2023-2024 BOARD MEMBERS
Kondala Rao Mantri, P.E., M.ASCE past president city of las vegas Kondala is a Transportation Engineer at the City of Las Vegas. He has over 15 years of experience in variety of disciplines including traffic studies, arterial and highway design and modeling, track alignment and trackwork design, storm drains, channels and other utility design and most recently Airport Design. Originally from south India, Kondala moved to Las Vegas in 2002 to attend UNLV where he received a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering with emphasis on transportation. Kondala was involved with ASCE and ITE student chapters while at UNLV. After graduating he continued his involvement being a part of the organizing committee for the Annual Fall Transportation Conference. Kondala also served as an officer on the ITE Nevada Chapter starting out as secretary/treasurer in 2013 and president in 2015/2016. Kondala volunteers his time to teach the Geometric Design course for the ASCE YMF PE Review Course. |
Humberto Franco, E.I., M.ASCE president CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS Humberto is an Associate Engineer with Clark County Department of Public Works. Humberto specializes in land development and master planning. Humberto graduated from the University of Las Vegas, Nevada (UNLV) in 2013. Humberto began his ASCE life in 2010 as a board member as the Vice President of events and tours for the ASCE student chapter of UNLV. In 2014 and 2015, he was the Social/Event Coordinator for the Las Vegas YMF where he was able to schedule professional tours and field related technical tours. Recently, Humberto was part of the planning committee for WRYMC 2018 which was held in January in Las Vegas. His responsibilities included coordinating the program, volunteers and events during the two-day conference. Currently, he is the Past President of the Las Vegas YMF and now president for the Southern Nevada Branch. When he has some free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and traveling to new places. |
Derick Yoro, P.E., M.ASCE president-Elect westwood PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Derick Yoro is a Project Manager at Westwood Professional Services in the Land Development Division. Derick has over 25 years of broad-based engineering experience in management, engineering design, civil engineering and project management on residential land development projects, infrastructure planning of projects associated with land development, and various commercial land development projects. His experience includes extensive work in the design of on-site and off-site improvements for master planned communities. He has supervised engineering services for a number of master planned developments throughout Southern Nevada, including Southern Highlands, Summerlin, Coyote Springs, Lake Las Vegas, and Park Highlands. Derick graduated from the University of Hawaii. |
Atif Saadi, P.E., ENV SP, M.ASCE secretary HORROCKS ENGINEERS Atif is a Senior Engineer at Horrocks Engineers, supporting the transportation design team. Originally from Bangladesh, he moved to New Jersey in 2003 and completed Master’s from NJIT with a Transportation Engineering focus. He was involved with ASCE Legislative team in NJ and participated in DC Fly in. He worked in New Jersey and New York from 2004 to 2011 before returning to Bangladesh to work locally in South Asia. He returned to USA in 2018 and worked in New York before moving to Las Vegas a year ago (09/20) during pandemic. He works in the roadway sector design projects for public departments and private developers. He enjoys company of family and friends, likes to try out different cuisine, follows European soccer and enjoys playing badminton and cricket. |
Nick Zahedi, P.E., M. ASCE Treasurer kimley-horn & Associates Nick is a utility scale solar engineer at Kimley-Horn & Associates. He graduated from UNLV and has been working in the civil engineering industry for nearly 20 years. |
Caitlyn Alcantara, P.E., M. ASCE Director I HDR Inc. Caitlyn is a Transportation Drainage Engineer with HDR Inc. Though she has over 8 years of experience in the drainage industry, and the Las Vegas area, she is now supporting the transportation team in HDR in evaluating even bigger drainage areas. Caitlyn was once an active participant in both UNLV ASCE and Las Vegas YMF. She is now serving as the Director I on the ASCE Southern Nevada Branch. |
Amanda Tanaka, P.E. MSE, M. ASCE director II wsp usa Amanda Tanaka is a Sr. Consultant in Water Resources with over 4 years of experience at WSP's Las Vegas office. Amanda is cross trained in sanitary sewer design, water line design, hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, storm drain collection design, as well as quantity calculations, cost estimating, plan production, and drainage design rep Amanda is also very active in the local engineering community and has served as ASCE's Southern NV YMF President Luncheon Coordinator and is currently on the APWA Nevada Spring Conference planning committee. |