Bill Shao is a Principal Engineer with the City of Los Angeles. Most recently the LADOT-lead for LA Metro's Capital Transit Design-Build and City's ATSAC programs, he previously led programs in Design, Construction Management, ITS/Signal Systems, Light Rail/Bus Transits, and a regional District. A veteran with more than three decades at LA City, he teaches for Berkeley Tech Transfer and previously taught at LA Metro. A practitioner active in numerous national and State SME panels, he holds a MS in Transportation Management from San Jose State University, a MS in Transportation Systems Engineering, and a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. Mr. Shao is a California-registered Civil Engineer and Traffic Engineer.

Mr. Hennessey is the Director of Transportation and Public Works for the City of Santa Rosa, CA. He has worked for more than 17 years in transportation and mobility planning and traffic engineering, with a focus in multimodal transportation planning and traffic engineering design prioritizing user safety. In his role as TPW Director for the City of Santa Rosa, Dan oversees the City's transportation planning and traffic engineering teams, its capital projects teams, its streets and parks maintenance divisions, and its CityBus local transit service, as well as City-owned facilities and the City's vehicle fleet. Dan is a recognized Fellow member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and currently serves as Chair of the ITE Transportation Planning Council. Dan graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering (2007) and from the University of California, Berkeley, with an M.S. in Civil Engineering (2008).