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Tolling Operations Management and Toll Systems Consulting

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Fagan Consulting works with Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) operators to create operations and systems that are customer-oriented, efficient and effective.  We bring the benefits of decades of experience in tolling operations, systems planning and oversight.


Our team has worked with toll operators on:

  • System requirements and specifications
  • Procurement document development, proposal evaluation and contract negotiation
  • Service Level Agreement (SLA) or Key Performance Indicator (KPI) development, documentation, negotiation, and monitoring
  • Operations and management consulting
  • Electronic Toll Collection system testing and auditing
  • Toll policy and business rule development
  • Violation enforcement
  • Electronic Toll Collection system and operations strategic planning
  • Budget development
  • Managed lane and dynamic pricing implementations and integration
  • Transition to cashless toll collection – All Electronic Tolling (AET)

 

Ron Fagan

MANAGER

Ron has more than 24 years of experience in the electronic toll collection industry. He provides expertise to toll operators in both the public and private sectors, advising clients on system testing, toll policy and business rules development, violation enforcement, risk management, strategic planning, budget development, and transitions to cashless toll collection. Prior to beginning Fagan Consulting, Ron served as Director of Operations for the newly formed Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority. Beginning in 2005, Ron successfully took the program from concept to production, overseeing all aspects of toll operations. Before joining the Mobility Authority, Ron served as Deputy Director of Operations for the Central Florida Expressway, where he oversaw an electronic toll collection system that included 90 miles of limited access expressways and 209 toll lanes, with annual revenues exceeding $165 million.

Education:
B.S., Criminal Justice - University of West Florida
M.A. Public Administration - University of West Florida

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Ron Fagan

Ron Fagan

MANAGER

Ron has more than 26 years of experience in the electronic toll collection industry.
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Additional experience includes:

Harris County Toll Road Authority

Houston, TX. Worked with other team members in proposal review, business rule development, and contract development for the procurement of roadside toll collection and back office systems.

Northeast Texas Regional Mobility Authority

Tyler, TX. Assisted with proposal evaluation, contract development, and contractor oversight during system design, implementation and testing. Providing ongoing support for toll operations and establishment of court process.

Washington State Dept. of Transportation

Seattle, WA. Served on a 5 member Expert Review Panel charter by the Secretary of State to evaluate the state of readiness to go live with tolling on Seattle's 520 Bridge.

State Road and Tollway Authority

Atlanta, GA. Worked with new toll management personnel to improve processes and overall management of the GA 400 toll facility which includes review of SOPs, money handling, system performance and facility improvements.

Maryland Transportation Authority

Baltimore, MD. Reviewed draft RFP documents and provided feedback on current and proposed operations. These included roadside toll collection systems and back office systems and operations. Also tasked with conducting research and drafting numerous technical memos to include video toll payment options and best practices for back office operations.

Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority

Served as a member of the team that drafted procurement documents, reviewed proposals, oversaw toll system design, implementation and testing of a new $2,900,000 managed lane all electronic toll collection system. Currently assisting with contractor oversight and preparation for the next tolling projects. Additionally, assisting with an operational analysis of existing operations for the international toll bridges in the El Paso region.

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Bill Brownsberger

PARTNER

Bill partnered with Ron Fagan to become part of Fagan Consulting. Bill brings with him 21 years' experience providing consulting and implementation services for ETC projects as a PM and consultant on procurement, design, implementation, commissioning, operations, warranty, auditing, and maintenance of ETC systems. Bill works with tolling agencies on all aspects of ETC Systems, including roadside and back office systems development and testing, change order scope/management and contract negotiations. Bill's experience includes project management, hardware/software/network engineering, including AET and High Occupancy Toll projects, back office systems requirements development, process improvement, and technical supervision. Bill has worked with Public/Private Partnerships, new system implementations, existing system enhancements, regional, statewide, and national operational and systems interoperability projects.

Bill was a board member of OmniAir Certification Services and was deeply involved in that organization's certification programs for both 6C and IAG RFID products. He is also engaged in IBTTA's National Interoperability effort as an active member of both the Roadside and Back Office subcommittees. Bill provides technical support for the 6C Toll Operator's Coalition and was one of the primary developers of the current 6C tag programming standard used in tolling.

Education:
B.S., Computer Engineering, Ohio State University
M.S, Manufacturing Technology, Eastern Kentucky University

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Bill Brownsberger

Bill Brownsberger

PARTNER

Bill partnered with Ron Fagan to become part of Fagan Consulting.
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Additional experience includes:

SRTA's High Occupancy Toll and Express lanes

Since 2008 Bill has been the GSC project manager for SRTA's High Occupancy Toll and Express lanes implementations and BOS replacement and enhancement projects.

Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority

Project Manager for the GSC, led CTRMA's initial toll system implementation and continues to be involved in system initiatives.

Central Florida Expressway

(OOCEA) Involved for 10 years in all aspects of Toll Collection Systems oversight including project management of GSC.

Harris County Toll Road Authority

(HCTRA) Performed detailed evaluation of existing roadside Toll Collection System in order to benchmark system performance and recommend systems upgrades.

Lee County Port Authority (Florida)

Oversight of Toll Collection Systems implementation including airport parking and inter-agency interoperability.

South Africa National Roads Agency Limited

(SANRAL) Evaluation of procurement requirements related to Toll Collection System implementation.

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Steve Doolin

PARTNER

Steve partnered with Ron Fagan and Bill Brownsberger to complete the Fagan Consulting leadership team. Steve is a Senior Transportation Systems Consultant having over 25 years’ experience in the systems and technology sector, which includes 13 years’ experience providing consulting services for Electronic Toll Collection projects, including design, development, testing, and operations and maintenance oversight, procurement oversight and RFP development, and systems auditing. Steve works with tolling agencies to provide design, testing, and implementation oversight for complete ETC System deployments, including both roadside (AVI, AVC, VES, DVAS) and back office (CSC, VPS) systems scope and requirements management along with Systems Integrator oversight.

Steve is a subject matter expert on Systems Testing. Steve’s experience includes hardware and software system specification and testing, including AET, HOT, Managed Lane, and Reversible and Mixed Lane projects. Steve has been involved with existing toll facility projects in efforts to upgrade and implement enhancements and understands how best to position and manage new systems and enhancements and to ensure that rigorous testing practices are documented and followed.

Education:
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Louisville (KY)

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Steve Doolin

PARTNER

Steve partnered with Ron and Bill to complete the Fagan Consulting leadership team.
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Additional experience includes:

SRTA's High Occupancy Toll and Express Lanes

Involved in all aspects of SRTA’s I-85 HOT Lane ETCS. Managed agency wide Business Rules, including relevant migration to 2 new managed lanes facilities (including Reversible ETL). Technical Design lead for the ETCS implemented on SRTA’s I-75S and NWC reversible managed lane facilities. Lead technical resource for the design and implementation of SRTA’s Standard Transaction Interface which moves all roadside transactions from SRTA’s facilities to SRTA’s BOS.

Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority

Developed technical requirements for dynamic pricing, and overhead vehicle classification. Developed testing requirements for roadside system procurement, provided Integrator oversight, and auditing during original 183A ETCS implementation. Oversaw Commissioning Testing and Operational Testing for CTRMA’s 183S facility.

Northeast Texas Regional Mobility Authority

Lead resource on NET RMA’s latest ETCS RFP. Develop all technical system requirements and SOW requirements to be included in the RFP, develop the Technical Response Guide and evaluation guide for this procurement.

Harris County Toll Road Authority

Performed detailed evaluation of existing roadside Toll Collection System to benchmark system performance and recommend systems upgrades.

Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission

Evaluation and scoring of proposals for a complete Toll Collection System upgrade including Roadside and Back Office Systems.

North Texas Tollway Authority

Performed detailed evaluation of existing roadside Toll Collection System to benchmark system performance and recommend systems upgrades.

Orlando/Orange County Expressway Authority

3 years as GSC assisting with many aspects of Toll Collection Systems oversight including systems enhancement design, development and testing, system Disaster Recovery procedure documentation, and vendor/integrator oversight and management.

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Introducing the Fagan Consultants and Staff

Fagan Consulting is a strong team of more than twenty highly skilled Transportation Consultants and Staff. Our team members have diverse backgrounds as agency staff, consultants, and completing critical work in roadside and back-office systems with toll industry system integrators.

Jeff Saurenmann

Jeff Saurenmann, PMP

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Jeff has been a tolling systems consultant and project manager for 13 years, including one year working for a toll system integrator. Jeff’s toll industry experience includes project management, business analysis, procurements, system testing, data analysis, operations support, and contract management. Jeff earned his BBA with a major in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Amy Bishop

Amy Bishop

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Amy has over 14 years of experience in the tolling industry with the past six as a business analyst/system consultant for Fagan. She specializes in assisting agencies with business rules development and management, system requirements, documentation, full project testing, and integrator oversight. Amy has worked on multiple successful roadside and back office tolling system implementations. Prior to Fagan, Amy was with a toll system integrator as a back office business analyst for over eight years, working closely with the development and QA staff.

Jeff Franklin

Jeff Franklin

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Jeff Franklin has been a toll systems consultant for six years, assisting agencies with new implementations, conversions, and troubleshooting existing systems. Jeff’s focus historically has been on business and system rules design, business and system requirements documentation, data repository design, software testing, system migration, and operations implementations. Prior to consulting, Jeff was with a system integrator developing and managing tolling back office systems.

Michael Wingfield

Michael Wingfield

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Michael has worked in Information Technology and data processing for over 25 years, with the last eight years in the tolling industry, in system integration and consulting. Michael focuses on system audits and contributes to Request for Proposal (RFP) and process document creation. Prior to tolling, Michael worked in system integration for public and private water and oil/gas industries. His responsibilities included designing and delivering Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, developing Human/Machine Interfaces (HMI).

Bob Redding

Bob Redding

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Bob has been designing, implementing, testing, and operating toll collection systems for over 35 years. He spent almost ten years working for a toll system integrator, ten years heading up tolling for the largest toll system operator in the United States, seven years with his own toll system consulting firm, and the last four years at Fagan Consulting. Currently, he is working on projects in various stages of completion, from developing requirements, writing procurement documents, overseeing implementation, and rigorous testing of newly commissioned systems.

Mike McLaughlin

Mike McLaughlin

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Mike has been designing, installing, and maintaining roadside tolling solutions for 28 years and has been responsible for installing and maintaining hundreds of lanes. Mike uses his years of hands-on system engineering and maintenance experience to help tolling agencies procure and operate systems with a strong focus on accuracy, availability, and maintainability. In addition, Mike focuses on system testing and auditing and identifying and enabling transaction and image processing operational efficiencies.

Geoff Ford

Geoff Ford

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Geoff joined Fagan Consulting as a Senior Transportation Systems Consultant in March 2018. Geoff is a client-focused, successful, and self-driven leader with 17+ years of project management experience and over 14 years of tolling practice supporting both private and public-sector entities. Geoff excels in advocating for technically and financially sound solutions for the business. Prior to consulting, Geoff was responsible for the design, rollout, and ongoing back office system operations for a $1.6 billion P3 Concessionaire.

Christopher Peters

Christopher Peters, PMP, PMI-ACP

Transportation Systems Consultant

Christopher is a PM presently co-managing a back office system implementation. Areas of focus include software development, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Violation Enforcement, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), web/mobile applications, and Tolling Interoperability. Master of Business Administration from Northeastern University with a concentration in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).

Jason Rhodes

Jason Rhodes, PMP

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Jason has worked in the tolling industry for almost 21 years, contributed to several successful new toll road implementations, designed an entire back office system, and managed a software development department. Jason currently is focused on software procurements and roadside implementations and using his expertise to provide efficiencies to toll agencies. Prior to consulting, Jason was a software development manager with the world’s largest private toll road operator.

Angie Galer

Angie Galer

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Angie has more than 11 years of experience in the tolling industry, providing system design, reporting, and data migration support, as well as operational management for multiple back office toll collection systems. She is currently facilitating data migration efforts for transitioning back-office systems and supporting system design for new implementations. Prior to consulting, Angie served as Systems Manager and Data Services Manager with a systems integrator on several roadside and back office tolling systems.

Morgan Jacobus

Morgan Jacobus

Transportation Systems Consultant

Morgan joined Fagan Consulting as Transportation Systems Consultant in 2019 and is a newcomer to the tolling industry. Morgan brings over four years of experience in data analytics and systems operations. Morgan now works with tolling agencies to re-engineer audit and testing processes to monitor roadway and back office systems and manage their system procurement processes. In addition, Morgan leverages his knowledge in analytics and programming to quickly connect stakeholders with insights they need to make informed decisions.

David Cox

David Cox

Transportation Systems Consultant

David joined the tolling industry in 2019 immediately after finishing his undergraduate degree in economics at the University of Southern California. David brings experience in data-driven statistical analysis and a passion for data science to the Fagan Consulting team. He currently focuses this skill set in vendor management, tolling operations support, and interoperability, helping his customers gain an intimate understanding of their roadside systems' performance while providing data-driven initiatives to help increase performance and revenue.

Chris Tull

Chris Tull

Transportation Systems Consultant

Chris has over 20 years of tolling industry experience, managing technical and end-user documentation deliverables for both roadside and back office solutions. His experience includes overseeing the creation and delivery of detailed design documentation, test plans and procedures, user and training deliverables, and as-built documentation. Chris has also written and published several technical books, covering topics such as wireless technologies, Crystal Reports development, and web design using Adobe products.

Rajshree Gore

Rajshree Gore, PMP

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Raj has been working in the Tolling industry for over 16 years as a toll system integrator designing and installing successful roadside and back-office solutions for multiple agencies. Raj currently focuses on roadside and back-office procurements as a tolling system consultant to help agencies integrate new technologies to improve their customer experiences. Prior to the toll industry, Raj has worked for the telecommunication industry as Senior Oracle Developer. Raj has also worked for Oracle Corporation as Sr. Technical Analyst to provide support for CASE tools.

Cori Sutherland

Cori Sutherland

Transportation Systems Consultant

Cori has 15 years of well-versed experience in the transportation industry. She has been in the toll industry for over ten years, managing tolling implementation projects, agency program evaluation, policy research, development, legislation, toll collection operations analysis and improvement, complex data analysis, and business requirement development. Cori also assists tolling agencies with financial monitoring and management, government relations, strategic planning, and analytic measurement development.

Janet Holt

Janet Holt

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Janet has spent 34 years with systems integration firms leading high-performing teams through the implementation of advanced technologies. For the past six years, Janet led complex projects to implement all-electronic tolling (AET) and intelligent transportation solutions to some of the world’s leading concessions, toll agencies, and DOTs. Currently, based on her extensive experiences as an integrator, Janet is assisting Fagan’s customers with procurement strategies, documentation, and project management for AET systems.

Megan McLain

Megan McLain, Esq., PMP

Transportation Systems Consultant

Megan has over ten years of experience in the tolling industry, assisting agencies with a unique combination of skills that include working as a general counsel for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Megan's tolling experience includes providing a leading role in the Ohio River Bridges Project from its inception and providing leadership for Kentucky in implementing and overseeing the RiverLink toll system. Megan's experience includes project lifecycle, including procurement, contract negotiations, operations, and maintenance. Megan is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and her law background informs her work.

Ryan Raya

Ryan Raya, PMP

Transportation Systems Consultant

Ryan joined Fagan Consulting in 2022 as an experienced toll systems and operations program manager with a wealth of management experience outside of tolling. Ryan provided oversight of projects, including Back Office System implementations and Intelligent Roadside Systems at the SH130, LBJ, and NTE toll roads, the key of which was the integration of HOV Mobile applications into the BOS. Ryan understands how to work with tolling agencies on all aspects of ETC Systems, including procurement, design, development, testing, change order scope/management, and contract negotiations. Finally, Ryan can rely on outside experience in MEP projects, vendor management, implementation, and commissioning.

Nancy Rehm

Nancy Rehm, PMP, CTCM

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Nancy has more than 24 years of experience in project management, program management, contract and vendor management, procurement, planning and implementation, test and evaluation, and risk management, largely centered around systems and data. She has been in the transportation industry since 2018, where she served as the Director of PMO and Business/System Analytics for a large transportation agency’s tolling division. Nancy is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Texas Contract Manager (CTCM).

Alex Fisher

Alex Fisher

Transportation Systems Consultant

Alex became a transportation systems consultant at Fagan Consulting in 2023. He comes with five years of experience in tolling and contributed to several projects including RCTC, CTRMA, WSDOT, and PANYNJ. Prior to tolling, he worked in the Manufacturing Industry as an industrial engineer where he leveraged his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification to improve processes and meet cost, schedule, and quality metrics. With his experience and interest in data analytics, he can be a useful asset in time series analysis of system performance trends.

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Regina Scaccetti

Transportation Systems Consultant

Regina joined Fagan Consulting as a Transportation Systems Consultant in 2023. Regina’s primary focus in the tolling industry has been on agency transition of back-office systems. Beginning her tolling experience in operations, Regina has a strong understanding of how requirements and business rules impact the operations team and how best to support operations during periods of transition. Regina’s skills include requirements gathering, rules, and clarifications, business and system rules, change request processes, system design and testing, system migration and implementation, operational execution, and employee training and systems maintenance.

Jamir Jackson

Jamir Jackson

Transportation Systems Consultant

Jamir joined Fagan Consulting in 2023 with a background in electrical and computer engineering. His expertise includes technical analysis, risk identification, and issue mitigation which he has used to develop effective solutions and provide support during testing phases for customers. His experience includes data analysis using SQL to track and predict the spread of COVID. In addition, Jamir served as a legislative research analyst and data specialist using SQL and Tableau to identify key trends and patterns in complex policy issues such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure in the Tennessee State Capitol.

Diana McCambridge

Diana McCambridge

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

A U.S. Navy veteran, Diana has held program leadership positions for 21 years and led All Electronic Tolling System (AETS) programs as a project manager for the past 11 years. Since 2012, her experience includes Maintenance Manager on the VA I-95/I-495 Express Lanes project, Deputy Program Manager on the MassDOT AETS during implementation, and most recently serving as Program Manager for Cross Israel Highway AETS. and data specialist using SQL and Tableau to identify key trends and patterns in complex policy issues such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure in the Tennessee State Capitol.

Jeff Fisher

Jeff Fisher

Senior Transportation Systems Consultant

Jeff is a highly analytical and tech-savvy professional with extensive expertise in advanced physical and logical database design, intricate installations, upgrades, and issue resolution. His track record includes creating intricate interfaces between enterprise performance management systems, devising internal cost recovery solutions, and establishing robust employee data-training completion notification systems. Jeff's skill set in the realm of database management and application development includes Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Informatica, SnapLogic, TOAD, SQL Developer, and ERWin.

Sowmya Mupparthy

Sowmya Mupparthy

Transportation Systems Consultant

With eight years of dedicated experience in quality assurance, Sowmya is a seasoned professional who has experience with testing different modules on back-office systems, interoperability, and provided support during different testing phases for customers including SRTA and LADOTD. Her expertise includes SQL, ETL tools, Core Java, JSON, XML Scripting, and Jira, and spans various testing disciplines, making her a versatile and valuable asset to any team. Sowmya possesses a comprehensive skill set that includes manual testing, automation testing, WebApi interfaces, mobile apps, and IVR application testing. Her meticulous planning and execution of testing strategies have consistently ensured the successful delivery of numerous projects.

Terri Cook

Terri Cook

Senior Operations Consultant

Terri has over 30 years of experience at the forefront of operations, with a comprehensive skill set that includes project management and technical expertise focusing on call center performance optimization, systems interface specification and testing, training, reporting analysis, account management and correspondence management. In the last decade, Terri has led the functions for a leading collection agency with a specific focus on the toll industry. Terri has supported over a dozen toll authorities from coast to coast, including the Bay Area Toll Authority, Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority, and the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.