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 Phillip
E. Russell, P.E., is the Assistant Executive Director for Innovative Project
Development and he oversees the development and operation of turnpike projects
including comprehensive development agreements, market valuations, pass-thru
finance agreements, Trans-Texas Corridor activities and long-term transportation
planning.
The 25-year TxDOT veteran has been director of the Texas Turnpike Authority
Division since 1998. Under his direction, the division expanded the state
highway system through the development of toll roads, working with districts and
local officials on the formation of regional mobility authorities and state toll
projects, and overseeing the preparation of all comprehensive development
agreements for TxDOT. He successfully managed the Central Texas Turnpike
project, TxDOT’s first toll road and the department’s first Public-Private
Partnership – SH 130.
He began his career with TxDOT as a summer employee in the Burnet Resident
Engineer’s Office in the Austin District in1978. He began working full-time with
the department in 1982 in the Dallas District where he served in numerous
positions before he moved, in 1993, to become the director of transportation
planning and programming in the Bryan District.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of
Texas at Austin in 1982 he attended the Texas Wesleyan University Law School in
Fort Worth and graduated with honors in 1993.
He received the 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award for a public sector
employee from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, ARTBA.
He also received the American Association of State Highway and Transportation
Officials, AASHTO, President’s Transportation Award for Planning in 2006.
Phil and his wife, Sandy have two daughters, Korryn and Katy, and one son,
Kyle. |
