David Wasserman, Aicp Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

As Civic Analytics Discipline Leader, David provides company-wide technical guidance at the intersection of transportation planning and civic analytics. This includes the oversight of technical approaches utilized for data science related projects, ensuring the development of high-quality work products, guide analytics related R&D, and helping build capacity by training staff and encouraging a culture of experimentation. • Provide strategic guidance on transportation projects' technical approaches including metric development & identification, accessibility modeling, and the role of data in planning narratives.• Shepherd Alta’s vision of its civic analytics practice by informing its marketing, branding, and technical investment strategies. • Evaluate & integrate emerging technologies and transportation data sources into Alta’s projects to advanced state of practice and enable efficient and effective project delivery.• Advance the development of web maps, dashboards, and analytical tooling to be used by offices to advance the state of practice and enable Alta’s staff to deliver high quality work products.• Manage and coordinate the effort of analytics focused staff, and identify opportunities that keep them engaged and help develop their technical capacity.• Utilize Python/R for data analysis to visualize, summarize, and analyze data for transportation planning projects. Key competencies surround geospatial/temporal data, graph analysis, AI-derived data, demographic data, modeling, spatial accessibility analysis, metric development, and the digital representation of scenarios. • Act as a CityEngine lead company-wide providing expertise related to 3D GIS, rule creation, and procedural streets.

Greater Seattle Area

Provide transportation planning, spatial analytics, 3D visualization, and civic data science expertise to various projects within the Puget Sound region and other markets across the United States.• Provide transportation planning expertise to transportation projects including TDM monitoring and analysis studies, parking studies, multimodal transportation assessments, bike plans, circulations studies, and transportation strategic plans. • Provide strategic guidance on transportation projects' technical approaches including metric development & identification, accessibility modeling, the role of data in narratives, and how projects can further the development of technical capacity of staff. • Develop web maps, dashboards, flask applications, and spatial analysis tools to be used by offices for transportation planning analysis and urban data science applications. • Utilize Python/R for data analysis to visualize, summarize, and analyze data for transportation planning projects. Key competencies surround geospatial/temporal data, graph analysis, demographic data, modeling, spatial accessibility analysis, and metric development. • Evaluate planning applications of emerging technologies and transportation data sources derived from advancements in deep learning and computer vision. • Act as a CityEngine lead company wide providing expertise related to 3D GIS, rule creation, and procedural streets.

San Jose

Redlands, California, United States

Provided urban planning and mapping expertise in various projects that included urban planning research and story map creation. My main internship project was the creation of a complete street rule that was designed to showcase how ESRI CityEngine can be used in transportation planning efforts and to help communities envision different relationships between their city and its streets.

Greater New York City Area

Provided assistance with bicycle planning projects by helping to facilitate a charrette and geo-coding results. Worked in the field collecting photos and data for either presentations or analysis for projects in Queens and Brooklyn. Additionally, I worked heavily with GIS while assisting in division work regarding current transportation studies and other projects where tasks varied from database management, map creation, and information processing.

Alachua County

Provided assistance on energy management projects, conducted an inventory of water conservation devices, developed a gap analysis report, worked on Green Globes certification research and assessment, and developed environmental performance language for RFPs.

Orlando, Florida Area

Worked at Yacht and Beach Club making sure guests were safe in Disney's aquatic facilities. Kept CPR, first aid, and rescue skills sharp through regular in service training.

Master'S Degree, Urban And Regional Planning, 3.97

Activities and Societies: Student Planning AssociationCombined Degree Program: With course work specializing in Transportation, GIS.

Bachelor'S Degree, Sustainability In The Built Environment; Minor In Environmental Science, 3.98

Activities and Societies: Model United Nations (GatorMun), Student Planning Association, Delta Nu Delta Tabletop Gaming, Gators for Green.