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Parvathy Pillai

Associate | Manager, Transit Technology
Toronto, ON

Parvathy Pillai
#Associate | Manager, Transit Technology# #Active Transportation# #Transportation# ## #Advanced Traveler Information System# #Advanced Traveller Information System# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# ## #All# #Data Analytics# #Energy Solutions# #Mobility+# #Transportation# ## #Project / Programme Management# #Research & Development# #Strategic Planning# #Sustainability & Environmental Management# #Green# ##
Toronto, Ontario,
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/parvathy-krishna-pillai
Parvathy Pillai is an established sustainability leader experienced and certified in program and project management (PgMP and PMP). She is also a Six Sigma/lean practitioner (ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt) with strong experience in the zero-emission transportation technology industry. She is a results-driven leader with over 6 years of experience in consulting supporting transit agencies, municipalities, cities and private sector partners across North America in energy transition to clean transportation solutions. She has over 12 years of industry experience in program and project management, planning, and successful execution. She has successfully led more than 50 transit electrification and decarbonization projects in North America.
#North America#
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Larry Baldwin

Director | Sr. Practice Lead, Intelligent Systems
Phoenix, AZ

Larry Baldwin
#Director | Sr. Practice Lead, Intelligent Systems# #All# #Leader# #Office Lead# #Software as a Service# #SaaS# ## #Subject Matter Expert# #Systems# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ## #Transit Technology# #Transportation# #ITS# #Intelligent Transportation Systems# ## #TravelIQ# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ## #Traveller Information# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ##
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Larry has over 20 years of extensive software and systems engineering experience in effectively managing and designing web, mobile, voice, and multi-modal user interface services. Larry has a long career of project and program management as well as web and speech recognition application design and delivery. Larry is a leader for IBI Group’s ATIS practice, having managed multiple 511 deployments as well as having been a creator of the IBI Group 511 IVR platform. His responsibilities include the oversight of Operations and Maintenance and client management for a substantial number of IBI Group’s 12 Traveler Information deployments. Larry is a visionary in interaction design and is the inventor or co-inventor on multiple user experience design patents. He has been designing and deploying mobile, telematics, web, and in-home speech, touchscreen, and web-browser applications since 1999, always exploring the boundaries and experiences of the Human Computer Interaction. He brings a wealth of deployment and O&M experience as well as strong user experience design understanding. Larry has managed deployments and operations for the following entities: Los Angeles 511 (five county region), San Francisco Bay Area 511, Florida 511, Alaska 511, MASS 511, New York 511, Arizona 511, and Alberta 511. These deployments include such complex user interactions as real-time traffic, transit, and weather information. His experience includes designing, deploying, and managing large customer-facing systems for companies such as Expedia.com, Western Wireless and Arch/Page-net which handle multiple millions of customer interactions each year. He is also the Phoenix, AZ Office Lead.
#North America# #Pacific West#
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Lance Hunt

Sr. Project Manager
Vancouver, BC

Lance Hunt
#Sr. Project Manager# #All# #Environmental Assessment# #Development Engineering# ##
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Lance Hunt is a professional chemist with experience in many facets of environmental site investigations, including historical site assessments, field studies, sample collection techniques, contaminated site remediation, water treatment process, air emission studies, analytical data interpretation and technical report writing. Lance has worked on numerous municipal, provincial and federal projects and has been involved in hundreds of Phase 1 ESA, Phase 2 ESA, DSI and Remediation projects. Lance is involved in conducting environmental site assessments for a number of First Nations. His responsibilities include project management, field investigations, data analysis, project research and developing site remediation strategies.
#North America#
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Lydia La Point

Associate | Manager, Transportation Engineering
Irvine, CA

Lydia La Point
#Associate | Manager, Transportation Engineering# #All# #Engineering# #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Subject Matter Expert# #Traffic Management# #Transportation# ## #Transit Facilities# #Transportation# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Planning# #Transportation# ##
Irvine, California, United States of America
As a Transportation Engineer in the Irvine office, Lydia La Point has performed traffic impact analyses, computer modeling, and quality control for several transit projects. She was also involved in the production of cost estimates for traffic signal components and roadway striping in signalized intersections.
#North America# #Pacific West#
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Amer Obeid

Associate | Manager, Architecture
Toronto, ON

Amer Obeid
#Associate | Manager, Architecture# #All# #Architecture# #Light Rail Transit# #Transportation# #LRT# ##
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Amer has over 20 years of experience in architectural design and construction for various building typologies. He has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary. Following graduation, Amer worked in the United Arab Emirates as a member of the government architectural and engineering staff with responsibilities that developed from design review and detailing to complete design and construction supervision for numerous projects, including major public, residential and industrial developments. He joined IBI’s transit architecture group in early 2001 to 2005 and continued his architectural career in Verona Italy for several years prior to rejoining IBI Group in 2009. Amer has participated in various transit projects from conceptual design and construction documentation through to the completion of construction. These projects include the TTC Eglinton Bus Station, the GTAA Automated People Mover Stations and the Finch West Subway Station. Amer is currently leading the architectural design detailing and construction document production for the new 11 km NTA Red Line LRT project in Tel Aviv.
#North America#
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Raafat Abadir

Associate | Manager, Contract Administration
Toronto, ON

Raafat Abadir
#Associate | Manager, Contract Administration# #All# #Architecture# #Education# #School# ## #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Living+# #Residential# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Office# #Commercial# ## #Residential# #Retail# #Commercial# ##
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Raafat Abadir has a long career with IBI Group dating back to 1989 as a Principal Contract Administrator. At the time, he specialized in the construction administration of high-rise residential and office buildings, schools, and commercial buildings. Prior to this, Raafat gained ten years of architectural design and development engineering construction before relocating to Canada. Raafat has played an integral part in the managing of many notable, award-winning projects in the Greater Toronto Area, including One Financial Place, H.J. Alexander School, The Avenue, One Bedford Drive, River House-Old Mill, Waterpark Place (5 Phases), and the list goes on. Currently, Raafat is managing King Square Mall, Treviso (3 Phases), Harwood & Bayly (2 Phases), The Britt, 11 Wellesley, and 9 Tippett. His ability to coordinate and solve multi-site concerns with excellence has a proven record of client and firm satisfaction.
#North America#
Kim Van Ruskenveld

Associate Director | Practice Lead, Interior Design
Edmonton, AB

Kim Van Ruskenveld
#Associate Director | Practice Lead, Interior Design# #All# #Education# #School# ## #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Interiors# #Interior Design# ## #Labs / Life Sciences# #Healthcare# ## #Leader# #Mid Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Office# #Commercial# ## #Residential# #Retail# #Commercial# ## #Seniors Communities# #Residential# ##
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Kim is an NCIDQ certified interior designer with over 15 years of work experience in the design industry. Kim has acted as design lead on a range of projects, overseeing the entirety of the project from programming design development through to contract administration. Kim’s extensive experience includes corporate, commercial, hospitality, healthcare, residential, retail, and institutional projects. In addition to managing a thriving interiors practice in Edmonton, Kim also leads the Canada West Regional Interiors team. Kim’s innate ability to develop strong connections with colleagues and clients has been key to developing a successful collaboration across IBI Group’s North American offices and client base.
#North America#
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Michael McGann

Associate | Manager, Transportation Engineering
Waterloo, ON

Michael McGann
#Associate | Manager, Transportation Engineering# #Active Transportation# #Transportation# ## #All# #Bridges, Roads & Highways# #Transportation# ## #Bus Rapid Transit# #Transportation# #BRT# ## #Civic & Government# #Institution# ## #Civil Engineering# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #Civil Infrastructure# #Design Build# #Municipal Infrastructure# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #P3# #Project / Programme Management# #Transportation# #Transportation Engineering# #Transportation# ## #Water / Wastewater# #Industrial# ##
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-mcgann-97a680119/?originalSubdomain=ca
Michael has over 15 years of progressive experience in the design of various transportation and municipal engineering projects, including design team supervision, preliminary and detailed design, contract administration and inspection. Prior to joining IBI Group, Michael spent four years as the Manager of Design and Approvals at the City of Cambridge where he oversaw the Annual Capital Infrastructure Replacement Program. Michael worked on a wide variety of municipal projects including local residential roads, collector and arterial roadways, downtown core area streetscaping projects, trenchless watermain and sewer rehabilitations and Municipal Class Environmental Assessments. This experience has given him a deep understanding of the challenges faced by municipalities and the ability to truly understand the needs of municipal clients. With this experience he can manage projects in a proactive manner, anticipating challenges and addressing them before they become issues.
#North America#
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Alexandra Samouk

Associate | Interior Design
Toronto, ON

Alexandra Samouk
#Associate | Interior Design# #All# #Architecture# #Commercial# #Community / Recreational Facilities# #Institution# #Civic & Government# ## #Design Build# #Green# #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Higher Education# #School# #Education# ## #Hotels & Resorts# #Commercial# #Hospitality# ## #Interiors# #Interior Design# ## #Learning+# #School# #Education# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Office# #Commercial# ## #P3# #Project / Programme Management# #Retail# #Commercial# ## #Transit Facilities# #Transportation# ##
Toronto, Ontario, North America
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-samouk
Alexandra is an awarded designer with over 25 years of Interior Design and Project Management experience. Throughout her career, she has seamlessly bridged the architecture and interior design fields into coherent and unique projects. Her commitment to innovative, yet functional solutions and client-focused professionalism has a proven record in corporate, institutional, and mixed-use developments. Her portfolio also includes retail, hospitality, and residential developments. Alexandra is combining the known parameters with the research leading to future needs and the client-specific data and standards, to achieve the environment that will serve efficiently. She has completed all aspects of project design from initial meetings and assessments, concept development, client, and consultant team coordination right through to project implementation, and move-in. Alexandra ensures client requirements and expectations have been met by keeping a keen eye on the efficiency, precision, and quality of work.
#North America#
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Barry Medford

Associate | Manager, Civil Engineering
Toronto West, ON

Barry Medford
#Associate | Manager, Civil Engineering# #All# #Bus Rapid Transit# #Transportation# #BRT# ## #Civic & Government# #Institution# ## #Civil Engineering# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #Civil Infrastructure# #Design Build# #Development Engineering# #Light Rail Transit# #Transportation# #LRT# ## #Municipal Infrastructure# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #P3# #Parking# #Project / Programme Management# #Rail# #Transportation# ## #Terminals# #Transportation# #Transit Facilities# ## #Transit Facilities# #Transportation# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Engineering# #Transportation# ## #Water / Wastewater# #Industrial# ##
Toronto West, Ontario, Canada
Mr. Medford has over 15 years of experience in site development and municipal engineering projects comprising of residential, commercial, and transportation design. He has worked extensively on transportation infrastructure projects such as bus and train stations; light rail and bus rapid transit systems; ; fleet maintenance and yard facilities; industrial track sidings; and train layover facilities. Other relevant projects include transformer stations, automotive facilities, subdivision design, school expansions, utility relocations, rehabilitation and road reconstruction. His substantial design knowledge and supplement field experience ensures the civil engineering design component is detailed, efficient and constructible. In addition, he is highly proficient in AutoCAD, Civil 3D and MicroStation.
#North America#
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Rushabh Kadchhud

Associate | Manager, Intelligent Systems
New York, NY

Rushabh Kadchhud
#Associate | Manager, Intelligent Systems# #Active Transportation# #Transportation# ## #Advanced Traffic Management System# #Transportation# #ATMS# ## #Airports# #Transportation# ## #All# #Bridges, Roads & Highways# #Transportation# ## #Bus Rapid Transit# #Transportation# #BRT# ## #Civic & Government# #Institution# ## #Data Centre# #Commercial# #Office# ## #Design Build# #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Industrial# #Operations Centre# #Transportation# ## #Revenue / Tolling# #Transportation# ## #Smart Cities# #Software as a Service# #SaaS# ## #Systems# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ## #Transportation# #Traveller Information# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ##
New York, New York, United States of America
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rushabh-kadchhud-28649354/
Rushabh is a Senior Network and Security Architect with CISSP and CCNP certifications and a decade of network experience working with Cisco, Palo Atlo, Juniper and Siemens infrastructure, with a special focus on network and security audits, monitoring and availability reporting. Rushabh specializes in capabilities run end-to-end including solution design and equipment specification in addition to hands-on execution and implementation of network and security configuration changes and troubleshooting. Rushabh has worked extensively in ITS sector with network designs, audits and implementation from provincial highways to Toll Bridge projects and supporting life safety and critical systems. Rushabh has provided professional network engineering services for both Provincial and Municipal governments across North America including discovery, design, integration planning, deployment, operational and troubleshooting of the multi-jurisdictional enterprise network. Rushabh has helped document, configure, install, deploy, monitor, investigate, triage, troubleshoot, remediate, and maintain network and security systems for performance, efficiency, stability, and availability.
#North America#
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Peter Richards

Director | Senior Practice Lead, Transportation Engineering
Toronto, ON

Peter Richards
#Director | Senior Practice Lead, Transportation Engineering# #Active Transportation# #Transportation# ## #All# #Bridges, Roads & Highways# #Transportation# ## #CurbIQ# #Transportation# #Curbside Management# ## #Curbside Management# #Transportation# ## #Engineering# #Landmark Events# #Special Events# ## #Leader# #Mobility+# #Transportation# ## #Multi-Modal Transportation# #Transportation# ## #Parking# #Project / Programme Management# #Subject Matter Expert# #Traffic Management# #Transportation# ## #Transit Oriented Development# #TOD# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Engineering# #Transportation# ## #Wayfinding & Signage#
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-richards-70582261/
Peter Richards has 15 years of experience, with a focus on traffic operations analysis, traffic and parking assessments, and traffic signal coordination. Peter has extensive experience completing traffic impact studies, parking studies, including parking utilization studies for various developments, by-law reviews, and parking standards reviews. Peter also has experience undertaking traffic capacity analysis, review of multi-modal developments, site circulation and access review, transportation demand management strategies, traffic model calibration, developing and implementing optimized and coordinated signal timing plans, queuing analysis, public consultation sessions, speed and delay surveys, and innovative traffic solutions. For the Toronto 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games Transportation Plan work, Peter was presented the Award of Merit 2016 from the Canadian Institute of Planners for Sustainable Mobility, Transportation and Infrastructure. His professional memberships include Professional Engineers Ontario, Institute of Transportation Engineers, and the Canadian Parking Association.
#North America#
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