Director B. Elizabeth E. Yap has more than 30 years of professional experience in the field of project monitoring, systems and procedures, systems development, information and communication technology (ICT) development and implementation, and information management (IM).  She is a Career Executive Service Officer IV (CESO IV). 

As the Director of MIS, Director Yap is responsible for managing the vast ICT resources of the Department.  At present, on concurrent capacity, she is the Component Manager of the Institutional Capacity Development (ICD) Component of the World Bank-assisted National Road Improvement and Management Program Phase 2 (NRIMP2) and the JICA-Road Upgrading and Preservation Project (RUPP).  ICD projects involve business process improvements, corporate effectiveness, sector reform, and training and workshops. 

From 1997 to 2007, Director Yap - also on concurrent capacity - was Deputy Project Director of the Road Information and Management Support System (RIMSS) Project, a World Bank assisted institutional development project aimed to improve the quality and delivery of DPWH services through enhanced procedures and technology using business process reengineering approach.  She was the co-team leader of the RIMSS Core Team, the group that advocates the reform efforts of the Department and sustains the ongoing development and implementation of business process improvements.  With the reconstitution of the DPWH Change Agents in 2009, she was designated as Team Leader and spearheaded the formation of Regional Change Agents in the DPWH 16 regional offices.

Since 2005, after earning her doctorate degree in Organization Development (OD), Director Yap became a part-time faculty at the Graduate School of the University of Regina Carmeli (URC) and at the Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Development Institute (SAIDI) where she serves as mentor for Organizations and Systems, Helping (Consulting) Relationships and Skills, and OD Values and Ethics.

Director Yap has attended various trainings here and abroad.  The trainings/seminars which she attended abroad include: Generating Business Value from IT: Leadership Challenges in a Digitized World (MIT, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2010); Executive Programme on Effective Negotiation in an Era of Rapid Change (Singapore, 2002); Current Issues in Managing Information Technology: IT Management in an e-Commerce World (MIT, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2000); Road and Information Management (London, England and Paris, France, 1999); Development of Computerized Asian Highway Database (Bangkok, Thailand, 1997); Eighth International Road Federation Executive Conference on Road Management (Arizona, U.S.A., 1994); Transport Modeling Interaction (Canberra, Australia, 1980); and, Database Management Systems (London, 1977).  As the DPWH representative to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Trns*port Users Group (TUG), she participated in the TUG Conference  in 2002 at Austin, Texas; in 2003 at Burlington, Vermont; in 2006 at Portland, Maine; and in 2008 at Saratoga Springs, New York.

She has presented in international conferences the following papers: “Implementing Trns*port in the Context of Philippines Reforms” (Vermont, USA, 2003) and “General Overview of the Development of Roads and Highways in the Philippines” (Singapore, 2003); and co-presented “Improving Roads Management: A Look At The Road Information and Management Support Systems (RIMSS)” and “IT-Enabled Reforms at the Philippines’ Department of Public Works and Highways” (Singapore, 2003 and 2004 respectively).

Director Yap earned her degree in Doctor of Philosophy in Organization Development from SAIDI – School of Organization Development in 2005 and her Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (BSIE) from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, in 1975.   Her dissertation research was on “OD in a Bureaucracy (OD Beginnings at the DPWH-MIS)”.

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