Metropolitan Transportation Authority Biographical Information Report Covering Fiscal Year 2011 Submitted as part of the MTA 2011 Annual Report Pursuant to New York State Public Authorities Law Section 2800(1)(a)(5-a) MTA BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FISCAL YEAR 2011 Agency First Name Last Name Title Education/Degree Employment Univ of Benin(Nigeria)/Bachelor of Law(BL); Nigerian Law School/BL; Howard CCC John Abili Dep General Counsel Univ/Master/Laws MTA, Goldberg & Connolly CCC Yunes Abu-Mulaweh Dir Estimating Manhattan College/BE; Manhattan College/ME MTA Univ of Ill/BS, Stevens Inst of Tech/Master's CCC Rajee Alexander Design Manager Certificate MTA, Booz Allen Hamilton CCC Barbara Borges Sr Dir Pol & Cnt Admin-ESA SUNY at Oneonta/BS Bus. Economics MTA, BRW, Inc. CCC David Cannon Sr Dir Chief Procur Officer St. John’s Univ/AS; St. John's Univ/BS MTA Gauhati Univ./BS Civil Eng;Ranchi Univ./MS CCC Sankar Chakraborty Dep Chief Engineer Civil Eng;CUNY/MS Civil Eng. MTA CCC Joseph Christen Jr. VP & Dep Program Exec NJ Inst of Tech/BSME MTA Harvard Univ/Master of City and Reg.l Plng; St. CCC Anthony D'Amico VP Chief Financial Officer Joseph’s Univ/BA MTA CCC Michael Daniels Sr Proj Mgr-ESA Constr Coord SUNY Farmingdale/AAS, Pratt Institute/BSME MTA John E Osborn P.C; Kossoff & Unger; NY CCC Zoe Davidson Asst Gen Counsel Univ. of WA/BA Sociology;Boston Univ/JD Law School; NYC Law Dept. CCC Mark DeBernardo Dir Planning & Construct Hunter College/BA; Univ Tenn/MS MTA CCC Anthony Di Fiore Program Manager I Univ. Of Rochester/BS Mechanical Engineering MTA Pratt Univ./BE Electical Eng.; Polytechnic CCC Jose Diaz Construction Manager Univ./ Transportation Mgt MTA Lehman College/BA, Long Island Univ/Master CCC Sheldon Dixon Dir Human Resources Applied Psychology MTA CCC Uday Durg Program Executive LMP Univ of Mysore/BSME, Polytechnic Univ/MS MTA SUNY Buffalo/BS Mech Eng.; Brooklyn Law CCC Evan Eisland SVP Gen Counsel & Secr School/JD Mc Cullough Goldberger &Staudt LLP CCC Demetris Eliades Sr Eng Mgr Design Mgmt CUNY City College/BSCE MTA CCC Timothy Gianfrancesco Program Manager II Manhattan College/BE MTA Univ. Penn/BS Economics; Univ. Penn/ MA City Parsons Brinkerhoff;NY/NJ Port Auth.; CCC William Goldstein Exec Vice President Planning WTC Memorial find US Military Academy West Point/BSCE; CCC William Goodrich Sr VP Program Exec 2Ave MIT/MSCE MTA, Parsons Brinckerhoff CCC Richard Grove Sr Dir Program Support Fairleigh Dickinson Univ/BSCE and MBA MTA CCC Herman Hausmann Chief Sys Integration OFF-CCC Empire State College/BS Labor Studies MTA Page 1 of 79 MTA BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FISCAL YEAR 2011 Agency First Name Last Name Title Education/Degree Employment Bard College/BA, Pratt Institute/MS, CCC Audrey Heffernan Dir Planning & Ext Rel CUNY/MA MTA CCC Patricia Hoag Sr Dir Pol & Cnt Admin 7Ln Empire State College/Bachelor's degree MTA Israel Inst.of Tech./BCE;Columbia Univ./ME CCC Michael Horodniceanu President Mgmt; Polytec. Univ/Ph.D., Transp, Plan & Eng MTA, Urbitran Group SUNY Albany/BA, Univ of Cincinnati/Master of CCC Susan Jurman Chief of Program Ops Public Affairs MTA CCC Bhima Khunti Sr Eng Mgr Design Mgmt SP University(India)/BSME MTA CCC Shawn Kildare Sr VP & Prog Exec 7 West Manhattan College/BS-Civil Engineering MTA Columbia/BA, Harvard/Master of Public CCC Patrick Killackey Dep Chief Perf & Fin Anal Policy MTA Washington Univ/BS in Bus Admin, Pace/MBA CCC Sharon Killiebrew Sr Dir Program Support and MS in Acct. MTA Gujarat Univ(India)/BE; Stevens Inst of CCC Bharat Kothari Program Manager I Tech/ME; Baruch/MBA MTA CCC Mike Kyriacou VP & Chief Engineer CUNY/ BSCE MTA SUNY Stonybrook/BA Mechanical Eng.; New CCC Sergey Leonidov Asst Gen Counsel England School Law/JD Peckar & Abramkson, PC CCC Kenneth Lewaine Dir Procurement & Admin St. John's University/BS MTA CCC Laurie Lombardi Dir Budgets Oswego State Univ/BS in Business Admin MTA CCC James Lyons Sr Dir Program Support College of Staten Island/BS MTA Colorado School of Mines/BS; Georgia Institute CCC Robert Magnifico Dir Design of Technology/MS MTA CCC Ayala Malinovitz Chief of Staff Tel Aviv University/BBA MTA, Urbitran Group CCC Sammy Mercado Construction Manager CUNY/Bachlors Mechanical Engineering MTA, Kone Inc. CCC Kirit Mevawala Program Manager I BVM Engineering College (India)/BSCE MTA Washington Univ/BA Architecture, Masters of NYC Housing Auth; eM Real Estate, CCC Eve Michel VP Dev Chief Architect International Administration Archstone, NYC CCC Ahmad Nasser Chief Scheduling U. Southern California/BSCE MTA SUNY Cortland/BS; West Virginia Univ/ MS CCC Eric Osnes Dir System Safety&Security Safety and Environmental Mgmt MTA, FBI CCC Anil Parikh VP & Dep Program Exec NJIT/BSCE & MSCE MTA CCC Alan Paskoff Sr VP Program Exec ESA Lehigh Univ/BS, Baruch College/MBA MTA CCC Naresh Patel Construction Manager NJIT/BSCE and MSCE MTA CCC Joseph Petrocelli VP Plan Dev & Ext Relation Hunter College/BA MTA CCC Ronald Pezik Program Manager II NJIT/BSCE & MSCE MTA CCC Nino Pirraglia Construction Manager Manhattan College/BCE MTA Page 2 of 79 MTA BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FISCAL YEAR 2011 Agency First Name Last Name Title Education/Degree Employment Univ. College of Eng/BS Civil Eng;Univ. College CCC Ramesh Ramanathaiah Construction Manager of Eng/MS Constr. Tech; NJIT/MS Constr. Mgt. MTA CCC Thomas Reed Construction Manager NYIT/BS MTA Syracuse Univ./BS Child & Family Studies; CCC Sarah Rios Chief of Grants Mgmt yracuse Univ.Masters Regional Planning MTA CCC Charles Ryker Chief Estimating Stevens Institute of Tech/BE MTA CCC Nicola Santoiemma Construction Manager SUNY Farmingdale/AAS; Hofstra/BSME MTA, Bovis Lend Lease LMB Hofstra Univ./BS Mechanical Eng; Columbia Univ/MS Mechanical Eng.;Columbia CCC Thomas Savio Chief Risk Mgnt&Cost Cntrl Univ./MBA MTA Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/BSCE MTA, Fay, Spofford & Thorndike of NY, CCC Raymond Schaeffer VP Program Cont & Qual Saf and MSCE Inc Cornell Univ/BSCE; Univ South Carolina/ME, CCC Mark Schiffman VP & Dep Program Exec Univ North Carolina/JD MTA, Urbitran Group, HAKS CCC Ihab Shafei Construction Manager Alexandria Univ/BSCE, CUNY/MSCE MTA CUNY City College/BSCE, MSCE; Polytechnic CCC Mohyi Soliman Construction Manager Univ/MSCE Constr. Mgmt MTA Punjab Univ/BS Chem. Eng., Manhattan CCC Balbir Sood Design Manager College/MS Envir. Eng MTA CCC Stephen Stark Sr Dir Program Support Northeastern U./BS & MS MTA CCC Karl Steel Construction Manager CCNY/BE Electrical Eng MTA Univ of Madras/BS Mechanical Eng; NJIT/MS CCC Ehambaram Sundaresan Chief Quality & Safety Engineering Mgt. MTA CCC Wai Tong Sr Dir Program Support CUNY/BE MTA CCC Hsin Wu Program Manager II City College of NY/BCE and MSCE MTA CCC Lewis Wunderlich Construction Manager SUNY Stonybrook/BA and MS MTA CCC Chester Yee VP & Dep Program Exec Northeastern U./BS Civil Engineering NYC School Construction Auth. LIRR THOMAS ABBOTT MGR-SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT University of Michigan/BS LIRR LIRR RICHARD AEBLY MGR-NTWK COMPUTING TECH New York Institute of Tech/BS LIRR LIRR RALPH AGRITELLEY DIRECTOR-LABOR RELATIONS Tufts University, Antioch Law School City of NY Office of Labor Relations DEPUTY DIRECTOR SYSTEM Boston College/BA LIRR PETER ALBERT SAFETY/SAFETY COUNSEL Hofstra University School Of Law/JD Law Offices of Peter Albert DEPUTY CHF PROCUREMENT Fairfield University/BS LIRR JAMES ALLEN OFFICER Long Island University CW POST/MBA LIRR Cornell University/BA LIRR KARLA ALSTON GENERAL ATTORNEY Brooklyn Law School/JD New York Tranist Authority LIRR SIGFREDO ALVARADO SUPERVISOR-TRAIN MOVEMENT N/A LIRR Page 3 of 79 MTA BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FISCAL YEAR 2011 Agency First Name Last Name Title Education/Degree Employment Technical Career Institute/ Certificate in A/C & LIRR VINCENT ANDREOTTI SUPT-M OF E PLANT MAINTENANCE Refrigeration Technology LIRR LIRR LISA ANTONIETTI PRINC MGR-MW ADMINISTRATION Dowling College/BBA LIRR LIRR ROBERT ARASA ASST GEN MGR - STATION OPERS N/A LIRR LIRR GEORGE ASIMENIOS SR PROJECT MANAGER The City College of NY/BS & ME LIRR LIRR RUSSELL AUERBACH ASST ENGINEER-SIGNAL New York Institute of Technology/MSEE LIRR LIRR RICHARD BARONE SR. MGR-PROCUREMENT-ENG SUNY Empire College/BS LIRR LIRR MICHAEL BARTO SUPV-TRAIN MOVEMENT N/A LIRR LIRR KENNY BAUTISTA SUPV-TRAIN MOVEMENT N/A LIRR LIRR BRET BECKER SUPT OF ENGINES SUNY @ Albany/BA LIRR LIRR MICHAEL BENDICK SUPERINTENDENT EAST END N/A LIRR Sperry University/Cert LIRR ARTHUR BERBERICH SR MGR-SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT Control Data Corp/Cert LIRR BS Eng Tech Middlesex LIRR KENNETH BERG SR PROJECT MANAGER County College/Eng Tech LIRR Queesnborough College/AAS Baruch College/BBA LIRR DONNA BETTY SR MGR-CAP PROG DEVELOPMENT St Johns University/MBA LIRR BBA Business Mgmt Nassau LIRR ARTHUR BILLOTTI SR. MGR-PROCUREMENT-EQUIP CCC/AS LIRR Suffolk CCC/AA LIRR KENNETH BOHLER MGR-COMM MAINTENANCE Grumman Data Systems/Certificate LIRR LIRR ALLEN BOYLE ASST DIR-FA SCPS,EST&PRJ CTRLS N/A LIRR LIRR MICHELLE BOYLE MGR-GRANT MANAGEMENT Hofstra Unviersity/BBA LIRR LIRR ERNEST BRATHWAITE MGR-SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT Academy of Aeronautics/BS LIRR LIRR ROBERT BRENNAN DIR-GOV'T & COMM AFFRS John Jay College of Criminal Justice/BS LIRR PRINCIPAL ENG FACILITIES BS Degree Mechanical Engnineering; EIT LIRR ALBERT BRIFFA MAINTENANCE EAST/WEST Certification LIRR LIRR PETER BROCK PRINC ENGR-FACIL MAINT-EAST SUNY Maritime College @ Fort Schuyler/BE LIRR Columbia Business School/ Certificate LIRR JAMES ROD BROOKS CHIEF TRANSP OFFICER SUNY Empire State/BA LIRR Suffolk County Community College/AA LIRR PAMELA BURFORD DIR-STRATEGIC INVESTMENT SUNY @ Stony Brook/BA LIRR University of ArizonaTucson/BS LIRR MICHAEL BUTLER DIR-PROGRAM MGMT-ESA Project Director/Federal Certificate US Department of Energy LIRR JOHN CABOT ENGR-TRACK SPECIAL PROJECTS Pratt Institute/BE LIRR LIRR JOSEPH CALDERONE VICE PRES-MKT DEV & PUB AFFRS N/A Nassau County Executive Page 4 of 79 MTA BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FISCAL YEAR 2011 Agency First Name Last Name Title Education/Degree Employment LIRR CHRISTOPHER CALVAGNA EXEC DIRECTOR - PTC N/A LIRR GEN SUPT-TRANSPORTATION LIRR VINCENT CAMPASANO SUPPORT SERVICES SUNY Farmingdale College/AS LIRR SR PROJECT MANAGER- ESA OPER LIRR ANTHONY CAPOBIANCO READ ST.