The principals of LSC Transportation Consultants, Inc. have a combined total of more than 90 years of professional experience. Partners include Gordon Shaw, A.T. Stoddard, and Alex Ariniello. With a current staff of more than forty, the firm includes both engineers and planners, as well as technical support personnel. The staff presently includes Professional Engineers registered in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, as well as Members of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
The Tahoe City Office of LSC consists of the following individuals:
Gordon R. Shaw, PE, AICP, Principal of LSC, generally serves as the Project Manager for studies conducted out of the Tahoe City office. Mr. Shaw has 25 years of experience conducting traffic and transportation studies throughout the western U.S. He holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Purdue University, as well as M.S. and Engineer degrees from Stanford University, and is a registered Professional Engineer in California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Mr. Shaw has conducted more than 100 transportation studies in the Tahoe region for both public and private clients, as well as a myriad of transportation engineering and planning studies around the American West.
Sara T. Hawley, PE, is a Project Engineer in the Tahoe City office. She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and
is a registered Professional Engineer (Civil) in California and Nevada. Since joining the
firm in 2001, she has worked on a variety of
public and private traffic engineering projects. These projects include
mixed-use developments, commercial, residential, recreational, city, county,
state, and federal projects in California, Nevada, Utah, and Idaho. Her work
includes traffic modeling, traffic impact analysis, capacity analysis,
construction traffic impact analysis, traffic control plans, site access design,
turn lane design, roadway alignments
and cost estimates, parking studies, and circulation studies for
environmental impact reports. In addition, Ms. Hawley is responsible for
troubleshooting network and software problems in the Tahoe City office.
Leslie Suen is an Engineer in the Tahoe City office. She holds a
B.S. in Environmental Engineering from California
Bill Suen is an Engineer in the Tahoe City office. Mr. Suen is a
certified Engineer In Traning (EIT). He
has four years of experience working as a mechanical engineer. Since joining
LSC, Mr. Suen has worked on traffic impact studies in Jason Briedis is an Engineer in the Tahoe City office. Mr. Briedis is a
certified Engineer In Traning (EIT). He
holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
He
has four years of experience working as a transportation engineer. Mr.
Briedis has employed traffic analysis and modeling software packages such as
Synchro-SimTraffic, TransCAD, and CORSIM.Gordon R. Shaw, PE, AICP, Principal
Sara
T. Hawley, PE, Senior Engineer
Leslie Suen,
Engineer
Bill
Suen,
Engineer
Jason Briedis,
Engineer
Selena McKinney, Project Planner
Selena McKinney is a Project
Planner with the Tahoe City office.
She has worked with LSC since 1990, acting as Project
Planner on Transportation Development Plans for many of Colorado’s rural
counties and ski resort transit programs. Ms. McKinney has also assisted on
several projects with the Community
Transportation Association of America, including
a seven-county Transit Plan for Souris Basin in North Dakota. Recent projects
that Ms. McKinney has conducted
include a transit capital study for El Dorado County, California and a transit
planning project for Placer County. In total, she has participated in the
development of over two dozen Short and Long
Range Transit Plans. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in
Natural Resource Planning from Humboldt State University.
Genevieve Evans is a Genevieve Evans, Planner
Kristina Svensk, Transportation Planner
Kristina
Svensk is a Transportation Planner with LSC Transportation Consultants, Inc. in
the Tahoe City, California office. Since joining LSC in 2007, Ms. Svensk has
evaluated transit center options for Grass Valley, California, and has prepared
Transit Development Plans for Western Nevada County, Amador County, and most
recently for the City of Aspen, Colorado. She has also assisted in the
preparation of transportation background reports for the City of South Lake
Tahoe General Plan and the Tahoe Valley Community Plan EIR/EIS, assisted with
traffic impact studies for development projects, and has conducted data
collection and analysis tasks for transit systems. Previously, as a Planner with
a public jurisdiction, Ms. Svensk researched and evaluated large-scale
development projects and prepared environmental documents. She holds a B.S. in
Environmental Horticulture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a Master of Urban
Planning from San Jose State University, and is a member of the American
Planning Association.
Mr. Haile joined LSC in 1996 as a Planner and Draftsman. Mr. Haile has a Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning, with an emphasis in Recreation Planning and GIS/Computer Mapping, from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. He produces base maps, site maps, geometric design maps, and a variety of graphics for the firm's reports and presentations.
Ms. Schnetz is an Administrative Assistant in the Tahoe City office.
She performs various management functions including assisting our engineers and planners with scheduling, requesting certificates of insurance for LSC contracts, making sure the office equipment and computers are working properly, and keeping everything (and everyone) in the office organized. Ms. Schnetz is also involved in light editing and the preparation of proposals, reports, and PowerPoint presentations.
Ms. Whitelock is an Administrative Assistant in LSC's Tahoe City office. As a trained paralegal, she is our resident expert in devising ways of working smarter and more efficiently. Ms. Whitelock assists
our engineers and planners in
document preparation including light editing and the compilation of proposals,
reports, and PowerPoint presentations.
Longer versions of each staff member's resume are available. Please contact our office at 530-583-4053.
Cavan Haile, Graphics/Draftsman
Susan Schnetz, Administrative Assistant
Rebecca Whitelock, Administrative Assistant
LSC Transportation Consultants, Inc.
Tahoe City Office
2690 Lake Forest Road
Post Office Box 5875
Tahoe City, California 96145-5875
Voice: 530-583-4053
Fax: 530-583-5966
Email: info@lsctahoe.com
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