2017 TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONAL
CERTIFICATION BOARD INC.
Board of Directors
Michael K. Park, P.E., PTOE
Kenneth W. Ackeret, Ph.D., P.E., PTOE
Discipline Director, Chair
Discipline Director, Immediate Past Chair
Michael K. Park, P.E., PTOE is the city traffic
engineer for the City of Lee’s Summit, MO,
USA. He has been with the city of Lee’s
Summit for 10 years and spent the previous 7
years as a traffic engineering and transportation planning consultant. Michael was
instrumental in the development of Lee’s
Summit’s Livable Streets policy and manages
the city’s transportation system. He holds a bachelor of science in
civil engineering from the University of Missouri. He is a member
of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and American Public
Works Association. He is currently the chair and discipline director
of the Transportation Professional Certification Board.
Kenneth (Ken) W. Ackeret, P.E., Ph.D., PTOE
is an Institute of Transportation Engineers
(ITE) Fellow with more than 35 years of
experience in the field of transportation
engineering and planning. He is a principal
with Kimley-Horn and Associates, working
in their Las Vegas, NV, USA office. He has
served in variety of management capacities
throughout his career. His experience and expertise with major
hotel and casino developments, retail centers, arterial streets,
shared use parking guidelines, and master planned communities
has helped to enable significant and positive growth in Southern
Nevada. Ken is a recognized expert in casino planning and an
author of key ITE Journal publications for hotel and casino trip
generation. He has been a Nevada resident since 1978 and has
worked on dozens of developments through the state including
many along the Las Vegas strip. From 2009 to 2011 he provided
his service as an ITE International Director for the Western
District. Ken is currently serving as immediate past chair of the
Transportation Professional Certification Board and discipline
director. He is an ITE 2017 International Vice President candidate.
Diane W. Morabito, P.E., PTOE
Discipline Director, Vice Chair
Diane W. Morabito, P.E., PTOE is president of
Maine Traffic Resources. She is responsible
for the technical and administrative management of the firm’s transportation projects,
including traffic and parking studies. She has
more than 30 years of experience and has
performed hundreds of traffic impact studies,
as well as downtown studies, corridor
studies, and parking studies. In addition, she has experience in
highway, intersection and traffic signal design. She has provided
review services to numerous Maine municipalities and has
significant public sector work experience. Diane has a bachelor of
science and master of science in civil engineering from the
University of Massachusetts—Amherst. She currently serves as
vice chair of the Transportation Professional Certification Board.
Diane is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
Gordon E. Meth, P.E., PTP, PTOE
Organizational Director (PTP)
Gordon E. Meth, P.E., PTP, PTOE is director of
traffic engineering at NV5, managing projects
and staff in New Jersey. He serves as the traffic
engineer for land-use boards in 20 municipalities in New Jersey. Gordon holds a master of
business administration from Montclair State
University in NJ, USA, and a master and
bachelor of applied science in civil engineering
from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He currently
serves as organizational director (PTP) of the Transportation
Professional Certification Board. Gordon is a member of the
Institute of Transportation Engineers and is presently the Northeastern District Chair.
Robert E. Bollinger, P.E., PTOE
Organizational Director (National or State)
Robert (Bob) E. Bollinger, P.E., PTOE is a traffic
operations engineer at New Hampshire
Department of Transportation. He leads the
Traffic Research group, which is primarily
responsible for overseeing/administering the
New Hampshire Traffic Monitoring Program;
providing in-house traffic analyses; and reviewing traffic impact and access studies as part of
the NHDOT Driveway Permit Process. Bob’s previous experience in
the private sector included work for consulting firms Vanasse and
Associates and Stephen G. Pernaw & Company, Inc., as well as his
own firm, Robert E. Bollinger Engineering, PLLC, focusing on traffic
analysis for private site development. He is an active member of the
New Hampshire Chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, where he served two terms as President. He currently serves
as organizational director (national or state) of the Transportation
Professional Certification Board. Bob holds a bachelor of arts from
St. Anselm College and a bachelor of science in civil engineering
from the University of Massachusetts—Lowell.
Alfred A. Guebert, P.Eng, PTOE
Organizational Director (Canada)
Alfred (Alf) A. Guebert, P.Eng, PTOE is
manager of the Transportation Division at Watt
Consulting Group, responsible for driving
business development as well as mentoring and
leading the transportation team. With more
than 36 years of experience in traffic engineering and transportation planning, he has
provided planning and design of key transportation infrastructure projects for municipalities throughout Western
Canada. Alf earned a master of science in civil engineering (transportation) and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from
the University of Saskatchewan. In 2012, he received the H. Robert
Burton Distinguished Service Award for service to the transportation profession in Canada. He is a Past International President of the
Institute of Transportation Engineers. Alf currently serves as
organizational director (Canada) of the Transportation Professional
Certification Board.
Dennis Randolph, P.E., PTOE, PTP, ENV SP
Organizational Director–Local Government
Dennis Randolph, P.E., PTOE, PTP is an
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Fellow and Life member with more than 44
years of experience in transportation engineering. Having worked for a variety of agencies in
Michigan and Virginia, he currently is the
director of public works for the City of
Grandview, MO, USA. He also has experience
with several private firms including Transcore and Goodell-Grivas.
He serves as an adjunct instructor at the University of Missouri—
Kansas City and has 25 years of classroom instruction experience.
He has been recognized as Urban County Engineer of the Year by the
County Road Association of Michigan and has authored key
American Public Works Association (APWA) publications such as
PROJECT DELIVERY – A Guidebook for Public Works Officials.
He has a bachelor of science and master of science in civil engineering from Wayne State University and a master of public administration from Western Michigan. He is a Public Works Leadership
Fellow (APWA) and an EnvisionTM Sustainability Professional (ENV
SP). He currently serves as organizational director–local government
for the Transportation Professional Certification Board.
Jennifer A. Rosales, P.E., T.E., PTOE
Discipline Director
Jennifer Rosales is a senior transportation engineer at the City of San Clemente, California, USA. She has more than 20 years of extensive experience in traffic engineering, transportation planning, and public transportation. Jennifer specializes in developing multimodal transportation design solutions that improve traffic flow, transit accessibility, and enhance corridors for all modes including walking, cycling, and transit to enrich quality of life and advance economic prosperity. Jennifer is a registered professional engineer and holds a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Oregon State University. She is a Fellow of ITE and has served as ITE Western District International Director, ITE Western District President, Oregon Section President, Student Chapter President at Oregon State University, and past chair of ITE’s Standing Committee on Ethics. John McFadden, Ph.D., P.E., PTOE
Discipline Director
John McFadden, Ph.D., P.E., PTOE works as a
safety and geometric design engineer for the
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Resource Center Safety and Design Technical
Service Team. Primary duties of this position
include delivering technical expertise in
support of FHWA Division offices and state
departments of transportation. Prior to joining
FHWA in 2001, he served as an assistant professor in civil and
environmental engineering at the University of Alabama, specializing in the interaction of geometric design of highways, traffic
operations, and safety. John received his doctorate of philosophy in
civil engineering with a minor in statistics from The Pennsylvania
State University. He received a bachelor and master of science in civil
engineering from Villanova University. John currently serves as
discipline director of the Transportation Professional
Certification Board.
Lloyd Brown
Timothy P. Harpst, P.E., PTOE
Public Agency Director
Organizational Director
Lloyd Brown is the director of communications
for the American Association of State Highway
and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). He is
responsible for all facets of agency communications including strategic messaging, crisis
communication, agency branding, and website
administration. Before joining AASHTO in
August 2010, Lloyd served as the Washington
State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) communication
director, overseeing the administration of WSDOT’s public information and involvement activities throughout Washington. Under
Lloyd’s leadership, WSDOT was recognized as a national leader in
the development and implementation of social media tools,
redefining the agency’s relationship with the public. In 2005, Lloyd
was among a handful of communications experts who responded to
a federal government request to assist with post-Hurricane Katrina
Recovery, spending two weeks supporting FEMA external affairs at
the joint regional headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He
currently serves as public agency director of the Transportation
Professional Certification Board. He earned a bachelor of arts in
communications from Washington State University and a master of
arts in communications and leadership from Gonzaga University in
Spokane, WA.
Timothy P. Harpst, P.E., PTOE is a Senior
Traffic Engineer for Horrocks Engineers in Salt
Lake City, UT, USA. He was the transportation
director for Salt Lake City from 1987 to 2012,
having worked for the City for 33 years. Prior
to that he worked at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. He has a master of
science in civil engineering from Virginia Tech
and a bachelor of science in civil engineering from Penn State. He
currently is serving as a Transportation Certification Board
organizational director following his term as chair. Tim has served
in nearly every leadership role within the Institute of Transportation
Engineers leading up to being its International President in 2005. He
also serves as an instructor for the Northwestern University Center
for Public Safety.
Earl E. Newman, P.E., PTOE, PTP, PWLF
Discipline Director
Earl E. Newman, P.E., PTOE, PTP, PWLF is the
owner and principal of Earl Newman Associates providing Transportation Engineering,
Planning, and Expert Witness Services. As the
assistant director of public works/traffic
engineering for the City of Springfield, MO,
USA from 1998 to 2010, he assisted the
director of public works and served as head of
the traffic engineering division. From 1974 to 1992, he served as
Springfield’s city traffic engineer. Earl was responsible for the
planning, design, installation, regulation, operation and maintenance of traffic control devices. His private sector experience
includes traffic engineering and transportation planning for the
consulting firms HNTB, Wilbur Smith & Associates, George Butler
Associates, and CJW, LLC. Earl obtained his bachelor of science in
civil engineering from the University of Missouri at Columbia and a
master’s degree in civil engineering from Pennsylvania State
University. From 2011 to present, he teaches transportation
engineering as an adjunct professor for Missouri Science and
Technology. He is a Past International President of the Institute of
Transportation Engineers. Earl currently serves as discipline director
of the Transportation Professional Certification Board.
Jeffrey F. Paniati, P.E.
Executive Director and CEO
Jeffrey (Jeff) F. Paniati, P.E. is the executive
director and CEO of the Transportation
Professional Certification Board Inc. and the
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).
Prior to joining ITE in October 2015, Jeff had a
32-year career with the Federal Highway
Administration, including serving as executive
director from 2008–2015. As executive director
he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the agency,
overseeing 2,900 transportation professionals and a $400 million
operating budget. He assisted the FHWA Administrator on establishing programs, policies, and priorities for the $40 billion annual
federal-aid highway program. Under Jeff ’s leadership, FHWA was
recognized as a Best Place to Work by the Partnership for Public
Service. Previously, Jeff held senior leadership positions with FHWA
in the areas of system management and operations, intelligent
transportation systems, and highway safety.
Jeff has received numerous honor awards, including the prestigious Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. He
has been inducted into the University of Connecticut Academy of
Distinguished Engineers and the ITS America Hall of Fame. He
has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of
Connecticut and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the
University of Maryland. Jeff is a Fellow of ITE and a registered professional engineer.