Who's New
Andrew Baskerville, deputy district director for District 4 Construction
Andrew Baskerville is the new deputy district director for the District 4 Division of Construction.
In this role, Andrew will be responsible for ensuring on-time and on-budget construction contract delivery of more than 200 active construction projects each fiscal year, currently valued at over $2 billion.
Andrew will oversee the various field construction offices in the nine Bay Area counties, as well as the offices of District Office Engineer, Construction Support, and Construction Services. Andrew will also be tasked with developing our partnerships with local transportation authorities and our construction industry partners.
Andrew received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. After five years working in the private sector building hazardous waste landfills, Andrew started work at Caltrans in 1999 in the Office of Structures Construction on the seismic retrofit of the Benicia Martinez Bridge. Andrew devoted the next seven years to working on the existing bridge and the new main span of the Benicia Martinez bridge.
From 2006 through 2018, Andrew served as a senior transportation engineer in District 4 Construction, working on various high-profile construction projects in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. In 2018 Andrew became the area construction manager for projects in Contra Costa County and portions of Alameda County.
Andrew has established strong working relationships with local agency partners, such as CCTA and ACTC, and with contractors during his 25 years with Caltrans.
Andrew is committed to safety, partnering equity and transparency to successfully deliver construction projects to the communities we serve in District 4.
Allison Colburn, director’s speechwriter
Allison Colburn has joined Headquarters Public Affairs as the director’s speechwriter.
Her responsibilities include researching and drafting talking points, speeches and scripts, preparing presentations, and communicating the policies and priorities of the director for both internal and external communications.
Prior to joining headquarters, Allison worked in District 7 as a public information officer. Before that, she lived in Florida, where she served as the District 5 deputy director of public information for the Department of Transportation.
She also spent a couple of years as an award-winning reporter for a business news publication and received her master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri - Columbia. She went to the University of Colorado, Boulder for her undergraduate degree.
Allison comes from a multi-generational Air Force family and spent most of her life in Colorado Springs. Her favorite activities include skiing, hiking, biking, doing crossword puzzles, watching TV and reading. She has a miniature poodle named Moxie.
Domoniquie Eagen, executive liaison in Legislative Affairs
Domoniquie Eagen has joined Caltrans in Headquarters as the executive liaison in the Division of Legislative Affairs.
Prior to joining Caltrans, Domoniquie worked at the University of California, Davis Hospital in an administrative role, supporting several surgeons for seven years.
As a recent college graduate, with a bachelor of science degree in administration management, she decided to explore career opportunities with Caltrans to further advance her administrative skills.
Domoniquie has a son who turns 2 in August and two Labradors that keep her quite busy.
She enjoys being outside, going to brunch, watching sports and spending time with family in the Roseville area.
Mauro Weyant, senior transportation surveyor for District 6
Mauro Weyant has accepted the position of senior transportation surveyor for Central Region (District 6) Services’ Fresno office.
Mauro will oversee field surveying activities for Tulare and Kings counties. .
Mauro has logged more than 26 years with Caltrans. He graduated from Fresno State with a bachelor of science in surveying engineering in 1995. His career started with Caltrans in February 1998 and has mainly been involved with field surveying.
He has helped develop the feature code library used by all surveys for field data collection and help develop survey workflows for project delivery. He is returning from Headquarters as the PDPD training coordinator and is looking forward to his new role as field surveys senior.
Mauro has been married to Laura for 21 years and has four daughters: Maritza, Mariah, Lilliana and Lauren.
In his spare time, he and his wife love to travel. The also enjoy going to the lake, having barbecues, going to the movies, spending time with their daughters and are soon to be grandparents.
Wayne Wilson, Highway Safety Education Campaign manager
Wayne Wilson has joined Headquarters Public Affairs as the Highway Safety Education Campaign manager.
Wayne’s responsibilities include managing the contract, providing leadership and support educating the public on the campaign, and acting as a spokesperson.
Wayne comes to us from the California Board of Accountancy and the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Prior to state service, Wayne worked in the technology, real estate and finance sectors, and enjoyed an award-winning career in radio and media.
A true people person, Wayne earned a dual bachelor’s in marketing and management information systems from San Jose State University, and an MBA.
A Southern California native, Wayne enjoys spending time with his family, pets, cooking and gardening and most things Star Wars. His hobbies include travel, fight sports, good food, good music and sporting events.
He is also a voice actor, motivational speaker, ring announcer and mentor.
In January he completed his first 5K with RunDisney.
He is excited about this opportunity and looks forward to meeting everyone.