Michael Dowd Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Palo Alto, California, US

Brooklyn, NY, US

• Technical Responsibilities
• Served as principal data scientist and coder on over 20 projects in data analysis, data engineering, predictive modeling, data visualization, optimization, tool development, web scraping, computer vision and natural.
• Ensured technical quality on project outputs across DataKind’s programs and projects.
• Provided maintenance support for project partners with tools built by DK even after official projects close.
• Managed cloud deployments on AWS, regularly harnessing Ec2s, S3 storage, RDS databases and some Elastic Beanstalk.
• Supported in-house tech efforts including automated Slack commands for Google Drive, volunteer application data processing and general insight analysis.-- Project Scoping

Brooklyn, NY, US

Morristown, New Jersey, US

• Assisted senior economists and planners in all aspects of traffic and revenue estimation for major urban toll road projects
• Conducted research to identify reasonable simplifying assumptions for route choice, travel time impacts, value of time and other concepts integral to traffic and revenue analyses* Created route choice models and.
• Liaised with representatives of regional and municipal agencies to obtain data and the necessary documentation to interpret and process said data
• Created maps, figures, charts and documentation for client reports
• Wrote scripts to scrape congested travel time data for 162 different routes from web based map services
• Automated GIS tasks in ArcMap using python

Cambridge, MA, US

• Conducted qualitative and quantitative research related to transportation modeling and uncertainty
• Developed relationships with city and regional agencies to support development of models
• Researched, acquired and analyzed wide variety of data including: ACS, CTPP, InfoUSA, network, land use, parcel, traffic, and transit
• Updated, verified and calibrated large scale Cube Voyager four-step transportation model
• Assisted students with Cube and TransCAD as Teacher's Assistant for 1.254 Transportation Modeling Course (Spring 2014)
• Processed raw Travel Survey and developed discrete choice models for mode choice in PostgreSQL, Python and Biogeme

Boston, MA, US

• Assisted Research Analysts, Planners and Modelers to set criteria and assumptions for Cube Land model
• Assembled demographic and economic data from various sources for Transportation Analysis Zones in Excel and MS Access
• Collected and analyzed land use and zoning data to assess existing development and future development potential
• Edited, geocoded, created and verified other spatial data as needed in ArcMap

• Collaborated with small team reviewing updates to the NYC city wide planimetrics for NYC DoITT
• Reviewed vast amounts of data from vendor in ArcMap/ArcSDE to ensure accuracy with aerial photogrammetry
• Assisted in development and clarification of planimetric “Capture Rules”
• Created work-flow documentation to ensure consistent interpretation across analysts

New York, NY, US

• Managed correspondence for Council Member between constituents and government agencies
• Attended City Council hearings and prepared memos for Council Member
• Collected data and prepared reports on land-use issues in Manhattan’s District 6
• Assisted constituents in accessing information and resolving problems

Master Of Science In Transportation And Master In City Planning, Civil Engineering / City And Regional Planning

Bachelor'S Degree, Urban Studies/Affairs