Joanne Walsh Email & Phone Number

Entrepreneuring opportunity to found my own business and build upon expertise in urban and transportation planning. Assist clients in policy development. Work with local and regional public entities as well as private companies. Building expertise in historic preservation strategies. Develop proposals, cost estimates, implementation time tables. Certified as HUB, DBE, SBE, WBE.

• Project Manager for financial analysis of a long term strategic annexation assessment and impact fee analysis for the City of El Paso• Identified and researched transportation funding opportunities for public-private partnerships with local governments• Provided peer reviews for proposals, interview presentations• Represented firm at professional events

• Led firm’s business outreach activities in San Antonio• Served as Principal in Charge of feasibility analysis on proposed VIA Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route from Medical Center to downtown business district• Explored opportunities for strategic public-private partnerships, transit oriented development (TOD) along BRT route, conversion of city-owned surface parking to mixed use development

• Coordinated federally funded transportation planning efforts in the greater Bexar County area with federal, state, county, city and other transportation providers and stakeholders• Reported to a 19 member Transportation Policy Board composed of state and local elected officials along with transportation professionals • Led and facilitated workshops and strategic planning sessionso Citizen participation in transportation planningo Visioning sessions with local elected officialso Background information and work sessions for Transportation Policy Board on funding implications, planning processes, quality initiatives and challenges facing Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and local governments • Initiated efforts that led to first Bike Master Plan for City of San Antonio• Initiated Safe Routes to Schools studies for selected neighborhood schools• Served as San Antonio-Bexar County representative on statewide transportation committees focused on high impact topics• Addressed issues raised by mobility impaired advocacy groups and increased outreach efforts to those groups

Director Special Studies Office, TxDOT Administration • Leader of Agency-wide Strategic Planning • Project Manager - Planner, organizer, coordinator and administrator of large scale, highly confidential programs and special projects. Director Strategic Management Section, TxDOT Administration • Leader of Strategic Planning • Performance Monitor• Manager of Special Projects - Performed agency-wide special projects of highly sensitive, time critical nature for executive management. Projects provided recommendations on solutions to fiscal, operational, customer service and policy issues of the agency. Projects required objective, big picture thinking, complex analysis of multiple variables, coordination and collaboration across functional areas and organizational units. • Transportation and Best Practices Researcher Director Management Services Office, TxDOT AdministrationDeputy Director of Planning and Policy Division Advocate, Trainer and Facilitator for Texas Governor’s Quality Initiative program

Mba, Accounting

Math, Accounting

Ba, Mathematics

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