Leslie Ruta
Director of Planning, Port of Corpus Christi
Leslie Ruta is the Director of Planning at Port Corpus Christi. She joined the PCCA Accounting Department in 2015 as the Staff Accountant and was promoted to Revenue Accountant where she led the Revenue Team before moving to Planning in 2018.
Leslie and the Planning team lead organizational planning efforts and provide internal Port clients with strategic project coordination (including infrastructure planning, enterprise asset management, and grants management), market and operational data analysis, land-use analysis, geographic information system (GIS) and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) services. Leslie also provides support to the organization’s strategic planning efforts.
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Intelligent Infrastructure Economic Zones are the Business Model and Investment Foundation. Port officials who clearly understand the challenges and opportunities presented in IIEZ can significantly increase their operational effectiveness and financial revenue. IIEZs may be centered around ports and include: Resilient Electrical Grids (Edge sensors, switches, digital transformers, inverters); Broadband for All (Fiber, 5G, 6G, 7G, WiFi, Public Safety); Intelligent Transportation (Lidars, Radars, cameras, DSRC); Data Exchanges (Processing, Security, Privacy); Edge Computing (Sensor processing, Spatial Computing, environmental sensors, RF monitoring); Terrestrial GPS (UltraWideband, DGNSS, DT); 21st-Century Data Economy; and more.