ITS Staff Spotlight: Orion V

December 16, 2025

 Orion V

Orion V, DRIVE AI/ITS Berkeley, Richmond Field Station 

What’s your hometown?
Cincinnati, Ohio

What is your role at ITS, describe your job in four words, and how long have you been here?
I am a Technical Operations Coordinator working at RFS on DRIVE AI and I have been with ITS
since June 2025. In four words, I am “helping to revitalize RFS”!

What is your favorite thing about working at ITS?
Being surrounded by people who are shaping the future of transportation technology.

Where’s your happy place, favorite bay area location?
Mount Tamalpais.

When you aren’t cheering the Bears on, who do you root for/what’s your alma mater?
Cal is my alma mater, but I also root for the Cincinnati Reds and Scuderia Ferrari in Formula 1.

What is on the top of your travel experience/destination list?
Visiting Germany and Switzerland.

What’s the latest book you read/latest show you binged/movie you watched/podcast you
listened to? 
I recently finished reading The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson.

What is your favorite food?
Pizza, of course.

If you could become a mode of transportation, what would you be?
High speed electric rail.

If you could meet anyone in the world, dead, alive, or fictional, who would it be?
Former President Barack Obama.

What’s your most treasured possession?
My grandfather’s acoustic guitar.

What is a fun fact about you?
I play 5 instruments.