Ria Shveta Kulkarni

Business Process:

• Led and facilitated Scrum ceremonies including Sprint planning, Backlog grooming, sprint, daily Scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, and other meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Assessed each scrum team responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each team member's workload.
• Reflected to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle while listening to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve impediments.
• Assisted Product Owner by designing Technical User Stories and specifying Acceptance Criteria.
• Tracked team performance by analyzing reports in JIRA, such as Burn Up/ Burn down Chart, Release Burn down Chart, Cumulative Flow Diagram, Sprint Report, Velocity Chart, and EPIC burn down chart.
• Collaborated with Release Train Engineer (RTE) and utilized people, processes, and technology engagement to ensure timely delivery by project timeline, cost, scope and performance targets.

Business Development:

• Established collaborative partnerships with more than 15 regional stakeholders across state and beyond on infrastructure needs which resulted in inception of cross-regional projects for inclusion in funding programs that represent $86 billion in highway and transit projects in 2011 dollars.
• Curated vision and goals for organization in partnership with stakeholders to build technology strategic plans on.

Planning, Programming & Prioritization:

• Synthesized and authored meeting outcomes to committee, executives, stakeholders and public. Moderated meetings to facilitate planning, prioritization, progress and retrospective of project work.
• Developed KPI's for project funding eligibility and prioritization and identify opportunities for infrastructure investments.
• Collaborated and supported technical work associated with Authority's planning and programming responsibilities.
• Assisted Principal, Transportation Planning and Programming, in development of TransAction, (NVTA's long-range, multimodal transportation plan for Northern Virginia region) including facilitating and driving working group discussions towards development of vision and goals for Plan and synthesizing meeting outcomes as reference for next.
• Participated as NVTA stakeholder in development of state, regional, and local plans such as VTRANS, Comprehensive Plans, Transit agency plans.

Data Analytics & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Established collaborative working group for more than 20 regional stakeholders to identify Bus Rapid Transit needs for regional connectivity. Identified gaps, current issues with local and regional policies and funding via working group discussions. Synthesized feedback and conducted retrospectives for building stakeholder consensus to troubleshoot issues and establish new goals for inclusion in jurisdictional transportation plan updates.
• Supported development and adaptation of NVTA's FY2020-2025 Six Year Program for funding regional transportation projects valued at $539M. Additionally, managing and advancing total of 106 regionally significant project valued over $2.5B.
• Evaluated projects for eligibility and prioritization in sprints through program adaptation and implementation. Developed new eligibility criteria based on potential disruptive transportation trends. Actively participated in public engagement activities, and coordination with jurisdiction/agency staff and consultants as needed.
• Solicited and reviewed new project applications, conducted and facilitated Technical Advisory Committee meetings and summarized agenda discussions and prepared memos for CEO's report to Board.
• Supported the Principal in analyzing and harmonizing recommendations from Technical Advisory Committee as well as Planning & Coordination Committee; assisted in the development of project recommendations for NVTA for maximum regional impact on reducing congestion.
• Monitored implementation of projects receiving NVTA funds with respect to approved project description, schedule and reimbursement requests.
• Reviewed, provided feedback and retrospect on funding requests by regional stakeholders and agencies to derive insights on project burn-down and release and update progress on NVTA's new Program Monitoring and Management System (PMMS). Developed and used performance metrics in evaluating project impacts.
• Enhanced online project reporting using interactive GIS mapping, researched data gaps, built professional connections to acquire them, developed plan to build and implement congestion trend monitoring program.
• Collaborated with and advised member jurisdictions to ensure adequate understanding on use of funds provided by HB 2313 (2013). Reviewed use of funds allocated to jurisdictions to ensure compliance with policy and identify otherwise.
• Demonstrated expertise in standard transportation planning and modeling approaches, compare with regional standards to outline model that best adapts to current and future transportation trends. Initiated and supported working groups to build regional collaboration and feedback on in-house model development with budget of $1M.
• Lead development of interactive mapping/GIS capabilities and implementation of congestion trend monitoring system for travel trend analytics using MS Office, Tableau and SQL that improved work performance by 27%.
• Supported enhanced activities to outreach related to emergence of new transportation technologies and modes.
• Supported planning and facilitation of Annual Northern Virginia Transportation Roundtable, jointly hosted by NVTA and Intelligent Transportation Society of America all hosted virtually with more than 150 participants via various online platforms such as zoom and YouTube.
• Supported CEO in collaborating with Regional Jurisdiction and Agency Coordinating Committee (RJACC) with stakeholders across region.

Business Development:

• Translated stakeholder feedback to tangible infrastructure needs for economic growth and presented to executives.
• Reviewed development proposals to provide feedback and negotiate on high-value investments benefitting system user.
• Primary point of contact for public facing portal to channel and resolve public questions and concerns with 90% resolution turnover.
• Review and analyze land-development proposals to provide infrastructure recommendations that align with land-use and transportation policies
• Lead planning and design sprints to capture infrastructure needs in tandem with scenario development and integrating visionary implementation of solutions for Silver Line Metro Area.
• Documented key project activities from business case development, development of project scope and schedules.
• Lead project workshops and capture project requirements and translate to Product backlog, Epics, User Stories and Sprint Backlogs.
• Develop program direction, strategies and goals for county travel forecasting program updates in collaboration with consultants.
• Developed and maintained comprehensive technical blueprint of process workflow and solutions for travel demand model update and maintenance.
• Documented and evaluated required comprehensive data and information to improve process flow and build organization process assets for specific role.
• Guided members of inter-disciplinary teams on resources and requirements to develop and execute technical analyses in sprints.

Data Analytics & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Procured, compiled and processed comprehensive data for integrating into scenario development and analysis.
• Performed comprehensive modeling and data analytics for infrastructure investment strategies while addressing cross departmental objectives and stakeholder requirements.
• Analyzed impacts on transportation and selective land use scenarios using Cube, prepared technical reports and presented comprehensive results to department, enabling County Board for informed decision making.
• Disseminated and promoted implementation of research results, findings and recommendations.
• Coordinated efforts to adjust work activities in situations causing major shifts in work assignments.
• Initiated update of County travel demand model to reflect anticipated brisk growth in some areas that may result due to onset of metro.
• Planned roadmap to consistent model updates to stay abreast with regional travel forecasting updates. Presented breakdown of plan into epics and user stories needed to meet product requirements.
• Architected processes and procedures in collaboration with consultants for model update for alignment with MWCOG’s regional travel model.
• Established successful relationships with state and regional officials as primary liaison for MWCOG’s travel forecasting sub-committee (TFS).
• Represented County at MWCOG’s Regional Travel Forecasting Sub-Committee Meetings to develop travel demand model updates in collaboration with regional staff, stakeholders and consultants
• Document organizational process assets for specific role to improve process flow and result in data analysis for impactful insights on land use and infrastructure developments.
• Represent County at VA-DC-MD area to collaborate with regional staff, stakeholders and consultants for long term planning that resulted in planning model process enhancements.

Business Development:

• Provided onsite consultant technical expertise for Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA) with traffic data analysis, reviewing Traffic Impact Studies that feed into travel forecasting and highway design efforts of State.
• Analyzed and documented client requirements for traffic studies pertaining to development proposals.
• Coordinated traffic count data requests to sub-consultants, analyzed and presented summary reports of conditions

Data Analysis & Technical Documentation:

• Compiled and prepared raw traffic count data for 250 traffic signals; developed and designed study area networks in simulation models.
• Conducted traffic volume counts and compiled traffic accident data to improve road safety and overall efficiency by 28%.
• Analyzed traffic for performance metrics and system improvements by 17% while considering for background development and forecasted traffic volumes.
• Validated modeling and simulation results by integrating field observations in analyses for accurate forecasts.
• Summarized existing and forecasted conditions of corridor volumes.
• Analyzed, compiled and documented traffic impact of proposed short- and long-term land development plans.
• Reviewed roadway geometric improvement plans and incorporated design improvements into traffic model software.

Business Process & Data Analytics:

• Developed relationships with wide range of employees, customers and vendors.
• Prepared Excel spreadsheets with data used to create visuals such as graphs. Performed modeling, simulation, and signal timing studies, and traffic operation studies and optimized signal design for county signals in traffic signal network.
• Contributed to organizational process assets by creating spreadsheets and databases, and automated technical analyses on spreadsheets to improve process by 19%.
• Collaborated with industry professionals to learn internal business processes and best practices.
• Contributed on technical and management aspects for various traffic signal and infrastructure projects for County government initiatives.
• Developed database for 7500 streetlight inventories under Arlington County for ITS project initiatives in county such as CCTV, UPS, count stations and fiber networks leading to efficient access and management of information.
• Prepared cost estimates for streetlight construction and maintenance and analyzed cost benefit ratio for streetlight installations at crash locations. Leveraged on latest GIS applications for system wide traffic signal database.

Marine Highway System (Short Sea Shipping)- Surface Congestion Reduction Analysis & Modeling (SCRAM)- Research project worth $1.4Mfor MARAD- Maritime Administration.

• Compiled and analyzed freight movement, travel distance and congestion data.
• Researched and assisted team for modeling and analysis of highway freight movement for selected routes (I-64; I-95).
• Assessed benefits and roadblocks of alternate transportation system compared to highway freight.
• Engaging with stakeholders for scope planning and deliverables with CSC, Rutgers University, I-95 Coalition, Virginia DOT, Virginia Port Authority, New York - New Jersey Port Authority and MARAD.

Freight Analysis Framework (FAF)- USDOT funded project worth $50,000 on Freight Analysis Framework (FAF).

• Authored and presented technical-policy paper for Transportation Research Board-2011.
• Data Analyst for USDOT projects namely analysis of freight movements on highways and need for short sea shipping.
• Compiled, structured and disaggregated complex freight data from Freight Analysis Framework (FAF 2) for USDOT.
• Analyzed large and complex data sets (SQL, MS Access, ArcGIS)