Education

8/2005 - 4/2010 Bachelor's of Science in Civil Engineering at University of the Pacific

Experience

8/7/2017 -Current Transportation Planner at California Department of Transportation

-Provide program direction and guidance for the Districts to administer regional plans, grants, activities and funds
-Provide direction to District Liaisons on federal surface transportation planning legislation implementation and coordination
-Monitor, review and assess regional planning and programming activities and funds administration undertaken by the Districts, Regional Transportation Planning Agencies and Metropolitan Planning Organizations
-Evaluate required plans, programs, Overall Work Programs, and Regional Transportation Plans consistent with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, directions, and administrative requirements
-Integrate complete streets, smart mobility, bicycle and pedestrian, health, transportation equity, freight, and climate change planning policies and strategies into the regional planning process
-Assist in special assignments, reports and presentations
-Assist with Office of Regional Planning general administrative duties

3/20/2017 - 6/30/2017 Data Analyst II at Sacramento Regional Transit

• Prepared, administered and monitored Automated Passenger Count (APC) database
• Updated passenger ridership reports for bus and light rail
• Created GIS ridership maps for entire transit system
• Performed passenger outreach to determine the condition of current transit routes and lines
• Designed a macro to translate survey entries into major database
• Managed large amounts of passenger data in order to create reports for ridership, efficiency and time tables

8/8/2016 - 1/16/2017 Transportation Planner at Fehr & Peers

-Traffic modeling design
-Level of Service for road and intersection analysis
-Intersection design
-Land Use design and analysis

3/12/2012 - 7/22/2016 Associate Planner at San Joaquin Council of Governments

•Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy
oCustomized, maintained, and developed SJCOG Travel Demand Model data for consistency and reliability
oUsed forecasting from multiple sources in order to develop Land Use Interpolation for years needed as inputs for travel demand model
oSuccessfully assisted SJCOG in Sustainable Communities Strategy approval by ARB Board by researching, collecting data, organizing tables, developing templates, and managing data requested
•Air Quality Analysis
oCollaborated with other agencies (Stanislaus Council of Governments and Merced County Association of Governments) in order to have the Sustainable Communities Strategy approved by Air Resources Board
a.Completed all technical requests from ARB such as:
i.Post processing of traffic demand model for more detailed data
ii.Developing excel tables to be more visually understanding for ARB
b.Held meetings with ARB to present the data and help explain the results
oLead staff in charge of running Air Quality Model
a.Mastered 2011 EMFAC for precision and haste
b.Performed Conformity and SB-375 analysis for all model runs and scenarios
oCompleted any project amendments that needed to be implemented in the three county traffic model
a.Assisted in highway network edits
b.Ran Conformity Analysis for Merced, SJCOG, StanCOG
c.Developed and maintained Transit Networks in traffic models
d.Interpreted project list to determine which projects needed to be modeled

2009 - 2010 Junior Engineer (Intern) at BKF Engineers

• Drafted several large projects utilizing AutoCAD
• Assisted in highway design, alignment geometry, and cross sections
• Created cost estimates for local utilities near project sites
• Specified right of way deeds determining property rights
• Collaborated with company vice president, professional engineers, surveyors and AutoCAD Technicians in order to accomplish team goals