DALLAS, TX — Michael Baker International, an engineering, planning, and consulting services company, announces that Jason Sipes, P.E., has joined the firm as Office Executive - Dallas. In this role, Sipes will lead a multidisciplinary team in executing client projects and expanding the firm's business with new clients, markets, and capabilities in Dallas, as well as across North Texas and the Southern Region.

"Jason brings more than 25 years of experience in alternative project delivery, including Design-Build and Public-Private Partnerships, tolling and program management in all phases of highway and bridge infrastructure projects," said Tommy Montgomery, Southern Regional Director at Michael Baker International. "I am confident his diverse experience will help drive growth in the Dallas area and beyond as he leads our impressive team of bridge, highway, planning, aviation, water, and construction services experts."

Sipes most recently served as Senior Project Director at Atkins, where he was responsible for providing a variety of consulting services to the firm's public and private sector toll and transportation clients, particularly in the areas of all-electronic tolling, managed lanes, customer service centers, and capital/operational expenditures technical analysis. He previously spent 15 years at Cintra US in various roles, including Operations Director, where he managed and provided operational and technical support for all of Cintra's Project Development and Concession Operations in North America and Australia. He also spent six years as Chief Operating Officer of Cintra's LBJ Infrastructure Group and three years as a Design and Construction Technical Manager.

Sipes holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Engineering in construction engineering and management from Purdue University.