Daniel is a Senior Consultant specializing in financial planning and analysis, transportation systems planning, and strategic planning. Daniel has a variety of experience in the private and public sectors and a career focus on data analysis applications for strategic decision-making. Daniel is an urban planner at heart; he is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Prior to joining InfraStrategies, Daniel was a mobility planner at the engineering & consulting firm Crawford, Murphy & Tilly (CMT), where he led the development of active transportation, corridor and subarea plans for client in local government and state DOTs. Daniel helped develop the St. Louis City Transportation & Mobility Plan, the city’s first comprehensive look at its streets since 1947. Daniel led the development of that project’s Safety Action Plan, bringing together crash history, demographics, and land use contexts to prioritize street design projects that reduce severe crashes. Daniel assisted in every aspect of the plan, especially facilitating public and stakeholder engagement and developing the new framework for street design.

Before CMT, Daniel served as a transit planner and lead analyst for St. Louis Metro Transit, where he led initiatives in reporting modernization, bus stops capital planning, and bus network design. He built surveys, databases, and reporting tools for the planning department to track data on bus stop ADA compliance and state of repair. Daniel also developed a method for evaluating alternative transit networks based on the region’s access to jobs, which has guided the agency’s updates to its bus network as it recovers from the COVID pandemic.

Daniel earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton University and master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Transportation Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech, where he conducted peer-reviewed research in traffic safety and bus network optimization. Daniel’s diverse experience includes a variety of consulting positions, analytics at Lyft, and planning in local government.