Elections
2009 Washington ITE Elections
Dongho Chang, PE, PTOE
  Kevin Chang, PE
I am truly excited at this opportunity to serve you and our transportation profession. I passionately believe our work impacts the quality of our communities and how our society ultimately functions. We have such an astounding breadth of expertise, experience, and wisdom collectively that we can make lasting changes to improve our communities for ourselves and our children. Are we doing enough to make our communities livable and sustainable? What will be in our future as you and I age and our family and friends become unable to drive?

I am committing to work on your behalf on:

1. Bringing additional focus and conversations on how we can make strategic impacts on transportation solutions that create and maintain livable/sustainable communities.

2. Advocate for equity using our limited funding resources in the most efficient and effective manner. One of the immediate and effective improvements that we can do is to operate our existing traffic signals better. It is not sexy and it may not be very visible, but it is equally important as a new lane or roadway.

My most relevant experience leading a member based, non-profit organization like our ITE section is my involvement with my daughter’s preschool, Magnolia Cooperative Preschool. The school is the largest and oldest cooperative preschool in Seattle, employs five teachers, and has a modest $400,000 annual budget. This will be my second year being elected and serving in the executive school board as vice-chair responsible for school operations. I have worked on finance, risk management, budget, audit, fund raising, membership, and recruitment of all volunteers.

I work for Everett as the city traffic engineer and have worked previously at WSDOT. I am involved with many of you in transportation related working groups within the Puget Sound region and have volunteered locally to improve the livability in our communities. I ask for your support to be your next ITE section secretary. 		 

It is a tremendous honor and privilege to be considered as a candidate for Secretary of the Washington State ITE Chapter.

As your Secretary, I will work diligently on two very important objectives, both of which focus on maintaining open lines of communication among all of our members – our active professionals, our retired members, and our undergraduate and gradate students. We live in a special corner of the world where transportation issues will remain central to any regional or statewide discussion, so it is imperative that ITE members like you are provided with multiple opportunities and resources to learn about and stay on top of these issues. I will work hard to ensure that we continue to maintain and to offer the highest level and quality of guest presentations, technical articles, workshops, professional development courses, and local and regional conferences to you.

It is also imperative that the information afforded to ITE members like you is made available in a timely manner. To that extent, I look forward to listening and working with both the local membership and annual directory committee members to streamline our existing processes, both internally and with our national office, so that we can mutually benefit from added efficiencies as updates or changes to your contact information occur.

I have been active in ITE for over fifteen years, starting when I was an undergraduate student at the University of Washington. Since that time, I have served as Student Chapter President (University of Washington), International Meeting Committee Member, your Washington State Annual Meeting Co-Chair, and Quad Meeting Committee Member. Last year, I was selected to participate on an advisory committee that worked with staff from ITE Headquarters to develop the recent on-line Traffic Engineering Curriculum series for ITE. I am a Washington native, a graduate of the University of Washington, and I am currently employed at the King County Department of Transportation in Seattle, Washington.

With eagerness and enthusiasm, I look forward to the new challenges that await if elected as your next Secretary. Thank you in advance for your consideration.