The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials has named Lisa Wilson (above) – deputy director for Engineering and Operations at the Utah Department of Transportation – to a two-year term as chair of the Steering Committee for the AASHTO Innovation Management or AIM technical service program.
[Above photo by Utah DOT]
AASHTO Innovation Management identifies and champions the implementation of a select few “ready-to-use” innovations, products, or processes annually that are likely to yield benefits to the users. To date, more than 40 transportation agency innovations have been adopted by AASHTO members through this program, including now-common advances such as e-Construction, the Tow Plow, Plans on Demand, and the ARC-GIS online-based geospatial transportation mapping platform known as UPLAN.
Wilson – who oversees the agency’s project development and operations divisions, as well as its four statewide regional offices – is a nearly 30-year Utah DOT veteran.
Prior to being named to her current position in January 2020, Wilson served as Region Two director, overseeing the agency’s operations in Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties.
She also worked as Region One director, Region Two deputy director, pre-construction director, Region Two program manager, Region Two traffic operations engineer, and project manager.
Wilson is a licensed professional engineer and holds a degree in civil engineering from Utah State University.
Concurrently, Kevin Pete – director of the Research & Technology Implementation Division at the Texas Department of Transportation – to a two-year term as vice chair of the AIM Steering Committee.
Pete – who has been with TxDOT since 2009 – is responsible for the direction, coordination, and oversight of TxDOT’s research program, technology implementation program, and new product evaluation program.
Before taking on his current role, Pete worked for three years in the agency’s Technology Services Division before transferring to the Research and Technology Implementation Division in 2013. Prior to joining TxDOT, he worked for over 20 years as a systems engineer, consultant, and project manager in the private sector field of information technology.
Pete graduated from Dillard University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in management information systems.
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