Jeff Riegner is vice president of Whitman, Requardt & Associates and manager of the firm’s Wilmington, Delaware office. His passion is transforming our communities by making smart transportation choices. Jeff is a professional engineer and certified planner with 25 years of transportation and land use consulting experience, mostly for public-sector clients. He serves a workshop instructor for the National Complete Streets Coalition and is past chair of both the Institute of Transportation Engineers Pedestrian and Bicycle Council and the Newark, Delaware Bicycle Committee. Jeff holds degrees from the University of Delaware and the University of California at Berkeley.

Dan Goldfarb, PE, has worked in the transportation field for over two decades, both in the United States and abroad. He has experience in multimodal analysis and transportation modeling for planning applications, transportation demand management, as well as traffic operational analysis. He started his career at COMSIS Corporation in the early 1990’s, worked overseas for Uribitran Associates out of their New York City office, and then returned to the Washington, DC area in early 2000’s, working for BMI/VHB and then Cambridge Systematics. In 2012, Dan rejoined VHB where he currently leads their transportation planning practice in the DC region.

Dan’s service as a member of the Washington DC Section Institute of Transportation Engineers (WDCSITE) Board of Directors started in 2008 where he served two years as the Washington Area Director. Following that tenure, in 2010 he served as the section’s Secretary/Treasurer, in 2011 became the Vice-President and in 2012 was the section President. For the 2011 Mid-Colonial District Annual Technical Meeting, Dan led development of the technical program. He also played a role in the planning committee for the 2008 Joint District Meeting with District I and District II in Atlantic City, NJ. In 2009 he served on the committee to select candidates for the District’s International Director. Dan has presented at International, District and Section ITE meetings on topics that have included both transportation planning and traffic engineering subjects. Dan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Florida, a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park, and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech.

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.