career in the private sector working for parsons brinker hoff queen and douglass, working on neuman umerous large transit projects including [speaker not understood] and bart and other cities across the country. and he he also worked for the city of oakland as a traffic engineer. he came to the city back in 1982. this was back when traffic engineering was part of the department of public works. so, he he started in dpw as an engineer. that bureau of traffic engineering and dpw became the department of parking and traffic, lovingly known as dpt in 1990, and bob was there for the first day of operation of dpt. ~ bond he was extremely knowledgeable and professional and well known and respected throughout all of the city's parking and traffic issues, working on litigation matters, on policy matters, on community matters, and developed a significant level of respect throughout the city family not just within dpt and the transportation world, but really across the city for his expertise. he he also was not only working ~ significantly for the benefit of the city's transportation system, but also