Lead local and regional transportation planning projects, and grow the firm's transportation planning practice in Southern California.

The Office of Planning Administration (OPA) which provides direct support to the Planning Director, implements management initiatives, coordinates work planning and budget development, process improvement, monitoring and communications systems, and serves as the liaison between Planning and other divisions.

First selected as the Acting Manager of Active Transportation until June 30th, 2020. Then spent FY 20-21 standing up the Office of Planning Administration (OPA) which provides direct support to the Planning Director, implements management initiatives, coordinates work planning and budget development, process improvement, monitoring and communications systems, and serves as the liaison between Planning and other divisions.

Marco Anderson is a program manager with the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) and a contributor to The Car in 2035: Mobility Planning for the Near Future. He currently works in the Sustainability Department integrating land use and transportation policy. Mr. Anderson is the program manager for the SCAG Electric Vehicle Programr, and the Sustainability Planning Grant Program.

• Task Lead for securing advertising sales for 511 travel information website• Assisted task lead in procurement for a travel data operation center• Prepared and guided a tour of the LA Metro Rail system for visiting clients• Wrote two successful grant applications; one for Arizona state rural transit service planning, the other for the Metro TDM Call for Projects• Wrote briefing memos on diverse transportation related topics• Drafted numerous proposal responses for business development purposes

• Graded papers, and worked directly with students in the following courses: Ethnographic Research Methods, Negotiation, and Strategic Communications

• Conducted and summarized interviews with 21 public agency senior managers across 13 county, state, and federal agencies, and 27 senior executives with private transportation planning and engineering firms.• Prepared the first draft of an institutional capacity report for the OCTA detailing public and private resources available for Measure M renewal projects.

• Responsible for major expansion of product marketing strategy • Interviewed existing customer base to prepare client reference sheets.• Expanded the customer pipeline, and managed new sales efforts.• Responsible for presentations and sales strategies • Negotiated and signed major new customers, including one US Army Base, and the University of San Diego in addition to numerous smaller firms

• Beginning in the US HQ, assumed sales responsibilities for Canada, and turned the previously unproductive territory into a profit generator• Principle sales account manager for the United Kingdom and Scandinavia• Met and exceeded $1 million/year sales quota in new sales and software account maintenance

Responsible for operation of office housing 30 employees and 4 video editing bays. I worked closely with the CFO to institute computerized purchase order database.