METRO’s People Movement highlights the latest leadership changes, promotions, and personnel news across the public transit, motorcoach, and people mobility sectors.

In this edition, we cover recent appointments and announcements at HDR, NCTD, STV, and more, showcasing the individuals helping to shape the future of transportation.

New York MTA Names New Rolling Stock Strategy Lead

New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chair/CEO Janno Lieber appointed Jessie Lazarus to build and lead a new organization that directs the MTA’s rolling stock strategy and ensures dedicated attention to the acquisition and lifetime costs for the agency’s most strategic assets, including buses, subway cars, and commuter rail trains.

As chief of the new Rolling Stock Program, Lazarus and her team will manage the $12 billion investment from the 2025-2029 Capital Plan to replace the MTA’s aging fleets.

Lazarus joined the MTA in 2023 and serves as deputy chief, commercial ventures, responsible for strategic commercial partnerships that enhance the MTA's financial position and strengthen service offerings, including the transition from MetroCard to tap-and-ride. Her cross-functional leadership was critical to growing customer adoption of tap-and-ride, driving contractor accountability, and ensuring operational readiness to end MetroCard sales, MTA officials said.

As chief of the new Rolling Stock Program, Lazarus and her team will work closely with Lieber, agency presidents, and the CFO to pursue a focused, long-term strategy to modernize terms and conditions, apply aggressive performance-based fleet specifications, harness data to inform acquisition choices, increase supplier competition, achieve the best value for these strategic assets over their lifetime, and generate economic development benefits by encouraging domestic manufacturing.

David Carol Joins HDR as Principal Consultant

David Carol has joined HDR as a principal consultant.

Based in Washington, D.C., Carol will provide HDR’s global transit clients with executive- and management-level decision support, with a focus on funding, finance, and investment strategy. He will draw on his four decades of experience in transportation, including most recently as COO of the American Public Transportation Association.

At APTA, Carol supervised staff experts across transportation modes, assisted in developing national transit and engineering standards, and provided advisory services to transit agencies on project implementation and capital cost containment. Before his work at APTA, Carol helped manage, design, and construct light rail projects in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, as well as major passenger and high-speed rail projects across the US.

Additionally, Carol spent nearly 20 years with Amtrak as an attorney, director of government and congressional affairs, and VP of high-speed rail. He was responsible for planning, procurement, implementation, and delivery of Amtrak’s $2.5 billion Acela high-speed rail program from New York to Boston. He also led negotiations for more than $1.8 billion in contracts.

Virginia’s DPRT Names Fye Chief Deputy Director

The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) welcomed Allan Fye as chief deputy director.

Fye brings more than 20 years of experience in the transit industry, with a career focused on policy development, strategic planning, and coordination across local, regional, state, and federal levels.

Most recently, Fye served as a senior director at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where he led strategic planning for passenger rail in Southern California. In that role, he oversaw long-range planning efforts and worked closely with regional, state, and federal partners to advance major rail initiatives.

As chief deputy director, Fye will support DRPT’s mission to plan, fund, and deliver a balanced, multimodal transportation system that meets Virginia’s growing and evolving needs through collaboration, innovation, and strategic investment.

STV Taps Harvey to Lead Transportation Operations in Northern California

STV appointed Anna Harvey, PE, as VP/Northern California area manager for the company’s Transportation West operating group.

In this role, Harvey will lead strategic growth initiatives, client engagement, and project delivery across the region.

Harvey brings nearly 20 years of experience in civil and transportation engineering, including leadership roles in advancing some of California’s most complex transit initiatives.

Most recently, Harvey served as deputy project director for the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, where she led engineering design, environmental planning, and critical third-party agreements for the $8B Portal program. She guided this major project through the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grants process. She led rail planning for the San Francisco Planning Department, conducting studies to evaluate future Caltrain station locations and coordinating policy responses to major rail projects.

California’s NCTD Names Alloush Director, Facilities

California’s North County Transit – San Diego Railroad (NCTD) hired Baker Alloush to serve as director, facilities, effective immediately.

In this role, Alloush will oversee all aspects of NCTD facilities management to ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable physical environments and assets.

Alloush has more than 15 years of experience in facilities and maintenance operations management and has led initiatives to formulate, track, facilitate, and close work orders for large-scale departmental moves and technology updates. His expertise will support NCTD's organizational goals of world-class customer and employee experience, safety, security, and fiscal responsibility, officials said.