eric sutoff. >> thank you, jeff. thank you, mr. chairman. members of the board. mark. tjpa in general for giving us the opportunity to come in and speak to you on the findings of our peer review. i'm the chief engineer for the mbta or the massachusetts bay transportation authority, where we operate about 1.3 million trips per day on our commute kerr rail, light rail, heavy rail, bus and ferry services in the greater boston metropolitan area. prior to being the chief engineer with the mbta for reference, i was the head of our engineering and maintenance division so that is the division that manages a workforce of about 850 employees and operating budget somewhere in the $150 million range for performing maintenance to our track signals, power facilities as well as purchasing our vehicless for revenue service on the authority and prior to that when i joined the mbta, it was as the number two for capital construction for the mbta, coming off a 13-year career as a bridge structural engineer for which i'm a registered professional engineer and structural engineering in brid