Parsons has named Jennifer Ryan, PE, senior project manager rail, responsible for pursuing and delivering large rail transit projects and supporting major rail transit and industrial rail design projects. Ryan will be based in Parsons’ Irvine, Calif., office.
Ryan is a fourth–generation railroader with more than 28 years of experience in rail and transit planning and in managing major programs and projects. She has worked on all phases of rail transit work, from long-range planning to project and program planning, design and construction, including startup and systems integration.
She has served on multiple large transit projects nationally, including as program manager for the Los Angeles – San Diego – San Luis Obispo Rail Corridor and as senior rail engineer for the North Country Transit District in Oceanside, Calif. She also served as Sound Transit’s Sounder Commuter Rail program manager for the Lakewood Extension in the mid-2000s, and she designed the conceptual alignments for the Orange, Yellow, Red, and Green light rail transit lines for TriMet in the Portland, Ore., area in the 1990s.
Ryan earned a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. She is a registered professional engineer in California, Washington, and Georgia and is professionally affiliated with the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Public Transit Association.