Who's New
Robert McClintic, Division of Business Operations’ assistant division chief
Robert McClintic has been appointed as Division of Business Operations’ assistant division chief of business, office and security services.
Robert graduated from Sacramento State with a bachelor of science degree in business. He began working in state service 15 years ago and has been employed with Caltrans for the past nine years.
Robert comes to DBO from the Division of Procurement and Contracts (DPAC) where he served as the office chief for non-IT service contracts, Maintenance.
Robert and his wife, collectively, have five children and one grandson. They enjoy spending lots of time traveling to visit family and doing some international explorations. He is an avid mountain biker and an amateur street photographer.
Duper Tong, division chief for Headquarters Traffic Operations
Duper Tong is the new division chief for Headquarters Traffic Operations.
Duper brings to the role more than 30 years of professional experience in transportation planning, design, traffic safety, electrical systems and traffic operations from both the private and public sectors, including working for Caltrans for the past 26 years.
Duper had been serving as the acting division chief for several weeks. Prior to the temporary assignment, Duper served as the District 10 deputy district director of Traffic Operations with responsibility for the supervision of a multi-disciplinary staff and for managing and leading the work of Traffic Operations programs of safety and mobility.
Duper began his Caltrans career as a team leader with the Traffic Investigation Branch and the Traffic Accident Surveillance Analysis System (TASAS) Branch in the HQ Division of Traffic Operations. Since then, over the course of his Caltrans career, Duper has served as the District 10 chief of the Traffic Safety Branch and as an office chief in the Headquarters Division of Traffic Operations, where he managed various traffic engineering functions. He has also worked in the Headquarters Division of Design.
Before joining the public sector, Duper worked as a project engineer in a private traffic engineering and design consulting firm for over five years.
Externally, as a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee of Freeway Operations, Duper supports efforts to identify and advance research ideas, offer professional capability-building opportunities, and promote the needs of professionals who support the operation and management of freeways and freeway corridors. During his career he has also served as a voting member of the AASHTO Committee on Traffic Engineering and as a lead on the California Traffic Control Devices Committee.
Duper Tong is a licensed professional engineer in civil engineering and traffic engineering. He received his bachelor of science degree in civil engineering and master of science degree in transportation engineering from California State University, Sacramento (CSUS).
Duper is married with two older children and enjoys reading, running and watching basketball and soccer outside of work.