Experience

Connetics Transportation Group

• United States
• Truck Transportation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Transit Planner

  • Aug 2014 - Present

  • Developed Transit Development Plans (TDP) for transit systems in Virginia, including service and system evaluation, service expansion plans, operations plans, capital improvement programs, and financial plans.• Uses a variety of spatial and temporal data sources (AVL, APC, GTFS, cell phone location data) to aid in route planning and scheduling.

• Transit Planning Intern

  • May 2013 - Aug 2014

  • Assist in comprehensive operations analysis (COA) of transit systems, including bus route realignment and system recommendations, as well as route profiles of existing lines• Conduct data entry, cleansing, and analysis on large scale travel surveys, creating visualization of survey data using GIS (e.g. construction of origin/destination maps showing level of interaction between regions of the city for over 6,500 respondents)• Manage map construction and editing on numerous projects for clients across the U.S., including extensive data creation• Contribute to reports writing sections and creating graphs on service characteristics and productivity and financial analysis• Calculate operating statistics for bus systems, including in service hours, revenue hours, revenue miles, and number of buses necessary for desired frequencies and trips



Georgia Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Thesis Research in Transportation

  • Aug 2013 - May 2014

  • Researched current literature on quantifying pedestrian connectivity to transit features and applied several methodologies to the Atlanta Streetcar line• Conducted network analysis within ArcGIS to show that the most common methods for pedestrian connectivity consistently overestimate the number of people within walking distance to transit features• Wrote term paper for transportation class, which was subsequently nominated for American Planning Association’s Transportation Planning Division Student Paper Competition by Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning professor



University of Georgia

• United States
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate Thesis Research in Geography

  • Dec 2010 - Aug 2012

  • Thesis title: Assessing the Performance of a Vulnerability Index during Oppressive Heat Across Georgia, U.S.• Created a multivariate heat vulnerability index (HVI) using land cover classification, health data, and socioeconomic variables to locate and test vulnerability indicators against mortality data during oppressive apparent temperature• Obtained and utilized large datasets in Microsoft Excel and ArcGIS for analysis and representation• Formatted thesis into manuscript, which was accepted for publication in December 2013 in the American Meteorological Society peer reviewed journal, Weather, Climate, and Society

• Graduate Teaching Assistant in Geography

  • Aug 2011 - May 2012

  • Conducted Introduction to Weather And Climate Lab for 44 students for Fall semester 2011 and 34 students for Spring semester 2012, independently leading classes in all aspects of instruction, testing, and grading• Motivated and facilitated successful learning inside and outside the classroom for a wide range of learning styles