D5-3-Disciplines 3 & 5 PM Julie Schafer Resume.pdf
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This is a resume for Julie Schafer, Director of State Initiatives at RLS & Associates, Inc., submitted as part of a proposal response to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) for On Call Transit Consultant Services. Ms. Schafer brings 24 years of transportation experience with expertise in transit administration, operations, planning, grants management, and regulatory compliance. She currently serves as Lead Planner for the Ohio Mobility Transformation project, which coordinates transportation policies and funding across 14 state agencies, and as Project Manager for the Indiana Compliance Monitoring project, overseeing on-site compliance reviews of 45 rural and small urban transit systems. Her professional experience since June 2011 includes serving as a senior associate and director managing state DOT contracts, providing on-site grants management and technical assistance to transit systems across multiple states including Ohio, North Carolina, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Massachusetts. Ms. Schafer has provided over 10 years of grants management support to Ohio DOT and rural transit systems, conducted interim transit manager assignments, coordinated system transitions and new provider onboarding, and supported Rural Transit Assistance Programs across multiple states.
Ms. Schafer holds a certification as a Certified Community Transit Manager and Registered Guardian Certification. Her quality control practices emphasize comprehensive quality assurance reviews, open client dialogue, continuous oversight, regular progress reporting, and commitment to exceeding industry standards. Her experience directly aligns with ADOT's need for multimodal transit consulting services across disciplines including transit planning, operations planning, and strategic planning for rural and small urban transit systems, particularly those serving elderly and disabled populations, which represent core components of the on-call consultant services contract with funding through FTA Sections 5311, 5310, and 5305.
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RLS & Associates, Inc.
A former transit manager, Ms. Julie Schafer is experienced in transit administration, opera-tions, planning, grants management, and regulatory compliance. She is the RLS Director in charge of RLS’ State DOT task order/on-call service assignments as well as the RLS Circuit Rider for rural and small urban transit systems. Ms. Schafer’s current assignments also include Lead Planner for the Ohio Mobility Transformation project, to align the elements of policies, fund-ing, planning, and technology into a coordinated and enhanced mobility platform among 14 State agencies funding human service transportation. This project has attracted the attention of Federal Transit Administration leadership and is currently in Phase 2 of introducing this alignment vision to pilot areas in the state. Finally, Ms. Schafer is the Project Manager and Lead Reviewer for the Indiana Compliance Monitoring project for conducting on-site compliance review of Indiana’s 45 rural and small urban transit systems.
JULIE SCHAFER
Director of State Initiatives
EDUCATION
Attended Miami University-Hamilton
YEARS OF TRANSPORTATION EXPERIENCE
AFFILIATIONS
Certified Community Transit Manager Registered Guardian Certification
QUALITY CONTROL PRACTICES
Quality Assurance Reviews
Open Dialogue with Clients
Continuous Oversight Ensuring Consistency, Clarity and Accuracy
Regular Updates and Progress Reports
Exceeding Expectations on Tasks and Deliver-ables
Adhering to a Strict Plan for Quality
Commitment to Continuing Education for All Staff Members
Exceeding Industry Standards
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Associate/Director of State Initiatives, RLS & Associates, Inc., June 2011
— Present - An experienced Project Manager, Ms. Schafer is RLS’ Director of State Initiatives in charge of RLS’ State DOT contracts. She is known for her abil-ity to critically assess difficult challenges and develop solutions that benefit not only the State, but the transit system and most importantly, the citizens who depend on the transit service. A sample of Ms. Schafer’s recent projects have included on-site grants management, operations and staff training for Ohio transit systems, including with assisting with onboarding four new 5311 sys-tems, Section 5311(f) financial audit of Barons Bus Lines, financial review and technical assistance to Washington County Transit, the Mobility Ohio project, and Tennessee Office of Mobility and Accessibility Strategic Plan development.
Ms. Schafer is highly experienced in Federal and state grants management. Cur-rently, she provides these services in Ohio, North Carolina, West Virginia, and New Hampshire. In addition, Ms. Schafer provides support for the Tennessee, Wisconsin, Indiana, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, Rural Transit Assis-tance Programs (RTAP) and is the lead reviewer for the Indiana DOT compliance monitoring program. For over 10 years, Ms. Schafer has provided grants man-agement support to Ohio DOT staff and Ohio’s rural transit systems. Ms. Schaf-er’s combination of local transit and State DOT experience give her a unique perspective and valuable insights to assist and support both State and local transit system staffs.
As a Ohio Rural Circuit Rider, Ms. Schafer provides on-site training and technical assistance for ODOT’s Section 5311 transit systems. In this role, she provided on -site grants management, transit operations management and staff training to multiple Section 5311 systems, served as the interim transit manager for the Chillicothe Transit System; coordinated the transition of the Logan Transit Sys-tem to a new provider, including coordinating all training and hiring of person-nel; provided on-site management assistance to Marion Area Transit, and sever-al other interim assignments.
In addition, Ms. Schafer has conducted critical assessments and provided on-site assistance to transit systems in Indiana, West Virginia, North Carolina, and New Hampshire. Projects in West Virginia included a new Section 5307 system start up and transition of a Section 5311 system to a new provider. Projects in New Hampshire included transitioning a Section 5311 system to a new provider, all aspects of a new transit system start up, interim transit system management, and staff training. In North Carolina, she provided on-site grants management, financial planning, and resource development training and assistance to a finan-cially challenged system with new staff.
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