alaa mukahhal

planner, new mobility team

About

City planner, urban designer and transportation planner focused on improving spatial equity in cities through transit and infrastructure development. http://www.alaamukahhal.com/

Country

united states

City

boston

Industry

architecture & planning

Skill

html, nonprofits, css, javascript, ruby on rails, management, web development, research, graphic design, program management, ruby, training, indesign, microsoft office, web design, photoshop, html5, community organizing, community outreach, illustrator, logo design, user interface design, geographic information systems, user experience design, arcgis, git, github, public speaking, sql, public transport, data analysis, transition management, r, transit analysis, project management, leadership, autocad, sketchup, premiere, database management system, statistics, microsoft excel, urban planning, microsoft word, matlab, transportation planning, arcgis products

Experience

program manager

national partnership for new americans

2012-1 - 2014-12 · 3 yrs

* Organized and coordinated the national “Become a Citizen Now” campaign with twelve statewide immigrant advocacy coalitions which, over three years (2012-2014), have directly assisted over 30,000 legal permanent residents to become U.S. citizens * Assisted in standing up naturalization programs and infrastructure in four statewide organizations that have never done it before: CO, OR, WI, TN, FL * Assisted in organizing the National Immigrant Integration Conference in Maryland (2012) and Florida (2013) which, combined, brought together over 1,400 immigration stakeholders, academics, public officials, community organizers, funders, and social entrepreneurs * Responsible for day to day administrative operations of NPNA * Built internal capacity via legal and general trainings, webinars, boot camps * Developed comprehensive 200-page immigration services manual and trainings for unions and trained union members in NE, OH, IA, NJ, and KS.

customer technology intern

mbta

2016-6 - 2016-8 · 3 mos

* Developed complex plan using ArcGIS, SQL, and Excel to analyze, join, extract, and clean up data to address accessibility, optimization, and cost allocation problems; * Worked with AVL, APC, GTFS, and other large datasets involving millions of data points; * Proposed new location plan based on analysis to ensure service to cash customers in anticipation of the Automated Fare Collection 2.0 system

short term consultant

world bank group

2017-10 - 2018-6 · 9 mos

planner, new mobility team

city of boston

2019-2 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

planning and gis analyst

metropolitan area planning council

2018-1 - 2019-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

research assistant

massachusetts institute of technology (mit)

2016-8 - 2017-8 · 1 yr 1 mo

* Coordinated and managed development of content for an online case study of the local and environmental impacts of Forest City, a Chinese real estate mega-project in Malaysia * Created shapefiles and maps tracing development of southwest Johor

founder and freelance graphic designer

coffeehouse designs

2011-1 - 2014-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

* Founded CoffeeHouse Designs, a graphic design company. * Reached out to prospective clients and met their graphic design needs. * Majority of clients were nonprofit organizations. Developed and implemented concept to print designs, including logos, posters, local nonprofit newspapers, and websites.

graduate teaching assistant

massachusetts institute of technology (mit)

2015-8 - 2016-5 · 10 mos

* Developing tutorials for beginning web design and development using HTML, CSS, and Javascript * Maintaining class websites * Graphic designer for multiple projects

urban planning intern

mta capital construction

2016-1 - 2016-1 · 1 mo

Developed wayfinding plan for Grand Central Terminal in anticipation of entrances to the new Long Island Railroad concourse and terminal currently being constructed.