Our project leadership comes to Dulles Metrorail with years of experience on projects all over the world.
George Morschauser - Project Executive Director
Mr. Morschauser has over 32 years of technical and managerial experience in the design and construction of large, complex transportation infrastructure and facilities valued in the billions of dollars. His background includes the design and construction of major rail infrastructures located in congested urban and major metropolitan areas for both new and existing transit systems. He previously served as Project Manager on the $6.3 billion dollar MTACC/LIRR East Side Access project, on the $5.3 billion dollar Los Angeles Metro Red Line project and on the AirTrain light rail transit extension to JFK International Airport and Extension C on the Baltimore Metro.
Ernie Lee - Project Director
Mr. Lee brings over 30 years of project management and engineering/construction operations experience to the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project.
Mr. Lee is a Regional Manager for Washington Group International (WGI) where he was responsible for the marketing, technical oversight and operations of the Mid-Atlantic region for the company's rail, transit, highway and airport transportation engineering and construction services. Throughout the past 20 years, Mr. Lee has served in various leadership capacities to provide technical oversight and project management to numerous transit agencies and rail projects, including construction of WMATA's 103-Mile Build Out Train Control and Communications Project, New Jersey Transit Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Project, Newark City Subway, Army Corps of Engineers and the Regional Transit Authority of Chicago. Mr. Lee graduated with an associate of Science Engineering Technology degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Larry Melton - Project Manager, Design/Build
Mr. Melton has over 24 years of experience in engineering and construction management in both the public and private sector. He has planned, implemented, and executed large-scale complex civil projects in urban areas around the world, including the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport Extension, the Boston Central Artery and Tunnel Project, and the Air Train to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. He has been an integral part of the Dulles Transit Partners senior management team for the last five years from the start of Preliminary Engineering through the negotiations and award of the Design-Build contract. Mr. Melton graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from The Citadel and also holds an MBA in Global Management.
Jim Short - Deputy Project Director - Services
Mr. Short has over 30 years of experience in engineering and construction projects in the government and commercial sectors. He has held a broad range of technical and senior managerial positions involving craft supervision, construction engineering, proposal development, project controls, functional management and project management. Mr. Short has worked on a number of international and domestic projects including the Taiwan High Speed Rail, Korea High Speed Rail, Great Plains Coal Gasification and numerous projects within the Department of Energy at Hanford, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos.
Sterling Brisbin - Deputy Project Manager - Design
Mr. Brisbin brings more than 30 years of experience in engineering and project management to Dulles Transit Partners. Throughout his career, he has performed engineering design, and managed engineering design teams on major, multi-billion-dollar civil infrastructure projects in the U.S. and abroad. He has worked on Long Island's East Side Access Project (commuter rail extension), the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project, and several significant transportation and civil infrastructure developments in Hong Kong. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford University, and is a licensed private pilot.