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. . I. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ) ~~~~[;l [}{@@[}:(j . ~~@@@@~~~ D~o EDUCA nON: BSCE, 1963, National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru Civil Engineer, 1965, National University of Engineering, lima, Peru PROFESSIONAL LICENSES: Registered Professional Engineer in Florida and Peru PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZA nONS: American Society of Civil Engineers CAREER EXPERIENCE: Mr. Becerra has designed roadways and complex interchange and expressway systems since 1963. Since 1982, Guillermo Becerra has served as BHA's Chief Highway Engineer. His responsibilities include the supervision of highway projects from their initial concepts to the production of construction plans. He is active in the actual design process. He has completed the design of numerous rural and urban directional interchanges and has achieved safe and efficient solutions to the ever-complicated interchange design. The following is a sampling of his most recent work: · FOOT (04) and Broward County, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Interchange. Guillermo improved the original Design Criteria Package's complex three-level interchange by simplifying the design from three levels to a two-level interchange, optimizing the geometric design, improving the operational characteristics, and by reducing construction cost and need for right of way. The design-build project with PCl Constructors was completed ahead of schedule and one million dollars under budget. It received ACEC's prestigious 2004 Honor Award for Engineering Excellence. · FOOT (04), 1-95/Palm Beach International Airport Interchange. Guillermo was BHA's Project Manager and the chief geometric design engineer. He made major improvements to the four-level interchange proposed in the PD&E Concept in every aspect of the design; simplifying the interchange from four to three levels, improving traffic operations and optimizing the structural configurations to yield an aesthetically pleasing system of roadways and bridges. · FOOT (06), Master Plan for the Miami Intermodal Center (MIC)/Miami International Airport (MIA) Access Roadway System. The challenge: modify a complicated master plan and provide direct access to the Miami Intermodal Center (MIC) and the Miami International Airport (MIA) from existing and future expressways and arterials. Severe restrictions were imposed on the design by the airport's glide path limitations and by its need to function uninterrupted 24 hours a day. Guillermo, as Project Manager and the chief designer for this project, developed a solution with optimum operational characteristics that satisfied the project stakeholders. His extensive coordination with other projects in the same area, such as the airport's Automated People Mover and the planned realignment of Tri-Rail, played an important part in the successful completion of the project. He also developed the Preliminary Design for the lnterconnector Roadway between SR-836 and SR-112 along the le Jeune Road Corridor, including the SR-836/le Jeune Rd interchange, which is a critical component of the Master Plan. Guillermo oversaw the development of individual design packages that were used by seven final design consultants. · FOOT (06), SR-826/Miller Drive, Bird Road and SR-874 Interchange. Guillermo Becerra revised the master plan and developed system-wide improvements. He converted the master plan's three-level interchange at Bird Road to a two level facility that embodied outstanding and sophisticated structural elements, resulting in substantial cost savings, including eight million dollars from reduced right of way acquisition costs. · FOOT (04) 1-95/1-595 Interchange - this 4-level interchange included the relocation of a section of CSX Railroad as well as relocation of a portion of 1-95. The design was obligated to satisfy a 3-dimensional envelope of constraints imposed by the airport; the plans were developed to take account of several railroad lines directly abutting 1-95 and a major navigable waterway that crosses directly north of the interchange. · FDOT (D4) 1-75/1-595 Interchange - this interchange connects three of the most important transportation facilities in Broward County: 1-75, 1-595, and the Sawgrass Expressway. The multi-level, fully directional interchange has 70 MPH design speed ramp connections and is the largest interchange in the state of Florida. Other major designs by Guillermo include: 1-95/Davie Boulevard Interchange in Broward County, Master Plan for the rehabilitation of the Golden Glades Interchange and NE 192nd StreeUA 1 A Interchange, in Dade County; Sawgrass Expressway Section I and Panthers Arena Interchange, in Broward County; 1-110 Downtown Distributor Interchange in Pensacola, Escambia County; several sections of 1-75 and 1-95 HOV; numerous other interchanges and expressways in Florida and elsewhere. Guillermo has worked on PD&E projects, and preliminary and final design of highways and interchanges of all categories for the states of louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and New York. His international exposure includes PD&E and final design projects in Taiwan, Peru and EI Salvador.