Dale Doughty, Acting Commissioner
Dale Doughty is a Maine Certified Geologist who began his career working for geotechnical and geological engineering firms. He first joined MaineDOT in 1996. Over the next 22 years, Dale held a variety of roles in the Office of Environment and Bureau of Planning, Region 4 Manager eventually serving as the Director of the Bureau of Maintenance and Operations.
In 2018, Dale left MaineDOT to serve as the Public Works Director and then Deputy City Administrator in the City of Lewiston. He returned to MaineDOT in 2021as the Director of the Bureau of Planning and in March of 2024, he was appointed as Deputy Commissioner.
A lifelong Mainer, Dale holds a bachelor’s degree in Geology and Chemistry from the University of Maine at Farmington and did graduate work at the University of West Virginia. He and his wife Pam live on a small farm in Pittston. They have two adult daughters, one living in Central Maine and the other in North Carolina.
Karen Stewart, Administrative Assistant
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Joyce Noel Taylor, P.E., Deputy Commissioner
Joyce Taylor currently serves as the Acting Deputy Commissioner for the Maine Department of Transportation. Since joining the department in 1999, she has risen through the ranks, holding several key leadership positions. Deputy Commissioner Taylor began her career in the Construction Division as its environmental engineer and held various positions, including Bureau Director of Project Development and Chief Engineer in 2013. In 2025, she was appointed as Acting Deputy Commissioner. Throughout her career, she has played a central role in various high-profile department projects, most recently heading the Sarah Mildred Long project between Maine and New Hampshire.
Joyce Noel Taylor was the inaugural president of Maine’s newly established chapter of Women in Transportation and continues to be a strong advocate for advancing women in the transportation field. She currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Council on Highways and Streets for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and as Co-Chair of the Climate Council’s Transportation Working Group. She has also served on the Maine Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers.
She graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1986 with a BS in Chemical Engineering.
Karen Stewart, Administrative Assistant
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Andrew Bickmore, P.E., Chief Operating Officer
Andy is a 1993 graduate of the University of Maine with a degree in Civil Engineering. Andy began his engineering career with New York State DOT serving as a highway design engineer from 1993-1997.
In 1997 Andy returned to Maine and started his career at MaineDOT. Over the course of more than 28 years at MaineDOT he has contributed to numerous areas within the organization, including Safety Management, Mobility Management, Maintenance and Operations as a Division Traffic Engineer, Asset Inventory and Mapping, Dashboard Development, and the Results and Information Office. For the past 10 years, he has served as Director of the Results and Information Office.
Tasha Vye, Administrative Assistant
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William Pulver, P.E., Chief Engineer
Prior to becoming MaineDOT’s Chief Operating Officer in September 2018, Bill served as Director of Project Development and Deputy Chief Engineer beginning in 2013. His primary responsibilities were overseeing the management and delivery of MaineDOT’s statewide capital improvement program consisting of hundreds of highway, bridge, traffic and multimodal construction projects each year. Bill’s internal focus has included streamlining, innovative contracting, accelerating project delivery and establishing and measuring program delivery objectives and performance goals.
Bill is in the 34th year of his career with MaineDOT, which began as a materials quality assurance inspector while he attended the University of Maine. Since that time, he has worked in a variety of areas and capacities throughout the department including: Assistant Director of Project Development, Director of the Property Office, Program Management in the Multimodal and Bridge Programs, Construction, Research and Development, Pavement Management, Capital Resource Management and Management Systems Development.
He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from the University of Maine and is a licensed Professional Engineer. Bill lives in the town of Vassalboro with his wife Theresa. Their two sons, Ryan and Jeff, are engineering graduates and are working in Maine.
Tasha Vye, Administrative Assistant
Phone: 207-624-3011
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