oversee the maintenance program for the Abilene District of TxDOT, including planning, programming, and implementing projects to upgrade and/or repair farms that have been damaged by wind turbine farm construction traffic.
A/V Needs: podium with microphone
Computer, projector and screen to show Powerpoint presentation
Speaker: Lonnie Gregorcyk
Title: District Engineer
Company: Texas Department of Transportation
Location: Yoakum, TX
Presentation Title: Coping with the CAT 1 Budget by using RMC's
Presentation Summary: Allocation of Routine Maintenance Contract funds to supplement Category 1 projects.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: I served as Area Engineer for 3 years managing the routine maintenance budget for 3 counties. I was the TP&D director for 5 years managing CAT 1 budget for the Yoakum District. As District Engineer for the past 5 years, I am responsible for total maintenance and construction budgets for 11 counties.
A/V Needs: podium with microphone, LCD projector
Speaker: Norman Moore
Title: Director of Maintenance
Company: Texas Department of Transportation
Location: Lubbock, TX
Presentation Title: Roadway Damage Related to Wind Generation
Presentation Summary: The Lubbock District's perspective on roadway damages related to the construction of Wind Generation Farms.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: I am the Director of Maintenance for the Lubbock District. We have monitored the damages sustained by local roadways due to the construction of wind generation farms. We have determined, to the best of our knowledge, the factors leading to these damages.
A/V Needs: podium with microphone, LCD projector
Speaker: Michael Heise
Title: Director of Maintenance
Company:
Location: Waco, TX
Presentation Title: Another Maintenance Tool - Performance Base Maintenance Contracts
Presentation Summary: How we make the performance based maintenance contract work.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: I have been involved with these contracts from the beginning when the special specification was developed. I am on my 9th year administering these type contracts.
A/V Needs: podium with microphone, LCD projector
Speaker: Paul Krugler
Title:
Company: Texas Transportation Institute
Location: Austin, TX
Presentation Title: Research - Variable Asphalt Rates for Chip Seals
Presentation Summary: This presentation describes a method of varying asphalt application rates across the road to diminish occurence or reoccurence of wheel path flushing.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: Paul Krugler is TTI's research supervisor conducting TxDOT Research Project 0-5833, Synthesis Study on Variable Asphalt Shot Rates for Seal Coats. Last summer he visited many of the districts frequently using tranversely varied asphalt rates. He will be presenting a summary of what he found, including recommendations for future use of this procedure. Paul was employed by TxDOT from 1973 to 2003, with the bulk of that time spent in the bituminous section of the Materials and Tests Division. He also served as RTI director for five years just prior to his retirement.
A/V Needs: podium with microphone, LCD projector
I'll bring my PC, just in case needed, and my powerpoint on a flash drive.
Speaker: Toribio Garza, Jr.
Title: Deputy Director, Maintenance Division
Company: Texas Department of Transportation
Location: Austin, TX
Presentation Title: Fleet Management-Right Sizing the Equipment Fleet
Presentation Summary: Making use of the district's equipment efficiently.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: Toribio Garza is Deputy Director Maintenance Division with 23 years experience in the design, construction, and maintenance of highway facilities. Toribio has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, University of Texas in Austin, 1986 and is married with 3 children.
A/V Needs: podium with microphone, LCD projector
laptop
Moderator: Tammy Sims
Title: Special Projects Engineer
Company: Texas Department of Transportation
Location: Austin, TX
Presentation Title:
Presentation Summary: Moderator
Bio/Expertise Highlights: I have Moderated before
A/V Needs: podium with microphone

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