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Spread across over 60 cities, our team is a global collective of urban experts in design, architecture, engineering, civil, transportation, urban geography, real estate, landscape, communications, software development and so much more. These are the people defining the cities of tomorrow.

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Cathy Offenberg

Associate Director | Practice Lead, Landscape Architecture
Boston, MA

Cathy Offenberg
#Associate Director | Practice Lead, Landscape Architecture# #All# #Civic & Government# #Institution# ## #Civil Infrastructure# #Landscape Architecture# #Leader# #Master Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Subject Matter Expert#
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Since joining our team in 1999, Cathy Offenberg has developed a specialty in campus site planning and design for public and private school facilities. She also oversees a diverse array of practice areas including urban parks, streetscapes, and embassy work for the U.S Department of State’s Overseas Building Operations (OBO). As a Principal with the firm, Cathy is responsible for managing project scope, budget and schedule; client and sub-consultant coordination; supervising in-house project staff; development of design, technical and presentation packages, as well as cost estimates, technical specifications and permitting documents; construction administration and project representation at meetings and presentations. Cathy has a thorough understanding of the public process and has assisted in managing complex projects from inception through construction.
#North America# #Northeast#
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Kate Lambert

Associate | Manager, Planning
Vancouver, BC

Kate Lambert
#Associate | Manager, Planning# #All# #Healthcare# #Land Use Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Living+# #Residential# ## #Master Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Policy & Design Guidelines# #Project / Programme Management# #Public Outreach#
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Kate Lambert is an urban planner with IBI Group’s Vancouver practice. With more than ten years of experience as a planning consultant, Kate has contributed to major community planning and social policy initiatives, managed complex development approvals, and facilitated dynamic public engagement processes for a variety of private and public sector clients in urban and rural communities across BC. As a planner and project manager, Kate has developed exceptional skills in people and resource coordination, communication, and strategic analysis. She values collaboration and believes a strong vision, effective policy and meaningful community engagement are key elements to successful city building. Kate is a Registered Professional Planner and Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. She holds a Master’s of Environmental Design (Planning) from the University of Calgary, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Victoria. Kate is also an active member of the Urban Land Institute as Chair of the Women’s Leadership Initiative in BC
#North America#
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Barry Medford

Associate | Manager, Civil Engineering
Toronto West, ON

Barry Medford
#Associate | Manager, Civil Engineering# #All# #Bus Rapid Transit# #Transportation# #BRT# ## #Civic & Government# #Institution# ## #Civil Engineering# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #Civil Infrastructure# #Design Build# #Development Engineering# #Light Rail Transit# #Transportation# #LRT# ## #Municipal Infrastructure# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #P3# #Parking# #Project / Programme Management# #Rail# #Transportation# ## #Terminals# #Transportation# #Transit Facilities# ## #Transit Facilities# #Transportation# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Engineering# #Transportation# ## #Water / Wastewater# #Industrial# ##
Toronto West, Ontario, Canada
Mr. Medford has over 15 years of experience in site development and municipal engineering projects comprising of residential, commercial, and transportation design. He has worked extensively on transportation infrastructure projects such as bus and train stations; light rail and bus rapid transit systems; ; fleet maintenance and yard facilities; industrial track sidings; and train layover facilities. Other relevant projects include transformer stations, automotive facilities, subdivision design, school expansions, utility relocations, rehabilitation and road reconstruction. His substantial design knowledge and supplement field experience ensures the civil engineering design component is detailed, efficient and constructible. In addition, he is highly proficient in AutoCAD, Civil 3D and MicroStation.
#North America#
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Aadish Nargunde

Associate | General Manager
New Delhi, India

Aadish Nargunde
#Associate | General Manager# #All# #Architecture# #Brownfield Development# #Development Engineering# ## #Heritage / Historic Preservation# #Land Use Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Landmark Events# #Special Events# ## #Landscape Architecture# #Living+# #Residential# ## #Low Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Master Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Mobility Hub# #Transportation# ## #Mobility+# #Transportation# ## #Office# #Commercial# ## #Operations Centre# #Transportation# ## #Parks# #Institution# #Civic & Government# ## #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Policy & Design Guidelines# #Public Outreach# #Residential# #Retail# #Commercial# ## #Smart Cities# #Transportation# #Transportation Planning# #Transportation# ##
New Delhi, India, Asia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aadish-nargunde-a5875218/
Aadish, leads a team of 15+ passionate professionals from varied backgrounds. As the programme manager for Bhubaneswar Urban Knowledge Centre (BUKC) – a first-of-its-kind project in the field of Urban Governance, Aadish heads various projects related to as, 1. Child-Friendly Smart Cities (CFSC), 2. Urban Transport & Complete Streets Cell, 3. Smart Growth Programme, 4. Placemaking, Open space & Heritage Preservation Programme and 5. Communication, Outreach & Knowledge management cell. His core expertise lies in the design and implementation of public spaces such as parks, streetscape and plazas and since the establishment of BUKC, Aadish has been specifically involved in the development of city-scale projects such as child-friendly parks, streets, placemaking, neighbourhood planning & public infrastructure. Aadish is passionate to experiment with Public art as a tool for urban regeneration and has been working extensively in this field. Besides, heritage preservation & conservation, branding & communication, integration of technology in the urban planning/ design projects are some of his key interest areas.
#Asia#
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Amy Shepherd

Associate | Manager, Planning
Toronto, ON

Amy Shepherd
#Associate | Manager, Planning# #All# #Community / Recreational Facilities# #Institution# #Civic & Government# ## #Industrial# #Land Use Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Mobility Hub# #Transportation# ## #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Policy & Design Guidelines# #Residential# #Retail# #Commercial# ##
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Amy Shepherd is a certified planner with over 15 years of experience. She specializes in strategic land and realty asset planning, Transit Oriented Development, policy and community needs assessments. She has undertaken policy reviews, led multidisciplinary master planning exercises, prepared market assessments and growth strategies, assisted with site selection and obtained development approvals on behalf of public, private and institutional clients. Amy also has extensive experience with the formation and execution of inclusive consultation strategies, and has led surveys, focus groups, stakeholder interviews, public open houses and prepared media releases and marketing/information packages.
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Larry Baldwin

Director | Sr. Practice Lead, Intelligent Systems
Phoenix, AZ

Larry Baldwin
#Director | Sr. Practice Lead, Intelligent Systems# #All# #Leader# #Office Lead# #Software as a Service# #SaaS# ## #Subject Matter Expert# #Systems# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ## #Transit Technology# #Transportation# #ITS# #Intelligent Transportation Systems# ## #TravelIQ# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ## #Traveller Information# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ##
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Larry has over 20 years of extensive software and systems engineering experience in effectively managing and designing web, mobile, voice, and multi-modal user interface services. Larry has a long career of project and program management as well as web and speech recognition application design and delivery. Larry is a leader for IBI Group’s ATIS practice, having managed multiple 511 deployments as well as having been a creator of the IBI Group 511 IVR platform. His responsibilities include the oversight of Operations and Maintenance and client management for a substantial number of IBI Group’s 12 Traveler Information deployments. Larry is a visionary in interaction design and is the inventor or co-inventor on multiple user experience design patents. He has been designing and deploying mobile, telematics, web, and in-home speech, touchscreen, and web-browser applications since 1999, always exploring the boundaries and experiences of the Human Computer Interaction. He brings a wealth of deployment and O&M experience as well as strong user experience design understanding. Larry has managed deployments and operations for the following entities: Los Angeles 511 (five county region), San Francisco Bay Area 511, Florida 511, Alaska 511, MASS 511, New York 511, Arizona 511, and Alberta 511. These deployments include such complex user interactions as real-time traffic, transit, and weather information. His experience includes designing, deploying, and managing large customer-facing systems for companies such as Expedia.com, Western Wireless and Arch/Page-net which handle multiple millions of customer interactions each year. He is also the Phoenix, AZ Office Lead.
#North America# #Pacific West#
Johnny Caliendo

Sr. Project Manager
Raleigh, NC

Johnny Caliendo
#Sr. Project Manager# #All# #Architecture# #Civic & Government# #Institution# ## #Commercial# #Design Build# #Higher Education# #School# #Education# ## #Industrial# #Living+# #Residential# ## #Maintenance Facilities# #Transportation# ## #Master Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Office# #Commercial# ## #Operations Centre# #Transportation# ## #Project / Programme Management# #Retail# #Commercial# ## #Sustainability & Environmental Management# #Green# ## #Transit Facilities# #Transportation# ## #Transportation#
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Mr. Caliendo has been a leader in the architecture community for over 25 years. He is currently a Senior Project Manager for IBI Group in Raleigh NC. He has worked on many different award-winning projects of various scales and types. His work has been published in foreign and domestic books and periodicals. He has served in leadership positions in government and industry organizations, including the University of Greensboro Development Board and the Board of Design Corps. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the College of Design in Raleigh, North Carolina. His service to the community also includes leadership in Jobs For Life, Raleigh Men’s Shelter, and Project Literacy. He is a LEED AP design professional and has designed both LEED Silver and Gold buildings.
#North America# #Southeast#
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Frank Ullrich

Associate - Manager, Software Development
Toronto, ON

Frank Ullrich
#Associate - Manager, Software Development# #Advanced Traffic Management System# #Transportation# #ATMS# ## #All# #Software as a Service# #SaaS# ## #Systems# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ##
Toronto, Ontario,
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankullrich/
Give me the simplest solution that does the job.
Armed with a degree in computer science, Frank joined IBI Group in 1984 and immediately started to work on our first Advanced Traffic Management System. Since then, Frank has been involved with almost every ATMS that IBI Group has created. Over the years he has had many roles including team leader, software system designer, system architect, and project manager. In addition to ATMS, Frank does real-time systems analysis, design and programming; object oriented design and programming; map-based graphical user interface design and programming; microprocessor systems programming; and project management.
#North America#
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Venkata Chunduru

Director, India
New Delhi, India

Venkata Chunduru
#Director, India# #Advanced Traffic Management System# #Transportation# #ATMS# ## #Airports# #Transportation# ## #All# #Bridges, Roads & Highways# #Transportation# ## #Bus Rapid Transit# #Transportation# #BRT# ## #Civil Engineering# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #Data Analytics# #Design Build# #Economic / Financial Analysis# #Land Use Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Leader# #Mobility+# #Transportation# ## #Office Lead# #Operations# #Operations Centre# #Transportation# ## #P3# #Policy & Design Guidelines# #Ports# #Transportation# #Transit Facilities# #Terminals# ## #Project / Programme Management# #Rail# #Transportation# ## #Revenue / Tolling# #Transportation# ## #Smart Cities# #Strategic Planning# #Subject Matter Expert# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ## #Terminals# #Transportation# #Transit Facilities# ## #Transit Facilities# #Transportation# ## #Transit Planning# #Transportation# ## #Transit Technology# #Transportation# #ITS# #Intelligent Transportation Systems# ## #Transportation Engineering# #Transportation# ## #Traveller Information# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ##
New Delhi, India, Asia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkata-subba-rao-62138318/
Venkata Chunduru is a transportation systems professional currently working as a Director | Intelligence in India. With about 21 years of experience, Venkata primarily works on systems, technology, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), operations and investment appraisal for major transportation infrastructure projects, including highways, airports, ports and metro rail projects. Some of the notable projects he is involved are implementation of highway toll traffic management systems in India, radio-frequency identification (RFID)- based container tracking systems for a major Indian port, and development of Mumbai Metro master plan. At IBI Group, he is involved in Hyderabad Intelligent Traffic Management Systems, Hubli-Dharwad ITS, Intelligent City Operations and Management Centre (ICOMC), Bhubaneswar Smart City and actively involved in their business development efforts. He is a Fellow at Institute of Engineers in India, member of Institute of Transportation Engineers (U.S.) and is also a member of technical committee on transport planning and traffic engineering for the Indian Road Congress.
#Asia#
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James Gibson

Technical Lead
Toronto, ON

James Gibson
#Technical Lead# #Active Transportation# #Transportation# ## #All# #Civic & Government# #Institution# ## #Design Technology# #Energy Solutions# #Industrial# #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Office# #Commercial# ## #Parks# #Institution# #Civic & Government# ## #Residential# #Retail# #Commercial# ## #Smart Cities# #Solar# #Energy Solutions# ## #Spatial Intelligence# #GIS# #Geographic Information System# ## #Subject Matter Expert# #Transit Oriented Development# #TOD# ## #Transportation# #Water / Wastewater# #Industrial# ## #Wind# #Energy Solutions# ##
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
James has over 10 years of experience applying GIS technology to solve problems in a wide variety of business sectors including land use planning, real estate & economic planning, municipal infrastructure, transportation, and renewable energy. As a Certified GIS Professional and Certified Planning Technician, James is able to combine his understanding of land use planning and land development with his knowledge of Geographic Information Systems to perform meaningful analysis and identify spatial patterns and trends. James has played a key role in numerous projects requiring land use analysis, development constraint analysis, master servicing plans, conceptual designs, transportation planning, asset management and inventories, site selection analysis, data management, data collection and manipulation, data visualization, and database design. Serving as a Regional GIS Lead, James is also involved in a variety of global initiatives that aim to promote and increase IBI’s use of geospatial technology across the firm. These initiatives have helped to highlight the power of spatial analysis and demonstrate why GIS technology can and should be leveraged across all of IBI’s business sectors.
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John Amodeo

Principal, Landscape Architecture
Boston, MA

John Amodeo
#Principal, Landscape Architecture# #Active Transportation# #Transportation# ## #All# #Civic & Government# #Institution# ## #Community / Recreational Facilities# #Institution# #Civic & Government# ## #Green# #Land Use Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Landscape Architecture# #Leader# #Master Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Parks# #Institution# #Civic & Government# ## #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Policy & Design Guidelines# #Public Outreach# #Subject Matter Expert#
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-amodeo-073a238/
I love to design enduring projects that have high social value, while letting the people and the site inform the design.
John Amodeo LEED AP has over 30 years of experience in landscape architecture and practices a wide range of project types from small to complex, in both the public and private sectors. His varied project types include college and university campuses, parks, market and public housing, historic landscapes, streetscapes, bikeways, and natural resource conservation. He has also prepared landscape development guidelines for municipalities with particular emphasis on sustainable development. John has extensive experience with public process and regulatory permitting, placing particular focus on consensus building in the early phases of a project. Since 1997, John has also been a Commissioner on the Boston Landmark Commission and the South End Landmark District Commission.
#North America# #Northeast#
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David Kamnitzer

Director | CAN Sector Lead, Intelligence
Toronto, ON

David Kamnitzer
#Director | CAN Sector Lead, Intelligence# #Advanced Traffic Management System# #Transportation# #ATMS# ## #All# #Data Analytics# #Leader# #Mobility+# #Transportation# ## #Revenue / Tolling# #Transportation# ## #Revenue Collection# #Transportation# #Revenue / Tolling# ## #Road Permitting System# #Transportation# #Bridges, Roads & Highways# ## #Software as a Service# #SaaS# ## #Subject Matter Expert# #Systems# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ## #Traffic Management# #Transportation# ## #Transit Management# #Transportation# ## #Transit Oriented Development# #TOD# ## #Transit Technology# #Transportation# #ITS# #Intelligent Transportation Systems# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Engineering# #Transportation# ## #TravelIQ# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ## #Traveller Information# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ##
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
We need to get a lot smarter about how we move people and goods around. This requires connected thinking, the harnessing of technology, and ultimately a change in people's priorities and values.
David Kamnitzer is a holistic thinker who applies business analysis, transport operations, systems, and engineering skills to projects in traffic management, traveller information, tolling, and transit. David also leads IBI’s RouteMapper business, which provides spatial imagery/LiDAR surveying and software services for planning, design, asset management, and maintenance applications. A strong writer and presenter, David is often involved in high-profile initiatives that require interaction at the top levels of public and private sector organizations.
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