Experience

City of Champaign

• United States
• Government Administration
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Associate Planner

  • Jul 2023 - Present



Champaign Urbana Mass Transit District

• United States
• Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Analyst Planner

  • Aug 2020 - Jul 2023

  • Manage GIS, ridership, and operations databases; primary contact/reporter for NTD; maintain GTFS and consistency between scheduling software, driver instructions, workboards, and public facing materials • Provide data-driven service and scheduling recommendations in response to COVID-19, operator shortages, passenger loads, schedule adherence, and annual service updates • Updated MTD's Stop Placement Guidelines for ADA compliance, developed passenger load standards for Title VI Plan • Manage a vehicle technology project allowing real-time vehicle systems monitoring for Maintenance department • Generate Key Performance Indicators and reports for Operations department and hydrogen fuel cell vehicle performance • Internal auditor for ISO 9001 and OSHA compliance • Hire and supervise planning interns Show less



Instituto Municipal de Planeacion de Mazatlan

• Mazatlán Area, Mexico

• Transportation Planner

  • Feb 2020 - Jul 2020

  Drafted 40% of a city-wide multimodal transportation plan (freight, bus, bicycle, pedestrian, and automobile), coordinating with state and local government and civic associations to identify common transportation needs and funding, as well as to share data and coordinate public engagement events Drafted 40% of a city-wide multimodal transportation plan (freight, bus, bicycle, pedestrian, and automobile), coordinating with state and local government and civic associations to identify common transportation needs and funding, as well as to share data and coordinate public engagement events



Metro Transit

• United States
• Urban Transit Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Arterial BRT Planning Intern

  • Jun 2018 - May 2019

  • Principal author of two grant applications to modernize bus stops from signs to BRT stations along Metro Transit's highest and second-highest ridership bus routes ($17.5 million in federal CMAQ funds), collaborated with senior planners in submitting two other applications for the same amount • Preliminary scoping and analysis for two bus rapid transit routes, existing conditions and technical reports (corridor-wide and site-specific) • Reviewed site plans with other departments to provide Metro Transit comments on development proposals for the City of Minneapolis • General duties including primary data collection, planning issues identification, existing conditions reports, geodatabase restructuring, ad hoc cartography and data analysis Show less



Arkansas Economic Development Institute

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • May 2017 - Sep 2017

  • Co-wrote (with Michael Gerfen) an extensive job report for 5 Arkansan counties to help guide the allocation of federal funds (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, $1,875 value added to institute). Recommendations included specific collaborations between industry and trade schools and opportunities for increased in-region purchases, to stem economic leakage • Led a creative scoping process for the Institute, as it created a new statistical dashboard (ArkanSTATS) • Created static and interactive maps of downtown Pine Bluff for urban designers, facilitated community meetings as part of the Go Forward Pine Bluff Initiative • Helped maintain geodatabase, performed general IT duties and 30+ hours of ESRI online classroom training (including ModelBuilder) Show less



Macalester College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Spanish Lab Instructor

  • Sep 2015 - May 2017

  • Taught Spanish to more than thirty aspiring bilinguals, receiving "excellent" student-teacher evaluations • Prepared weekly lessons for their verbal improvement and to communicate more confidently • Collaborated with professors on lesson plans and delivering individual progress reports for each student • Taught Spanish to more than thirty aspiring bilinguals, receiving "excellent" student-teacher evaluations • Prepared weekly lessons for their verbal improvement and to communicate more confidently • Collaborated with professors on lesson plans and delivering individual progress reports for each student



Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales

• Madrid Area, Spain

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2016 - Jan 2017

  • Calculated and visualized over 50 charts for Dr. Jose Antonio Alonso Rodriguez's comparative Latin American/Iberian Peninsula report, comparing progress fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals; commissioned by the Spanish Government (Secretaria General Iberoamericana) • Data collection and annotated bibliographies for South-South development cooperation, focusing on Turkey • Translated course syllabi and website, public presentations and reports. • Calculated and visualized over 50 charts for Dr. Jose Antonio Alonso Rodriguez's comparative Latin American/Iberian Peninsula report, comparing progress fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals; commissioned by the Spanish Government (Secretaria General Iberoamericana) • Data collection and annotated bibliographies for South-South development cooperation, focusing on Turkey • Translated course syllabi and website, public presentations and reports.