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Samuel Snead

Sam Snead attended Brown University and graduated with Bachelors in Urban Studies with an emphasis in Urban Infrastructure. He then went on to earn his Master of Community Planning with an emphasis in Urban Design from the University of Rhode Island. He received a scholarship from the University of Rhode Island Foundation Minority Graduate Student Fund and an Arthur Jeffries Community Planning Department Scholarship. He was also a member of a graduate student team that won a Rhode Island APA Studio Design award in for the development of a report on the Proposed Intermodal Transportation Hub at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Upon completion of his graduate degree Sam began his professional career as a Transportation Improvement Program Manager for the Central Transportation Planning Staff of the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization. He managed a multi-million dollar, multi-year TIP budget and developed innovative federal funding management techniques in the process. He then relocated to Los Angeles, CA to work as a Transportation Planner for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in their Policy and Programming Department. He played an integral role in developing a web-based TIP database to streamline a paperless process for federal funding application submittals at the county level. He also developed funding package applications for the Caltrans and the California Transportation Commission in order to obtain funding for transit and freeway projects in Los Angeles County. Sam then went on to work as a transportation planning consultant for Iteris, Inc. where he worked on providing transportation solutions for multimodal, transit, and freeway projects in the Southern California region. He was a member of a consulting team that was awarded a Los Angeles APA Award for their efforts on the Hollywood Freeway Park Project.

Sam relocated to the Metro DC area and took a position as a Transportation Planner III with Arlington County, VA in 2009. He enjoys engaging the public with regards to transportation issues. Sam volunteers with Special Olympics in his spare time.