Sara Hammerschmidt Phd Email & Phone Number

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Washington, Dc

♦ Guide the Building Healthy Places Initiative through the development of content targeted at raising awareness of the development and design communities on the impact of the built environment on public health.♦ Integral in the production of several Urban Land Institute publications on improving health through built environment interventions.♦ Manage a multiyear project, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Colorado Health Foundation, that focuses on redeveloping commercial corridors in health-promoting ways.♦ Serve as a resource on health and the built environment for partners, members, and other parts of ULI.

Oakland, Ca

Researched best practices and strategies for ensuring equity in built environment and health related policies, plans, and projects, including: ♦ a literature scan on the role of equity within built environment and health efforts; ♦ designing, conducting, and analyzing interviews with national and local leaders in health, urban planning, design, and environmental justice; ♦ and researching and writing case studies on exemplary projects that consider health, the built environment, and equity.

Oakland, Ca

♦ Provided technical assistance for grantees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, including research support, regional meeting session planning and development of an advocacy resource toolkit. ♦ Conducted research for Ford Asset Building project on the wealth gap and connections to race and health. ♦ Updated Asthma and Air Quality toolkit to include comprehensive information on indoor air quality, health effects and weatherization.

Austin, Tx

♦ Analyzed data from a national survey of the general public for the American Planning Association on perceptions of and priorities for the field of urban planning.♦ Interviewed city of Dallas board members regarding a proposed Complete Streets initiative.♦ Interviewed city officials across the country on transportation in their area and analyzed responses for common themes.♦ Researched transportation alternatives in the Central Texas area, created maps using commuter data by zip code and created a social networking site for “Drive Less Save More” and "RideBy! Shuttle" campaigns.♦ Created memos and charts based on interview data for research projects in Louisiana and Arkansas.

Austin, Texas

♦ Collected, coordinated, and edited figures and images for scholarly publications.♦ Co-authored and designed "Reinventing the Texas Triangle", a publication on challenges and opportunities facing the Texas Triangle Megaregion, and presented research during a panel at Wimberley Eco-Fest 2010.♦ Researched a journal article dealing with urban design and health issues when developing a neighborhood, and determining population density required to support a pedestrian or bike friendly town center following New Urbanism principles.♦ Researched market size and demand data for infill and transit oriented developments, focusing on downtown Austin.

Austin, Texas

♦ Learned the subdivision plat review process for projects in the jurisdiction of Travis County.♦ Reviewed plats and provided comments to applicants on necessary revisions to meet planning codes.

Austin, Texas

♦ Coordinated projects to improve processes within the Capacity Planning team and within operations teams at the call centers, including a Six Sigma Yellow Belt project.♦ Led capacity planning for Dell Tech Support call centers and created capacity outlooks that tracked to financial spend.♦ Coordinated with site operations on headcount plans and utilization assumptions.♦ Coordinated quarterly forecasts for Dell owned sites.♦ Performed capacity scenarios and ad-hoc analysis that looked at impacts of changes to the business and to call center agents.♦ Recommended queue strategies and placement and presented performance metrics during weekly executive staff meetings.♦ Implemented capacity and headcount processes at three new Dell owned sites.♦ Participated on various project teams for new business initiatives as a capacity planning expert, including Extended Warranty Support rollout, XPS customer support, and Microsoft Vista rollout.

Austin, Texas

♦ Responsible for capacity allocation and factory planning, WIP support analysis, and rationalizing customer demand to factory constraints for a Motorola wafer fab. ♦ Coordinated a monthly forecast cycle and recommended capacity expansion in the factories based on the forecasts.♦ Acted as a liaison between the factories and Master Planning Analysts to schedule wafers starts in the fab and to monitor factory performance; worked with Master Planning management to determine weekly wafer starts based on business group allocation. ♦ Analyzed data on weekly and quarterly loadings versus capacity for all Motorola assembly and test factories.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Industrial And Operations Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Community And Regional Planning

My dissertation research focused on how the built environment, planning, and policy decisions can have a significant impact on public.

Master Of Science (Ms), Community And Regional Planning

Activities and Societies: Urban Land Institute Hines Urban Student Design Competition 2009 – Team Leader, American Planning Association.