Roger Driskell

Deputy Director of Highways

Region 4, IDOT

Chair, ICAT Transportation Board

Mr. Roger Driskell is the Deputy Director of Highways/Region Four Engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT).  Region Four consists of Districts 6 and 7 and includes 31 south central Illinois counties.  Mr. Driskell is currently responsible for planning, administering, supervising and controlling the functions of all the bureaus within Region Four.  In addition, he has been IDOT's lead in the review and investigation of alternative contracting methods, including Public-Private Partnerships and Design-Build.  Mr. Driskell is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois. 

Paul Kovacs

Chief Engineer

Illinois Tollway

Vice Chair, ICAT Transportation Board

Mr. Kovacs is the Chief Engineer for the Illinois Tollway and is responsible for the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of the agency's 286-mile system of roadways serving 1.4 million daily users in Northern Illinois.  Currently, he is delivering the first year of the Illinois Tollway's 15-year, $12 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future.  Mr. Kovacs earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois and is a registered professional engineer in Illinois and Michigan.  In his nearly 30 years of professional engineering experience, 17 were spent in the consulting industry.  He joined the Illinois Tollway in 1999 and prior to his appointment to Chief Engineer, he served as the ORT Program Manager and Deputy Chief of Project Implementation.  In this role, he managed the conversion of 20 mainline plazas to open road tolling and improvements along the Tri-State (I-94/I-294/I-80), Jane Addams Memorial (I-90) and Reagan Memorial (I-88) tollways.

Rick Anderson

Transportation Manager

Maurer & Stutz, Inc.

Jim Bishop

President & CEO

H.W. Lochner. Inc.

Jamil Bou-Saab

Vice President

Terra Engineering, Ltd.

Kevin Fitzpatrick

Sr. Vice President

Alfred Benesch & Company

Charles Gallagher

President

Gallagher Asphalt

Alex Hanna

Acting Transportation Manager

Khatib & Alami

J. Lee Hutchins

Director, Freight Logistics & Plan.

AECOM

Warren Knoles

Sr. VP & Chief Operating Officer

Crawford, Murphy & Tilly

Cindy Loos

Regional Vice President

Hanson Professional Services, Inc.

Lori Luther

County Administrator

Peoria County

Robert McAndrews

Associate Vice President

HNTB Corporation

Brian McPartlin

Senior Vice President

Globetrotters Engineering Corp.

Jorge Moreno

President

CivCon Services, Inc.

Lidia Pilecky

Vice President

CH2MHILL

Chandra Prasad

President

Omega & Associates, Inc.

Christine Reed

Sr. Vice President

Knight Engineers & Architects

Tony Sassine

Bureau Chief

Illinois Dept. of Transportation

Deborah Sawyer

President & CEO

Environ. Design International, Inc.

Kerrie Schattler

CEC Associate Professor

Bradley University

Milton Sees

Government Relations

Capital Infrastructure Group, LLC

Seshadri Guha

President & CEO

CGN & Associates

Norman Stoner

Division Administrator

Federal Highway Administration

Kestutis Susinskas

Sr. Proj. Manager- Transportation

AECOM

Larry Tate

General Manager

Caterpillar Inc.

Eric Therkildsen

Implementation Engineer

Illinois Department of Transportation

Priscilla Tobias

Bureau Chief

Illinois Depart. of Transportation

Cindy Williams

Quality Assurance Manager

Chicago Dept. of Transportation

William Frey

Deputy Dir. /Assist. Chief Engr.

Division of Highways, IDOT

Chair, ICAT Asphalt Board

As Assistant Chief Engineer, Deputy Director of Highways at the Illinois Department of Transportation, Mr. Frey is responsible for the direction and coordination of the Division of Highways' central bureaus (Bureau of Bridges and Structures, Construction, Design and Environment, Land Acquisition, Local Roads and Streets, Materials and Physical Research, Operations, and Safety Engineering) that develop and issue statewide policies, procedures, standards and specifications, as well as interacting with local agencies, other regulatory agencies and the construction industries. He coordinates the local agency federal and local Motor Fuel Tax programs and oversees the development of policies, procedures and technical standards for program development. Mr. Frey oversees project implementation activities to maintain quality and ensure cost-effective program activities.

Marvin Traylor

Executive Director

IL Asphalt Pavement Assoc.

Vice Chair, ICAT Asphalt Board

Dr. Traylor was born and raised in Hillsboro, Illinois.  He attended the University of Illinois (Champaign) on a scholarship provided by the Associated General Contractors of Illinois where he graduated in 1967 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering.  He was drafted while in graduate school and spent six years in the United States Air Force as a Civil Engineering Officer.  He returned to Champaign to complete his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees with emphasis on Transportation Materials.  He went to work for the Illinois Department of Transportation in the Bureau of Materials and Physical Research.  In 1985, after seven years with the Department, he took a position in the private sector as director of Research with the Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association.  He was recently selected to be the Executive Director of IAPA. 

Imad Al-Qadi

Dir., IL Center for Transport.

University of Illinois

Ross Anderson

Vice President

Bowman, Barrett & Assoc. Inc.

Jay Behnke

President & CEO

S.T.A.T.E. Testing, LLC

Ross Bentsen

Senior Engineer

Quigg Engineering Inc.

John Fortmann

Acting Deputy Director

Illinois Dept. of Transportation

Daniel Gallagher

Vice President

Gallagher Asphalt

Steve Gillen

Materials Engineer

Illinois Tollway

Jennifer Krug

Vice President

K-Five Construction Corp.

David Lippert

Engineer of Materials

IDOT

Enad Mahmoud

CEC Assistant Professor

Bradley University

Kris Maillacheruvu

CEC Associate Professor

Bradley University

James McReynolds

President, Global Paving

Caterpillar Inc.

Dan Meckes

President

Crawford, Murphy & Tilly

Victor Modeer, Jr.

Vice-President

Volkert, Inc.

William Pine

Quality Control Director

Heritage Construction & Materials

William Vavrik

Midwest Division Manager

Applied Research Assoc., Inc.

Hal Wakefield

Engineering Team Leader

Federal Highway Administration

James Wolfe

Chairman & CEO

Knight Partners, LLC

Omer Osman

Director/Chief Engineer

Division of Highways, IDOT

Chair, ICAT Operations and Equipment

Mr. Omer Osman was appointed the Director of Highways for the State of Illinois effective January 2, 2013.  As Director and Chief Engineer of the Division of Highways, Mr. Osman is responsible for the direction and coordination of the Division of Highways' central bureaus in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the state highway system and the administration of the state's local roads and streets program. The Illinois state highway system consists of 17,000 miles including 2,050 miles of interstate roads. This is part of the 138,000-mile network of state, county, municipal, township and toll roads--the third largest system in the nation. Mr. Osman is a graduate of Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.  He obtained his M.S. in Civil Engineering (Construction Management) in 1995 from Bradley University. 

Shane Larson

Vice President

Hutchison Engineering, Inc.

Vice Chair, ICAT Operations and Equipment

Mr. Larson graduated from the University of Illinois in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.  After graduation, he went to work for the Illinois Department of Transportation District 4.  In his 17 years with the department, he worked in Studies and Plans, Construction and Operations.  For the last seven years of his IDOT career, he was the Operations Engineer with snow plowing responsibilities. Shane now works for Hutchison Engineering, Inc. as a Vice President. Hutchison Engineering, Inc. is a general civil engineering firm with experience working for over 50 municipalities and counties as well as private and government agencies across the state of Illinois.

John Anderson

County Engineer

Tazewell County

John Benda

General Manager

Illinois Tollway

Adam Burns

Project Manager

Crawford, Murphy & Tilly

Thomas Deldin

Fleet Manager

Illinois Tollway

Richard "Mark" DeVries

Maintenance Superintendent

McHenry County

Souhail Elhouar

CEC Associate Professor

Bradley University

Steve Ferguson

Director of Public Works

City of East Peoria

David Haste

Street and Sewer Manager

City of Peoria

Bruce Hucker

Operations Engineer, District 3

Bureau of Operations, IDOT

Chris Isbell

County Engineer

Stephenson County

Yasser Khodair

CEC Assistant Professor

Bradley University

Justan Mann

Acting Engineer of Operations

Amy McLaren

County Engineer

Peoria County Highway Dept.

Keith Miley

Operations Engineer

IDOT District 9

Khaled Naja

Chief Operating Officer

Chicago Department of Aviation

Derek Parish

District Operations Engineer

Illinois Dept. of Transportation

Tim Peters

Maintenance Engineer

Illinois Dept. of Transportation

Greg Svoboda

Maintenance Field Engineer

Illinois Dept. of Transportation

Steve Travia

Engineer of Traffic Operation

Illinois Dept. of Transportation

Robert Tyler

County Engineer

Woodford County Highway Dept.

Patrick Urich

City Manager

City of Peoria