In case you don’t know, Tom is bailing on us, please see below!
Crystal 
From: Tom Kolko
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:50 PM
To: CST-ALL
Subject: Thomas De La Portilla - Retirement
It is with mixed emotions that I announce the retirement of Tom De La Portilla. The date we have feared, yet anticipated for years, is August 31, 2013. He has served as a member of the CMISD branch for the past 11 years.
Tom began his career in 1985 with the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation. He was on the survey crew in the Corpus Christi Area Office. In 1998 he transferred to El Paso East Area Office, and in 1999 he moved to the Construction Division in Austin as mainframe support for construction contracts.
During his career with the department, Tom was instrumental in developing the majority of the department’s AASHTO SiteManager reports. These reports are used daily by District and Division staff to document, audit and analyze construction payments, change orders, material usage and testing, just to name a few. If it’s a construction-related report from the last 10 years, it is likely that Tom played a significant role in developing it. He also traveled the State training District staff to use the SiteManager software.
He was an active member of AASHTOWare’s Project Technical Review Team. He served four years as the Construction Management TAG coordinator for the Trans-port Users Group and recently as the vice-chair of the Project Users Group (PUG) Conference.
Tom plans to spend plenty of time with his wife, Diane, and his three children (Claire, Edward and Emily). Please join me in congratulating Tom on his outstanding TxDOT career and wishing him a long, happy and healthy retirement.
Also, please join us for a reception in his honor on Friday, August 30th at 2 PM in Conference Room 1A.1 in Building 200.
Drunk drivers wreck cars. And lives.
