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Oakland, California

• Manage AC Transit's network redesign, a comprehensive effort to ensure our transit network is equitably matched to where people need to go in the wake of the pandemic.
• Coordinate the quarterly operator sign-up process, facilitating dialogues between the service planning and the scheduling teams and ensuring consistency from design through to implementation.
• Manage projects including a service standards update, new service pilots, and microtransit planning efforts.
• Conduct Title VI service equity analyses in compliance with FTA rules and AC Transit Board Policy.
• Leverage SQL, Python, and GIS skills as data lead within the planning group, developing and maintaining interactive dashboards for monitoring service quality metrics like speed, reliability, and on-time performance.

Oakland, California

• Plan bus service that serves the city of Alameda and the communities of Southern Alameda County, which together make up a population of over 600,000 constituents.
• Monitor performance metrics and recommend improvements to bolster service speed and reliability, improve the customer experience, and encourage ridership growth.
• Engage with stakeholders and the general public to ensure all voices are heard throughout the service planning process.

Chicago, Illinois

• Planned service for over 20 bus routes, which together carry more than 100,000 average weekday boardings throughout Chicagoland.
• Analyzed ridership, crowding, service reliability, and key performance indicators to determine appropriate service levels, evaluate potential service opportunities, and ensure the delivery of high-quality transit.
• Provided planning-related updates to the agency's Title VI plan and ensured agency service planning practices complied with federal civil rights and environmental justice guidelines.

Vallejo, California

• Was responsible for fixed-route service and operations planning for the cities of Vallejo and Benicia, with 1.4 million boardings a year between both local and express bus modes
• Managed projects to help support continued ridership growth and serve the communities' diverse mobility needs with an eye toward financial sustainability, including an automatic vehicle location (AVL) system.
• Developed and implemented new planning policies based on industry best practices to lay the foundation for the nascent agency's continued success

Carlsbad, California

• Specialized in public transit service planning and analysis, including transit market assessments and analyses of service performance incorporating socio-demographic data, ridership, and financial metrics
• Developed informed service recommendations for streamlined, productive, and more effective transit service
• Conducted policy reviews and major service change analyses in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and Federal Transit Administration environmental justice guidelines
• Composed reports, presentations, and maps summarizing findings for internal and official use
• Assisted with business development activities, researching and writing proposals to win new contracts

Los Angeles, California

Utilized ArcMap GIS software to help develop a comprehensive digital catalog of lakes above 45° N and analyze changes in lake size over a period of 30 years using remotely sensed Landsat MSS, TM, and ETM+ data, with funding from the NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program.

Davis, California

Prepared spatial, demographic, and network datasets for activity-based travel demand models for the San Joaquin Valley Model Improvement Plan and the California High-Speed Rail Authority as a part of the Urban Land Use and Transportation Center (ULTRANS).

Davis, California

Prepared spatial and network datasets for the Caltrans-funded California Statewide Travel Demand Model (CSTDM) in a joint appointment between the Information Center for the Environment (ICE) and the Urban Land Use and Transportation Center (ULTRANS), along with various other day-to-day GIS data management tasks.