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Canada

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Regional and Strategic Planning

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

I believe that the journey to/from school is a ripe opportunity for adventure, activity, and autonomy.• Responsible for project management, planning, and program delivery of the Active School Travel (AST) Pilot Program: a capacity building grant program funded by the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure in alignment with CleanBC. • Led and supported a group of 38 Project Leads at 21 schools across British Columbia, including urban, suburban, semi-rural, rural, and remote BC public and First Nations elementary and secondary schools.• Successfully retained 9 of 11 schools from 2021 for the alumni program. • Developed and delivered a five-module multimedia learning curriculum.• Curated resources to support the execution of school travel planning initiatives using an asset-based approach and equity lens.• Facilitated regular Community of Practice sessions for the group.• Provided one-on-one support and recommendations on active transportation policies, initiatives, and infrastructure investments to meet specific school community needs. • Fostered authentic relationships with and between school communities, active transportation professionals, local governments and other key stakeholders in the province, country, and abroad. • Developed program materials, such as the grant application and application guide, quarterly status reports for our funders, engaging presentation scripts, evaluation surveys, and evaluation reports.• Informed vision and provided guidance to graphic designer for program branding.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Kudos to LinkedIn for adding this important job title to the list. • Hardest and most rewarding job to date.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Collected, analyzed, and summarized home and community care data, ensuring its integrity and identifying anomalies and trends for further discussion and action. • Supported the various communication needs of my team.• Produced several reports, presentations, evaluation forms, flyers, documents, and diagrams.• Coordinated meetings, outreach, engagement, and presentations, working collaboratively with other departments for various projects. • Acted as communication link between my manager and others to ensure that project needs were being met in a timely manner.• Translated complicated processes into graphically appealing simplified instruction documents and workflows for staff in other departments to: use Procura Mobile, assemble client binders, and input data correctly and efficiently, for example.

Arlington, Texas

Charlotte, North Carolina

• Worked on a team to develop Nevada’s first comprehensive multimodal plan and one of the first FAST Act compliant plans approved by the US DOT.• Appointed lead coordinator with the consultant team and client due to my strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills.• Contributed to stakeholder group process design, coordination, and facilitation of many meetings with the public and private sector.• Regularly coordinated with team, clients, and stakeholders to ensure that project deliverables were timely and met expectations. • Integral to this planning process was the initiation of an ongoing dialogue with key industry leaders forming the statewide Freight Advisory Committee and regional Western States Freight Coalition.• Undertook qualitative and quantitative research as part of a team to identify the Plan’s goals, objectives, performance metrics and targets, baseline, issues, trends, economic drivers, strategies, and actions.• Principal writer and editor of several sections of the Plan.

Charlotte, North Carolina

"Michael Gallis & Associates has more than 20 years of experience consulting governments, regions, businesses, and institutions on how to more effectively shape their future. The firm uses a unique, integrated system of systems approach to strategic planning and a proprietary visual language. MG&A specializes in long-term “Big Picture” strategies. The firm’s focus is on results, not studies. MG&A projects have resulted in real change measured in actual dollars of investments, policy changes, and public attitudes."• Applied the company’s proprietary integrated system-of-systems approach to strategic planning to our portfolio of projects.• Conducted extensive qualitative research and analysis to support projects. • Wrote and edited many reports for public and private clients. • Designed reports, presentations, and outreach materials. • Analyzed and synthesized input from facilitated stakeholder and steering committee meetings for incorporation into the Plan and planning process.• Major project: Las Vegas Transportation Investment Business Plan, ‘Discovery’ and ‘Choices’ phases, with a team of consultants led by the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.

Barrie, Ontario

• Strong time management, organizational, and multi-tasking abilty as well as attention to detail prove valuable in this role as general manager of a small but growing business• Created new and innovative marketing strategies through traditional and social media postings as well as initiating relationships with relevant local businesses. • Modified service structures to increase sales revenue, retention, and membership. • Partnered with and donated to local non-profit organizations that required fundraising.• Directly organized a team of 15 volunteers for the daily karma-cleaning program.• Fostered consistent communication with ownership to ensure strategic vision and ongoing performance were aligned.• Developed e-newsletters for distribution to current and prospective clientele.• Executed personnel planning and scheduling needs on a monthly basis.• Planned monthly events to cultivate a strong sense of community within the studio.• Responded to numerous online and telephone inquiries on a daily basis• Completed daily cash reconciliation and budgeted regularly to maintain our financial integrity.• Taught a full schedule of 8-10 classes per week to a wide variety of demographics.• Hot yoga practice of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises derived from the 84 classic asanas of the Bishnu Ghosh lineage.

Kingston, On

• Supervisors: Dr. Graham Whitelaw & Daniel Shipp (Environmental Planning Project Course)• Built upon the existing work of FOCUS Kingston and provided the background, framework, and rationale to support the vision: “Kingston - Canada’s Most Sustainable City.”• Worked as a team to produce a comprehensive set of sustainable best practices and policy recommendations for potential implementation.• Facilitated the Transportation stakeholder sessions to gather insight from community members, user groups, and professionals. • Provided insight to the public and stakeholders about our selected Transportation Best Practices Poster during the Open House Presentation at Kingston’s City Hall.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Reported to the founder and CEO of the Wellness Institute (a non-profit organization) and the Principal of the Health Sciences Charter School.• Produced a plan by which this unique school could foster a safe and healthy school community as they relocated their facility to Midtown Buffalo.• Consulted with various professionals, community members, and students to gather context-specific knowledge that informed my immediate, short term, and long-range recommendations.• Led and participated in Walking Wednesdays at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and attended various conferences and meetings with Phil, learning from his years of expertise in building healthy communities.

Kingston, On

• Supervisors: Dr. Leela Viswanathan & Wendy Vuyk (Social Planning Project Course)• Worked in a team of four to create youth outreach strategies and advertisements.• Organized and facilitated a focus group session with current Pathways students (9th Grade).• Developed questionnaires addressing viable communication methods and satisfaction with the program, which were administered to the students after the roundtable discussion.• Used the information gathered to aid in the design of an innovative marketing and communication program with the ultimate goal of increasing future student enrollment.• Presented the results to our client, the Pathways Kingston employees and interested parties in the area, who were very pleased with the results.

Mpl, Planning For Healthy Communities, 85

• Master of Urban and Regional Planning with cross-discipline, master’s credits in the Public Health, Community Health and Epidemiology.

Bah (Honours), Geography

• Studied health in the Cuban Revolution abroad at the University of Havana, Cuba – May 2009. • Canadian University Study Abroad Program.

Certificate Completed, Bikram Yoga Teacher Training

• Completed 9 week (500+ hour) intensive training program in order to become a certified to teach the healing hot yoga practice of 26.

Online Continued Professional Education, Graphic Design, A

• Successfully completed Introduction to Illustrator CS6. During this course, I learned the graphic design skills necessary to design.