Lance Brown is a California Registered Civil Engineer with 32 years at Caltrans. Lance performed duties as a Statewide Program Advisor for roadway rehabilitation and pavement maintenance strategies and is recognized as a leader in preventive maintenance, "keeping good roads good". Lance was the Northern California Pavement Engineer/Project Manager identifying and scoping all roadway rehabilitation and maintenance solutions, and independently performing annual field assessments of pavement performance. Lance was a leader in planning and coordinating with local field crews to maximize the efficiency of all pavement maintenance work. He has a passion for teaching the often-unheard benefits of preventive maintenance and promoted the use of recycling in-place strategies after feasibility studies determined the project as a good candidate for recycling. Lance considers himself a "boots-on-the-ground" pavement engineer, who routinely visited maintenance activities, contract maintenance projects, recycling projects, and rehabilitation projects to ensure construction methods and best practices were being followed.