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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Demonstrated success in leading collaborative, creative, strategic, and alternative approaches for planning, designing, and delivering multimodal infrastructure design with urban integration for over 15 capital retrofit projects, emphasizing the complete streets approach. • Reviewed various development applications, including over six outline plans (mainly greenfield developments), construction drawings, and development permits (mainly for redevelopments in established communities) and provided feedback to ensure the roadway designs network are aligned with City policies, current design standards, and industry best practices.• Managed, developed, and mentored a multidisciplinary team of 8 members through continuously changing circumstances, priorities, expectations, project objectives, team organization, and resources. • Created an Early Capital Works Coordination Committee for several business units and divisions across the corporation for potential opportunities for collaborating, combining and sequencing various over 25 capital projects in the same area for efficiencies and synergies for various business units in the next 2-3 years.• Supervised two junior engineers, five project managers, and one Engineer-in-training.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Developed, managed and delivered the Community Mobility Improvements Program (2019-2022), including 19 retrofit capital projects for a budget of over $35M. • Supervised and coordinated a team of 7 project managers and provided ongoing assistance in negotiation with internal and external partners to ensure project objectives were achieved with sustainable design outcomes from maintenance and operational aspects.• Worked closely with colleagues in other business units (i.e. Transportation Infrastructure and Roads) and coordinated collaborative solutions and alignment between Supply Management, project managers, and their respective capital projects to establish integrated delivery plans and contracting strategies.• Reviewed various city-led corridor improvement project design circulations and provided valuable feedback to ensure the design outcomes complied with the City’s roadway design standards and with a context-sensitive design approach in mind. • Liaised and collaborated with various internal and external partners, including the development industry (BILD), on reviewing and updating the city’s current roadway cross sections for the city’s most street classifications to ensure roadway network design is safer, multimodal, and sustainable in the long run. • Successfully led positive change, building a culture to accept and grow in changing circumstances and environments, openness to new and innovative approaches, and developing a diverse perspective and mindset as an individual and a team.

Calgary, Alberta Canada

• Liaised and collaborated with various internal business units and external interest holders including community associations, development industry partners, committees, and the City Council on developing the City’s Complete Streets Guide and Policy. Prepared and presented over 20 PowerPoint presentations to interest holders and senior management, including Councillors, on the Complete Streets Guide development status and received feedback. • Liaised with various internal and external interest holders on updating the city’s roadway design standards included in the Design Guidelines for Subdivision Servicing (DGSS). • Effectively involved in developing strategic business plans, the City’s short-term and long-term capital improvement plans, including grant applications for various transportation infrastructure projects. • Coached and mentored project managers and Engineers-in-Training staff.

Medicine Hat, Ab

• Responsible for undertaking functional planning studies, geometric design reviews of engineering drawings, and providing technical feedback and recommendations on various project reports and TIAs. • Managed and delivered an update to the City’s roadway design guidelines by collaborating with internal and external interest holders per current industry best practices. • Managed over nine planning, design, and construction projects for complex corridor and intersection improvement from inception to completion under immense public and political scrutiny. • Acting Engineering Manager at the City of Medicine Hat between June 2012 and April 2013, supervising a team of nine exempt and union staff.• Managed and updated the City’s Roadway System Master Plan (RSMP) in consultation with various internal and external stakeholders. Actively participated and facilitated in completing all RSMP components, including transportation modelling and developing the City’s long-term transportation network, Street Bicycle- Master Plan, and skeletal road network.