Who's New

Matt Brady, District 1 director

Matt Brady PE, PMP, a 25-year Caltrans employee, is the new District 1 Director.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Santa Clara University in 1991, Matt began his career with Structure Construction in District 12. He worked primarily on the Interstate 5 corridor projects from Irvine to Santa Ana. After three years in District 12, Matt went on to spend the next six years with Structure Design in Sacramento, which included a 1996 rotation to Structures Maintenance & Investigations – Toll Bridges.

Matt was promoted to Senior Transportation Engineer in 2000, serving as the California Transportation Commission Liaison at Headquarters Transportation Programming. In late 2001, Matt moved to District 1 to become a project manager and in 2004 he was promoted to District 1’s Deputy District Director of Program and Project Management.

 

 

 

 

 

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Michael Campos, Equal Opportunity Program manager

Michael Campos is Caltrans’ new Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Program Manager.

Since joining Caltrans Division of Engineering Services (DES) in 2008 as chief of the Technical Publications and Graphics Services Branch, he has taken on additional responsibilities and roles including the EEO liaison for DES, working with both employees and management in EEO-related matters. In his most recent role as the acting chief of the Office of Administrative Services, he oversaw the Human Resources, Workforce Development and Technical Publications & Graphics Services Branches.

In nearly 28 years of state service, both as an analyst and supervisor, his career path has run the gamut of policy development, legislation, regulations and code development, budgets, personnel and other key administrative areas. Working at both large and small state agencies has, in Michael’s words, given him that “broad swath” of experience that he knows will assist him in his new appointment.

Michael is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento with a government/journalism degree. He is also a member of the State Bar of California. He began his career in public service while still in college, serving as a student intern for then-Councilman Joe Serna, and later interning with both the California State Legislature and California Energy Commission.

 

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Jeff DeFevere, powering Caltrans' Zero Emission Program

Jeff DeFevere is Caltrans' first Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) 30-in-30 Program Manager. He has already been working with all Caltrans programs, divisions, districts and external partners to achieve Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s goal to integrate ZEV into California’s infrastructure and Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty’s goal of installing ZEV charging stations at 30 strategic locations within public right-of-way by December 2018.

DeFevere has worked for Caltrans for more than 25 years, most recently as Office of Transportation Architecture chief where he was in charge of delivering projects for Caltrans building infrastructure. DeFevere spent his first eight years with Caltrans in District 3, followed by Central Design, Division of Design, and several positions within Division of Engineering Services, including executive engineering assistant to four different division chiefs.

As the program manager, DeFevere is working with the Sustainability Program, Capital Outlay Support, the divisions of Planning and Programming, and the districts to ensure the project locations are expeditiously identified, started with project initiation documents, programmed and constructed by the December 2018 deadline.