Michael has been a school transportation consultant for approximately 27 years, providing service for California’s FCMAT since 1995 and serving nearly 150 school districts, SELPAs and county offices of education in the State. His broad experience has created expertise not only in all aspects of pupil transportation operations and management, but also public agency governance, fiscal operations and oversight, and personnel operations and management. Recent consulting experience has broadened his expertise in the area of safety evaluations of corporate commute companies providing services for the technology industry.

Donna joined PTI as an independent consultant in 2018. She is a retired Transportation Programs Consultant from the California Dept of Education. She was responsible for certifying the instructors and delegating behind-the-wheel trainers for school bus, school pupil activity bus, farm labor vehicles and transit bus. She also wrote the required training curriculum, monitored the state certified Instructor/trainers and provided field support. Donna was the lead facilitator and instructor for the Department Instructors Certification Course, Special Needs Transportation Course and the Transportation Administrators Course. Donna was both CASTO Chapter president and served 2 terms as the Executive Board State Secretary.

Phil has over 40 years of progressive vehicle maintenance experience to include 26 years vehicle maintenance/supervision, logistic and planning while on deployment for the U.S. Navy in both active and reserve duty capacity. Prior to joining the PTI team, Phil was employed for 24 years with Poway Unified School District and over 8 years with Ryder Truck Rental as Fleet Manager. Phil is active with the CASTO and has coordinated numerous vehicle maintenance workshops and vendor exhibits. Phil has performed consulting services for FCMAT. Phil is a primary consultant for PTI specializing in the area of vehicle maintenance.

Marsa has over 32 years of experience in pupil transportation and she joined the PTI team as a respected resource to many transportation leaders and school district administrators in California. Marsa is known as a compassionate leader and is a strong advocate for transportation leadership training. She recently retired from her role as Director of Transportation for the Kern High School District in Bakersfield, California for the past 17 years. Kern has the largest 9-12 high school district in the state with over 35,000 students.

Chris joined PTI in 2019 and serves as consultant with expertise in the areas of facilities, maintenance, operations, and the alignment of operational plans with financial resources. He has a degree in Technical Studies and Construction Management from Thomas Edison State University, with additional studies in civil/mechanical engineering and project management. Additionally he has completed CASBO’s Chief Business Official certification course, and serves on the the CASBO Maintenance and Operations Professional Council.

Omar retired from the California Army National Guard in 2019 and joined the Pupil Transportation Information team as a consultant and has assisted with the support of various districts in southern California. He provides required training and organizes training curriculum to ensure school bus drivers are meeting all requirements set by the California Department of Education, Office of School Transportation.