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Professional General Engineering Consultant- Traffic Ellgineering City of Sunny Isles Beach . SECTION THREE ST AFFING Greater efficiency is achieved by using specialized professionals who have successfully completed similar projects and who can focus on the real needs of a project. V ANUS has built a company around the traffic engineering and transportation planning disciplines. Within our three Florida offices, V ANUS employs 34 professional, technical, and administrative personnel. Of those 34 employees, V ANUS has 14 registered professional engineers, thrce engineering interns, three designers, one certified technician, and four technical specialists. The proposed staff of the V ANUS Team, shown on the following figure, brings a balanced combination of skills and experience that are ideally suited to this project. The V ANUS Team consists of senior engineers and hands-on technical staff experienced in all elements of transportation engineering, transportation planning, ITS, roadway and traffic design, and signal timing. They all have experience with conducting the type of tasks required for this contract. The V ANUS Team is confident that the proposed staff can provide the required services to the complete satisfaction of the City of Sunny Isles. The following key professional staff will be assigned to the project . Ken Vorce, PE, will serve as Project Manager. Mr. Vorce has over 38 years of transportation engineering experience. He served in various professional engineering positions in FOOT District Six (including District Traffic Operations Engineer) from 1985 thorough 1993. Over the past 13 years, while employed with various South Florida consulting firms, Mr. Vorce has performed in excess of 150 traffic operations and safety study assignments. Mr. Vorce served as Project Manager on the FDOT District Six Districtwide Minor Design project, where he designed several minor roadway improvement type projects which ranged from intersection and arterial channelization improvements to minor signing and marking upgrades. He is currcntly managing the FDOT District Six Traffic Operations and Safety Studies contracts. In addition, Mr. Vorce serves as Project Manager on the FDOT District Four General ITS Consultant contract. Jay H.L. Calhoun, PE, will serve as Quality Control Officer. Mr. Calhoun has over 29 years of transportation engineering and planning experience. He served as Project Manager for the FDOT District Three Districtwide Miscellaneous Traffic Operations Analysis/Design Services Project, which included signal timing, intersection analyses, and public involvement presentations for locations throughout the Panhandle. As Project Manager for the FDOT District Seven Districtwide Traffic Operations Consultant project, Mr. Calhoun prepared over 70 intersection analyses, signalization plans and signal warrant analyses. He served as Project Manager for the Charlotte, Collier, and Palm Beach counties A TMS design projects. He also served as Project Manager for the Palm Beach County Interim Traffic Management System (ITMS), where he designed a unique ITS application that used portable devices to provide real- time information to motorists on 1-95. Susan Joel, PE, PTOE, will serve as Transportation Planning Leader. Ms. Joel has over 20 years of experience. Ms. Joel served as Project Manager on the City of Cape Coral Downtown CRA Traffic Study. She currently serves as Project Manager on the FDOT District One Traffic Operations Studies contract. Ms. Joel is also providing on-call services for St. Lucie County, which includes reviewing traffic impact studies, DRIs, and impact fee credits. She served as the Design Project Manager on the Manatee County A TIS Design-Build project where she was responsible for the implementation of eight DMSs in Manatee County to be used for beach parking, diversions, and hurricane evacuations. In addition, Ms. Joel also prepared the updated hurricanc evacuation contra-flow implementation plan along . 1-75, which included Alligator Alley as part of the FDOT District Four ITS General Consultant project. S :\Marketing\4407000\4407003\PRO.doc 9 August 2007