Elected Experience: none

Other Professional Experience: Transportation engineer with national firm on transportation studies of military installations in the Southwest and areawide studies in the Puget Sound Region 1961-1969.  Assistant Director Transportation Planning Division of Puget Sound Council of Governments conducting regional multi-modal planning, 1969-1976.  Principal of own transportation engineering firm specializing in multi-modal transportation planning and engineering, 1977-current.

Education: BSCE Texas A&M University, 1961

Community Service: Pro bono transportation planning advice to neighborhood/community organizations in Bellevue, 1995 to current.  President Sherwood Forest Community Club, Bellevue, 1975.  Elected Parish Council member St. Louise (1974) and Sacred Heart (1978) parishes, Bellevue.

Statement: I will bring professional transportation planning expertise to the legislature. The incumbent’s decision to construct the disastrous express toll lanes on I-405 was ill-informed. Using gas tax to fund it was a betrayal. House transportation leadership has lost touch with the public and change is needed.

I am a business owner with an engineering practice and a partner in six cafe-deli restaurants in the I-405 corridor. I am acutely aware of the societal unfairness of express toll lanes as well as the challenges of running a small business and will bring those perspectives to legislative matters.