OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Transportation Planner, High Speed Rail Project, Planning and Public Transit Sections, Oregon Department of Transportation; Land Use Planning Intern, Clackamas County.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Benson Polytechnic High School, Portland, Oregon; Oregon State University, B.S. Political Science; Course Work in Urban and Regional Planning, Portland State University.

PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE: None

As a Transportation Planner with the Oregon Department of Transportation, I worked on a variety of Transit issues, including revenue and expenditure forecasts, programs for senior and disabled transportation, and the Oregon Public Transportation Plan. I worked directly with Planners at the various Transit agencies around the state. As a Director with Salem Area Transit, I would bring a working knowledge of Transit issues to the Board.

(This information furnished by David M.Hiser