Kyle M. Kirschling Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Founding an internal management consulting group to make subway infrastructure more reliable, maintenance more efficient, and passenger trips faster: - Reduced subway track and signal failures by 50% and increased reliability from 69% to 89% on worst performing line segments, with zero additional costs - Redesigned the subway signal record audit program, leading to 200% more data corrections and 100% more corrective actions, with the same number of audits - Increased production 7.5% at zero cost by designing a reliability-centered maintenance program for the subway’s network of 250 pumping stations - Modeled the labor costs for maintenance, testing, and emergency response for the subway’s 1,400 signal workers, and built a zero-based budget from scratchKeywords: infrastructure, investment, asset management, management consulting, business development, transportation, rail, rail transit, strategy, operations, private infrastructure, private investment, management, due diligence, value creation, enterprise asset management, project delivery, alternative delivery.

Greater New York City Area

- Increased New York City Subway on-time performance from 67% to 81% in 12 months and generated over $20 million in additional annual revenue at zero cost by conceiving a new operations strategy and initiatives that saved two to four minutes per train trip (the so-called “Save Safe Seconds” campaign and “SPEED Unit,” as reported in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere) - Devised a peak/off-peak fare structure that would improve the bottom line by $175 million per year (net), increase ridership, fund 20% more transit police officers, and fund ½ price fares for 100,000 low-income commutersKeywords: infrastructure, investment, asset management, management consulting, advisory services, business development, transportation, rail, strategy, operations, private infrastructure, private investment, management, due diligence, value creation, enterprise asset management, strategic operations, operational strategy, alternative delivery.

Greater New York City Area

Founded an operations improvement team to advise executive leadership with applied research in transportation, economics, finance, performance, and information technology: - Increased train capacity 30% through construction-zone bottlenecks, while increasing worker safety - Developed my own methodology to solve most performance problems in 2 weeks or less, including long-term unsolved problems such as train delays and track defects - Modeled the subway congestion and crowding impacts of a peak/off-peak fare price structure - Prepared leadership for board meetings and led bi-monthly performance briefings - Introduced and propagated business intelligence software for subway operations, which is now being used across the MTAKeywords: infrastructure, investment, asset management, management consulting, project delivery, alternative project delivery, business development, transportation, rail, rail transit, strategy, operations, private infrastructure, private investment, management, due diligence, value creation, enterprise asset management, strategic operations, operational strategy, advisory services.

Greater New York City Area

- Developed financial models for investments and initiatives, such as calculating the profit and loss of individual scheduled trains, rightsizing train conductor staffing, and forecasting the costs of train service contracts with Connecticut and New Jersey - Conducted international benchmarking to identify creative opportunities for improving performance and to assess the potential impact of adopting best practicesKeywords: infrastructure, investment, asset management, management, business development, transportation, rail, strategy, operations, private infrastructure, private investment, management, due diligence, value creation, enterprise asset management, strategic operations, operational strategy, private equity, capital markets, project delivery, alternative delivery.

Greater New York City Area

Managed public-private partnerships with private freight railroad operators, as well as consultant contracts and construction projects for city-owned freight railroad tracks, bridges, and yards

Greater Milwaukee Area

Owned and managed residential real estate investment properties

Greater Milwaukee Area

Provided audit and management consulting services to multinational for-profit corporations, public transit and housing finance authorities, state and local governments, and non-profit organizations:- Grew the firm’s audit practice by demonstrating how to manage engagement teams at up to five job sites simultaneously- Led a peer review of Ernst & Young Ghana (Accra, West Africa)- Audited investments and compliance with concession agreements for government agenciesKeywords: management, business development, strategy, private infrastructure, private investment, capital markets, due diligence, finance, management consulting, advisory.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Greater Milwaukee Area

While an undergraduate, I worked for BOSS Demand-Responsive Transit, the university's transportation service: - Directed overnight operations, typically consisting of ten vehicles and two dispatchers - Responded to incidents and emergencies, such as collisions and unruly passengers

Green Bay, Wisconsin Area

- Designed streets and roads with AutoCAD- Estimated construction costs from design drawings and specifications- Surveyed construction sites and monitored contractors’ compliance with drawings and specifications

Master Of Science, Urban Planning, 3.85 Gpa

Concentrations in transportation and economic development. Won Columbia University’s Planning Research Design Award for my master's thesis.

Bba, Summa Cum Laude, Accounting, Economics, & Urban Planning, 3.9 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Beta Alpha Psi, Beta Gamma SigmaEconomics: studied the Japanese economy in Tokyo and the EU economy in London.

Economics

Studied Asian industrial systems and the Japanese economy, with an emphasis on the causes of and solutions to stagnation in advanced.