{"id":25277,"date":"2023-04-03T20:34:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=25277"},"modified":"2023-04-03T20:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:36:05","slug":"north-carolina-dot-names-rebecca-gallas-as-interim-aviation-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-carolina\/north-carolina-dot-names-rebecca-gallas-as-interim-aviation-director\/%20","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina DOT Names Rebecca Gallas as Interim Aviation Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Becca-Gallas.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25278\" width=\"192\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Becca-Gallas.png 690w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Becca-Gallas-300x297.png 300w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Becca-Gallas-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><figcaption><em>Rebecca Gallas<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As current Aviation Director Bobby Walston\u2019s retirement date draws near, the process has begun to recruit a new Aviation Director. \u201cWhile we go through that process, I have named [Rebecca] Becca Gallas as our Interim Aviation Director,\u201d noted Julie White, Deputy Secretary for Multimodal Transportation with the North Carolina Department of Transportation.\u00c2\u00a0 \u201cDuring her 10-year career, Becca has served the NCDOT in a variety of capacities including in the Chief Engineer\u2019s Office and most recently in the Structures Management Unit in the Division of Highways.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Gallas has led several strategic statewide\ninitiatives around financial transparency, workforce modernization, data\ngovernance and innovation implementation. &nbsp;During her tenure as lead of the Department\u2019s\ninnovation programs, NCDOT was awarded FHWA\u2019s State Transportation Innovation\nCouncil (STIC) Excellence Award, which recognizes states that have demonstrated\nsuccess in fostering a strong culture for innovation within their\ntransportation communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although her career has primarily been in Highways, Gallas has collaborated with the Multimodal Transportation Divisions, including the Division of Aviation, on several projects, most recently the strategic plan for shared autonomous mobility. She is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a licensed Professional Engineer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As current Aviation Director Bobby Walston\u2019s retirement date draws near, the process has begun to recruit a new Aviation Director. \u201cWhile we go through that process, I have named [Rebecca] Becca Gallas as our Interim Aviation Director,\u201d noted Julie White, Deputy Secretary for Multimodal Transportation with the North Carolina Department of Transportation.\u00c2\u00a0 \u201cDuring her 10-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25281,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277\/revisions\/25281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}