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Cindy Quon was appointed to the position of District Director of the California Department of Transportation in District 12 in August 2001. District 12 encompasses the County of Orange.
Quon comes from the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) where she was the Department Manager of Project Development. In this capacity she planned, managed and directed a full range of transit and transportation capital improvement programs.
Prior to OCTA, Quon was the Division Chief for Program and Project Management for Caltrans in District 7, where she supervised a staff of 110 employees responsible for the timely delivery of capital transportation improvements in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
Prior to her position as Division Chief in District 7, Quon was in charge of the newly created Project Development: Contracts and Oversight Branch, which is responsible for all aspects of District 7's partnership role in specially funded state highway projects, including all projects that are not in the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), the seven-year master plan of projects. The goal of the branch was to make sure all special-funded projects conform to Caltrans' standards and practices for planning, design, right-of-way acquisition and construction. The branch also helps local agencies and developers navigate Caltrans and keep their projects on track. The branch is also responsible for all Architectural and Engineering contracts in the District.
Quon was born in Hong Kong and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978 and a Master's of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 1982, specializing in structure, from California State University, Los Angeles.
She was hired by Caltrans in August 1979, and worked two years in the Junior Civil Engineer rotation program. She later worked with Headquarters Division of Structures, was promoted to Assistant Civil Engineer with the Hydraulics Department, and then Associate Civil Engineer with Project Development Branch B, which was responsible for designing transportation improvements in Orange County.
Quon was promoted to Senior Civil Engineer in Project Development Branch C, and then to Branch Chief for Project Development: Contracts and Oversight.
In December 1992, her branch employed a streamlined contracting out process to deliver 10 High Occupancy Vehicle Lane Design contracts in just 10 weeks, when the process would normally take 6 to 10 months.
Quon lives in Arcadia with her husband, Frank Quon, Division Chief of Operations, and their son and daughter. | 