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FDOT District One acknowledged Rickey Matthews for his continued hard work and dedication to the Arterials group and named him TSM&O Employee of the Month! This is a pool of 50+ FDOT employees and consultants of varying ages and experience levels, so this is quite an accomplishment. The FDOT’s acknowledgement read: Rickey has taken on many complex tasks and continues to provide timely results. This past month alone Rickey has either overseen or completed the following tasks:
 • 8 Signal Modifications
 • Backplate safety and signal head refresh for:
   o Manatee
   o Polk
   o Collier
   o Lee
   o Bradenton
 • SR72 and Ibis Design/Build Pushbutton Ped Features Assistance
 • US41 and Olympia/Marion Ped Crossings
 • US27 and Francisco Mast Arm Repair/Replacement
 • Coordinated training for eStorm application
 • US301 and Fort Hamer Safety Louvers
 • US98 Lakeland Traffic Analysis for PM
 • I-4 and SR557 MOT Adjustments
 • 4 APS Requests
 • And the list goes on with several ongoing projects…

Rickey continues to produce despite staffing shortages and vacancies. He always has safety in mind and clearly strives to the most he can every day to assist District One.

I-95 Express 3B-1 has been selected as the outstanding Design/Build Project by ACEC Florida and FDOT. This $102 million project will extend High Occupancy Toll lanes from south of SW 10th Street to south of Glades Road in Broward and Palm Beach counties. The scope of work included widening and converting the existing I-95 HOV Lanes to Managed Lanes which will result in two tolled Express Lanes in each direction. Art Tester prepared the ramp signaling system plans for this project. This was a highly technical effort to design a state-of-the art system on a very complicated roadway project. Congratulations Art!!

On November 9, 2020, VIBEngineering, Inc. employees volunteered at the Feeding Tampa Bay warehouse in Tampa, FL as part of the Tampa Bay ITE volunteer effort. Our staff donated time to help organize several non-perishable items donated to the Feeding Tampa Bay organization.

VIBE is excited to welcome Phuc H. Duong, PE. Phuc joins the team as a Senior Traffic/ITS Engineer with over 22 years of professional engineering experience.

His varied experience includes proven leadership in designing and producing Intelligent Transportations Systems, traffic plans, and transportation studies for a wide range of projects, including, ITS design, Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) design, highway lighting design, traffic operations studies, access management studies, and signal system studies and designs.

Phuc has successfully completed projects in FDOT Districts One, Four, Five, Six, Seven, and Eight, as well as for many local jurisdictions. For the last two years, he has provided in-house support to District Seven’s TSM&O department.

Phuc has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from University of South Florida. Phuc is a member of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and International Municipal Signal Association (IMSA).

Congratulations to VIBEngineering, Inc. (VIBE), for their recognition in the USF Fast 56 Awards Class of 2019. At the April 26 ceremony, VIBE was recognized as the second place winner for the second year in a row. This awards program identifies, recognizes and celebrates the world’s 56 fastest growing USF Bull-owned or Bull-led businesses. VIBE has been a multi-year recipient of this award. Go Bulls!

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Each year, the University of South Florida (USF) Alumni Association recognizes and celebrates the 56 fastest-growing USF Bull-owned or Bull-led businesses in the world. The USF Fast 56 Awards ceremony not only celebrates the success of these businesses, it also provides a forum to pass on lessons to the next generation of Bull entrepreneurs.

Congratulations to Sara and Jay Calhoun and their company, VIBEngineering, Inc. (VIBE), for their recognition in placing second in the USF Fast 56 Awards Class of 2018 on Friday, April 27. This is the second year VIBE placed in the top ten for this prestigious award. VIBE placed sixth in the Class of 2017.

Every year nominated companies are ranked by percentage of cumulative annual growth in revenue for the three most recent fiscal years. To be considered for the USF Fast 56 Awards Program, an organization must have been in business for at least 3 years, have revenues of at least $100,000 for the first 2 years, with $250,000 or more for the third year, and be owned or led by a USF Alumni. All three criteria must be met in order to be considered.

Prior to the awards ceremony, the winners knew they made the USF Fast 56 Awards, but they didn’t know the order from 1 to 56 of where they ranked. After the commencement of the ceremony, those firms which ranked from 26 to 56 were called to the stage alphabetically to receive their awards. Next, the companies which ranked from 11 to 25 were recognized. Then all the top 10 companies were called to the stage and recognized in a countdown order. No one was more surprised than Sara and Jay as they stood on the stage as one of the top 10 companies. Next, the winners from 10th through 3rd place were announced. Finally, and with much anticipation, VIBE was announced as the second fastest-growing Bull-owned business in the world for 2018!

Congratulations to the entire VIBE Team on this amazing award!