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Meet the Committee With recent changes to its membership, the CITE Training Committee would like to introduce the team working hard to coordinate the development and delivery of new training opportunities for Canadian transportation professionals such as Intersections for Everyone (next session offered September 14 & 15) and the forthcoming Speed Management workshop.
Anna Snook, P.Eng., PTOE (Chair) Anna is a Transportation System Engineer for the City of St. John’s, Newfoundland. With experience working both in the private and public sector, she is excited by how much the industry has evolved in recent years. She feels that improving design practice and the need for innovative solutions to non-standard challenges reinforce the importance of continued learning and professional growth. With an interest in lifelong learning, she helped establish CITE’s Training Committee and is committed to its work to foster education opportunities for transportation professionals. Anna has lived in both western and eastern Canada and visited many places in between. You’re likely to find her out with her family hiking in the summer or skiing in the winter.
Maryam Tabeshian, M.Sc., P.Eng., PTOE (Vice-Chair) Maryam is a Transportation Engineer at WSP. She is a registered Professional Engineer in AB and BC and is a certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineer with ten years of experience in the field of traffic engineering and operations, traffic modelling and traffic simulation. Maryam has been a member of CITE since 2013 and is actively involved in the transportation engineering community, joining the CITE Training Committee in 2017. Maryam and her husband have recently moved from Calgary to Vancouver pursuing their next chapter of life. They both love hiking, skiing and travelling.
Mehemed Delibasic, M.Sc., P.Eng. (Past Chair) Mehemed is the Assistant VP of Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering at McIntosh Perry Consulting Engineers. He has over 22 years of comprehensive experience in the fields of transportation planning, transportation/traffic engineering, project and program management, and business development in the public and private sectors. Mehemed is a long-time advocate and volunteer in the engineering community and professional associations. He is past president of ITE Toronto Section and a founding member of the CITE Training Committee. Other/current professional service includes involvement with the TAC, OTC, ACEC Ontario, and OSPE. Mehemed’s significant volunteer contribution is providing mentorship and guidance to the new engineering graduates and internationally trained engineers through their professional licensure application and looking for the job opportunities in the engineering field.
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TRANSPORTATION TALK | SUMMER 2021
