New Hire Announcement – Director of Design

Success starts with having the right people. Our people-focused culture empowers our staff and recognizes them as the greatest contributors. The CivTech team has goal-oriented professionals that are creators, leaders and pioneers. It comes as no surprise that we wrangled in our new Director of Design, Jay Yenerich! Jay is on the forefront of the Smart City movement and will aid clients to navigate this new and emerging technology. He is responsible for business development in the areas of traffic design, ITS, and transit.

Jay is a well-known figure in our industry with 23 years of experience. Jay comes to us from Valley Metro where he was instrumental as the Manager Capital Development. He is experienced on a wide variety of transit and highway projects participating in the planning, design and construction of projects. Jay led procurements and negotiated scope and fees for over $50 million of design and construction work. Additionally, his experience includes implementing transit signal priority, ITS design, fiber optic design, corridor and environmental impact studies, construction cost estimation, and intersection, roadway, and freeway interchange design.