Robert Johnson: Advisor
Robert Johnson is Vice President of Public Affairs at High Ground, a leading public relations and strategic planning firm in Arizona. Prior to this position, he served as DOT’s Chief of Staff, Assistant to the Secretary and Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Robert served as the Director of Communications and Public Information for the Transportation Security Administration, where he was on the media front lines in the nation’s war against terrorism, responsible for communicating the lastest developments in transportation security to a global media audience.
Andrew Nichols: Advisor
Dr. Nichols is currently an assistant professor at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in civil engineering. Dr. Nichols has conducted traffic signal design, traffic data collection, traffic safety studies and traffic-related research for projects in South Carolina, Indiana and West Virginia. After graduating from Purdue University in 2004, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina. In addition, Dr. Nichols has established a West Virginia Division for Dennis Corporation, providing consulting services in all areas of traffic engineering.