Board of Directors

Chair

Bob Moore

Vice President, Construction and Survey, SRF Consulting Group

Bob Moore leads SRF's construction and survey practice and brings about 30 years of construction management and engineering experience. His work focuses on project management, contract administration, inspection, materials certification, and design-build quality management. He has administered federal, state, and locally funded projects across Minnesota.

Chair-Elect

Jason Meyer, JD, PE, BC.WRE, CFM

Vice President, WSP USA

Jason Meyer has more than 20 years of experience across engineering, management, and law. He is a board-certified diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers and serves on its Board of Trustees. His work spans business development, program management, and risk management.

Treasurer

Steven Carleton, MBA

Chief Executive Officer, Rani Engineering

Steven Carleton leads Rani Engineering, one of the state's established minority- and veteran-owned engineering companies. He has more than 15 years of experience in transportation planning and project management, and he served as a captain in the United States Army. His work includes intelligent transportation systems for large cities, from transit signal priority to public-safety signal preemption.

Secretary

Jennifer Hildebrand, MBA

President and Chief Executive Officer, Professional Engineering Services

Jennifer Hildebrand is the President and CEO of PE Services Civil Engineering in Eagan, Minnesota. She has a master’s degree in business management from Augsburg University has been involved with civil engineering and infrastructure, specifically with environmental compliance, for over 30 years. She is an experienced leader in the construction industry, and has worked on hundreds of complex, dynamic construction projects throughout the United States and Canada. Jennifer also has extensive experience in developing educational and training materials and presentations for environmental compliance programs. She has made it her goal to educate and inform these markets regarding compliance program principles and proper environmental techniques. She lives in Kenyon, Minnesota with her family.

National Director

Bill Forsmark, PE

Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Barr Engineering Co.

Bill Forsmark has more than four decades of experience in the investigation, design, and permitting of dams, levees, and water-control structures. He serves as a FERC-approved independent consultant for dam-safety inspections and has led failure-mode analysis for high-hazard dam projects. His work spans the mining, power, and forest-products industries and a range of government agencies.

Ex-Officio

Megan Dayton, PhD, MBA

Chief Executive Officer, ACEC Minnesota

Megan Dayton is the CEO of ACEC Minnesota. She spent nearly fifteen years at the Minnesota State Demographic Center producing the population and labor force projections used by state agencies and the Legislature. Her work has tracked the demographic shifts now reshaping the engineering industry: an aging workforce moving toward retirement, slower replacement at the entry level, and uneven distribution of technical talent across the state.

Brian Arman oversees the geotechnical, environmental, pavement, and construction materials testing service lines in AET's Central Division. He brings more than 25 years in the engineering and construction industry and also serves as the firm's CMT Transportation Sector Lead.

Dave Black leads AECOM's roadway group in Minnesota and brings 35 years of experience across the built environment. His earlier career included aviation engineering and planning roles at HNTB and Northwest Airlines.

Matt Christensen leads TKDA's surface transportation division and brings more than two decades of bridge design, rehabilitation, and project management experience. He has served as lead bridge engineer and project manager on large, multidisciplinary transportation projects, including the Dale Street reconstruction over I-94 and MnDOT design-build work on I-35. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering, with a structural emphasis, from the University of Minnesota, and mentors students through the capstone program at the University of St. Thomas.

John Crawford manages major traffic engineering, transportation planning, and environmental planning efforts from KLJ's St. Paul office. He brings 25 years of transportation experience spanning noise analysis, traffic impact studies, travel demand forecasting, and environmental review.

Matt Jensen is a Vice President with Kimley-Horn’s St. Paul office and a transportation leader with more than 25 years of experience advancing infrastructure projects that strengthen communities across Minnesota and the upper Midwest. A fourth-generation civil engineer, Matt brings both technical depth and a strong commitment to industry leadership, with experience spanning transportation, aviation, transit, and water infrastructure. He has been actively involved with ACEC Minnesota and has worked alongside industry peers to help shape policy, advocate for sustainable transportation investment, and elevate the consulting engineering profession.

Kyle Johnson is a Transportation Division Leader and Principal with Bolton & Menk, where he oversees transportation design and construction and serves as operations manager for the firm’s broader transportation group. He also serves as a Project Manager, delivering a wide range of city, county, state, and transit projects.

Jason Mangan became CEO of LHB in 2024, the fifth person to hold the role since the firm's founding in 1966. A mechanical engineer who started at LHB as an intern in 1998, he previously led the firm's Energy & Industry group. His work centers on the energy transition, including solar, wind, biomass, pipelines, and power infrastructure.

Matt Menard is a bridge engineer based out of HDR's Saint Louis Park office. He brings over a decade of strong bridge design, load rating, and bridge inspection experience to the projects that he supports throughout Minnesota.

Joy Miciano is President and CEO of Zan Associates, a Minneapolis firm specializing in transportation planning, public engagement, and communications. She has spent much of her career at the firm, advancing from senior associate to its top role in 2021, and brings a focus on community outreach and stakeholder engagement to complex infrastructure projects. She chairs the executive committee of the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies and was named a 2026 Women in Business honoree by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

Mario Ratnaraj is a structural and transportation engineer at HNTB's Minneapolis office. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

Matt Ruble leads Braun Intertec's transportation group, and brings a long career in construction materials testing, environmental, and geotechnical engineering.

Whitney Stramer leads engineering teams at Burns & McDonnell supporting critical infrastructure development within the aviation and federal practice. With experience spanning eight market sectors, she has developed a broad understanding of project delivery, organizational strategy, and workforce development. Whitney is passionate about strategic resource planning and cultivating strong teams that can adapt to evolving client and industry needs while delivering complex infrastructure solutions.