TOOLE DESIGN GROUP - Key Persons
Aaron is a versatile planner and project manager who has worked in both the public and private sectors. His experience includes leading a range of regional and active transportation plans, corridor studies, and the development of local design standards. Aaron excels at developing transportation solutions that can be easily implemented and that support the surrounding land use context.
Outside of the office, Aaron enjoys exploring new places with his wife and son. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of New Mexico.
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- Civil Project Engineer II
Adam is a licensed Professional Engineer in Toole Design's Seattle office with experience in the design and management of transit projects from concept to implementation. He specializes in pedestrian, bikeway, transit guideway, and roadway design; multimodal 3D corridor modeling; development of construction plans and details; cost estimating; interagency negotation and collaboration; and technical writing. Adam has served clients in Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota on prominent transit projects, including light rail, bus rapid transit, multimodal transit centers, and operations and maintenance facilities.
Outside of the office, he enjoys traveling, hiking, music, gardening, meditation, and spending time with friends and family.
Adam is a transportation planner with private and public sector experience in plan development, conceptual design, and community outreach. He has contributed to a number of active transportation plans and policies, addressing issues relating to to transit access and bicyclist and pedestrian safety. Adam's work centers on equitable public engagement, traffic safety analysis, and community-driven urban design. Prior to joining Toole Design, Adam worked in LA Metro's Transit Oriented Communities program, where he worked on first-/last-mile plans that improve access to new and existing transit stations. He is passionate about designing accessible, active streets that support stress-free connections and places.
Outside of work, Adam enjoys trying out new baking projects, hiking, and exploring Los Angeles neighborhoods by bike.
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- Director of Traffic Engineering, Southern California
For the past 15 years, Adam has led complex urban transportation planning and engineering projects for local and state agencies, private developers, and academic research institutions in the United States and Australia. Adam's work incorporates a human-scaled, Complete Streets approach to transportation planning and engineering, and he develops innovative solutions that support mobility, safety, and connectivity for all users. Having led multiple projects across the country, Adam understands how to effectively convey critical project impacts and creative solutions to community members and key stakeholders.
Outside of work, Adam enjoys hiking, traveling, and gardening.
Adam is a certified professional engineer in Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, DC.
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- Atlanta Office Director
- Office Director
Addie Weber, AICP leads our Atlanta office. An urban designer and planner with extensive experience leading and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, she has worked on numerous livable transportation projects. Addie has helped a wide range of clients to develop community-supported, context-sensitive design solutions for suburban and urban environments. She explores the interconnected relationship between land use and transportation in transit station area planning, corridor redevelopment, strategic land planning, and small area plans. Addie's notable US efforts include: master plans for two subareas along the Atlanta BeltLine, station and corridor planning for Charlotte's Blue Line Extension, station area planning along Denver's North Metro Rail Line, and development of the Aerotropolis Atlanta Blueprint. Her international portfolio includes large-scale structure planning efforts in Australia and the UAE.
Addie enjoys spending time with her young family, exploring Atlanta's intown neighborhoods, and finding new running routes.
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- Micromobility Practice Lead
- Professional Engineer
Adrian Witte is a licensed Professional Engineer with a background in transportation planning, traffic operations, safety analysis, and roadway and intersection design. With a master's degree in engineering, he combines his analytic ability with creative idea-generation sharpened from over twelve years of national and international experience. Adrian is adept at considering all aspects of a project and delivering holistic transportation solutions.
Adrian specializes in delivering high-profile transportation projects and his project experience includes signal timing and intersection operations analysis, corridor operation and safety studies, cycle track and innovative bikeway design, pedestrian improvement plans, transit priority implementation, road safety auditing, and crash reconstruction. He is our in-house micromobility expert, having played a leading role in the implementation of bikeshare systems in New York, Columbus, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Honolulu, South Bend, and San Antonio.
Outside of the office, Adrian is a keen rugby player.
Alex is a project engineer in Toole Design's Seattle office. She aims to advocate community improvements, modernize transportation with innovative solutions, and advance equity by increasing opportunities and access for underrepresented communities. Prior to Toole Design, Alex focused on innovation and equity by co-founding her employer's Innovation Council and worked on multimodal transportation solutions, such as the NE 130th Street Infill Station. Alex specializes in project management, final design, and technical writing.
Outside of the office, Alex loves reading, traveling, Peloton workouts, and spending time with family.
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- Senior Landscape Architect
Alex is a senior landscape architect with both public and private sector experience on projects of all program types and scale. He specializes in the design, coordination, and documentation efforts required to build successful projects. Alex places a high value on understanding each projects unique context including local history, plants and material, construction means and methods, and . He has served clients around the world by leading and contributing to teams working on master plans, public realm improvements, mixed use developments, and urban redevelopment.
In his free time, Alex spends time with his partner Amanda, and son George. As a lover of the outdoors, Alex enjoys hunting, foraging, and exploring new parks and wildlife areas. He is also an amateur beer brewer, loves to cook, and eat!
Alex is a planner and designer with experience that includes multimodal street design, suburban retrofits, missing middle housing, incremental development. He has worked to develop context-sensitive designs for urban and suburban streets and to expand the international Highways to Boulevards movement. Alex studied sustainable urban planning and design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and University College London (UCL). He is a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism.
In his spare time, Alex is an avid traveler, gardener, and bread baker.
Alexis is a planner with a background in architecture and design. She is committed to using her skills in mapping and data analysis, visualization, and public engagement to strengthen communities by creating safer and more vibrant streets. Prior to joining Toole Design, Alexis lived and attended school in St. Louis, where she worked with Trailnet, a local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy nonprofit dedicated to advancing transportation equity.
In her free time, Alexis enjoys museums, exploring her adopted city of Boston by bike and train, and pick-up soccer games.
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- Director of Planning, North America
- Trainer With the National Center for Safe Routes to School
Alia has worked at the intersection of transportation, land use, and community planning for more than 15 years. As Toole Design's Director of Planning for North America, Alia leads multimodal transportation planning projects and oversees the company's talented team of planners. Her experience includes working with local governments, developers, metropolitan planning organizations, transit agencies, community advocates, and other partners to provide resources and programs that support sustainable urban development. She has served as the author and co-author of numerous reports for the Federal Transit Administration, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and multiple local government and philanthropic clients.
Alia is a trainer with the National Center for Safe Routes to School and the former director of the Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation in Charlottesville, VA. She holds a Master's degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Alia served on Toole Design's Board of Directors from 2018 to 2021.
Outside of her work at Toole Design Group, Alia enjoys spending time cooking elaborate meals, riding bikes, quilting, and working on other creative sewing projects.
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- Transportation Engineer
- Engineering Group Manager
Alison is a transportation engineer and Engineering Group Manager in the Oakland office. Alison has extensive experience in developing, designing, and implementing multimodal street design projects from her time with the City of Austin and City of Chicago. She served as one of the City of Austin's lead transportation engineers where she had purview over a wide range of projects including speed management, multimodal corridor improvements, active transportation, access management, curb management, and intersection control. Her passion for safety and mobility is fueled by seeing her projects come alive on our streets.
Outside of work, she loves being outdoors, food centric travel, cooking, writing letters, and learning French.
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- AICP Director of Engineering, Western U.S
- Director of Engineering, Western U.S
- Professional Engineer in Washington
Amalia Leighton Cody, P.E., AICP is the director of Toole Design's Seattle office. An engineer and planner with nearly two decades years of experience on projects in the public realm, she is passionate about finding creative ways to plan and design sustainable transportation systems that support the economic, social, and environmental health of communities. Her expertise includes transportation projects, environmental programs and public policy, complete streets implementation, as well as drainage and utility design.
A graduate of the University of Washington, Amalia is a licensed professional engineer in Washington and California, and a certified planner. She served on the City of Seattle's Planning Commission for 10 years from 2006 to 2016, and was Co-Chair from 2014 to 2016. She has also been involved with the Capitol Hill (Seattle) EcoDistrict Steering Committee, the American Planning Association, the American Public Works Association, and the Urban Land Institute.
Outside of the office, Amalia enjoys skiing, cooking and exploring new places outside with her husband, two daughters, and the family dog.
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- Director of Marketing and Business Development
Amy is Toole Design's Director of Marketing and Business Development. With two decades of experience in creative services for the AEC industry, and a reputation for leading high-performance teams, she excels at developing the right resources and tools to support Toole Design's growth. Exercising her background in visual arts, Amy directs the company's brand identity. Amy works in close partnership with Toole Design's creative teams. Her approach unites knowledge management, business development, marketing, communications, and graphic design to craft strategies to promote Toole Design's mission to create a future of transportation that is safe and sustainable for all.
Amy is the office coordinator at Toole Design's Boston office, where she assists with the day-to-day tasks of the office, including scheduling meetings, placing and receiving orders, and ensuring things run smoothly behind the scenes. She has a Bachelors degree in Criminology and studied studio art and design in her undergrad. Prior to joining Toole Design, Amy was an administrative assistant for two years at the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, working in the Child Protection Unit and High Risk Victims Unit.
Outside of the office, Amy enjoys reading, baking, indulging in her many hobbies, and spending time with her cat.
Andie is a Recruiting Coordinator at Toole Design who supports the hiring teams through the hiring process. She believes in Toole Design's practice of timely, open and honest communication with applicants. Andie began working in HR and Operations at a teaching company, where she spent almost 20 years teaching, performing and later managing. She spent over 10 years in the public schools teaching dance and mathematics and ran a non-profit dance company for 10 years. She still teaches dance and was a professional modern dancer and children's dance theater performer until recently (and threatens to get back into it). She is really happy to be able to support the talent at Toole Design in making our cities better places to live.
Andie loves spending time with her husband and kids riding bikes, hiking and watching movies.
Andrea is a collaborative and solutions-oriented transportation planner who serves as Toole Design's Central Florida Office Director and Transit Practice Lead. She has a unique collection of experience with transit and land use planning in both the public and private sectors, having served as the Director of Planning and Engineering for a regional transportation authority, the project manager for a wide variety of Bus Rapid Transit and rail efforts, and a local government liaison for transportation issues. Andrea has seen a broad transportation initiatives through to implementation, proving her value on both project- and enterprise-level planning efforts. Her notable projects include managing the SunRail Transition, where she deftly facilitated the competing goals of multiple jurisdictions while navigating a highly charged political landscape, as well as overseeing final design for the Central Avenue BRT in St. Petersburg, FL, the LYNX Transit Development Plan in Orlando, FL, and the US 192 Alternatives Analysis in Kissimmee, Florida.
In her free time, Andrea enjoys cooking, reading (especially history and science), and planning travel adventures with her husband and two children.
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- Senior Project Accountant
Andrea Scott is a seasoned accounting professional with over two decades of experience. She has worked for large consulting firms with locations across the globe. Andrea has taught, coached, and managed Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable staff. She is a strong leader who inspires her colleagues to perform at optimal levels. Her attention to detail and persistent follow through improve cash flow.
Beyond the numbers, Andrea is an extremely passionate interior designer and enjoys staging homes for successful real estate transactions.
Andy Clarke has been at the forefront of the bicycling and walking movement for over three decades, both in the United States and in Europe. He has spent his career trying to improve, analyze and explain complex national transportation policies, programs, and procedures so that state and local agency staff and community groups can create more bicycle-friendly and walkable communities.
Before assuming the role of Director of Strategy at Toole Design, Andy served for 12 years as the President of League of American Bicyclists, during which time the League's Bicycle Friendly Community Program and National Bike Summit emerged as critical road maps to the creation of more walkable and bikable communities. He served as Executive Director of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, and has also been Secretary General of the European Cyclists' Federation.
In these various roles over the past 30 years, Andy has been involved in nearly every major development in bicycling and walking policy and planning, including the formation of the National Complete Streets Coalition and the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center, multiple federal transportation funding bills, and Vision Zero. He has trained thousands of state and local officials on bicycle and pedestrian facility design, universal design, and implementation, and has spoken extensively in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe on these topics.
As Director of Strategy, Andy draws on his years of expertise and extensive network to help state and local clients across the country tackle their most difficult transportation challenges. In 2018, he was named to Toole Design's Board of Directors.
Andy follows from afar the fortunes of Bristol City, his hometown football club, enjoys riding his bike, and recently made the mistake of taking up golf.
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- Director of Information Technology
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- Vice President Director of Design
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- AICP Director of Operations, Midwestern U.S
- Director of Operations, Midwestern U.S
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- Urban Design Director, California
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- Director of Operations, Mid - Atlantic Region
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- Associate
- Marketing Manager
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- Director of Planning, Mid - Atlantic
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- Columbus Office Director
- Office Director
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- Civil Engineering Manager
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- Director of Design, Mid - Atlantic
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- Oakland Office Director
- Office Director
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- Senior Environmental Graphic Designer
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- Director of Operations, Southeastern U.S
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- Austin Office Director
- Office Director
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- PHR, SHRM - SCP, MBA / Director of Human Resources
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- Civil Engineering Manager, Denver
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- Office Director
- Raleigh Office Director
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- Technical Support Specialist
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- Director of Planning, Northeast
Jennifer Toole founded Toole Design in 2003 with a simple mission: to support innovative streets and dynamic communities where people of all ages and abilities can enjoy walking, biking, and access to transit. This is more than just a description of what we do; it is the lens through which we see the world around us, and it defines our approach to every project we work on.
From a single office in Maryland, Toole Design has grown to 19 offices throughout the United States and Canada. Our talented team of planners, engineers, and landscape architects are committed to delivering quality work that meets the needs of people in motion, regardless of age or ability and no matter how they choose to travel.
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- Director of Operations, Western U.S. and Texas
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- Deputy Director of Civil Engineering
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- Director of Urban Design, Southeastern U.S
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- Madison Office Director
- Office Director
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- Human Resources Generalist
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- Office Director
- Pittsburgh Office Director
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- Office Director
- Spartanburg Office Director
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- Director of Planning, Southeastern U.S
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- Communications Specialist
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- Accounts Payable Specialist
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- Project Engineer II I Planner I Associate
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- Civil Engineering Practice Director, North America
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- HR Operations Coordinator
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- Director of Planning, Seattle
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- Minneapolis Office Director
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- Data Science Practice Lead
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- Vice President
- Vice President Director of Operations, Northeastern U.S. and Canada
Vice President | Director of Operations, Northeastern U.S. and Canada
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- Edmonton Office Director
- Office Director
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- Visualization Practice Lead
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- Project Engineer II Associate
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- Director of Civil Engineering, Mid - Atlantic
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- Los Angeles Office Director
- Office Director
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- Senior Planner I Associate
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- Austin Engineering Director
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- Senior Visualization Specialist
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- Research Practice Lead Associate
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- Engineering Group Manager
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- Portland Interim Office Director
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- Kansas City Office Director Associate
- Office Director
Theja is an analyst specializing in GIS methods and level of traffic stress (LTS) analysis used in bicycle network planning. He is passionate about using the power of mapping and spatial analyses to help develop better pedestrian and bicycle networks. Prior to joining Toole Design, Theja earned his PhD from Northeastern University, where his research focused on developing methods to visualize and measure low-stress bicycle network connectivity. He was involved in developing the updated LTS criteria (version 2.0) with Dr. Peter Furth. He served as a lead researcher for projects in Greater Boston, Delaware, and Oakland. He was also a program assistant for Northeastern's ‘Sustainable Urban Transportation' summer school class in Netherlands that teaches students Dutch transportation practices.
Outside of work, Theja enjoys trail running, bicycling, hiking, and adventuring in the mountains.
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- Western Canada Market Lead