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Dear Infrastructure and Sustainability team,

I would like you all to join me in welcoming Transportation Services to our organization. The transition became official on July 1, and I wanted to provide an update on the shift. As many of you know, Transportation Services administers the Buff Bus routes that connectÌýour campus. The unit also oversees the university’s fleet of vehicles and coordinates the campus’Ìýsustainable commuting options.Ìý

Transportation Services will report to Brian Lindoerfer, assistant vice chancellor for facilities operations and services. Tim Golden, associate director of the Distribution Center, is serving as interim transportation director until a permanent director can be hired. Tim will be maintaining his duties with the Distribution Center during this time. Thank you Tim for stepping up to take on this role!

We are also in the process of hiring for a new fleet manager and hope to have this position filled by the end of August. After things settle into place, we will revisit the hiring process for the transportation director. Tom Christian, meanwhile, is interim transit manager overseeing the Buff Bus program, and Craig Miller is the fleet maintenance supervisor.

I encourage you all to introduce yourselves to our new team members from Transportation Services. The I&S employee picnic on July 17 will provide a great opportunity to mingle and get to know them. I am excited about bringing them into Infrastructure and Sustainability as we embark on multiple planning initiatives, including the Transportation Master Plan and campus visioning effort.

Sincerely,
David Kang, vice chancellor for Infrastructure and Sustainability

How long have you been working for CU?
Almost 27 years in total. I started working at the Libby Hall cafeteria peeling onions and washing dishes in the fall of 1991. Fortunately, in the spring of 1992 I found a job working at Facilities Management Design and Construction making copies, filing and doing the mail run. I transferred to FM Information Systems after that and have been here ever since.

What is your favorite thing to do outside of work?
Over the past 5 years I’ve developed a love of playing music, learning to play the ukulele and guitar. I enjoy playing a variety of music, but focus on Hawaiian music and Ki Ho’alu, or Hawaiian slack key guitar. I find it is a nice break from technology, helping to engage my creative side. Hawaiian music also helps me reconnect with the Hawaiian islands where I grew up.

Tell us something that might surprise us about you.
When I graduated from CU with a Mechanical Engineering degree, I decided I’d rather go into information systems as a career, realizing that most MEs end up working on building systems like HVAC rather than the race cars or rocket ships a younger me thought I’d be designing. Fast-forward 20 years and I find myself in a world where technology and building systems have merged and a primary responsibility of mine is now focused on the security, support, operation and strategic direction of building systems like the HVAC controls systems – which I now find to be the some of the most interesting and rewarding aspects of my job. I am very fortunate to have found myself in an organization whose needs fit my skillset so well. I have yet to figure out how to incorporate music into the work I do, but you never know what might come next. ...

What has been the most important innovation you have witnessed in your lifetime?
The personal computer. When we got our first computer, an Apple II around 1980, it wasn’t just about staying up too late playing Pong and Space Invaders, it represented a shift that was starting from a world where computers took up large room in data centers, programmed with punch cards, to one where they were something to be found at home and interacted with on a daily basis. That trend has continued to the point many of us now carry them in our pockets everywhere we go, constantly connected with technology.

What three traits define you?
My wife says that I am compassionate, deliberate and loyal.
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