Greetings my name is Mike McDade, I am a senior in the School of Public Affairs, majoring in Urban and Metropolitan Studies, with an urban planning minor. I am a nontraditional student looking to graduate in May of 2011. My goal is to find a career in transit planning. I am a native Arizonian and have a 14 year old daughter named Jacqueline. In my previous life I was a senior dispatcher/road supervisor for Valley Metro in Tempe. I have also driven commercially both over the road and locally.
This past summer I interned with Ray Humbert associate director of Parking and Transit Services on the Tempe campus. As an Intern and a student worker on the downtown phoenix campus, I was crossed trained in several areas to expand my knowledge and usefulness to my team. I did my cross-trained with cashiering, enforcement and in permit sales. I was also tasked with several special projects over the course of the summer. I will dedicate an individual blog to each of these special projects.
