Dontá Harris Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia Area

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Miami, Florida

Naval Support Activity Bethesda, Bethesda, Maryland

• Conducts interviews, perform data collection and analysis, and present findings and recommendations to clients and decision-makers
• Provides clients with recommendations and plans that provide for the development of existing assets or land, ranging from base-wide land use plans, down to specific site development recommendations
• Coordinates planning support with designated Energy, Utilities, Environmental, Real Estate, Public Works, Capital Improvements and Acquisition representatives, as required to enable accurate and properly timed design.
• Cradle-to-grave project management, including preparing scopes of work (e.g. regional energy and transportation plans, base master plans, and sustainability plans), cost estimates, contract negotiation, and management.
• Develops and updates existing facility master planning and project development documents, to efficiently guide and inform facility life-cycle decision making
• Collaborates, reviews, and provides input on planning studies, base master planning, sustainability planning, policy, energy efficiency projects, energy & sustainability checklists for planning/design, and draft.

Washington Navy Yard

• Identified real estate requirements and acquired real estate interests needed by the Navy and Marine Corps
• Negotiated and prepared easements, licenses, leases, host-tenant and use agreements for use of Navy property by non-Navy parties
• Reviewed and approved activity requests for demolitions of obsolete or unneeded buildings and structures
• Wrote scopes of work for surveys, negotiated title insurance, defined plans for real estate appraisals, and designed real estate project maps
• Identified long-range property needs, analyzed alternative strategies for meeting those needs, and recommended appropriate methods of acquisition
• Completed 3-month rotational assignment with the District of Columbia Office of Planning working on the 11th Street Recreation Bridge Concept o Planned and organized community input meetings for District of Columbia.

Washington D.C.

• Acquired technical skills including: basic measurement and statistics, understanding datasets, and basic quantitative and qualitative methods
• Practiced conducting thorough literature reviews and producing polished and dynamic research presentations
• Completed a research paper under the guidance of Urban Institute research staff, regarding the success of HOPE VI in the District of Columbia