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ANDREW HARTE
P.Eng.
City of Residence Ottawa, Ontario Current Employment CGH Transportation Inc., Director / Senior Transportation Engineer Education Carleton University, Bachelor of Civil Engineering: Concentration in Management, 2009 What positions have you taken on as a member of ITE? • National Capital Section Executive (2013-2016) as Treasurer, Vice President, President, and Past President • Co-Chair of 2019 Annual Conference Local Arrangements Committee (2017-2019) First job in transportation Traffic and Transportation Planning EIT, Genivar Personal hobbies Softball, home brew cider, bar trivia, camping, skiing CITE INVOLVEMENT When did you first attend a CITE event? I participated in the Student Paper Competition as part of my 4th year project in 2009 and attended a National Capital Section luncheon to network for my first job. What is your CITE involvement (past and present)? My involvement really began when the National Capital Section Executive had a few members move on and needed a whole new executive in 2013. We updated a lot of things including automating the mailing list and online ticket services for events to increase participation and we won the Delta Award in 2014 as a result. After the local Section executive, I helped kick off the 2019 LAC for the Ottawa conference and was Co-Chair of the conference. GETTING TO KNOW YOU What is your favourite mode of transportation? Given my recent trip to Darien Lake, I want to say rollercoasters. In all seriousness, I do not really have one. Luckily, I live centrally in Ottawa and am able to bike and walk to most places fairly easily.
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TRANSPORTATION TALK | SUMMER 2019
What is the last book that you read or are currently reading? Normally, I read from a randomized 10,000 book list on my Kindle so I never really know what book I am reading. The last physical book I read was the Noma Guide to Fermentation. What attracted you to the transportation profession? Did you have another career in mind? I was originally planning on taking biology and getting into a zoologist career. One bad grade 12 biology class and I wasn’t sure if that’s where I should go. I ended up applying for engineering to have a lot of options after university. Some fun transportation classes, a first job with great projects and managers, and I was hooked. PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS & PERSPECTIVES How would you describe your job to someone you just met at a party? I keep it simple with “I am a traffic engineer who works with developers”, maybe adding some of the projects I am working on currently or in the past that they may relate too. What is one aspect of your work that you particularly enjoy? I enjoy the jack-of-all trades aspect of my work. When working from high level community planning right down to the grading of a pathway, having a knowledge base outside