Michael S. Shapiro, P.E., has joined STV as a vice president and design-build manager for the firm’s transportation and infrastructure division.
In this role, Shapiro is responsible for identifying business opportunities, managing relationships within the project team, overseeing the project proposal process, managing pursuit schedules and budgets, monitoring legislation and funding allocations impacting alternate delivery capital programs, overseeing the implementation of design-build projects, and promoting and establishing innovation in proposals and project execution.
Shapiro has 37 years of experience, with more than $20 billion worth of work in design-build and public private-partnerships (P3). Shapiro says he wants to bring STV “to the next level in the design-build and P3 market.”
Prior to joining STV, Shapiro was a vice president, design director, capture manager and manager specializing in alternative delivery projects including P3s and design-build transportation at a support services firm in the transportation sector.
One of his most notable assignments was serving as the design project manager for I-595 in Davie, Fla., which was of one of the largest P3 urban highway-managed lane projects in the country.
Shapiro earned his bachelor of science degree in environmental design from Texas A&M University and studied civil engineering at a post-graduate level at Arizona State University. He is a registered professional engineer in Arizona, Texas and Washington. In addition, he is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Design-Build Institute of America and a member of its transportation committee, a member of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association and the American Council of Engineering Companies, where he was a member of its business practice committee.
