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BRAULIO RAMIREZ, PE Project Manager 1-405 Design -Build Improvement Project, Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) — Orange County, CA Mr. Ramirez is serving as a Project Engineer for Iteris, acting as a subconsultant of a multidisciplinary design and construction team, on this $1.2 billion dollar design build project in Orange County California. The project will improve 16 miles of the I- 405 between the SR-73 freeway in Costa Mesa and the I-605 near the Los Angeles County line. The project includes adding one regular lane in each direction from Euclid Street to I-605, making improvements to freeway entrances, exits and bridges, and will also implement Express Lanes that expands the existing HOV lane from one lane to two lanes in each direction from SR-73 to I-605. Iteris is responsible for the design of the Caltrans ITS field infrastructure, temporary ITS field infrastructure supporting maintenance of traffic during construction, toll system infrastructure and coordination, street lighting, agency traffic signal improvements along the corridor and development of the project Traffic Management Plan. Mr. Ramirez is responsible for preparing Electronic Toll and Traffic Management ETTM and signal plans. The project began in February 2017 and is ongoing. Traffic Signal Modifications for Hawthorne Boulevard and Highridge Boulevard Road — Hawthorne, CA Mr. Ramirez served as Project Manager responsible for coordinating field work, review of Traffic Signal Modification Plan, Specifications and Estimates (PS&E) for the intersection at Hawthorne Boulevard and Highridge Road under an on -call agreement with the City. The project installed a blank -out "No U Turn" sign and new controller to provide conditional northbound right -turn overlap operations. The project began in October 2017 and completed in July 2018. 5th Street Communication Upgrades — San Bernardino, CA Mr. Ramirez serves as Project Manager on this communication infrastructure upgrades project for the City of San Bernardino. Wireless and twisted wire pair interconnect upgrades will be installed to bring traffic signal connectivity between the TMC and intersections along 51h Street between H Street and Sierra Way. Iteris is preparing the design plans, procuring and configuring the equipment, and will be providing integration and construction support iteris services during construction. The project began in January 2019 and is expected to be completed in June 2019. C-Street Improvement — Port of Los Angeles, CA Mr. Ramirez served as Project Engineer assisting with the development of the design package for the C-Street improvement project that included traffic control, stage construction, signing and striping, and traffic signal design plans for the existing and new roadway alignment for the project area. The project began in December 2011 and completed in December 2014. Bristol Street Traffic Signal Synchronization Project (TSSP), Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) — Orange County, CA As Project Manager, Mr. Ramirez' responsibility was to ensure all project stakeholders received the equipment and signal timing improvement requested for this project. This OCTA-led project consists of 45 study intersections along the eight - mile stretch of Bristol Street in the cities of Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, and Newport Beach. Mr. Ramirez coordinated with his team to provide necessary ITS improvements (e.g. controller, Ethernet switches, communication, Bluetooth travel time devices, detection, etc.). These improvements fed into the ultimate goal of the project, which was regional synchronization. The project began in July 2016 and completed in December 2018. Two years of Operations and Maintenance (O&M) will be provided through January 2020. Hamner Avenue Traffic Signal Synchronization Project (TSSP) — Eastvale, CA Mr. Ramirez served as the Lead Engineer to provide traffic/ITS design services for the City of Eastvale as part of Iteris' on -call traffic signal operations contract. The project involves the design of new fiber-optic communications systems along 6 intersections of Hamner Avenue, as well as the upgrade of Video Detection Systems (VDS) at two intersections. In addition to the traffic signal infrastructure improvements, Iteris is also developing signal coordination plans for AM, Mid - Day, and PM peak hours for all project traffic signals along the corridor. The project began in June 2014 and completed June 2016.