Born: March 1, 1963
Marital Status: Married
Children: Two
Education: Bachelor's degree in Construction Engineering, Lawrence Technological University
Community Activities: Vice president of the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO); member, AASHTO executive committee and a member of AASHTO Board of Directors since 2006; chairman, AASHTO Standing Committee on Performance Management and the subcommittee on Asset Management; member of Board of Directors for Intelligent Transportation Society of America and the Engineering Society of Detroit, the nation's largest engineering society; chairman, Strategic Highway Research Program II oversight committee, responsible for implementation report to Congress; 2004 member of the Federal Highway Administration's National Asset Management Delegation helping to conduct a transportation asset management seminar in Riga, Latvia for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania