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In This Issue
-President's Message
-Announcements
-TransportationYOU at Drexel
-WTS Lunch Seminar:
Connect the Circuit
-Sponsor Spotlight:
Urban Engineers
-NJ Transit Announcement
-30th Street Station District Plan
Website Announcement
-Envision/KMJ Joint Venture
Upcoming Events
FEBRUARY 18
Lunch Program: Transportation and Business Developments along the Delaware River
FEBRUARY 24
Professional Development Webinar: Language of Leadership (event at capacity, please click to add your name to the wait list!)
MARCH 18
Save the date for our March Program: PennDOT District 5
APRIL 22
WTS at TransAction: TransConOpps
Job Postings
Engineers' Club of Philadelphia: Executive Director
Envision Consultants, Ltd: Program/Task Order Manager
Jacobs: Project Manager/Engineer - Highways (Philadelphia)
Parsons Brinckerhoff: Traffic Engineer (Philadelphia)
PennDOT: Regional Transportation Management Center Operator (District 6-0)
Philadelphia International Airport: Airport Planner
Rybinski Engineering: Traffic Engineer
Board of Directors
PRESIDENT
Megan Syrnick
Hill International
VICE PRESIDENT
Patti Gibson
Envision Consultants, Ltd.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Elizabeth Hansmann
Jacobs
RECORDING SECRETARY
Elizabeth Smith
SEPTA
TREASURER
Erica Antoine
Burns Engineering, Inc.
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Carol Rose
STV Incorporated
COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR
Jasmine Narcisse
BREE & Associates, Inc.
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Samantha Safara
Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson
DIVERSITY CHAIR
Apiramy Appulingam
RS&H
MEMBERSHIP CHAIR
Lindsey Graham
HNTB Corporation
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CO-CHAIRS
Lee Wolfe
AECOM
and
Karen Hulshizer
Gilmore and Associates
PROGRAMS CO-CHAIRS
Irene Eells
Ammann & Whitney
and
Orla Pease
Urban Engineers
SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARDS
CO-CHAIRS
Jenna Oskowitz
HNTB Corporation
and
Linell Homentosky
AECOM
TRANSPORTATION YOU CO-CHAIRS
Jaclyn Raciti
Jacobs
and
Faye Majekodunmi
Amtrak
The Philadelphia Chapter of WTS was formed by twelve women on June 21, 1979. Since its formation, the Philadelphia Chapter has focused on promoting the development and advancement of women in the transportation industry.
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A Note From Our Chapter President
Dear WTS Members and Friends,
Welcome to a new year and a new term for our chapter’s leadership. WTS Philadelphia is already off to a great start this year, having completed our strategic planning session with an excellent group of returning and new chapter volunteers. We have exciting things on the horizon including topical monthly program offerings, an expanded variety of professional development offerings, plans to ratify a student chapter, and continuation of our professional mentoring program. This is all possible due to the incredible continued support from our Corporate Sponsors, so I would like to thank our new and returning sponsors.
Having the opportunity and honor to assume the chapter presidency as I simultaneously prepare for maternity leave is a testament to the important strides being made every day in support of career-life balance. This opportunity would not be possible without the help of my incredible support system, both at work and at home. Fittingly, it has been largely through my WTS involvement that I learned to seek out and build that support system. I would like to thank each and every Board member for working so effectively with me this month to help ensure chapter functions are in place in my absence. I leave the chapter in great hands under the leadership of our Vice President, Patti Gibson May, and our incredibly motivated Board.
Sincerely,
Megan Syrnick
President
WTS Announcements
MEMBERS MAKING TRACKS
-Leslie Richards has been nominated PA Secretary of Transportation!
-Congratulations to Carol Rose on her promotion to Senior Associate at STV, Inc!
GATEWAY MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
This year, we are happy to select three deserving woman for a one-year complimentary membership (with one extension year option) paid by the WTS Philadelphia Chapter. Applications are due no later than 5:00pm on Friday, March 6, 2015. Click here to read more.
NEW WTS PHILADELPHIA APPOINTMENT NOMINATIONS DATABASE
The Professional Development Committee is creating a members-only Appointment Nominations Database. With the completion of the Database, we will be prepared to submit the information of interested members to boards and commissions in a timely fashion. Click here to read more.
SHARE A STORY OR JOB POSTING: Contact Jasmine Narcisse and Alyssa May
VOLUNTEER WITH WTS PHILADELPHIA: Contact Patti Gibson
BECOME A WTS MEMBER: Contact Lindsey Graham
TransportationYOU: Building Bridges at Drexel
Have you ever built a bridge? The girls of Transportation YOU have. Recently TrYOU participated in a bridge building bracket-style competition, led by Drexel University Professor Franklin Moon and the Drexel American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Chapter. Six teams made of TrYOU participants, WTS mentors, and ASCE members designed eye-catching, strong, yet cost effective bridges!
Click here to read more.
WTS Lunch Seminar Event Recap:
"Connect the Circuit" by Shawn Megill Legendre
Written By: Patrick Miner, WTS Philadelphia Member
Pictured: Shawn Megill Legendre, DVRPC (left) and Patrick Miner, HNTB (right)
 WTS Philadelphia kicked off 2015 with its first lunch seminar on January 10th with a presentation by Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s (DVRPC) Shawn Megill Legendre regarding The Circuit, an initiative launched in 2012 to build out the region’s multi-use trail network.
To date, the effort has identified 300 miles of multi-use trails and trail segments - including the Schuylkill River Trail, the Lawrence-Hopewell Trail, and the new Penn Street cycle path; 50 trail-miles in progress; and 400 miles of planned trails - including the Spring Garden Street cycle path, the Camden Greenway, and part of the East Coast Greenway, as well as the Manayunk and Gray’s Ferry Crossing bridge projects.
WTS Philadelphia would like to thank Shawn and DVRPC for sharing their work on this forward-thinking initiative! Click here to read more.
Sponsor Spotlight: Urban Engineers
"WTS encourages me to see the big picture of transportation,” said five-year WTS member, Abbey Gancz, PE, LEED® AP. She also believes active involvement in the organization has, "enriched my professional life immensely by enabling me to make connections in the transportation field and honing important leadership skills."
In her eighth year working for Urban Engineers’ Highways Department in Philadelphia, Abbey joined WTS in 2009, and has served the Scholarship and Awards Committee, working diligently to bring more women into the transportation world.
Beyond WTS, Abbey is an instructor for Urban Engineers’ Training Institute, having recently led a course on ADA Accessibility and Curb Ramp Design. She has also served on the Scholarship Committee for the Philadelphia Engineering Foundation (PEF) since 2013.
New Jersey Transit DBE Announcement
New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ TRANSIT) is proud to announce the launch of a new component of its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program; a Race Neutral Small Business Set-Aside Program. Click here to read more.
30th Street Station Website Announcement
The Philadelphia 30th Street Station District Plan is a joint planning effort focused on creating a single integrated vision for the area surrounding 30th Street Station. The goals of the plan center on concepts of community, connectivity and identity. The effort is led by Amtrak, Brandywine Realty Trust, Drexel University and SEPTA with support from a Coordinating Committee that includes a wide range of public and private agencies, area stakeholders and other interested parties. The Philadelphia 30th Street Station District Plan project website, www.PhillyDistrict30.com, has officially launched. Here visitors can get the latest project information, sign up to receive project updates via e-mail, review news coverage and more. The first public open house was held at 30th Street Station on January 28th.
Envision/KMJ Joint Venture
Awarded $15M FTA PMO Contract
The Envision/KMJ Joint Venture (JV), comprised of Envision Consultants, Ltd. (Envision) and KMJ Consulting, Inc. (KMJ), was awarded a $15 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to provide Project Management Oversight (PMO) support services for major transit projects throughout the United States.
The five-year contract is the largest award as a Prime for Envision and KMJ, both of which are certified as Disadvantage Business Enterprises (DBEs), Small Business Enterprises (SBEs), and Women’s Business Enterprises (WBEs). Click here to read more.
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