He is an accomplished Senior Executive, versatile and strategy-driven with comprehensive leadership experience in the Engineering & Construction industry. He has been recognized by Associated General Contractors of America and American Society of Civil Engineers for his industry level contributions. He obtained success on highly complex, and high profile National and International multibillion-dollar projects/programs; successfully led large, dispersed teams comprised of Architect/Engineering Firms, Contractors, State and Federal Agencies, NGOs, and Foreign Governments in a cost-effective manner and outcome.Currently, Principle of Rizzieri Consulting LLC. His wide spectrum of expertise allows him to provide Infrastructure Advisory Services for Federal & State Agencies, Owners, Contractors & Architect/Engineering Firms. Advisory services cover Design-Build and DBIA training, Infrastructure (including Water) & Facilities Acquisition Strategies; Project Delivery Strategies, P3 & Mega Programs planning & oversight framework; Partnering & Dispute Resolution Strategies; Sustainability and Climate Resilience of Infrastructure and Facilities to mitigate effects of Climate Change, and Renewable Energy. He is the Vice Chair of DBIA’s Federal Markets Committee.He retired from HQ US Army Corps of Engineers, as the Deputy Chief Engineering & Construction Division, who shared responsibility with the Chief of E&C for planning, programing, policy, and execution of USACE's worldwide E&C missions (over 17,000 professionals). E&C activities cover Civil Works & Military Programs for Army, Air Force, DOD agencies, Federal Agencies and Foreign Governments that exceeded $25B. He was the Executive Chair of USD(AT&L)'s Facility Engineering’s Functional Integrated Product Team for all of DOD. He has both responded to and gone before numerous Congressional Committee’s Professional Staff on inquires, as well as performed Congressional “drafting services” to assist them in creating new laws. Two of the “services” became new laws. He led the establishment of the technical acceptance policy and system to accept over $6B VA Medical Capital Program for USACE and the VA. He led the revision and re-issuance of USACE’s Partnering policy and worked with Associated General Contractors of America to help implement. While in USACE he held DAWIA Level III Certification in Contracting and Facilities Engineering Career Fields and Level II in Program Management. He was an Administrative Contracting Officer for 15 years on Firm Fixed Price, Cost Reimbursement and Time & Material construction & remediation contracts.He has received numerous awards, including the Army's Meritorious Civilian Service award from 2 Lieutenant Generals, Chief of Engineers.Education: Clarkson University, BS in Civil & Environmental Engineering; Florida Institute of Technology, MS in Management.

Raquel Ibarra, PE, DBIA is the president of IBARRA Consulting Engineers, Inc. For the past 24 years, she has provided and facilitated the mission, vision and strategic goals for IBARRA. Raquel has over 30 years experience in Horizontal infrastructure. Raquel has made IBARRA one of the leading Highway, Heavy Civil, Mass Transit, Rail, Aviation, Transportation, Highways, Municipal, and Public Works companies, specializing in Concession, Design-Build, P3, CDA, CMAR, and Program Management projects. Her company specializes in major Horizontal Infrastructure, in both public and private sectors, ranging from $1 million to $2.5+ billion. Ms. Ibarra was instrumental in securing IBARRA's $25 million TxDOT contract for the state's transportation procurements services for Alternative Delivery contracts (Concessions, DBMO, Design Built and P3) for state projects over $250 million. 

She has a strong civic sense and makes it her mission to stay involved in the community. She has a leadership role on a variety of Boards of Commissions related to public, private, transportation and entrepreneurship. Some of the Board of Directors she is a member of include DBIA SW Region and Transit Coalition of North Texas (TCNT). As part of her Board duties in TCNT she attends the state capital legislative sessions and hold reception for the congress and senators to promote DBIA public projects in Texas. She would like to continue to provide her expertise to DBIA in Horizontal Infrastructure and the major advancements that continue to develop in Horizontal spectrum of DBIA. Her knowledge of Horizontal infrastructure extends the gamete of planes, trains, automobiles and water/wastewater facilities. Ms. Ibarra holds a Bachelor's degree of Science in Architectural Engineering, specialized in Structural Engineering and Construction Management from the University of Texas as Austin. She is licensed as a Professional Engineer, certified DBIA professional and DBIA instructor by the Design-Build Institute of America. 

Jim is a former member of the Senior Executive Service with over 30 years of broad experience leading Federal organizations in the areas of law, procurement, budget, and design and construction programs. He served as a Deputy General Counsel, Senior Procurement Executive, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, and an Assistant Inspector General.  He is an advisor to the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) in matters involving curriculum and resource development, as well as serving as an instructor for several of their training courses.  He served on DBIA’s Universal Best Practices Subcommittee and led the Federal Sector Best Practices Working Group.  He is currently a member of DBIA’s Core Curriculum and Exam Update Committee. As Principal for ROPE Strategies, LLC, Jim provides advisory services in design-build integrated project delivery and serves as a facilitator for structured partnering workshops.