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Brussels-Africa Hub

The Brussels-Africa Hub is a private international non-profit association dedicated to fostering sustainable and responsible investment in Africa.

Transportation Research Board: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Project Management and Strategic Planning: Manage portfolio of 30 $100K - $350K projects at a time, 1 staff member, and meetings for 4, 10-person expert panels, planning and facilitating panel meetings and expert web calls. Use strategic planning and goal setting skills to manage competing priorities.

Research Management and Program Management: Direct 2 technical innovation programs that provide early-stage research funding for promising but unproven innovative concepts sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).

Marketing, Pilot Projects, and Strategic Partnerships: Launch marketing and communication project to capture impact of 25-year transit innovation program and pilot 2 new webpages to drive outreach efforts, build partnerships with, and attract transit agencies, inventors, and industry leaders. 

Budget Process and Transportation Procurement: Oversee budget allocation and procurement with ENR Top 500 design firms, ensuring compliance.

Presentations: Publicize programs on websites, providing interest groups with key information and presenting programs at industry meetings.

Relationship Building: Conduct site visits of technologies, building rapport with researchers and comprehension of research. 

Technical Assistance: Provide technical guidance to researchers. For example, after reviewing an initial report, challenged classification of technology and provided guidance that resulted in revision of the literature review to remove biases.

Report Preparation: Working closely with researchers and oversight panel, review and approve technical summaries and reports for release.

Senior Program Officer, Cooperative Research Programs

Program Officer, Cooperative Research Programs

Team Leadership: Led 6-person task force on a highly visible executive project for 12-months; presented updates to the executive leadership.

Strategic Planning: Delivered first of its kind management plan document; achieved plan acceptance and implemented directions.

Talking Points: Wrote talking points for the Executive Director using relevant reports from Vault’s Top 50 management consulting firms.

Program Evaluation: With Division Director oversight, prepared materials for advisory studies (strategic research-policy), reviewing R&T programs for USDOT agencies, producing letter reports (briefs) and recommendations (advice) to meet goals.

Compliance: Managed selection of experts for project committee member nomination, optimizing expertise matrix, preparing comprehensive appointment packages, and reviewing conflicts of interests and biases for Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) compliance.

Meeting Planning: Planned detailed, 2-day meeting agendas, gathering research materials and compiling presentations from USDOT agencies, successfully coordinating 25-attendees, and facilitating information flow among committee members, staff, and federal staff.

Agenda Development: Primarily supported Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) R&T review committee via Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center staff; focused on research agenda setting, stakeholder involvement, conduct of research, peer review, and deployment.

Transportation Safety: Supported creation of R&T review committee for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), which was aimed at refining research methods, identifying/utilizing current research in transportation, and improving transparency of their R&T activities.

Written Communication: Provided early-stage drafts on experts, topics, and city locations for project meetings and listening sessions for interstate study.

Program Officer, Policy Studies

European Union

Proposed a transport innovation agenda on 3 key topics for this 1-week, intensive, international diplomacy program that offers participants an opportunity to experience the European Union: 

1. Sustainable Transport, 
2. Technology Partnerships in Transport (Research and Innovation), and 
3. Planning and Accessibility in Transport (Intelligent Transportation Systems)

Fellow, European Union Visitors Program (EUVP)

Startup Norway

Pitched "InfinitEarth", a circular solution for the use of excess excavated masses from construction projects, through a rigorous 12-week, virtual, pre-incubator program under the guidance of several mentors. Gained a solid foundation on key circular business model concepts to support a profitable and sustainable business.

Founder, Circular Startup: Venture Studio

Purdue University

Supported directors and deans in achieving their goals across 6 engineering programs

Graduate Education & Interdisciplinary Pgrms: Launched an on-going professional development program, helping 300 PhD and postdoctoral students a year prepare for competitive research careers. Piloted 2 themed workshops and subsequently doubled program size, achieving 4 themed workshops a year featuring 14 alumni panelists. Renewed accompanying mentor handbook and reestablished use and distribution to 11 engineering schools

Office of Future Engineers: As a recruiter, led 1-hour presentation weekly for 50 prospective students. Reorganized it to be succinct and 50% more interactive, increasing the number, quality, and diversity of students for whom engineering was found to be a good fit

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship: As 1 of 4, led 12-week program to develop 140 fellows into future research professionals, oversaw 34 fellows directly. Provided a hands-on research experience, organized a research symposium, designed deliverable management workflow using Blackboard, edited/published a symposium book, and recruited students to undertake graduate study

Global Engineering Pgrm: Directed students in time-sensitive Maymester course on how to evaluate competing technology solutions for cultural sensitivity, analysis presented in stage 2 report as a part of a 4-stage, multiyear, international project

Women In Engineering Pgrm: Led 16-week seminar for 130 first-year students in engineering, planned and organized presentations from 15 high achieving engineering alumni annually. Wrote performance report conveying impact on student success for sponsor. Launched/administered engineering program for grades 6-8, serving 100/year, improving local STEM education pipeline

Minority Engineering Pgrm: Co-managed 30 pre-freshman on 24-hour intensive, 5-week schedule, achieving boot camp-like environment to support retention of students from underrepresented groups in first-year engineering

Professional Assistant, College of Engineering

Conducted a 21-month investigation of sources of delivery variability (risk factors) between state highway project proposed dates and letting dates. Used statistical and econometric techniques to analyze 350 projects valued at $1M or greater. Made recommendations to enhance INDOTs ability to prioritize project funding allocation to save time and money.

Research Assistant, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Senior RD&T lead, VC/PE firm and investment NPO advisor, with 13 years at a top-tier NGO/NPO and R1 university. Accomplished in innovation strategy, management, execution and consulting for transport industry solutions via consensus building with public and private C-Suites and driving mixed teams.

I oversee the application of technologies that improve the way we move people and goods, such as AR, AV, clean energy solutions, UAV, NDT techniques, way-finding apps and more.

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