I spent a decade inside the systems that shape how communities move.
I'm a transportation planner, GIS analyst, and infrastructure communicator. I've directed regional planning organizations, managed federal compliance programs, and now I help communities understand what's being built for them — and why it matters through Parker & Vale.
Ten years inside regional planning.
I started in planning because I was interested in how places work — why some communities function and others don't, how roads and transit and land use shape daily life in ways most people never think about. I ended up spending a decade inside the machinery of it: writing long-range transportation plans, managing federal grants, coordinating across cities, counties, and state agencies.
What I kept running into was a gap. The technical work was rigorous. The communication of it almost always wasn't. Public meetings nobody attended. Planning documents nobody read. Communities asked to vote on projects they didn't understand.
That gap is what Parker & Vale exists to close — combining planning expertise, GIS visualization, documentary storytelling, and digital systems to help communities actually understand what's being built for them.
Every infrastructure project is a story worth telling.
Parker & Vale is my infrastructure storytelling studio. We help planning organizations, municipalities, and public agencies communicate complex projects to the communities they serve — through GIS visualization, documentary film, photography, and modern digital systems.
GIS firms don't make films. Communications agencies don't know what a TIP amendment is. Parker & Vale does both — which is rare, and which is the point.
The rest of the story.
Let's talk.
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