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Xin Chen

Associate | Manager, Intelligent Systems
Toronto, ON

Xin Chen
#Associate | Manager, Intelligent Systems# #Advanced Traffic Management System# #Transportation# #ATMS# ## #All# #Leader# #Operations# #Systems# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Traffic Engineering# #Transportation# #Traffic Management# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Engineering# #Transportation# ##
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
https://www.linkedin.com/in/xin-chen-b3758557/
Xin is a project lead with the Systems Engineering and Management group based in Toronto and has been working with IBI Group since 2012. His experience spans between the systems practice and the infrastructures practice at IBI Group. Xin’s systems experience includes both design and deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Advanced Traffic Management Systems, Advanced Traffic Information Systems, and toll systems. He has been involved at various stages in the systems project lifecycle, including concept of operations, stakeholder engagement, design & requirement tracing, QA/QC, documentation, and client training. His traffic operations experience includes traffic analysis, micro-simulation, highway operations and incident management. Xin has extensive experience in large scale Private-Public-Partnerships, both from the owner’s and the bidder’s side. His P3 experience includes the Gordie Howe International Bridge project, as the lead technical manager during the design phase, and as the project manager during the construction phase services, for IBI Group’s design disciplines.
#North America#
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Dorin Vargatu

Associate Director | Practice Lead, Intelligent Systems
Toronto, ON

Dorin Vargatu
#Associate Director | Practice Lead, Intelligent Systems# #Airports# #Transportation# ## #All# #Ports# #Transportation# #Transit Facilities# #Terminals# ## #Revenue / Tolling# #Transportation# ## #Software as a Service# #SaaS# ## #Systems# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ## #Traffic Management# #Transportation# ## #Transportation#
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dorin Vargatu has successfully utilized the knowledge gained through his extensive systems engineering experience to effectively lead various software and systems projects. Dorin specializes in systems analysis, software design and development, systems integration and deployment of real-time electronic toll collection, traffic management and commercial vehicle tracking and control systems.
#North America#
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Thabet AbuShah

Associate | Manager, Transportation Engineering
Tel Aviv, Israel

Thabet AbuShah
#Associate | Manager, Transportation Engineering# #All# #Bridges, Roads & Highways# #Transportation# ## #Civil Engineering# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #Civil Infrastructure# #Commercial# #Community / Recreational Facilities# #Institution# #Civic & Government# ## #Design Build# #Education# #School# ## #Energy Solutions# #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Hotels & Resorts# #Commercial# #Hospitality# ## #Industrial# #Maintenance Facilities# #Transportation# ## #Mid Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Office# #Commercial# ## #Parking# #Residential# #Retail# #Commercial# ## #Structural Engineering#
Tel Aviv, Israel , Middle East
Thabet is a Civil and Structural Engineer with over 20 years of international experience in the UK and the Middle East. Thabet is a highly respected professional in his field, a business-minded, solutions-focused Civil and Structural Engineer, and Project Manager. He has the ability to simplify and conceptualize complex problems and processes. Thabet is a Chartered Structural Engineer (CEng) and certified International Professional Engineer (IntPE) in the UK with broad experience of project and design management, construction management, and civil and structural design experience in both the buildings and infrastructure sectors with proven capability in leading design and construction teams for the delivery of multidisciplinary projects. His technical expertise spans a wide range of civil engineering fields including detailed design of residential and commercial buildings, highway and railway infrastructure design and management, detailed structural design of transit facilities including stations, railway maintenance depots, retaining walls, and underground stations. Thabet currently serving as Design Manager and Construction Phase Services Lead for five Underground Stations for the NTA Red Line Tel Aviv LRT project. Thabet earned BEng in Civil and structural engineering degree from Nottingham Trent University (UK) and an MSc in Structural Engineering from the University of Surrey (UK) and he is a Member of The Institution of Structural Engineers in the UK (MIStructE) and registered Civil Engineer in Israel.
#Middle East#
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Jim Fox

Director | Sr. Practice Lead, Mechanical Engineering
Southfield, MI

Jim Fox
#Director | Sr. Practice Lead, Mechanical Engineering# #All# #Engineering# #Industrial# #Leader# #Mechanical Engineering# #Operations# #Project / Programme Management# #Subject Matter Expert#
Southfield, Michigan, United States of America
Jim Fox is responsible for the administration of corporate operations and projects. He manages the project organization, scheduling, scope definition, manpower planning, budgeting, expediting the various design disciplines, as well as monitoring their quality and progress. For selected projects, he serves as the upper level liaison with our client.
#Midwest# #North America#
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Michelle Boucher

Associate Director | Practice Lead, Intelligent Transportation Systems
Boston, MA

Michelle Boucher
#Associate Director | Practice Lead, Intelligent Transportation Systems# #Active Transportation# #Transportation# ## #Advanced Traveler Information System# #Advanced Traveller Information System# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# ## #All# #Civil Engineering# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #Leader# #Project / Programme Management# #Strategic Planning# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ## #Traffic Engineering# #Transportation# #Traffic Management# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Planning# #Transportation# ## #Traveller Information# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ##
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-boucher-0b729a77/
Ms. Boucher has extensive experience in ITS, transportation planning and engineering. As a 20+ year veteran of MassDOT Highway Division and former Director of ITS, she was instrumental in the planning, design, and implementation of the ITS Program in Massachusetts. As the Managing Director of KCUS from 2015-2019, she worked on several ITS related projects both in Massachusetts and overseas. She is the project manager for the MassDOT Statewide RTTM System and the MassDOT Smart Work Zone Manager Application. As a former public employee, she brings a practical and operational approach to projects. She has been part of teams and led teams that have developed strategic plans geared toward improving safety using ITS, concepts of operation, feasibility studies, safety and mobility studies, performance management and software development. After leaving MassDOT, she spent two years working at the National Volpe Transportation Center on ITS, traffic incident management, and the National Park Services safety program. During her time at KCUS she worked on projects which included providing a technical ITS program plan to the Colombian Ministry of Transport, a Transportation Strategic Framework for the King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia, and a Smart Work Zone implementation tool for FHWA.
#North America# #Northeast#
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Mac Gong

Associate | Manager, Placemaking
Vancouver, BC

Mac Gong
#Associate | Manager, Placemaking# #All# #Architecture# #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Master Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Mid Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Policy & Design Guidelines# #Project / Programme Management# #Research & Development# #Residential#
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Mac Gong is a senior urban designer and a registered architect in China coordinating design work between our residential high-rise and placemaking practices. He specializes in large mixed-use and business/industrial master plans and design guidelines which require a deep understanding of how buildings and cities work. He has worked on complex assignments in Canada, China, and the Middle East, and has dozens of private development rezoning projects in the Lower Mainland to his credit. As a bridge between different disciplines, Mac is well-attuned to producing building massing schemes that fit urban policy, maximize developer expectations, ensure circulation access, and produce high-quality integration to the broader urban realm.
#North America#
Evangelos Pantazis

Computational Design Lead
Los Angeles, CA

Evangelos Pantazis
#Computational Design Lead# #All# #Architecture# #BIM & 3D Visualization# #Civil Engineering# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #Data Analytics# #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Office# #Commercial# ## #Parametric Design# #Design Technology# ## #Quantum# #Research & Development# #Residential# #Spatial Intelligence# #GIS# #Geographic Information System# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ##
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
https://www.linkedin.com/in/evangelos-pantazis/
Design is concerned with how things work, how they are controlled, and the nature of interaction between people and technology. When done well the results are brilliant, pleasurable buildings.
Evangelos Pantazis is an architectural engineer, building scientist, computational designer and educator. His research expertise is in complex geometric modelling and generative design strategies in conjunction with daylighting, energy modelling and performance driven design workflows across scales. His work empowers non-specialized architects and designers to develop design alternatives which couple critical design parameters with energy demand and supply, comfort, and livability. To date, he has authored and co-authored journal papers, peer reviewed scientific articles and book chapters. Prior to joining IBI in 2019, Evan was a member of i-lab and Schema Lab at the Viterbi School of Engineering, where his research was supported by a fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE) and Autodesk Inc. In practice Evangelos has worked for Graft Architects in Berlin, Studio Pei-Zhu in Beijing, Buro Happold Engineering in Los Angeles, has co-founded Topotheque design research studio and he is the CTO of Fablab Ioannina.Evan holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he was a fellow of both Onassis and Myronis Foundation. Additionally he holds a Master in Computer Aided Architectural Design from the Swiss Federal University of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and a Diploma in Architectural Engineering from the Aristotle’s University in Thessaloniki.
#North America# #Pacific West#
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Sam Hickey

Associate - Manager, Transit Data
Seattle, WA

Sam Hickey
#Associate - Manager, Transit Data# #All# #Bus Rapid Transit# #Transportation# #BRT# ## #Data Analytics# #Light Rail Transit# #Transportation# #LRT# ## #Software as a Service# #SaaS# ## #Transportation# #Traveller Information# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ##
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelhickey
Sam has over eight years of experience working with transit real-time passenger information systems and CAD/AVL systems. Sam leads the implementation and operations and maintenance of IBI Group’s transit data suite of software for clients including TransLink (Vancouver), Los Angeles Metro, and RTD (Denver). This suite of software includes TRANSIT-alerts, which is used to enter, manage, and disseminate service alerts, and TRANSIT-realtime, which aggregates, manages, and disseminates real-time locations and predictions. Sam also has a focus on real-time passenger information systems for rail and has designed and developed light rail and commuter rail real-time passenger information systems for RTD (Denver), SunRail (Orlando), and NFTA (Buffalo). Prior to joining IBI Group in 2015, Sam worked for the MBTA (Boston) for over four years. At the MBTA he designed and developed software that generated real-time arrival predictions for the subway lines and published the predictions on countdown signs and for app developers, served as system administrator for the bus CAD/AVL system, and managed the MBTA’s GTFS data. Sam has a Master’s degree in Transportation and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.
#North America# #Pacific West#
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Gerry Chaput

Director, Partnerships
Toronto, ON

Gerry Chaput
#Director, Partnerships# #All# #Civil Engineering# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #Civil Infrastructure# #Engineering# #Leader# #Light Rail Transit# #Transportation# #LRT# ## #Municipal Infrastructure# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #Project / Programme Management# #Regional / Sectoral# #Senior Management# ## #Strategic Planning# #Transit Technology# #Transportation# #ITS# #Intelligent Transportation Systems# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Engineering# #Transportation# ##
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerry-chaput-p-eng-23397b135/
As Director, Partnerships, Gerry will take a leadership role in the strategic growth of IBI services to governments and the private sector. He brings unique and extensive experience in transportation, ranging from strategic planning, through to the delivery of major programs, and covering design, construction, operations, legislation and ITS services. Gerry joined IBI from Metrolinx, where he served as Executive Vice President, Program Management. In this role, he ensured that delivery teams had consistent project controls, reporting requirements, resources and management systems to successfully deliver the: Capital Program, including the GO Transit expansion Toronto subway projects Hurontario LRT in Mississauga/Brampton Toronto’s Finch West and Eglinton Crosstown LRT He earned a degree in Civil Engineering from Queens University, which led him to a career at the Ontario Ministry of Transportation in roles of increasing responsibility. These included Chief Engineer/Executive Director and Assistant Deputy Minister, Provincial Highways Management, a role he held until his departure in 2016. Gerry is currently President of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Foundation. Gerry held various roles within TAC, including President from 2014 to 2016 and was a past Chair of the Chief Engineers Council.
#North America#
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Jennifer Lem

Associate Director | Practice Lead, Interior Design
Toronto, ON

Jennifer Lem
#Associate Director | Practice Lead, Interior Design# #All# #Community / Recreational Facilities# #Institution# #Civic & Government# ## #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Hotels & Resorts# #Commercial# #Hospitality# ## #Interiors# #Interior Design# ## #Leader# #Living+# #Residential# ## #Low Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Mid Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Residential#
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jennifer Lem has highly developed conceptual skills, planning abilities, as well as a keen eye for finishes and details as evidenced by her work on the Edition Hotels (Miami; Waikiki), New World Hotel (Guangzhou), and St. Regis Hotel (Mexico City). Her ability to document and detail the interior environment is integral to her role in developing the Hospitality and Residential Interiors practice, where she is currently working on Minto’s Yorkville Park, Museum House, Harmony Village and the Nitesh Estates amongst projects.
#North America#
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Tess Gilchrist

Associate | Manager, Planning
Kingston, ON

Tess Gilchrist
#Associate | Manager, Planning# #All# #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Higher Education# #School# #Education# ## #Infill Development# #Land Use Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Low Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Master Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Mid Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Office# #Commercial# ## #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Policy & Design Guidelines# #Residential# #Seniors Communities# #Residential# ##
Kingston, Ontario, North America
Tess is a Registered Professional Planner with over twelve years of professional consulting experience in land use planning, on a variety of projects, for both public and private sector clients. As an Associate Manager, Planning at IBI Group’s Kingston office, Tess prepares and monitors development applications for a wide range of planning approvals on behalf of private clients, as well as provides planning advisory expertise to municipal clients. Tess provides comprehensive planning support for planning applications, including site analysis, planning justification reports, policy review and overall project management. Tess is passionate about shaping the local community through development that is forward thinking, sensitive to the changing landscape and creatively balances a broad range of interests.
#North America#
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Cristina Martinez

Transportation Planner
Irvine, CA

Cristina Martinez
#Transportation Planner# #Active Transportation# #Transportation# ## #All# #Bus Rapid Transit# #Transportation# #BRT# ## #Design Technology# #Light Rail Transit# #Transportation# #LRT# ## #Multi-Modal Transportation# #Transportation# ## #Parking# #Policy & Design Guidelines# #Spatial Intelligence# #GIS# #Geographic Information System# ## #Subject Matter Expert# #Traffic Management# #Transportation# ## #Transit Facilities# #Transportation# ## #Transit Oriented Development# #TOD# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Planning# #Transportation# ##
Irvine, California, United States of America
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-cristina-martinez-11500777/
Cristina Martinez is a Transportation Planner with experience ranging from large-scale freeway and transit impact projects to local active transportation projects, transit-oriented development, master and specific plans, and parking/traffic management studies. Her work in public, private, and non-profit sector planning has shaped her passion for creating community-inclusive solutions to issues that affect our urban and social environments. As Regional GIS Lead for the United States, Cristina helps coordinate IBI’s global network of GIS professionals and is involved with internal initiatives to further integrate geospatial technology into IBI’s project work. Her expertise in GIS includes data management and analysis, data visualization, geospatial analysis, and interactive map development.
#North America# #Pacific West#
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