EMT Biography Page

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Mike Wiley is currently serving the District as General Manager/CEO. He has been a resident of the Sacramento community for over 34 years and has been employed with RT for 30 years. Mike has been the District's press spokesperson and an executive manager for the past 24 years. He has managed most of the District's departments and functional areas, and served as the Deputy General Manager for the past two years, assisting with all aspects of the District's management.

He is committed to making the Sacramento region a better place to live, work and raise families. Mike's objective is to expand transit to a level that people can fully depend on for their travel needs.

Mike is very active in the community and is currently a Board Member for the Del Paso Boulevard Business Improvement District; a 12-year member of the Board of Trustees of the Natomas Unified School District; and has volunteered his time as Chairperson of the Natomas Charter School Board. Mike has enjoyed coaching youth soccer teams for almost 20 years. He has been married for nearly 34 years and has two daughters and three grandchildren.

Mike graduated from California State University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science.

RoseMary Covington is the Assistant General Manager of Planning and Transit System Development for the District. In this capacity, she is responsible for short and long range planning, major project planning, transit oriented development and real estate.

RoseMary has acquired 28 years of experience in transit system management through her work in both public and private sector positions. Most recently, she was the Mass Transit Administrator for the District of Columbia. She has also served on a number of committees and projects focused on transportation policy development for organizations including the Federal Transit Administration, the Transportation Cooperative Research Program and the American Public Transportation Association.

Mark Lonergan is Chief Operating Officer at RT. He is responsible for performing Executive Management level tasks involving bus and light rail operations for the District.

Mark has been with RT for over 28 years and has worked in the Planning, Transportation and Facilities departments. He previously served as Deputy Chief Operating Officer for eight years. As former Director of Light Rail, he was instrumental in the start-up of the South Line, as well as the Sunrise and Folsom light rail extensions.

Mike Mattos is Chief of the Facilities and Business Support Services Division at RT. He is responsible for Safety, Facilities, Information Technology, Procurement and Capital programs at the District.

During Mike’s 34-year career, he has worked in the aerospace and mining industries as a Mechanical and Industrial Engineer, Safety and Environmental Department Head, Production Manager and Plant Manager.

While with the United States Department of Defense, Mike brought laser ultrasonics from the lab into the production shop, operated inspection reactors, managed major construction projects, automated warehouses and managed a work force of 450 employees. While Plant Manager at Noranda, Mike built the first completely automated metal recycling system, designed to recycle old computers, mainframes and copiers.

Alane Masui is the Assistant General Manager of Marketing and Communications for the Sacramento Regional Transit District (RT). In her position, she oversees the advertising, marketing, media and customer service activities of the bus and light rail system. Throughout her 18-year career in transit, she has held various professional and managerial positions in marketing and customer service. Prior to joining RT in 1999, Ms. Masui served as the Marketing and Commuter Services Manager for the San Joaquin Regional Transit District. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies with a minor in Journalism from California State University, Sacramento.

As the Assistant General Manager of Engineering and Construction for RT, Diane Nakano is responsible for management of the design and construction of projects associated with the light rail and bus systems.

Diane rejoined RT in 2006, after six years working for the City of Citrus Heights managing transportation capital projects. In her previous employment with RT, she worked in the Civil & Track Design department managing the design of several light rail and bus facility improvement projects.

Diane graduated from the University of California, Davis with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, and holds a Professional Engineer’s license as a Civil Engineer.

Dan Bailey is the Chief Administrative/EEO Officer for the Sacramento Regional Transit District (RT). He has been employed with RT for over 25 years, the first four years as a Human Resources Manager and 21 years as the Manager of Employee Relations. He was appointed to the position of Chief Administrative Officer/EEO Officer in November 2008, and is responsible for the executive oversight of RT’s Labor Relations, Human Resources and EEO/Affirmative Action functions.

Dan is a native of West Virginia where he attended Fairmont State College; served four years in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam era; and worked for seven years in labor relations representing Pacific Northwest Forest Products industry employers prior to working for RT. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a minor in Business from California State University, Sacramento, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Transit Labor Exchange (an international association of transit labor relations professionals from the U.S. and Canada) since 2005.

Dee Brookshire is the Chief Financial Officer for RT and is responsible for all finance; accounting; cash management; grant funding; and treasury functions of the District. She is also responsible for district-wide budgeting and financial planning.

Ms. Brookshire has more than twenty years of experience in public agency and private sector finance at the senior and executive level. Prior to joining RT she held positions as the Director of Finance for the City of Antioch; Director of Finance and Management Services-Treasurer for EID, in El Dorado County; Controller-Treasurer for Tahoe City Public Utilities District; and CFO for Gamet Technologies, Inc., in Reno, Nevada. She also managed her own public agency consulting business in Northern California.

Her background includes substantial debt restructuring and multiple bond issuances for public agencies; developing and implementing large annual operating and capital budgets; implementing agency-wide cost allocation plans; the development, and implementation of pay-for-performance programs and key participation in successful labor negotiations for agencies with multiple bargaining units.

Dee holds a Bachelors Degree in Finance and Economics from California State University Sacramento; a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Nevada Reno, as well as the professional certification of Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM) from the Association of Government Accountants (AGA).

Larry Corcoran has been with RT since June 2003. He has over 35 years of auditing experience in the federal, private and public transit industries. He is responsible for performing operational, compliance and quality assurance audits of District departments and functions.

Larry spent six years with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Office of Inspector General (OIG) where he performed multiple types of audits and assisted the OIG’s investigative staff in special assignments. He also has worked in private industry performing financial management oversight reviews required by the Federal Transit Administration.

A native of Sacramento, Larry has a Bachelor of Science degree from Santa Clara University, and is a Certified Internal Auditor and a Certified Government Financial Manager.

Bruce A. Behrens is the Chief Legal Councel for the Sacramento Regional Transit District (RT). In his position, Bruce oversees a staff of attorneys practicing litigation and transactional law. He advises the Board of Directors, District officers and employees on a wide range of legal, business and government affairs.

Bruce previously served as Chief Counsel for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) beginning in September 2000. After operating a small environmental consulting firm in 1971, he joined Caltrans’ Legal Division in 1973 as a staff attorney, representing Caltrans in litigation, and providing house counsel over a broad variety of subjects. He later served in its legislative affairs office from 1995 to 2000.

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