URS Corporation.URS Corporation has named Albert Bast as senior vice president and director of surface transportation. In his new position, Bast will continue to be based in the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. office and will be responsible for expanding the company's domestic and international surface transportation practice. Bast has served as vice president and senior project manager in the firm's New York City office since 1999 and has been instrumental in the management of some of the region's largest transportation projects. In the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, he has led the company's program management team on the $6.3 billion East Side Access Project and the $1 billion Goethals Bridge Modernization Program. In addition to those activities, he has been responsible for developing business opportunities with public agencies in New York and New Jersey. Prior to joining URS, Bast was a vice president with Parsons Brinckerhoff, where over a 17-year period he held management positions on major transportation programs in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Early in his career, Bast served as an engineer officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and is a graduate of both the U.S. Army War College The United States Army War College is a United States Army school located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on the 500 acre (2 km²) campus of the historic Carlisle Barracks, a military post dating back to the 1770s. and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College The Command and General Staff College (C&GSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas is a United States Army facility that functions as a graduate school for U.S. military leaders. It was originally established in 1881 as a school for infantry and cavalry. . Bast holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Virginia Military Institute Virginia Military Institute (VMI), at Lexington; state supported; chartered and opened 1839 as the first state military college in the United States. Although one of the leading U.S. and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal . He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers “ASCE” redirects here. For the Nigerian stock exchange, see Abuja Securities and Commodities Exchange. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. , the Society of American Military Engineers, the Construction Management Association of America and the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers. |
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