Mr. Derek Franz is an Engineering Manager at Parsons with 22 years of experience in civil and highway engineering, project management, and transportation infrastructure delivery. He has served as a project manager, deputy project manager, project engineer, and lead civil/highway engineer for major transportation agencies throughout the New York and New Jersey region.
Mr. Franz is a licensed Professional Engineer in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. His expertise includes highway and roadway design, maintenance and protection of traffic, work-zone staging, drainage and stormwater management, utility coordination, right-of-way engineering, constructability reviews, cost estimating, and post-design services.
He has extensive experience delivering complex roadway, bridge, transit, and tunnel projects through design-bid-build and design-build delivery methods. His recent assignments include serving as Project Engineer and Lead Civil Engineer for the Newark Bay-Hudson County Extension Improvements Program, Maintenance-of-Traffic Coordinator for the Hudson Tunnel Project, Maintenance-of-Traffic Task Manager for the I-81 Viaduct Project and Lead Civil Engineer for the rehabilitation of seven Grand Central Parkway bridges.
