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Zach Young

Associate Transportation Planner
Email: zyoung@dmampo.org
Phone: 515.334.0075, ext. 208

Responsibilities
Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning
The Tomorrow Plan Team
General Transit Planning
DART Support
Transportation advisory Group (TAG)
Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency (HIRTA)
Professional Experience
2011 - Present Associate Transportation Planner, MPO (Des Moines)
2010-2011:  Social Chair, Real Estate, Planning, & Regeneration Alumni Association (Glasgow, UK)
2010-2011:  Student Representative, Urban Studies Department (Glasgow, UK)
2008-2009: Intern, Ozarks New Energy, Inc. (Springfield, MO)
2008:  Urban Conservation Planning Intern, Missouri Department of Conservation
  (Springfield, MO)
2007-2008: President, Missouri Association of Planning Students (Springfield, MO)
Education
University of Glasgow, Scotland:
MSc in City Planning and Regeneration
University of Miami School of Architecture:
Certificate, Principles and Practice of New Urbanism
Missouri State University:
B.S. in Community and Regional Planning 
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