Suzanne Childress
Principal Modeler at Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Burlingame, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSuzanne Childress is a Senior Project Manager and principal travel modeler with 13 years of experience turning transportation data into actionable evidence for planning agencies. She has led development and operationalization of next-generation regional activity-based models, built and managed data science teams, and transitioned complex modeling systems into durable in-house workflows across Bay Area and Puget Sound agencies. Skilled in Python, C#, SQL and survey design, she pairs methodological rigor with a focus on timely, practical delivery—bringing models from research to routine agency use. Based in Burlingame, she now deepens how StreetLight’s mobility data and metrics are applied in real planning contexts, having a track record of mentoring staff and establishing reusable analytical workflows. A detail that sets her apart: she has repeatedly moved high-stakes, consultant-delivered modeling programs into sustainable, agency-owned operations that improve long-term decision-making.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.S Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, M.S Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern UniversityB.A Mathematics, B.A Mathematics at Carleton College
Github Skills (36)
mpo10
modeling10
parking9
acs9
census-data9
region9
google-maps-api9
api8
census8
data-cleaning8
post-processing8
google-api8
summarization8
r7
geopandas7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
psrc/travel-studies
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Repo for PSRC's Regional Travel Studies, 2014 onward
Contributions:1 review, 176 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 3 months
travel-surveytravelanalysisregionalsummarization
psrc/psrcplot
Aug 2022 - Oct 2024
Package for Creating PSRC consistent data visualizations with R
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 11 PRs in 2 years 3 months
r-packagerstatsconsistentvisualizationsdata-visualizations
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