Stephen Crim Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, New York, United States

• I supervise creation of a legislatively mandated evaluation-reporting system for CBD Tolling
• I coordinated successful NEPA review for the nation’s first cordon-pricing program
• I managed analysis supporting an advisory board’s decision making on a recommended toll structure; personal contributions highlighted in the MTA CEO’s 2023 year-end presentation to the MTA Board
• I grew team under supervision from 3 to 4 and reduced time to complete analysis by bringing contracted analysis tasks in house

District Of Columbia, United States

• I supervised 5 staff operating curb-payment, permitting, and enforcement programs
• I managed and reported to executives on budgets and contracts worth $20.0M in revenue, $9.2M in operating expenses, and $2.8M in capital expenses annually
• I oversaw private-sector pilots of new technology systems intended to improve curb management

Arlington, Virginia

• I managed and developed 3 permanent staff and 3 contracted staff, including rebuild of residential permit parking (RPP) customer-service team that improved dispute handling, reduced escalations by 90%
• I oversaw financial activities and forecasted revenue for parking-meter, RPP, parking-garage, and car-share programs with annual expenses of $4.3M and annual revenue of $15.4M
• I planned and recommended requests for a $13.6M 10-year capital budget: won $6M in local and state DOT funding to design, install, operate performance-parking system and improved vehicle-permitting platform
• I led complex policy-making projects, including reforms to RPP program that ended exclusion of many residents and raised permit prices to eliminate general tax support
• I supervised staff in transportation data research and analysis: created validation methods for staff to use before accepting high-cost, consultant-collected parking counts
• I presented to senior staff and elected officials with materials that colleagues have asked to use as examples for their own work.

Arlington, Virginia

• I coordinated an inter-departmental staff team, facilitated stakeholder-advisory-group meetings, analyzed parking-demand data, and presented results to different audiences to win County Board adoption of reduced.

Arlington, Virginia

• I set vision and work plan for program with $500K annual budget, persuaded decision-makers to create new Research Analyst position and hired first Analyst, allowing program to bring contracted work in house
• I incorporated improved methods for counting trips made on all transportation modes into traffic data collection and analysis at high-density commercial and residential buildings
• I led proposal-writing for a $177K grant from FHWA to improve tools that calculate the benefits of TDM strategies.
• I compiled secondary research to persuade managers of employer-outreach program to emphasize the importance of ending parking subsidies in order to reduce drive-alone commute trips
• I improved data management, reduced errors in environmental impact and congestion/mobility performance reporting for transportation-demand-management (TDM) programs
• I established and documented method still in use for calculating and reporting transit-access performance metrics for the Division of Transportation

New Orleans, Louisiana

• I introduced a workflow for incorporating auto-based travel times from MapInfo into existing Excel revenue-forecasting gravity models, improving accuracy and reducing calibration time
• I created the firm's first revenue-forecasting gravity model to incorporate transit-based travel times by building an instance of the OpenTripPlanner JavaScript application for analysis of a proposed project in New.
• I researched and educated colleagues on more accurate methods for using the IMPLAN economic model in estimating the impacts of investment on state and county economies.
• I wrote a new procedure for creating market areas in MapInfo that simplified data management and analysis
• I educated colleagues on techniques that sped analysis of consumer-behavior survey data in SPSS

Biloxi, Mississippi

• I initiated a partnership between 3 public agencies and 2 nonprofits that restored 0.7 acres of degraded wetland adjacent to public housing which then-EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, later chose as a press conference.
• I visualized regional Hurricane Katrina-related wind-damage data with Census race data on map that partner non-profit used to secure new federal repair funding
• I served on a team that explored NEPA documentation process and persuaded Executive Director not to offer environmental assessment/environmental impact statement assistance to local nonprofits on the basis that it.
• I collaborated with staff from the Gulf Regional Planning Commission and other groups in writing a proposal that won $2M from the HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program to fund the Mississippi Gulf.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Course Description: “Simulating Sustainble Futures for Albacete, Spain.” A GIS-based studio seeking to find data-driven urban development strategies for Albacete. Taught by Professor Michael Flaxman.
• I prepared lesson plans and instructed students on the use of GIS analytical tools.
• I organized multiple field visits to Spain.
• I provided written and oral translation between Spanish and English.
• I assisted in the creation of a large spatial database.
• I personally researched the relationship between high-speed rail and urban development.

Alexandria, Virginia

• I led annual membership drive with revenues of over $200K
• I managed the implementation of a major upgrade to web-hosting and database software
• I persuaded management to make changes to webinar-registration procedures that dramatically reduced call center call volume on the day of webinars and improved the customer experience
• I revised member recruitment materials
• I authored database queries
• I managed interns and temporary staff

Master In City Planning

B.A., Individualized Study (Political Economy)

Activities and Societies: Semester abroad in Madrid, Spain and in Shanghai, China.