Sam Sklar Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, United States

People: Hiring, Development & Training, Management, Conflict Resolution• Day-to-day management of 5-6 full time project staff, rotating 3-5 interns.• Development of evolving position responsibilities, recruiting, onboarding, developing new staff and interns.• Weekly cross-team coordination on staff allocation, budgeting, project direction.• As-needed advisory of senior leadership on current project successes and challenges and future endeavors.Projects: Development, Management & Execution• Project Leadership, Management, and Direction: task development, scheduling, product development and follow-up.• Business Development: strategic direction for project sourcing, pursuit, development.• External Client Management: written and verbal communications direction.NJ TRANSIT Business Case Process + 2021-2025 Capital Plan Update • Directed the creation of a robust strategic playbook dedicated to the prioritization and definition for any project NJ TRANSIT already has identified in its Capital Plan or any future project. • Ensured project goals were met on time and within managed budget in close partnership with clients, liaisons and advisors.• Defined playbook components and contents (context and existing conditions, economic and fiscal strategy, risk and mitigation, and alignment with agency strategic goals) and associated Excel- and R-based tools. • Piloted playbook to ensure effectiveness against a real-world project• Collated process with 5-year capital plan update in partnership and collaboration with WSP.Federal Competitive Grant Writing, including submissions for RAISE, MEGA, CRISI, Fed-State Partnership (NEC + Nationwide)• Led economic and narrative development for 12 USDOT grants for NJ TRANSIT totaling $250+ million in discretionary funding for 2022 and 2023 application cycles, success pending. • Built benefit-cost models to show that a proposed project's benefits would exceed its costs over a 30-year period.

New York, United States

Director-level role.

• Collaborated with organizational leadership to develop target universe to efficientlyallocate resources and volunteer time, using VoteBuilder software platform.• Conducted community outreach through door-to-door canvassing of over 4000 total doors.• Recruited, organized, and trained dozens of volunteers to canvass an additional 15,000 doors.• Copywrote and managed external creative partners to design and print over 50,000 mailers, door-hangers, and information leaflets. Led translation of literature into Bengali to communicate with our Bangladeshi neighbors.

New York, New York, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Led expansion of web-based real estate marketplace into 22 municipalities in northern New Jersey.• Collaborated with marketing team to create SEO-driven blog posts to increase site traffic; incl. How Property Taxes Work in New York, Should I Rent or Buy?, How to Live Near Your Favorite Movie Locations in New York.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Dove deep into local open data to build internal existing conditions document for 30+ neighborhoodsacross 3 cities; information included: demographics, physical attributes, upcoming projects.• Published 200+ insights about existing and upcoming city transportation, land use, schools, parks andcommunity development projects to assist home buyers and renters during their decision-making process.• Appeared on local news outlets (PIX11) to promote the brand and proprietary research I conducted about most dangerous intersections in NYC based on open crash data. Contributed to media pieces featured in New York Times, Curbed, NY Post.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Dangerous by Design 2016: 44-page report detailing pedestrian fatalities in the US from 2005-2014.• Organized, cleaned, analyzed, and interpreted publicly available demographic and crashdata from the US Census and the FARS database using R Studio and ArcGIS.• Successfully convinced project leads to include MPO-level analysis to align grim findingswith regional decision-making bodies who have power to affect regional change.• Co-authored additional technical paper and TRB poster incorporating additional data divingdeeper into connection between street design and pedestrian fatality rate.Hawaii DOT Innovation Technical Assistance: $200k technical assistance project forHawaii Department of Transportation and Hawaii’s four largest counties.• Co-developed 32 hours worth of planning and performance management curriculum for project presentersand outside consultants, including PowerPoint presentations, table exercises, and field activities.• Wrote and produced 20-page follow-up document summarizing event and key takeaways for stakeholders, emphasizing learnings and next steps for each, resulting in additional $250k grant to implement locally-sourced ideas.Gulf Coast Rail Restoration: $2.5 million federal grant aimed at reimplementingdaily passenger rail service between New Orleans and Mobile, AL• Managed 4 different statements of work and project budgets for 13 different localprojects along rail corridor, all in different stages, from 0% to 75% design.• Troubleshot various, inevitable obstacles to implementation including: coordination with Class I freightrailroads, misunderstandings about environmental reporting requirements, and cost overruns.• Submitted timely quarterly grant reports using Federal grant reporting requirements.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Intern role.Sam was responsible for the creation of a day-long community session that focused on local freight issues. Work included: stakeholder coordination, partner communication, day-of operations.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Intern Role.Sam assisted the South Cluster Planning team for 10 hours per week. He contributed GIS, writing, and editing, and documenting public meetings.

Boston, Ma

Intern Role.Sam assisted with fundraising for a Kickstarter campaign to provide clear wayfinding signs for Malden, MA, helped to plan WalkBoston's annual meeting, and various office roles.

Manhattan, Ny

Sam worked to source new mortgage financing and refinancing deals for residential home loans in New York and New Jersey. Originated several million dollars worth of single- and multi-family, co-op, and condo deals in various levels of complexity.

Sam worked to source, analyze, and close new mortgage loan financing and refinancing for clients in the commercial sector. Originated several million dollars worth of loans.

Manhattan, Ny

Master'S Degree, City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning

Activities and Societies: Inaugural Recipient of Energy Policy and Management Certificate Co-Founded Student Planning Association.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Finance, General

Bsba, Finance