John Cruz, Aicp Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council is a regional planning agency serving over 100 communities in Greater Boston. Their mission is to promote smart growth and regional collaboration.⁃ Manages projects related to housing goals throughout Greater Boston. ⁃ Implementation of the MetroCommon 2050 Regional land use and policy plan. ⁃ Technical assistance to local municipalities and others as needed. ⁃ Housing Production Plans⁃ Neighborhood and municipal comprehensive planning⁃ Community Engagement for the public and small groups

Greater St. Louis Area

-Instruction of graduate students in introductory concepts of geospatial analysis, data management, cartography,and computer science through a social science lens.⁃ Instruction of computer software ArcGIS desktop.⁃ Engaged in all aspects of adjunct instruction including, but not limited to: lesson planning and curriculumdevelopment; in-class and online teaching; and individual student assistance.⁃ Instructor / Course evaluations scored higher than the Brown School median in 35 of 37 possible metrics forSpring 2020 semester. Evaluations were conducted around Course Activities Direct Instructor Feedback, CourseFeedback, Educational Outcomes, Student Effort and Remote Learning

Crestwood, Missouri, United States

John joined The City of Crestwood in 2021. As the City Planner, he is responsible for all planning, zoning, and economic development in the city. As an intermediary between the municipal development cope and the public, John provides technical assistance and guidance to property owners, developers, architects, and businesses on how to achieve their development goals in Crestwood. Internally, John works in the city administration department of city government, helping to guide decisions made by the city administration, department of public works, and the city clerk. He also works closely with the City's Planning, Zoning and Architectural Review Committee, acting as the staff person responsible for setting their agenda, providing supplemental material for meetings, and getting concerns with site plans rectified prior to being brought to a public meeting. His duties in this position include:- Overseeing conformance of developments to the municipal code, comprehensive plan, and applicable overlay districts. - Conducting official city review, including zoning review for commercial properties and development review of site plans.- Implementing the City's comprehensive plan. - Provides reports and recommendations to the Planning, Zoning, and Architectural Review Commission as well as the Board of Aldermen. - Customer service functions of city government, including the validating of commercial occupancy permits and interfacing with the public. - Technical assistance for developers, engineering companies, sign companies, and businesses.- GIS, map-making, and geospatial analysis. - Public speaking and testimony during public hearings.- All other duties related to municipal planning, zoning, and economic development.

Greater St. Louis Area

⁃ Geographic Information Systems for geospatial analysis and cartography.⁃ Data analysis, data processing, neighborhood change research and metric tracking. ⁃ Technical assistance and consulting to community organizations, non-profits, government entities, and others.⁃ Community Planning and community development, including community master planning ⁃ Community Engagement in through public meetings, charrettes, trainings as a data intermediary, various speaker engagements / workshops, and others. ⁃ Research and writing including duties related to grants, the production of public documents, and urban planning- Experience in Comprehensive Planning and HUD reporting related to Annual Action Plans, CAPERs, and others.- Site plan assembly and review

Montreal, Canada Area

Warren, Mi

Detroit, Mi

Completed an extensive mapping project and social / economic statistics report on the foreign-born populations of the Metro Detroit area. Worked directly with Global Detroit staff as well as Kurt Metzger of Data Driven Detroit on this project. My report received news coverage from various media outlets, including ModelD, The Detroit Free Press, Michigan Radio, and Detroit Business. I was asked, along with Kurt Metzger of Data Driven Detroit, to do an interview on WDET’s The Craig Fahle Show for a segment titled “Detroit: America’s Melting Pot”. You can view WDET’s segment notes and listen to the interview online at http://wdet.org/shows/craig-fahle-show/episode/detroit-immigrant-study/

Greater Detroit Area

Produced the first "Defend Your Ride" segments for CBS Local Detroit interviewing people about their cars and how they used them.

Utica

Developed first version of www.signs365.com, a custom "to-the-trade" website for sign shops to purchase digital signs. I handled online and phone customer service, and later I coordinated all export shipments.

Master Of Urban Planning, Economic Development, 3.5

Activities and Societies: WSSUP Co Chairman / Communications Chairman SMAP Conference Steering Committee (2011) SMAP Conference Host.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Web Development, 3.4

By the time I graduated I was already working as a full time web developer, building www.signs365.com and acting as shipping coordinator..

Associate Of Applied Sciences (Aas), Web Design, 3.5

High School Diploma, Music, 3.4

Activities and Societies: Marching Band, Jazz Band, Student Teacher (6th grade saxophone students), Stagecrew for all in-school.

3.4

Activities and Societies: Office Aide (10th Grade), Marching Band, Jazz Band, Stagecrew for all in-school productions and the community.