Wayne Galante is a Principal Management Consultant taking on various assignments to advance client performance, ZPro growth and new business opportunities. He has been involved with the public transit industry for over 35 years.  His background work experiences include 31 years at the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority where he progressed up through various positions to take on key roles in both the bus and subways divisions.  His work background experiences cover a wide array of subjects such as running maintenance/inspection protocols, facility field inspections, reliability improvement, safety, training, and business process improvement. Wayne is hands-on and takes a pragmatic approach to resolving client challenges.  He is comfortable engaging tasks on the shop floor, at customer-client points of contact, as well as with all levels of management and represented labor.  Most recently he has been with Jacobs Civil Consultants working with clients such as NY MTA NYCT, Port Authority NY NJ, and the MBTA.

Wayne graduated from Pace University with a Bachelor of Business Administration and MBA in Financial Management. He was a member of the turnaround team that transformed the New York City Transit Authority subway car Mean Distance Between Failure performance, heavy and running subway car maintenance/inspection operations, emergency response – subway repair field test/validation protocols, and accident investigations. He played a key role creating and being appointed as NYCT’s first Director of Association of American Railroads (AAR) in the Department of Subways Car Maintenance Division. His work with bus operations covered many areas, including system safety, accident investigations, co-chair of the joint labor-management Bus Operator Action Committee, probationary Bus Operator development program, chair of the NYCT Bus Operations Security Committee post 9/11, and random drug & alcohol testing management among others.  Additionally, Wayne had taken on leadership positions with initiatives spanning across the NY MTA in the areas of environmental management and training. Since February 2019, until joining our team Wayne has been employed with Jacobs Civil Consultants working most recently with their battery electric bus and zero emissions team to fast-track the introduction of carbon reduction programs into bus facilities and bus operations.

In his spare time, Wayne enjoys vegetable gardening and time with family.