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MCDOT Honors its Outstanding Employees

For Immediate Release: Monday, November 2, 2015

The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) today honored 30 of its best employees at an Employee of the Year awards ceremony.

At the ceremony, Acting MCDOT Director Al Roshdieh said, “I am proud of the talent and commitment of MCDOT’s 1,325 outstanding employees who deliver exceptional, customer-focused services. Our workforce is involved, empowered and appreciated, energized by their work, and eager to innovate and to create the very best transportation network possible for our community. Although the public may not be aware of staff’s efforts except in extraordinary circumstances, providing exemplary service is what MCDOT employees do day in and day out. Your dedication to our residents is what makes MCDOT great and what makes Montgomery County such a wonderful place to live, work and play.”

In addition, employees were recognized for serving the County for 20, 25, 30 , 35 or 40 years.

The Employee of the Year 2015 award winners are listed below:

Director’s Office
Roselle Paquette, Office Services Coordinator
Rebecca Torma-Kim, Senior Planning Specialist

Highway Services
Roderick Brooks, Equipment Operator, Bethesda Depot
Gregory Bryant, District Supervisor, Colesville Depot
William Carter. Equipment Operator Poolesville Depot
Kamran Farooq (Fah-rooK), Inspector II
Tony Fogle, Equipment Operator, Gaithersburg Depot
Patricia Mitchell, Equipment Operator, Silver Spring Depot
Francis Zarr, Office Services Coordinator

Parking Management
Heriberto Bello (Harry-Berto), Compliance Inspector
Robert Reynolds, Public Service Craftsman
Benjamin Morgan, Planning Specialist

Traffic Engineering and Operations
Selvin Banegas, Traffic Signing and Marking
Joe Cavanaugh, Traffic Technical Center
Tanya Christian, Administrative Assistant
Chris Leight, Shift Supervisor, TMC

Transit Services
Harley Brockett
Jacqueline Brown, Office Services Coordinator
Dionne Clark
Joshua Fraser
Parviz Ghofrani (Par-VIZ Go-FRA-nee), Transit Coordinator
Albert Hendricks, Transit Coordinator
Bernadette Hope, Bus Operator
Sean Jackson, Bus Operator
Faisal Khan (Fay-ZAL K-aan), Program Manager, Medicaid and Senior Transportation
Andre Lucas, Transportation Operations Supervisor (Ahn-drey)
Joseph Williams, Safety and Training Instructor

Transportation Engineering
Peter Clark, Real Estate Specialist III
Dan Higgins, Civil Works Designer
Frank Kingsley, Highway Construction Field Supervisor

Manager of the Year
Tim Cupples, Chief of the Design Section in Transportation Engineering

Longevity award winners were:

20 years
• Dennis Allnut, Parking
• Mauricio Barbosa, Highway
• Scott Browning, Highway
• Kimberly Ham, Parking
• Michael Kinney, Traffic
• Robert Osborne, Highway
• Robert Paige, Transit
• Rudy Ramierez, Traffic
• David Robinson, Transit
• David Smith, Highway
• Sherryl Travis, Highway

25 Years
• Miranda Clarke, Transit
• Tracy Corbin, Transit
• Jeffrey Dunckel, Traffic
• Cecil Dunkley, Transit
• Jacqueline Earp, Engineering
• Clifton Harris, Transit
• Posey Hawkins, Highway
• Dennis Hubbard, Highway
• Deborah Jackson, Transit
• Kerry Jones, Traffic
• Derek Logan, Transit
• Errol Marshall, Transit
• Charles Menter, Parking
• Aruna Miller, Engineering
• Thomas Moore, Parking
• Ligia Moss, Director’s Office
• Sean Ramsour, Parking
• Anne Root, Director’s Office
• John Slater, Highway
• Craig Smith, Transit
• John Smith, Transit
• Paula Van Hagen, Transit
• Sheila Wilson, Director’s Office

30 Years
• Vishav Arora, Engineering
• Jacqueline Brown, Transit
• James Buppart, Highway
• James Carlisle, Highway
• Dorothea Epps, Transit
• James Johnson, Transit
• Anthony Little, Transit
• Michael Lyles, Transit
• William Mead, Highway
• David Moss, Traffic
• Dolores Myers, Transit
• Deborah Nichols, Transit
• Jeffrey Pearson, Transit
• Stephan Richardson, Transit
• Randy Scheetz, Highway
• Kenneth Simms, Highway
• William Stackhouse, Transit
• Rex Thompson, Transit
• James Waller, Transit

35 Years
• Ronald Bynum, Transit
• Gerald McCauley, Engineering
• Veeda Wilkinson, Parking

40 Years
• John Allnut, Traffic





Release ID: 15-286
Media Contact: Esther Bowring 240-777-7170