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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1. Managed several high-profile transportation projects for public sector clients delivering strong projects margins with excellent client feedback.2. Travel Demand Forecasting: Contributed to several forecasting studies totalling over $35 billion in investment. Worked with a variety of demand models, from complex activity-based to four-step models. Key projects include work on the Link21 program in Northern California, supporting the evaluation of different crossing options between San Francisco and Oakland; and work with GTAv4 model in Greater Toronto to evaluate rapid transit development alternatives.3. Strategic Planning: Led the development of multiple transportation strategies and master plans. Leading Analytics for SACOG Mobility Zones project in California with a goal to identify areas for targeted mobility improvements. Contributed to E-mobility Strategies for several countries in Central Asia.4. Business Cases: Worked on several Business Cases in Canada and the US supporting decision-making for transit expansion, network optimization, station planning, and fare studies. Adept user of Business Case frameworks established by public sector agencies across North America.5. GIS and Data Analytics: Contributed to several projects as Analytics Lead supporting modeling and delivery of quantitative insights. One of the key experts in GIS within the company supporting some of the most advanced applications on the projects and mentoring junior staff.6. Business Development: Supported over a dozen proposals across different markets in North America.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Management of complex urban planning and transportation projects;• Supervising the work on the master plan for a city of 1+ mln people, managing communication with the client and numerous stakeholders;• Business development, building proposals for the public and private sector clients in the field of urban planning and mobility;• Leading the transportation planning expertise at KB Strelka contributing to work of other teams;• Managing R&D activities within the company focusing on mobility and urban data analytics

Leading development of transportation analytics and geoanalytics in Eastern Europe being responsible for implementation of GIS, machine learning, simulation and data analytics with focus on transportation/mobility and public sector projects:• Developed a customized travel demand model for a planned mega-city in the Middle East that allowed to compare scenarios of future development• Created of a Python-based transit analytics platform using on open source public transportation data GTFS and routing engine OpenTripPlanner • Contributed to several network optimization project with implementation of mobile phone data analytics • Driving Travel Demand Modeling proposals as a part of Center of Mobility Innovation

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Analysis and Modeling Group of Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Department.Responsibilities include traffic data analysis, congestion management practice (CMP), travel demand modeling.A number of the projects involve visualization of transportation and socio-economic data for internal and public usage using R (leaflet, ggplot and other), ArcGIS, Python, SQL, and TransCAD using internal data sources, as well as INRIX RITIS, NPMRDS, and Census/ACS, among others.

Greater Chicago Area

As a Modeling Intern I was responsible for a number of projects to support and improve Travel Demand Model for Chicago Metropolitan Area based on Emme INRO software. The projects included:1) Compared observed CTA and Metra data with modeled transit ridership and trip distribution. Proposed and worked on a number of improvements to the trip distribution model to increase accuracy of TDM transit forecasts.2) Worked on ammendments to road network in Emme. Analyzed their influence on local and regional trip distribution and VMTs.

Moscow

Was responsible for analysis and development of various markets for the airlines (China, Korea, and India, among others):a) Planning, sales development, GDS, and marketing proposals, direct work with counterparts around the world, negotiation of proposals;b) Analysis and visualization of data on flown and sales of air tickets, analysis of competitors, preparation of reports and presentations;c) Coordination and support of multinational team of local sales managers

Moscow

Internship in Advisory department.• Analyzed data and financial documentation; prepared reports;• Contributed to one of the biggest PwC projects with multinational team in Almaty, Kazakhstan

Greater Seattle Area

• Created a geographic information system of the North Pacific region for the corporate web-site

Master Of Urban Planning, Land-Use And Transportation Planning, 3.86 Out Of 4.0

Activities and Societies: Graduate Students Representative at UIUC Student Planning Organization; Member of American Planning Association.

Master'S Degree, Socio-Economic Geography, 3.9 Out Of 4 (Graduated With Honors)

Activities and Societies: Related research: Transportation-oriented development of the settlement system in the USA (2013) - diploma.