Jeff Marootian

Director

Jeff Marootian is the Director of the District Department of Transportation where he leads the 1100-employee agency in its mission to create a safe and sustainable transportation system for the District of Columbia. Jeff is responsible for delivering on Mayor Muriel Bowser's priorities to rebuild and modernize the city's public infrastructure; embrace innovation and technology to increase mobility options; and reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries through a concerted Vision Zero strategy. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the Northeast Corridor Commission and the Intelligent Transportation Society of America.

Prior to joining DDOT, Jeff served as the White House Liaison and Assistant Secretary for Administration at the United States Department of Transportation. As the White House Liaison, Jeff was a member of the leadership team under Secretary Anthony Foxx whose achievements include launching the nationwide Smart Cities Challenge; advocating for and helping to secure passage of the FAST Act; and creating economic opportunity through transit and mobility initiatives in communities across the country. As the Assistant Secretary for Administration, he oversaw the 55,000-employee agency’s business operations, workforce development and diversity and inclusion programs. Jeff was also the Department’s Chief Sustainability Officer and directed the implementation of President Obama’s Executive Order on Climate Change and Sustainability and contributed to the Department’s strategy on electric and autonomous vehicles. He also played a key role in standing up the Build America Bureau to advance the use of public-private partnerships for infrastructure projects across the country.

Jeff is an alumnus of the George Washington University where he also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Administration.

Everett Lott

Deputy Director

Everett Lott is Deputy Director of the District Department of Transportation. He brings more than 25 years of experience in administration, including human resources, budget and finance, grants, labor and employee relations, and facilities management. Prior to joining DDOT, Everett worked for the Federal Highway Administration as the Senior Advisor for Shared Services within the Office of Administration. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service (SES) in 2016 as the Associate Administrator for Administration for the Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). Prior to his appointment to the SES, Everett was part of the leadership team at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in the HIV/AIDS Bureau as the Director of the Office of Operations and Management. Everett is not a newcomer to the District government. He previously served as the Acting Budget Director for the District of Columbia Public Schools, Senior Manager in the Executive Office of the Mayor, and as Deputy Director/Chief of Staff in the District's emergency 911 communications center.

Everett earned his B.A. and M.A. from Texas Tech University and completed additional graduate work at Harvard University. He is also a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute’s Leadership for a Democratic Society.

Doris McMillon

President & Chief Strategic Officer

Doris E. McMillon is the President and Chief Strategic Officer for McMillon Communications, Inc., a WBENC certified company, a full-service boutique communications firm specializing in strategic positioning and effective communications. Doris is based in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. McMillon Communications, Inc. represents, a powerful blend of branding communications and tactics to cultivate business success for government agencies, non-profit organizations, and corporate entities. With a myriad of exceptional talent and diverse media experience, Ms. McMillon brings unequaled leadership and qualifications to establish McMillon Communications, Inc. as a top-notch boutique communications firm. Clients benefit from a variety of staple services including voiceover and on camera services and script to screen video production, influential media training, key message development, executive presentation coaching, image branding, leadership development, facilitation and moderation.

McMillon's communications savvy has afforded her the opportunity to be an instructor at The Graduate School USA in Washington, D.C., where she teaches all levels of government employees how to communicate effectively in their workplace. In addition, McMillon provides on-line instruction for the school’s communications courses. She provides Media Training for Senior Executive Service personnel who are tasked with providing important policymaking, policy-determining executive decisions. As a sought after speaker, McMillon also provides Spokesperson Presentation Coaching. She is currently working on a new publication entitled, Accidental Entrepreneur: My Unexpected Journey. McMillon is also the co-author of, The ABC's of Media: Turning Negative News into Positive Press. Readers will learn how to give a great interview for Radio, TV, Print and Social Media.

McMillon plays herself as an anchorwoman in Clint Eastwood’s Movie, In the Line of Fire, Wesley Snipes’ movie, Murder at 1600, Head of State, with Chris Rock and Bernie Mac. She also plays herself as a news anchor for the TV series the West Wing, NCIS, and The Wire.

McMillon is the author of Mixed Blessing, the autobiography which tells the story of her search for her German mother and African American father. Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story is the award-winning documentary that chronicles the plight of mixed-race children born in Germany after World War II.

A veteran journalist, newscaster and producer, this communications strategist has more than three decades of business experience with work spanning posts at major market radio stations, cable television networks, and three major networks, where she created the innovative concept of Excellence in CommunicationsTM – a baseline principle focused on executing effective communication for business representatives. “How we communicate, whether using the written or spoken word, is the basis for how our message is sent and received. Knowing how to deliver your message will determine your success in the marketplace.”

As a television and radio professional, McMillon served as a Commissioner for the Prince George's County Cable Commission. McMillon's career has spanned the nation and the international community. In addition to anchoring and hosting programs for the former United States Information Agency, Ms. McMillon reported for WJR Radio in Detroit, Michigan. She was a correspondent and anchor for the NBC Radio Network in New York. When she moved to television, she co-anchored and reported in prime-time news hour slots at WABC-TV, Eyewitness News including tenure at Metromedia/Fox New York flagship station, WNTW-TV, where she went undercover as a welfare recipient for the hard-hitting, Emmy Award winning series, The Welfare Rip-off. Her stellar career took her to WJLA-TV and Black Entertainment TV in Washington, D.C. McMillon Communications, Inc. assists its clients to strategically and successfully communicate key messages to influence and deliver results.

Scott Crumley, PE, PTOE

Director, Transportation

Scott Crumley is a Director responsible for managing RK&K’s transportation infrastructure projects and opportunities throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan region. For the majority of his career, Scott has been an owner or an owner’s representative managing key aspects of highly visible projects in the DC area. Scott’s career began in the public sector with more than nine years at the state and local government levels focused on traffic engineering design, analysis and operations – particularly in work zone management and operations.

Scott joined RK&K in 2002 and, for more than 10 years, he was the lead on-site Traffic Engineer for the $2.5 billion Woodrow Wilson Bridge project and the $2.4 billion InterCounty Connector project. Scott’s experience includes project management, QA/QC, multi-jurisdictional stakeholder coordination, and developing Transportation Management Plans including DDOT’s Citywide TMP and Work Zone Management System. Since 2013, he has been responsible for all staffing and resource management at RK&K’s DC Office located in southeast DC, 2 ½ blocks from DDOT.

Scott graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1994 with a BS in Civil Engineering. He obtained his MS in Information and Telecommunication Systems for Business from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. Scott is a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer and licensed Professional Engineer in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and three other states. He is happily married with three children.

Mouhamed Diop

Project Manager

Mouhamed Diop serves as Project Manager with Fort Myer Construction since 2015 with 12 years of experience in heavy and bridge construction. Mr. Diop is a team player and has an excellent track record of strong working relationships with owners and engineers resulting in successful construction experiences including ABC in Excellence Awards for the Reconstruction of 16th Street Bridge over Military Road and Beach Drive Rehabilitation project.

Mouhamed holds a Master of Engineering Degree from Howard University. As a Project Manager, Mr. Diop also tracks and monitors DBE participation at the project level.

William Sharp

Chief Contracting Officer for Infrastructure and Transportation

Mr. William E. “Bill” Sharp is the District of Columbia’s Chief Contracting Officer for Infrastructure and Transportation at the Office of Contracting and Procurement (OCP). The Infrastructure and Transportation Group includes serving the District Department of Transportation and the District Office of Energy and Environment.

Bill brings over 30 years of procurement, academic and leadership experience from both the private and public sectors. His federal public sector work most recently included serving as the Assistant Inspector General for Management and Support for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), an independent federal oversight agency. Prior to that, Bill was the Procurement Manager for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), Office of Procurement and Materials.

Previously, Mr. Sharp spent 7 years with the District of Columbia Government, concluding his first tenure with the District as Commodity Manager for Information Technology and Homeland Security. He also served as Commodity Manager for the Professional Services and Public Safety Cluster. His other federal service includes positions in the Department of Defense. He is also a veteran of the United States Army, serving as an intelligence analyst in the Army Security Agency.

In addition to his work in the public sector, Bill worked for a number of years in the private sector, first for a large corporation, and then leading his own consulting practice, which focused primarily on government contracts, corporate transactional matters and business operations. In that capacity, he provided government contracts and business consulting and management services for businesses in various fields, especially international and high-tech projects.

Prior to his return to OCP, Mr. Sharp served as an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University College of Professional Studies, teaching the Public-Private Partnerships and Contract Management graduate course for the Master’s degree in Public Leadership. In the course, he spent a considerable segment focusing on risk management, drawing both on academic theories and his considerable experience dealing with many different types of procurement risks in the various positions he has held, to provide examples of effective and ineffective approaches to managing risk.

Mr. Sharp holds a Juris Doctor from the American University, Washington College of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude) in Russian language from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the GW Center for Excellence in Public Leadership in Washington, DC.

Monica Miles, CPA, CFE

President

Monica Miles, Managing Partner of MH Miles Company, CPA PC, is a certified public accountant and certified fraud examiner. She has over fifteen years of experience in the Transportation industry and specifically in FAR 31 cost principles and compliance.

She provides consultant audit services to the District Department of Transportation, Virginia Department of Transportation, New York State Department of Transportation, Georgia Department of Transportation, and Arkansas Department of Transportation.

Howard Ways

Chief Operations Officer

Howard Ways has over 20 years of urban planning and real estate development experience and has managed over $900 million of real estate and public facilities projects. Currently he is the COO for a local transportation agency of 1,100 employees. With nearly 660 employees under his authority, Howard is responsible for the maintenance of the infrastructure in the nation’s capital.

Previously, he served as an Associate Professor and Program Director for the MS in Real Estate Development at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Prior to that, he served as the Executive Director of the Redevelopment Authority of Prince George's County, Maryland, the principal development agency for a metropolitan county of 900,000 residents with a specific focus on mixed income, public private partnership development projects totaling more than $774 million which will produce nearly 2,500 mixed income housing units and 100,000 square feet of retail, resulting in nearly $6 million in new property tax revenue and 1,900 new jobs.

During his first ten years in District of Columbia government, Howard worked on various policy initiatives, including housing policy, helping to rewrite the city’s condemnation law, targeted public investments and workforce development. He completed the city's first green collar jobs demand analysis. He led the Home Again Initiative to acquire vacant and abandoned property and repurpose it for mixed income housing. He also led the planning effort on reuse of excess school facility space and managed the vacant property acquisition and disposition process. He also served as the director of Planning and Sustainability for the University of the District of Columbia where he completed the university's first Strategic Sustainability Plan.

Howard attended the John F. Kennedy School for Government's Senior, State and Local Government Officials Program in 2006. He has extensive higher education experience, including as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in the Master of Professional Studies in Real Estate program. He also served as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture at Catholic University of America and the City and Regional Planning Program in the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University and in the Urban Studies Program at the University of the District of Columbia. He has also lectured at the Howard University School of Architecture. Additionally, he has extensive international experience, serving as the Washington, DC representative for the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Cities Network, a collaboration of 20 American and European public policy practitioners and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences.

He is a past member of the Urban Land Institute, the International Council of Shopping Centers, the American Institute of Certified Planners and the American Planning Association and is currently a member of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials.