Robert Kerns Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, Virginia

• Oversee the review and approval of proposed developments in Alexandria. • Manage a team of nine professional planners. • Communicate with community leaders and residents about current development projects. • Work with development teams to create outstanding development projects for the City. • Coordinate with other City Departments, including Transportation, Parks/Recreation, and Schools.

• Successful business developer for the firm’s planning practice. Played key role in winning one or more major planning projects each year at WRT, including several projects with budgets exceeding $1 million.• Project leader for major planning assignments, which often included a team of 3 – 5 subconsultants and WRT staff.• Managed the bi-weekly staffing schedules for WRT’s planning group.• Initiated best practices research to advance the planning group’s expertise in sustainable comprehensive planning, community performance indicators, and energy planning. Presented findings regularly at professional meetings.• Represented the firm each year at professional conferences, including the American Planning Association, Urban Land Institute, and Center for Community Progress.

Norristown, Pa

• Professional planner assigned to prepare planning documents, ordinances, and other special studies for communities in Montgomery County, PA, and serve as a supervisor and resource to other staff members.• Project manager for the Pottstown Metropolitan Regional Comprehensive Plan. One of the largest regional plans in PA involving 8 municipalities in 2 counties. Also part of the planning team for the Upper Perkiomen Valley Regional Plan.• Reviewed site plans for potential developments and amendments to zoning and subdivision and land development ordinances according to the “PA Municipalities Planning code.”• Attended 3 – 5 monthly meetings / hearings with municipal officials: made presentations; discussed issues; provided recommendations; and responded to questions from local officials, residents, and development applicants regarding planning and zoning matters.

Lansdale, Pa

• Initiated a Montgomery County Homeownership Partnership with 35 organizations.• Programmed a client services database using Microsoft Access.• Coordinated a Federal Home Loan Bank application for 6 new affordable homes.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Provided consulting, networking, and resource development for 60 churches in Southern California.• Chaired 3 management teams.• Managed a $20,000 loan fund and supervised economic development programs.• Developed grant proposals for community projects and co-taught a fundraising seminar.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed the ARIES project publications and served as a representative for the project.• Converted project accounts from a Wang Management Information System to Lotus 1-2-3.

M.C.P., Master Of City Planning

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Studies