Melody Matter, P.E., PTOE is a transportation engineer working for McCormick Taylor. Melody first became active in ITE while attending Penn State University. After graduating Penn State with her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering, she began her professional career as a traffic engineer. In her work, she quickly realized the benefits of being in a professional society and joined ITE in 2001. Melody was so impressed by the activities that the local Mid Atlantic Section of ITE (MASITE) sponsored she became more involved and in 2010 was voted onto the MASITE board. In her involvement with MASITE, she has planned various dinner meetings, lunch technical sessions, engineer’s week, happy hours, golf outings, Annual Meetings, served as membership chairperson and as a board member.

Melody realizes the positive impact that ITE can have both on your professional career and your personal life. Professionally, Melody has an extensive background in traffic operations and preliminary and final design that involves transportation planning analysis, traffic impact and highway access studies, context-sensitive solutions, environmental document preparation, analysis of transportation systems, traffic signal design, development of signing and pavement marking plans, and completing traffic control and detour plans.

Kate Russo, P.E., PTOE is a Senior Associate of Johnson Mirmiran and Thompson (JMT) and leads the Traffic Department in the Philadelphia office. Kate’s responsibilities include project management as well as providing conceptual, preliminary and final engineering design of signal plans, signing and pavement marking plans and traffic control plans for small and large projects in the region. She is familiar with all aspects of traffic engineering especially with performing complex traffic operational and alternatives analyses of large roadway networks. Lately, Kate has focused on multi-modal access and Complete Streets policy for projects such as Love Park / JFK Plaza, American Street Industrial Corridor and the Delaware River Trail project on Columbus Boulevard.

Kate began her involvement with ITE as an undergraduate member of the University of Delaware student chapter and continued that involvement in graduate school with the Virginia Student Transportation Association at the University of Virginia where I received my Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering. She served on the MASITE Board from 2009-2013 and has been involved with several MASITE and District Annual Meetings including the District 1 / 2 Joint Meeting in Atlantic City. She assists with the Eastern Area Committee and has helped coordinate student chapter activities. In addition to ITE, she has also been a mentor for WTS and assisted with developing a walking tour to educate the public about engineering feats in Philadelphia for the Engineer’s Club of Philadelphia in coordination with the Franklin Institute.

Jerry is a Vice President with JMT in Hunt Valley, MD.  He is a Traffic Engineer with over fifteen years of experience focusing on the design of Signing and Pavement Marking, Traffic Signals, ITS, Roadway Lighting and Maintenance of Traffic.  Jerry is a registered P.E. in Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC, and also has his PTOE certification.  He is a graduate of Syracuse University with a degree in Civil Engineering and hold a Masters of Business Administration from Loyola University Maryland.

Jerry has progressed through ascending leadership positions within ITE starting as WDCSITE Younger Member Committee Chair in 2009 and culminating as Section President in 2014.  Since being President, Jerry has served as the WDCSITE Representative to the Mid-Colonial District, on District and Section Nomination Committees and the Section Bylaw Review Committee.