Ben H
Community Development Director at City of Little Canada
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen H is a Community Development Director with a decade of hands-on experience modernizing local government systems, zoning codes, and housing policy to advance equitable, place-based economic development. He has led departments, managed budgets, and delivered operational reforms that produced significant cost savings and streamlined permitting and enforcement workflows. Ben combines rigorous research skills—demonstrated by a tribally-owned enterprise dataset for the Federal Reserve and a first-ever housing study for Little Canada—with deep public engagement, having built master plans and policies informed by hundreds of resident interactions and outreach to underrepresented groups. Comfortable translating political priorities into actionable code and ordinances, he also brings creative grassroots experience (including managing large social audiences as Goldy Gopher) that helps him communicate complex planning work in accessible ways. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs a Master’s in Urban & Regional Planning with practical success securing grants and building intergovernmental partnerships that move projects from concept to completion.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Urban And Regional Planning, Housing and Community Development Concentration, Master's of Urban And Regional Planning, Housing and Community Development Concentration at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (30)
pii10
tla10
biomedical-informatics10
java10
text-analysis10
health-informatics10
natural-language-processing10
bioinformatics10
nlp10
uima10
biomedical10
medical10
architecture9
data-stream9
python9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benknoll-umn/mtap
Oct 2019 - Apr 2023
Maintenance fork of mtap
Contributions:2 PRs, 195 pushes, 163 branches in 3 years 6 months
maintenancemtap
nlpie/biomedicus-gpl
Aug 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:10 releases, 4 PRs, 45 pushes in 6 years 7 months
gplbioinformaticsextensionslicensed
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