Instructor Information


NameBio
James Signore PhD, PE, Principal, NCE

Dr. Signore has over 25 years of experience in the pavement field. He specializes in pavement design and evaluation, rehabilitation and maintenance, materials assessment, and training. At NCE, he provides pavement engineering consulting to numerous clients including California local agencies and San Francisco Internal Airport. He currently manages NCE's On-Call pavement engineering contract with Caltrans. His former Caltrans work, while at the UCPRC, UC Berkeley included involvement with the development of Superpave mix designs, next generation mechanistic pavement design, and long life AC performance projects. He has published and presented at the Transportation Research Board Meeting and at many professional conferences. He has taught at San Jose State University and for the National Highway Institute and continues to teach for ASCE.

Sharlan Montgomery Dunn PhD, PE, Senior Engineer, NCE

Dr. Montgomery Dunn holds a PhD from Purdue University and has over 10 years of experience in pavement management and pavement materials research and design work. She has worked with hundreds of local agencies in California and Washington on pavement management projects, as well as on State-wide pavement management scenarios in California and Indiana. She has taught pavement management workshops for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for the last several years and has been involved on the software development team for StreetSaver, a pavement management decision-support tool, including authoring the User Guide. She has also developed methodologies for estimating the impact on pavement life that utility trenches and waste vehicles cause.