My name is Tony Locicero. Transit consulting is my game. My work involves the design, manufacture, and inspection of buses, and facilities to house them. I also evaluate transit fleets in the field and do maintenance shop supervision and training.
I’ve lived near Houston, TX since 1981. I have spent the last fifteen years working transit related contracts nationwide.
I moved south to Houston from Rochester, New York, then home to Kodak, Xerox, Bausch and Lomb, Rochester Products, Delco (now Delphi), and thousands of other high technology companies such as Dawning Technologies. Manufacturing, in the Northeast, is declining rapidly due to export of technology and jobs to China, and the exodus of businesses to the US south, and west, this to gain more favorable weather, operating costs, and taxes.
The central Finger lakes region of New York State is really beautiful. Weather is nice in summer, spring, and fall but winter leaves a lot to be desired. Ever been in a 100 inch snow storm, level fall, not the drifts?!! How about -10F to -50F WITHOUT the wind-chill? Well? Gorgeous area but I bet you can guess why I moved south!! Not as pretty in Houston, no mountains, beautiful lakes, gorges or waterfalls but temperature is usually warm.
Oddly, due to my work , as a transit consultant, I spend most of my time working in places like Manitoba Canada, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and New York in winter and often get back home to Houston in August!! Talk about snow birds in reverse! I have also worked in California, Alabama, North Carolina, Maryland, Missouri, Arizona, Virginia, and Florida. And I’ve traveled all of the intervening states! (See a few of my Projects here)
Only freezes rarely here in Houston so don’t have to move the more sensitive plants to the porch very often.
Nice as it is, I’m looking around for place a bit more country or at least smaller than Houston’s 100 mile sprawl. Maybe will have to put up with some winter weather to get cooler summers; the Northwest or maybe somewhere in that band stretching from Arkansas to Tennessee and up through Virginia but avoiding the area in the middle. Then again, might just go fish Florida eventually!!
Did you know 
that one of the worst earthquake faults in the country, called the New Madrid Fault, lies under this middle area along the Mississippi? It encompasses an area north to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio; south to mid-Arkansas; east about a third of Tennessee and Kentucky; and west across half of Missouri and Arkansas and even a piece of Iowa? That this area is due for a big shake in the near future that will be much more devastating than the big California quakes? In 1811, one quake in the area was so powerful that it reversed the flow of the Mississippi for a time and actually rang church bells in Boston?!! Places like Memphis and Saint Louis are situated right on top of this fault. Damage could be massive and touch more Americans than any other event in our history; possibly many millions of people.
I work for Parsons Brinckerhoff but if you see something that might interest me, I’m is always open to a good offer. PB is the big 125+ year old engineering firm that built the original NYC subway system. Since that time, PB has designed and built a vast number of other infrastructure items like transportation systems, bus and rail, facilities, bridges, tunnels, highways, power plants. Odds are that you have probably used a product we designed and built without knowing who created it. You may even use it daily.
Many of my contracts last for 6-12 months or more. I travel with a full compliment of computers and all accessories including a 27″ iMac, multiple digital cameras, e-book readers, Tivo, Bose sound, cell phones, a full office, a full kitchen, clothes for the changing seasons, lots of books, and many other comforts!
I enjoy travel, gardening, fishing, camping, good books, computing and programming, cooking, tinkering, painting and photography..
See Tony’s resume here: RESUME or on the resume tab of this blog. You may reach me at TonyL@tonyl.com or tolo02@gmail.com I have a few websites. One is www.tonyl.com.
I hope that you enjoy the blog. I’ll try to share a little information that might be of interest.
If you have any questions, or suggestions, feel free to send me an e-mail. I use Firefox, IE, Opera, Chrome and Safari. I also have access to Net-meeting, Google talk, and all of the Instant Messengers if you want a face to face. Add into that Facebook, LinkedIn, and others, and I am well connected.
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