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way - and we are about to launch it in 2-3 weeks.

Please describe your experience in the areas of public transportation and traffic reduction.

It's a little bit ancillary - parking is a piece of traffic - one of the things they find when they do parking
studies is a lot of traffic is people looking for parking. Parking serves as a way to get people to where
they are going. I've overseen taxi regulation. We continually work with Metro and how to integrate those
in our community.

The State of California has passed laws requiring increased recycling of Organic Waste, with the
goal of reducing disposal of organic waste by 50 percent compared to 2014 levels, by 2020.
Please provide your experience with recycling and solid waste in addressing this issue.

Have worked with it ancillarily - we had a solid waste program and a diversion program. We were way
ahead of the curve - we decided to go with a single cart system so that the waste is diverted at the
facility. We have gone through three different vendors. We do our own single family home cart program.
Whether they collect or we collect it, it goes to that department. Organic has been a little easier to get
people to separate.

What experience do you have in supervising a diverse group of employees, mentoring and growing
them, and what employment issues and challenges have you faced in embracing diversity?

I have seven different unions under me in my direct line, I think that's down to five now ­ we have done
some other reorganizing. From a labor perspective, I have had a lot of experience managing different
labor issues. I sit on that group. From a diversity perspective, I think one of the biggest challenges is
recruiting. It's really hard to recruit in general for our entry­level positions ­ we end up with entry­level
people based on the geography here. What we try to do is go to colleges and organizations outside of
our community and try to make it easier for people to get here or make it worth their while to come
here to work.

From a diversity perspective, my particular group ­ the parking group actually hosted the first two
transgender employees in the City. One of them came out as transgender while they were with us, and
we did a reintroduction ­ and now they identify with this position and not only it was a lot of work ­ we
sat with the employee to figure out how they would like for us to communicate that message to people
asking for them. The only two and the first two were both int the parking group. Very enlightening for
me as a manager ­ in order to convey these messages. Very enlightening experience.

The DPW will manage seven divisions and a staff of over 700. What do you see as the challenges
and what is your experience in managing multiple divisions?

I have multiple divisions under me - five. The breadth and scope won't be as much as that. For us, I am
probably in the 150 range right now. I would say the challenges aren't going to be dramatically different.
The scope will be larger. Cities tend not to be very flat organizations - they work with division heads. The
first group from the division chain. The other one is - whether it's a big division or big department,
whatever it may be, we are really all here doing what it might be. How do you get everybody on the same
page with what's important. Getting the feedback from the people within the organization and the people
on the frontline - getting that information up through the organization so that people dealing things from a
policy perspective don't get disconnected.

Anything else you would like to add? If out of area? Are you willing to relocate to the Bay Area
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BS. Engineering - BS in Business Administration