John Shanyi Chow, Vice President, has been with WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff since 1982 and is a project manager for transportation/transit planning, environmental, economic analyses, and resilience projects. John founded the Network publication in 1986 as a way to share ideas and “network” among technical professionals. He helped create the firm’s Practice Area Networks (Communities of Practice) in 1994, and he managed the operations of the professional development program for almost 20 years.