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Planning Projects

  • Project manager and logistics lead for development of an overall regional strategy for the client’s logistics facilities and asset management, enabling operational efficiencies and informed infrastructure planning. Analyzed logistics operations, building design, asset management, users’ travel patterns and fleet demands at the client’s existing and planned campuses. Recommended building- and district-scaled strategies that enable convenient and sustainable operations and optimizes shared facilities across the region.

  • Logistics lead for the mixed-use masterplanning design of the garden and home retailer’s new town center. Study included comprehensive stakeholder engagement, in-person workshops with the design team, research of sustainable innovations and technologies for logistics servicing, studies for operational needs of all buildings (including grocery store, housing, hotel, and retail), and recommendations of overall operational site design and strategy.

  • Logistics lead for a sustainability study providing net-positive energy, carbon, water, and waste solutions to a confidential client’s campus masterplan. Analysis included assessment of existing waste management systems, waste generation forecasts across the next 15 years, and implementation and cost analysis studies for an automated waste collection network and anaerobic digestion systems. Researched and provided decentralized waste net-positive solutions that increase both waste reduction and diversion for each building within the masterplan.

  • Waste reduction sustainability lead for the development of a master planning strategy for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. Established baselines by assessing waste diversion targets, participated in stakeholder coordination to understand current waste management operations, and benchmarked existing waste strategies against other leading pharmaceutical companies. Identified specific strategies that would encourage source reduction, reuse, recycling, and circularity of all materials used and total waste generated. Contributed towards detailed analysis and future master plan development incorporating the waste reduction strategies identified.

  • Logistics analysis for a multi-district food operations masterplan for a client. Studies included assessment of campus growth across a 10-year timeline, redevelopment of client’s KPI’s as it related to food operations, brainstorms for future real estate opportunities and deficits against headcount for both kitchen production and storage space, and provision of operational solutions to improve consolidation, intra-district food transfers, automation, and food waste sustainability.

Property Projects

  • A former industrial site in the LA Arts District being transformed into a new mixed-use development with office space, affordable market-rate housing, a hotel, and a range of commercial and retail uses across five towers linked via shared podium and multi-story parking garage. Support included logistics and operations analysis, defining anticipated volume of daily deliveries, material handling and storage requirements, and operational waste management requirements. Requirements were defined for each development phase to enable effective management of goods delivery and waste removal at each project phase.

  • Project manager and logistics design lead for the headquarters of a video technology company in northern California, encompassing five separate buildings and servicing 6,500 employees. Analysis includes design of all operational back-of house spaces including loading dock, waste rooms, mail room, and receiving areas, awareness, and consideration of the integrating the campuses within its natural environment, swept path analysis and roadway design efforts, and weekly stakeholder engagement across all individual building design projects.

  • Logistics lead of the project criteria team responsible for delivering design standards, requirements, and operational strategies for the DGS campus on Richards Boulevard in Sacramento. Project contribution included initial logistics programming analysis and calculations, creation of the logistics and waste management project criteria chapters, attendance at multiple microprogramming workshops held in Sacramento with building tenants, thorough scoring and selection of the three final contenders for the DBE team, and support with stakeholder and city engagement.

  • Logistics lead for the design of infrastructure and operations of a central kitchen, which is expected to service six commercial campus buildings in northern California within the next 10 years. Analysis included comprehensive stakeholder engagement through site visits and workshops, future-proofing exercises, receiving dock sizing, specification of material handling equipment and requirements for inbound pallets, time studies demonstrating all subprocesses and buffer areas, workforce management and staffing recommendations, and spatial requirements for dispatching food from the central kitchen.

Aviation Projects

  • Logistics and waste management consultant for the $950m redevelopment of the main terminal core at Portland International Airport. Studied options for reconfiguring the entire terminal core to rebalance concessions post-security, and clear out legacy infrastructure to provide a flexible, open clear-span space that will extend the life of the building for an estimated 20 years. Participated in multiple stakeholder meetings to understand client requirements and standards for back of house operational space and all waste storage and collection areas. Designed flowcharts and process routing to illustrate as-is and proposed operations and ran swept path analyses to demonstrate feasibility of vehicle maneuvering within and around the site.

  • Contributed to development and research for NAICM’s sustainability initiative. Researched sustainability studies for specifically waste management (including hazardous/construction waste). Analyzed international range of airports to develop a summary of case studies for best practices. Supported analysis with a review of technical requirements and codes for sustainable waste management at airports.

University Campus Projects

  • Logistics consultant for the masterplanning design and operational strategy of UC Merced’s 2020 1.2 million sq. ft. campus expansion, the largest P3 social infrastructure project in the US for its opening in Fall 2020. Analysis included swept path analyses, loading bay design, internal transportation vehicle research, dining and housing delivery and waste forecast calculations, and site-wide waste management solutions. The site will include offices, research labs, classrooms, student dining hall, and sports fields.

  • Logistics consultant providing operations management strategy for redevelopment of PSU’s Office of Physical Plant. This redevelopment project included research of alternative means of workforce, studies of space requirements across all departments, and benchmark studies and comparisons against leading nationally ranked universities.

Industrial, Science & Technology Projects

  • Analyst as part of redesigning initiative for Hunts Point Market, the largest produce supplier to all of New York state. Provided detailed studies of the three main modes of freight transport expected to service the multi-building industrial facility (rail, trucks, ferry), including inbound/outbound analysis on delivery volumes and time studies. Additional analysis included warehouse sizing and pallet storage calculations, research into cold chain delivery and supply chain requirements, growth adjustment factor adjustments to accommodate future scenarios, and capacity analysis to determine optimal use of existing and future building footprint.

  • Process engineering analysis for pipeline production of solvent material. Project work included design of loading dock yard, including roadways inside and outside of facility, and internal/external facility layout design to optimize the manufacturing process.

Infrastructure Projects

  • Deputy project manager for sustainability services management of California’s High-Speed Rail Phase 1. Oversaw a team of over 120 people from 12 sub-consultant firms, with roles including daily engagement with the High-Speed Rail Authority, coordination between five sustainability workstreams, review of design criteria and system-wide progress, and validation of team’s goals and objectives against sustainability targets.

Simulation

  • Assisted in MassMotion study for a client in New York City. Objective was to assess the client’s lobby operations and general flows into their Downtown NYC skyscraper while incorporating social distancing and COVID-19 response guidelines. The outcome was to identify areas where time in proximity was increased for specific journeys and to design internal/external queues while maintaining 6 ft. distances between individuals. Simulated an array of inbound/outbound flows for AM/PM peak hours, including employee, visitor, fever-tested, and café visitor journeys.

Qualifications / Accreditations / Skills / Memberships

  • Awarded February 2021

  • Organized by Open Architecture Collaborative, participated during Spring 2021

  • MassMotion Simulation, AutoCAD, PowerBI, Procore, Microsoft Suite, Google Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, Premiere Pro, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign

  • Institute of Industrial Engineers, Society of Women Engineer, Solid Waste Association of North America

Publications

“Using Pedestrian Simulation Modeling for a Logistics World”, IIE Annual Conference (2021)

“Logistics design offers vital insights”, Arup (2020)