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Age: 35
Employer: Jacobs
Hometown:
Los Angeles, CA
Alma Mater: Stanford
University
Tayvin Saks, P.E.
Airport Program Manager, Jacobs
Tayvin Saks is an airport consultant for the Southern
California region at Jacobs Engineering Group. He has
extensive experience in various aspects of aviation
including engineering, management consulting, planning,
design, construction, project management and
business administration.
" I want to make our airports a pleasant, stress-free experience, "
he said. " I want the airport to be a place that
everyone gets excited about and enjoys going to. I want
the airport to be integral to our lives, something that we
treat as an extension of our home and community. They
say airports are the front doors to cities, so I think it makes
sense that we treat it as part of our home. "
Saks serves as the project management business administrator
for Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA). Saks
leads a team of 28 Small and Local
Business Enterprises (SBE/LBEs) on a
seven-year Jacobs prime contract with
LAWA to provide project/construction
management services to support
LAWA's Landside Access Modernization
Program, its Airline/Tenant Improvement Program
and its Capital Improvement Program at LAX.
Saks served as co-chair of the Jacobs Aviation Emerging
Leaders Group, which includes more than 100 Jacobs
employees who are passionate about aviation. The group
provides a forum for Young Professionals to interact and
learn from each other as well as participate in guest
speaking events and conferences.
Outside his work at Jacobs, Saks volunteers in several
aviation-related organizations: He currently serves as
board member and president-elect of the Asian American
Architects and Engineers Association (AAa/e). AAa/e was
founded to help Asian American businesses penetrate
the architectural and engineering community in Southern
California.
Saks is also active in the Airport Consultants Council
(ACC), where he participates on the Young Professionals
Forum.
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Age: 28
Employer:RS&H, Inc.
Hometown:
Woodstock, IL
Alma Mater: Texas
A&M University
Rikki Scantlan, ENV SP
Environmental Specialist, RS&H, Inc.
Rikki Scantlan spent the last five years as an aviation
planner and an environment specialist at RS&H. She
began her career in aviation planning where she had
direct experience preparing airport master plans and
airport layout plans for numerous airports nationwide.
Within RS&H's Environmental Stewardship and Resiliency
group, Scantlan worked to demonstrate the benefits of
environmental compliance, sustainability management
and resilience planning services to airports nationwide
from small non-hubs to large international hubs.
" Airports are hubs for innovation. I've seen some awesome
ways that aviation has advanced in sustainability, "
she said. " One of my favorite things about being a sustainability-focused
aviation consultant is helping come up
with those solutions to meet their airports' goals in terms
of development and operations in a way that reduces their
impact on the environment and also on the communities
where they live. "
She demonstrates leadership in aviation sustainability
rating systems building on her Envision Sustainability
Professional (ENV SP) credential from the Institute for Sus52
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tainable Infrastructure's Envision Framework to expand
the understanding of the value of Envision to airports
as well as helping develop a programmatic approach to
Envision for airports with multiple development projects
or programs.
As an ENV SP, Scantlan led and assisted in the preparation
of several Envision verification packages, resulting in
significant sustainability improvements for airport infrastructure
projects and is providing training and guidance
to airport staff on the programmatic approach to Envision.
She also was a critical participant in one of the first airport
climate change resilience and initial action plans for a
highly vulnerable coastal airport in the U.S.
She recently relocated to Indianapolis to support RS&H's
growth in the Midwest and to provide sustainability
consulting to the Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA).
She plays a key role on the team supporting IAA in the
development of the first Airport Sustainability Management
Plan that incorporates both climate and non-climate
related resilience.
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