I am employed as a Senior Planner with the City of SeaTac, Washington. I provide comprehensive long-range planning services, including utilities, capital facilities, and transportation planning. Alongside these duties, I conduct current planning development review, coordinate with the Port of Seattle on a variety of matters, and serve as the project manager for the 2024 update to SeaTac’s Transportation Master Plan and Transportation Element of the Comprehensive Plan. In my previous role, I served as the Town Planner of the Town of Eatonville in Pierce County, Washington. In Eatonville, my office provided updates to municipal code, current and long-range planning services, and acted as a representative of the Town to regional planning agencies and the Eatonville Planning Commission.As Town Planner, my duties comprised a broad range of planning activities including acting as the SEPA-responsible official for the Town, the review of proposed plats, processing statutory updates and amendments to the comprehensive plan and municipal code, reviewing land use permit applications, and serving as a subject matter expert on the provisions of the Growth Management Act. Before relocating to Washington, I served as a Regional Planner for the East Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission. As a Regional Planner, I was a member of a core team of diverse individuals serving local governments and elected officials throughout ten counties by providing technical assistance and by helping them to secure public funding to achieve their policy goals. My office, in addition to serving as a central conduit for state and federal programs, provided capacity in all matters of public planning which, unfortunately, were too often lacking in rural and small-to-mid-size city budgets. In each role, I have regularly appeared before numerous councils and commissions as a planning official advising elected officials on various policy issues such as securing grant funding, infrastructure, comprehensive planning, code amendments, real property disposition, and economic development. I am adept at helping stakeholders to conceptualize abstract, complex issues laden with large amounts of detailed information and relate it in a manner that is concise and approachable to policymakers.I am a graduate of Jacksonville State University, in Alabama, where I earned a Master of Public Administration and a B.A. in Political Science. Photo credit: David Inman - City of SeaTac