Professional background

Current and recent

• Mentor, NC Section, Institute of Transportation Engineers.

• Member, Urban Land Institute (ULI), Triangle chapter.

• Professional Image award, NC Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

• Chair, Parish Finance Council, St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, serving a parish of approximately 16,000 members in Cary, N.C.

Previous

• Recipient of chair's award for Public-Private Partnership from the Chamber For a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro.

• Young Professional of the Year award of the NC Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

• Chair, Young Executives Forum of NC Citizens for Business and Industry (predecessor to the NC Chamber of Commerce).

• Founding member, MBA Alumni Board at North Carolina State University.

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I have master’s degrees in both management and civil engineering from North Carolina State University. The engineering research from my master's thesis at NC State on the impacts on traffic signal operations of pedestrians and bicycles was incorporated in the 2000 U.S. Highway Capacity Manual.

I have a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, with a minor in political science, from Pennsylvania State University. I was a University Scholar, as well as a Lion Ambassador, at Penn State.