Alexander Smith Email & Phone Number

United States

My primary duty is to develop and put into production Ranking algorithms.

Sterling, Virginia

• Using statistics and machine learning to discover insights;• SQL Querying;• Creating Tibco Spotfire, Power BI and Stattrak dashboards to deliver a useful understanding of operations; • I maintain and update a legacy (30k lines of code) Cost Constraint Optimization Python system in AWS;• Automating analysis with Power Automate; and • Developing new tools for data gathering and analysis, for example creating a forum html parser in Python to quickly extract domain specific knowledge from Question/Answer conversations and then creating a logic AI Expert System.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

At HDR I have primarily worked on highway and transit projects. My duties included:• SQL Data management with MySQL, HeidiSQL and Access;• GIS analysis with ArcGIS and Python;• Cost and schedule risk analysis with @Risk and Primavera;• Statistical analysis with Eviews and R; • Visualizations with Tableau, R, Visio and ArcGIS;• Creating models with Excel and VBA; • Researching and gathering data on topics such as: public-private partnerships, US federal funding for transportation innovation, active transportation Cost-Benefit Analysis, freight flows, airline regulation, the FAST act, etc; • Cost-Benefit Analysis; • Regional forecasting of freight flows with TRANSEARCH and the US Freight Analysis Framework; and • Emission forecasting with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tool MOVES.

Frederick, Maryland

At TEMS I primarily worked on intercity rail projects. My duties included:• Organizing and conducting market surveys, both in the field and via the internet, and processing the survey data for input to travel demand forecasting models;• Developing socioeconomic databases and economic scenarios for input to travel demand forecasting models; • Gathering and assembly of origin-destination databases for auto, rail, bus and air travel modes and the synthesis of the data, using traffic models, to estimate movements and volumes by mode;• Conducting Cost-Benefit Analysis; and• Preparing written and graphic materials documenting analyses undertaken.The Hampton Roads (VA) project is a publicly viewable example of a project where I carried out these duties for TEMS;http://www.hrtpo.org/uploads/docs/TEMS%20Phase%202B%20Executive%20Summary.pdfAt TEMS I had the opportunity to branch out into route design within the constraints of the track curvature, environmental considerations (wetlands, historical sites, cores) and land acquisition costs

Master'S Degree, Transport Economics, Merit

Modules as part of degree; Principles of Transport Economics Transport Econometrics Principles of Transport Modelling Welfare Economics.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics