ITE Journal January 2018 - 10

INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS
John A. Davis, P.E., PTOE, TSOS (F)

Kirsten Tynch, P.E., PTOE, LEED AP BD+C, ENV SP (F)

Midwestern District

Southern District

John Davis is the manager of traffic engineering
services for Ayres Associates Inc., which has offices
in Wisconsin, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, and
Wyoming, USA. He has more than 35 years of traffic
engineering experience in both private and public
practice. Besides his recent private sector experience, John spent more than 11 years serving as the
chief traffic engineer for Lee County, Florida and 10
years as a traffic engineering manager with the City of Indianapolis, Indiana,
USA. His current areas of interest are in traffic operations, traffic safety, and
urban traffic engineering. John is licensed as a professional engineer in eight
states, and is certified as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer and as a
Traffic Signal Operations Specialist. He is a graduate of Purdue University in
West Lafayette, Indiana and holds a bachelor of science and master of
science in civil engineering.
John joined ITE as a student member in 1981 and become an ITE fellow
in 1998. He has held active leadership roles at all levels of ITE starting in
1989 as editor of the HoosierITE, the newsletter for the Indiana Section. He
has previously served on ITE's International Board of Direction as District
10 Director from 2002 to 2004. John served as President of the Midwestern
District in 2009, as President of the Florida Section and District 10 in 1999,
as an officer in the Indiana Section from 1991 to 1993, and was a discipline
director of the Transportation Professional Certification Board in 2009
through 2014. He has served every section and district in which he has lived
and worked. John recently completed a three-year term as chair of the ITE
Traffic Engineering Council, and is presently serving as chair for the ITE
International Collegiate Traffic Bowl Committee, and as chair of the ITE
Constitutional Amendments Committee. John was the 2015 recipient of
ITE's Burton W. Marsh Award for Distinguished Service.
John and his family reside in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and enjoy the
outdoors and seasonal changes. Besides his professional activities, he is an
active volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America, currently serving as an
area unit service committee chair and a merit badge counselor. In July of
2016, he accompanied scouts as an advisor on a 12-day, 100-mile backpacking trek at Philmont Scout Ranch, which is near Cimarron, New Mexico,
USA. He coordinated the traffic safety merit badge booth, which was staffed
by volunteers who are also ITE members for the 2017 National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, USA. He is an Eagle Scout.

Kirsten Tynch serves as the Virginia Beach Managing Director for VHB, a 1,350-person engineering
consulting firm headquartered in Watertown,
Massachusetts, USA, with 24 offices along the East
Coast. In her role, she oversees all operations of
the firm's Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA office. In
addition, she manages numerous traffic engineering
and roadway design projects for private, municipal,
state, and federal clients.
Kirsten has more than 24 years of experience in transportation
engineering and is a registered engineer in seven states and the District of
Columbia. She earned her bachelor and master of science in civil engineering from the University of Virginia, and is certified as a Professional Traffic
Operations Engineer, a LEED professional, and an Envision™ Sustainability
Professional (ENV SP) by the Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure.
Active in ITE since 1993, Kirsten is a Past President for the Southern
District of ITE (SDITE) and Virginia Section of ITE (VASITE). Kirsten
also served as one of the Local Arrangement Committee Chairs for the
Southern District Annual Meeting in 2010. For her work with VASITE, she
has been awarded VASITE's Young Member Award, Outstanding Individual Activity Award, and the Distinguished Service Award. She has also
been awarded SDITE's Joseph M. Thomas Young Member Award. Kirsten
is an alumna of the LeadershipITE Program. She currently serves on ITE's
Family Program Subcommittee and is the Awards Chair for the Pedestrian
and Bicycle Standing Committee. Kirsten has been married to her husband,
Jack, for 11 years and has two sons, Logan and Callen.

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Karen Aspelin, P.E., PTOE (F)
Western District
Karen Aspelin is an owner and principal of
MaxGreen Transportation Engineers, LLC, in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. She graduated
with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from
the University of Virginia and with a master's
degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M
University. She is a licensed professional engineer
in Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, and Texas, and
took and passed the first Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE)
exam offered in 1999. Karen has been actively involved with ITE since
1994. She is a past president of the New Mexico section and the Western
District, and she served as the Technical Committee chair of the Western
District for nine years. She is an ITE Fellow. Karen also serves on the board
of the American Society of Civil Engineers Southern Colorado Branch and
is an Assistant Scoutmaster in her son's Boy Scout troop.

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