PORTLAND, OR – STV today announced that Kris Strickler, PE, has joined the firm as senior vice president and national highways director, bringing more than 20 years of public-sector leadership to the firm’s highways expertise. He will help lead strategy, client service and delivery for complex, multi-jurisdictional corridor programs nationwide.
Strickler brings more than two decades of leadership at the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) and the Washington State Department of Transportation, overseeing multimodal delivery, operations and maintenance programs across the Pacific Northwest. As the second longest-serving director of ODOT, he advanced hundreds of capital projects statewide and is widely recognized for shaping multimodal programs that reduce congestion, expand user choice and strengthen both rural and urban economic mobility.
“Kris has delivered some of the most complex, multi-jurisdictional transportation programs in the Pacific Northwest, shaping how transformational corridors are planned, funded and delivered,” said Liz Justison, PE, PMP, president of the Transportation West operating group at STV. “His experience strengthens our ability to help clients advance major corridors with confidence, navigate federal and state requirements and deliver projects that improve mobility for communities across the country.”
Strickler also served as the Oregon program director for the multi-billion-dollar Columbia River Crossing Program, a bi-state highway, transit and multimodal initiative recognized as a Presidential Project of National or Regional Significance at that time. In this role, he led program development, federal coordination, environmental strategy and legislative engagement, including securing $450 million in state funding and moving the project through a Record of Decision and complex permitting.
Strickler holds a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Washington State University and is a licensed professional engineer in Washington State.
For more than 30 years, STV has delivered major infrastructure projects across the West with deep expertise in light rail, bus rapid transit, zero-emission vehicles, tolling infrastructure, project delivery and program and construction management. Most recently, the firm celebrated the opening of the Sound Transit Crosslake Connection in Seattle. Other signature projects include the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim, the San Mateo 101 Express Lanes in San Francisco, the LA Metro Zero-Emissions Bus Program in Los Angeles and the BART Canopy and Escalator Enhancements in San Francisco.
