My Experience

I am an executive, planner, analyst and project manager with over 15 years of experience in the public and private sectors. I have worked across the United States and Canada on projects with private firms and focused on my home state of Massachusetts with the state department of transportation and transit authority. I have helped manage offices and organizations at the executive level, and formed integral portions of leadership teams at agencies and firms.

Specifically, my technical experience includes service planning, alternatives analysis, economic development, environmental review, and the integration of engineering services. I have extensive project management experience, having managed multi-million-dollar planning studies and P3 efforts, most of which are now in the implementation phase. Having advised a number of MassDOT Secretaries and MBTA General Managers, as well as elected officials across the country, I'm well positioned to understand the interface between technical planning and political reality. My policy work for both MassDOT and the MBTA has progressed into investment strategy for both agencies.

My key areas of focus include fare and pricing policy, passenger facility design, transit micro-investments, the integration of emerging technologies into existing networks, the interface between planning and engineering, business case analysis, consensus building for transit alternatives, bridging the gap between government regimes, and P3 financing strategy.

My formal resume

Education

I graduated MIT with two degrees from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning - a Bachelor's in Planning, and a Master's of City Planning. My undergraduate thesis was on the Jubilee Line Extension in London, while my Master's thesis focused on Boston's Green Line Extension project, which I had worked on as an intern at MassDOT.

Speaking Engagements and Papers

Occasionally, projects and exciting life events turn into papers. Such as: Leveraging Location-Based Services Data to Optimize Generation of High-Demand and Equitable Bus Network Options. Transportation Research Record, 2678(3), 434-444. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231180202

Even more occasionally, someone will ask me to speak about my experiences, the future of transit, or how our transit networks truly function. One favorite was: November 8, 2018, Cambridge, MA: Civic Series Why Aren’t We Moving? An Inside Look at the MBTA - Event Description - Event Summary - Coverage in the Suffolk Journal

Steer

I joined Steer in 2025 as Vice President, East, with a mandate to lead strategic advancement on the US East Coast, with a focus on public sector business development. In addition to strategic business oversight responsibilities, I’ll will be involved in significant transit and planning projects across Steer’s portfolio.

RSG

From 2024 to 2025 I was the Vice President of Planning and Modeling at RSG, a nationwide technical consulting firm focusing on travel behavior analysis. At RSG, I led a national portfolio of experts while directing transformative efforts like Vermont’s Rail and Freight Plan and Anchorage’s Climate Action Plan. My role oversaw 30 consultants and half of the organization’s revenue. In addition, I had strategic business development responsibilities and helped modernize RSG’s project management and internal processes.

Arup

From 2017 to 2024, I served in a number of roles with the internationally-renowned design firm Arup. I began this role by founding and leading the Boston Integrated Planning team, growing to serve as the Americas East Cities Planning and Design Leader, with oversight over staff and projects based in the Boston, New York, Washington and Chicago offices. These teams provided services to public and private sector clients around the world, focusing on service planning, masterplanning, alternatives analysis, economic development, pedestrian planning, transportation engineering, urban design, ITS and logistics across eleven market sectors. In addition, I served as the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Leader for Boston, and the Community Engagement Leader for the Americas.

While at Arup, I was involved in or managed a number of public projects across a wide variety of topics, including:

• Citywide plans:

  • City of Cambridge’s Net-Zero Transportation Plan, Air Noise Study

  • City of Medford’s Comprehensive Plan

• Area plans:

  • City of Boston’s Franklin Park Action Plan, Allston-Brighton Mobility Plan, PLAN: Downtown, PLAN: East Boston, PLAN: Newmarket, Harvard ERC District and Greenway Plan

  • Town of Natick’s Golden Triangle Planning Study (via MassDOT)

  • City of Providence’s Unified Vision for Downtown

  • City of Somerville’s Gilman Square Redesign

• Major infrastructure investments:

  • BART/CCJPA’s Link21

  • Canada Infrastructure Bank’s High Frequency Rail Project

  • MassDOT’s North South Rail Link Feasibility Reassessment, I-90 Interchange Project Independent Review, Bus Network Redesign

  • MBTA’s Green Line Extension, Parking Modernization Program, Forest Hills Station Redesign, Haymarket Station Redesign

  • Metrolinx’s Queen Street BRT Business Case Analysis

• Transit technology and transportation policy:

  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Priority Climate Action Plan

  • Connecticut DOT’s Windham Regional Bus Facility Expansion

  • MassDOT’s Future of Telework Study, Shared Travel Study

  • MBTA’s Design Standards and Guidelines Update, Commuter Rail Future Contract Analysis

  • Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Fare Evasion

As well as projects for a variety of private clients, including: A Better City, Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation, Boston Global Investors, Delaware North, Harvard University, Lincoln Property Company, LStar, Pembroke, and others.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)

From 2016 to 2017, I was the Manager of Technology Policy for the MBTA, This primary involved serving as the Program Manager for Installation and Policy for the Automated Fare Collection (AFC 2.0) project. AFC 2.0 will deliver the next generation of MBTA fare collection through a P3 delivery. While working on this project, I directed a team in development of technical specifications, coordinated with ongoing construction and planning projects, analyzed the applicability of cutting-edge technologies, and developed the structure of the P3 deal framework and drafted the program contract. I also conducted extensive public outreach, constituent services, leadership briefings and policy development to ensure that the MBTA was properly prepared for installation of the forthcoming program. 

I also served as summer intern in the MBTA's Service Planning Department in 2007.

Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT)

From 2010 to 2016, I was a Transportation Program Planner within the Office of Transportation Planning at MassDOT. This means that I was a transportation planner, project manager and policy analyst for some of the largest programs in the Commonwealth. Alongside my team, I performed program management; policy development; project and staff oversight, management and coordination; long-range analysis, decision-making for statewide goals and objectives, constituent services, consultant management and agency coordination.

While at MassDOT, I worked on the following projects, and had the following roles: 

• South Station Expansion - Project Manager

• The Way Forward: A 21st Century Transportation Plan - Writer

• Green Line Extension - Deputy Project Manager

• Kendall Square Mobility Task Force - Project Manager

• Ports of Massachusetts Strategic Plan - Project Manager

• Grand Junction Transportation Study - Project Manager

• Beyond Boston: Statewide Transit Plan - Deputy Project Manager

• I-90 Allston Interchange Project

• Gubernatorial Transition Coordinator

• MBTA Policy Adviser (fares, service changes, strategic vision, bus planning)

• State Implementation Plan - Project Coordinator

• Commuter Rail Service Procurement Evaluation - Researcher and author

• Self-Powered Railcar Evaluation - Researcher and author

• Economics of Vehicle Manufacturing in MA- Researcher and author

I also served as a summer intern in the Office of Transportation Planning in 2008.

Jacobs Engineering

From 2009 to 2010, I was a Transit Planner/Analyst at Jacobs Engineering (formerly Edwards & Kelcey, formerly KKO and Associates). I worked on a variety of high-profile projects across the country performing service design, routing, scheduling, station location determination, project oversight, operations and maintenance cost estimation, capital cost estimation, project evaluation, stakeholder meetings and presentations, and proposal development.

While at Jacobs, my major projects and clients included:

• South Florida East Coast Corridor Study - Florida DOT

• Bus Rapid Transit Running-Time Estimation Tool - Florida DOT

• Denver FasTracks - Denver RTD

• Honolulu High Capacity Transit Cooridor Project - Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation

• Foxboro Commuter Rail Study - MBTA

• Nassau Hub Alternatives Analysis - Nassau County, NY

• San Juan Carolina Corridor BRT Study - Puerto Rico Department of Transportation