OCTA Pavement Inspector Prequalification Program

2025 Inspector Prequalification Schedule

Following are important dates for this year's prequalification cycle:

• Round 1, May 17 to May 30, 2025. Inspectors that fail to meet the prequalification criteria will be allowed to revisit the control sections during Round 2.

• Round 2, June 9 to June 15, 2025.

• Final Results, by June 30, 2025.

More information about the location of the pavement control sections as well as survey forms and instructions for inspectors will be made available for download on this page on May 16, 2025.

All inspectors are invited to register via the online form at this link: https://forms.gle/hMqER6RaMZzhUph46

2024 Results

The following inspectors are prequalified until July 30, 2026:

• Aaron Cohodas, Manual Survey (BIG)

• Ali Zalghout, Manual Survey (KH)

• Amina Mannan, Manual Survey (GMU)

• Cade Bucknam, Manual Survey (BIG)

• Mahmoud Khadem, Manual Survey (GMU)

• Niko Bustamante, Manual Survey (BIG)

• William Duong, Automated Survey (AS)

2022-2023 Results

The following inspectors are pre-qualified until June 30, 2025:

• Amir Ghanbari, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Ben Steffen, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Connor Evanski, Manual Survey (KH)

• Daniella Rodriguez, Automated Survey (NIX)

• Danielle Lanzer, Automated Survey (ARA)

• David Bratton, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Derek Saldana, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Diego Alfonso, Automated Survey (NIX)

• Douglas Teleisha, Manual Survey (Marker)

• Eric Castaneda, Automated Survey (NIX)

• Franc Escobedo, Manual Survey (NCE)

• Jacob Rajnowski, Manual Survey (NCE)

• Jalen Rich, Manual Survey (KH)

• Jasdeep Bains, Manual Survey (GMU)

• Jason Clinton, Manual Survey (QES)

• John Zimmer, Automated Survey (Marker)

• Jonathan Moore, Manual Survey (NCE)

• Joseph Dib, Automated Survey (ARA)

• Kenneth Flack, Automated Survey (ARA)

• Leah Ramirez, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Matthew Baker, Manual Survey (QES)

• Meet Singh, Automated Survey (ARA)

• Megan Foshee, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Phillip Donovan, Automated Survey (ARA)

• Sadaf Khosravifar, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Shaun Russo, Manual Survey (BIG)

• Md Towhid Ur Rahman, Automated Survey (IMS)

2021-2022 Results

The following inspectors are pre-qualified until June 30, 2024:

• Aaron Cohodas, Manual Survey (BIG)

• Adeline Jordan, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Albert Tarantella, Automated Survey (ARA)

• Ben Steffen, Automated Survey (IMS)

• David Bratton, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Eric Castaneda, Automated Survey (ARA)

• Jeff Matsushita, Manual Survey (GMU)

• John Zimmer, Manual Survey (Marker)

• Joseph Dib, Automated Survey (ARA)

• Jung Yun Moon, Automated Survey (ARA)

• Ken Flack, Automated Survey (ARA)

• Ken Huisman, Manual Survey (Marker)

• Ken Huisman, Automated Survey (Marker)

• Leah Ramirez, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Marvin Mann, Manual Survey (NCE)

• Michel El Sebaaly, Manual Survey (GMU)

• Mostafa Nakhaei, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Natalie Crisci, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Nick Messick, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Phillip Donovan, Automated Survey (ARA)

• TJ Coulter, Automated Survey (IMS)

2020-2021 Results

The following inspectors are pre-qualified until June 30, 2023:

• Ali Mohagheghi, Manual Survey (IMS)

• Ben Steffen, Manual Survey (IMS)

• Sadaf Khosravifar, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Leah Ramirez, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Farhang Jalali, Manual Survey (NCE)

• Franc Escobedo, Manual Survey (NCE)

• Joseph De Leon, Manual Survey (NCE)

• Shaun Russo, Manual Survey (BIG)

2019-2020 Results

The following inspectors are prequalified until June 30, 2022:

• Phil Donovan, Automated Survey (Dynatest/ARA)

• Kenneth Flack, Automated Survey (Dynatest/ARA)

• Jung Moon, Automated Survey (Dynatest/ARA)

• Sara Pournoman, Automated Survey (Dynatest/ARA)

• Leah Ramirez, Automated Survey (Dynatest/ARA)

• Sebastian Ramos, Automated Survey (Dynatest/ARA)

• Paul Muse, Manual Survey (Harris)

• Vijay Pulijal, Manual Survey (Harris)

• Aaron Cohodas, Manual Survey (BIG)

• Joshua Logsdon, Manual Survey (BIG)

• Cade Bucknam, Manual Survey (BIG)

• Timothy Miller, Manual Survey (Kimley Horn)

• Marvin Mann, Manual Survey (NCE)

• Katrina Cai, Manual Survey (NCE)

• Jake Rajnowski, Manual Survey (NCE)

• Michael Tavares, Manual Survey (Fugro)

• Dona Daniels, Automated Survey (Fugro)

• David Bratton, Automated Survey (IMS)

• Ali Zalghout, Manual Survey (GMU)

• John Zimmer, Automated Survey (Marker)

• John Zimmer, Manual Survey (Marker)

• Ken Huisman, Manual Survey (Marker)

2018-2019 Results

The following inspectors are prequalified until June 30, 2021:

• David Bratton (IMS)

• David Butler (IMS)

• Franc Escobedo (NCE)

• Joseph De Leon (NCE)

• Kevin Dao (NCE)

• Narut Leehacharoenkul (NCE)

• Greg Bucknam

• Lucie Anderson (GMU)

• Rosalie Chavez (GMU)

• Aaron Cohodas (BIG)

• Shaun Russo (BIG)

2017-2018

The following inspectors met the OCTA prequalification criteria:

COLIN ANDERSON

DAN LIPINSKI

SARA ALZATE

PHILLIP R. DONOVAN

JUNGYUN MOON

LEAH RAMIREZ

2016-2017

OCTA's 2016-2017 Pavement Inspector Prequalification program is now closed. The following agencies had at least one inspector prequalified for the period April 2017 to June 2019:

ADHARA SYSTEMS

FUGRO

GMU

HARRIS

IMS

MARKER

NCE

TWINING

VANDERHAWK

The next OCTA prequalification cycle is tentatively scheduled for November 2017. Please contact OCTA with any questions.

2015-2016

OCTA's 2015-2016 Pavement Inspector Prequalification program is now closed. The following agencies had at least one inspector prequalified for the period April 2016 to June 2018:

• • Bucknam Infrastructure Group, Inc.

  • City of Cypress

  • City of Orange

  • CivilSource, Inc.

  • Dynatest

  • Fugro Roadware, Inc.

  • GIE

  • NCE

  • Onward Engineering

The next OCTA prequalification cycle is tentatively scheduled for November 2016. Please contact OCTA with any questions.

2014-2015

The following agencies had at least one inspector prequalified for the period April 2015 to June 2017:

• • Harris & Associates

  • CivilSource

  • JG3

  • Bucknam Infrastructure Group, Inc.

  • GMU Geotechnical, Inc.

  • Onward Engineering