Retirements

December 2023

District/Division Name Position Years of Service
3 Amarjeet S. Benipal District 3 Director, CEA B 36
4 Edmund Choy Senior Transportation Engineer 34
4 Lourdes David Senior Transportation ENgineer 32
4 Hector Garcia Supervising Transportation Electrical Engineer 32
4 Jeffrey B. Kress Senior Bridge Engineer 33
4 Thanh Cam Tu Transportation Engineer (Civil) 33
4 Bahman S. Zarechian Senior Transportation Engineer 36
5 Nancy Cross Staff Services Manager I 16
5 Raul Pina Caltrans Maintenance Supervisor 22
5 Adolfo Salcedo Gonzalez Transportation Engineer (Civil) 25
5 Garin K. Schneider Senior Transportation Engineer 25
5 Ken Vomaske Senior Transportation Electrical Engineer 23
6 Kimberly Badertscher Staff Services Manager I 26
6 Mary Brown Associate Governmental Program Analyst 30
6 Nicolas Esquivel Senior Transportation Engineer 34
6 Brenda Felder Senior Transportation Engineer 35
6 Lowell M. Probst Associate Governmental Program Analyst 23
7 Alebachew Bekele Senior Transportation Electrical Engineer (Specialist) 32
7 Cesar A. Hernandez Senior Transportation Electrical Engneer (Supv) 35
7 Monica Martinez Staff Services Manager I 36
7 Vincent M. Rios Senior Delineator 35
7 Gloria Taylor Staff Services Manager I 33
8 Delores E. Bonner Staff Services Analyst 29
8 Dominic Okechukwu Ehirim Transportation Engineer (Civil) 30
8 Manuel A. Farias, PE, PMP Supervising Transportation Engineer 33
8 Scott F. Kennedy Supervising Transportation Engineer 37
8 Jim A. Rogers District 8 Deputy Director, Maintenances 41
9 John R. Fox Senior Transportation Engineer 34
9 Arlene Heaton Caltrans Equipment Operator I 33
10 Dennis T. Agar District 10 Director (C.E.A) 34
11 Isaias D. Aguinaldo Jr. Transportation Engineer (Civil) 24
11 Gustavo Dallarda District 11 Director 32
11 Rebecca Diaz Staff Services Manager I 41
11 Jose C. Ornelas Associate Transportation Engineer, Registered 39
11 Carl Savage Senior Transportation Engineer 39
11 Gustaf Silva Senior Transportation Engineer 34
11 Danny D. Tran Senior Transportation Engineer (Specialist) 27
Accounting Grace M. Kong Accounting Administrator III 36
Administration James Bouchard Chief of Plant Operations 27
Administration Mari Jo Snider Staff Services Manager II (Supervisory) 12
Construction Chuck Suszko Supervising Transportation Engineer 40
Design Robert L. Lee Senior Transportation Engineer 35
Design Raymond S. Tritt Principal Transportation Engineer 35
Design Troy Tusup Senior Transportation Engineer 35
Engineering Services Lian Duan Senior Bridge Engineer 32
Engineering Services Jason Z. Fan Transportation Engineer (Civil) 24
Engineering Services John (Qiang) Huang Senior Materials and Research Engineer 25
Engineering Services Steve Jacques Senior Bridge Engineer 32
Engineering Services Yongxin Liu Senior Bridge Engineer 25
Engineering Services Paul Q. Lukkarila Senior Bridge Engineer 34
Engineering Services Thomas A. Ostrom Division Chief, Engineering Services (CEA) 35
Engineering Services Mingxia Wang Pan Senior Bridge Engineer 33
Engineering Services Cheryl Poulin Senior Bridge Engineer 36
Engineering Services Larry Wu Transportation Engineer (Civil) 25
Engineering Services Yue Wu Transportation Engineer (Civil) 25
Equipment Mike Arnal Highway Equipment Superintendent I 34
Equipment Thomas Norberg Equipment Material Manager I 19
Equipment Mark A. Zela Equipment Material Manager II 37
Maintenance Javier Del Rio Associate telecommunications Engineer 32
Maintenance Erik Halsted Transportation Engineer (Civil) 25
Maintenance Heidi N. Kuntz Senior Bridge Engineer 25
Maintenance Kurtis L. Miles Caltrans Electrical Area Superintendent 24
Research, Innovation, & System Information (DRISI) Sean Campbell Senior Transportation Electrical Engineer 32
Research, Innovation, & System Information (DRISI) Brian Chiou Senoir Seismologist 24
Research, Innovation, & System Information (DRISI) Joe Holland Senior Transportation Engineer 29
Research, Innovation, & System Information (DRISI) Stuart Mori Associate Transportation Planner 23
Research, Innovation, & System Information (DRISI) Michael Samadian Senior Transportation Engineer 25

January 2024

District/Division Name Position Years of Service
7 Ray Washington Caltrans Maintenance Supervisor 35
10 Jon P. Newman Caltrans Maintenance Supervisor 35
Accounting Angela Serna Accounting Technician 33
Administration (Business Operations) Lucille C. Hopkins Staff Services Manager I 31
Equipment Carol Fonseca Associate Governmental Program Analyst 15