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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Responsible for driving results among a team of transportation professionals. Strategically and operationally manages the Safety group and ensures it has the diverse skills, experience, and perspectives required to deliver exceptional value-added work for our clients and drive our strategy forward. Provides regular interaction and feedback to staff and advocates for their professional development. Responsible for managing the daily business operations of the group to support achievement of our financial objectives and strategic priorities. Currently also serves as interim Practice Lead and coordinates with other leaders in the firm to make sound decisions and grow our business. Serves as project manager on key projects and is responsible for collaborating with resources across the firm to deliver objective solutions to our clients.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

National leader in the areas of safety, connected and autonomous vehicles, and data. As a former practitioner of transportation safety, brings technical, and practical expertise in the management of complex projects to deliver exceptional results.Strategic Planning – Experienced professional with public, private, and non-profit organizational leadership skills to lead organizations thru the process of defining their strategies, direction, performance measures, and implementation process to achieve their transportation safety objectives.Project and Program Management – Over 15 years of management experience of staff involving complex projects, under strict Federal, State, and local regulations involving multi-year and multi-million-dollar projects delivered with exceptional quality, on time, and on budget.Stakeholder and Community Engagement – Proficient in working across organizations and within communities to achieve diverse representation of both people and ideas in developing strategies and actions for addressing their shared transportation safety priorities.Business Development – Demonstrated ability to retain long term client base and leverage new opportunities thru vast network of contacts, associations with organizations, and sound understanding of current and future regulations and priorities.Transportation Data Improvements – A national leader in the development and implementation of traffic records strategies for improving data collection and management of record systems to create robust data driven environments for the identification and evaluation of safety countermeasures.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Cambridge Systematics is dedicated to ensuring that transportation investments deliver the best possible results. Cambridge Systematics provides innovative policy and planning solutions, objective analysis, and technology applications to help clients meet future transportation needs while improving the performance of existing infrastructure and operations. • Work with state and federal partners to develop forward thinking transportation safety policies and programming in emerging areas such as autonomous and connected vehicles. • Lead states in planning and implementing strategies to integrate numerous data systems to improve the timeliness, accuracy, completeness, uniformity, integration and accessibility of their data for analysis. • Serve as a speaker and moderator at national and state conferences on transportation safety related topics. • Facilitate and assist states in developing and implementing their Strategic Highway Safety Plans.• Provide leadership and counsel to states roadway safety coordinating committees to move towards zero deaths.

Indianapolis

Complex public policy transportation issues require multiple stakeholders at all levels of government, non-profit and private sectors to come to a common focal point. Convergent Consulting specializes in identifying stakeholders and shepherding processes that exceed shared goals.• Serve as subject matter expert and provide technical advice to states regarding the development of performance based traffic safety plans to address roadway safety concerns in their communities.• Contractor for the US Department of Transportation’s Transportation Safety Institute (TSI) to conduct trainings and revise training curriculum for transportation professionals. • Assist states to successfully procure federal grant funds through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).• Conduct reviews of states transportation safety programs to ensure compliance with federal standards.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) serves as the state's planning agency for criminal justice, juvenile justice, traffic safety, and victim services. The Institute develops long-range strategies for the effective administration of Indiana's criminal justice systems and administers federal and state funds to carry out these strategies.• Administered annual budgets of more than $12 million focusing on evidence-based grant programs within federal DOT and state guidelines.• Worked alongside legislative study committees serving as a subject matter expert for developing numerous successful traffic safety laws and policies in occupant protection, law enforcement, impaired driving, and data collection. • Served on the Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA) board as Workforce Development and Technology Committee Chair and regional representative.

• Reviewed submitted grants to ensure they adhered to agency, state and federal guidelines.• Conducted and disseminated research findings to state and federal partners for federal and state compliance purposes.

Navy Federal Credit Union is the world’s largest non-profit financial services provider, with nearly four million members across the world.• Analyzed, monitored and interpreted fraud cases following national and international regulations.• Compiled evidence and constructed cases of operating violations against merchant banks to senior staff.

Biești, Orhei District, Moldova

Served as a Health Education instructor for the Peace Corps in the Republic of Moldova. • Created, administered and taught a two-year health and life skills course for local school of 340 students. • Assessed needs of the community and authored a successful grant to purchase a building to establish a youth center that served a population more than 5,500 residents.• Procured computers and established Internet access for the first time in the village for the public’s use. • Provided skills transfer to Moldovan teachers, the school administration and built capacity of teachers to expand the health education course and encourage sustainability of the program.

Master In Public Affairs, Public Management

Activities and Societies: Received Certificate in Public Management, May 2007. Received Master of Public Affairs, May 2009.

B.A., Criminal Justice