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RFQ# 16-12-01 | Professional Planning and Zoning Consulting ServicesSunny Isles Beach The key personnel assigned to this project have many years of planning experience. A summary of their experience and qualifications are below. More detailed description of the full project team is provided in the SF 330 forms provided at the end of this section. Shelley Eichner, AICP Senior Vice President Ms. Eichner is a Senior Vice President and a Partner of Calvin, Giordano & Associates and oversees all private sector and public sector planning activities. She has over 30 years of diversified planning and platting experience in securing land development approvals, land use plan amendments and local government planning. Ms. Eichner previously served as Senior Planner for Broward County’s Department of Planning and Environmental Protection. She managed and supervised plat applications, created a permit monitoring system, and monitored compliance with all aspects of development approvals. Duties included coordinating the development review agencies in the preparation and adoption of the ordinances amending the Weston Development of Regional Impact. Alex David, AICP Director, Miami-Dade Office Mr. David has over 30 years with private and public planning organizations. He specializes in both current and long-range planning including: comprehensive plans, land development regulations and site development reviews. Alex has extensive experience working with local, regional, and state planning regulations and is committed to providing municipal government clients the expertise and assistance they need to achieve local planning and development goals while meeting regional and state planning requirements. Mr. David's experience includes: Comprehensive Planning, Land Use, Zoning, Evaluation and Appraisal Reports (EAR’s) and amendments; municipal land development regulations; annexation applications; water supply plans; strategic visioning and concept plans and development review. Additionally, he has assisted new governments in establishing the planning and development procedures needed to guide growth and development. Alex also has a reputation for building intergovernmental partnerships and navigating through the bureaucracy of local and state agencies in an expeditious manner. He has also served as the Interim Planning Director for the Town of Cutler Bay and as Zoning Administrator for the City of North Miami. Sarah Sinatra Gould, AICP Director, Planning DepartmentMs. Sinatra Gould is a certified Planner with 12 years of planning experience including municipal planning director duties such as processing zoning requests, land use plan amendments, site plan reviews, plats rezoning petitions, variances, vacation/abandonments and all other development application reviews. She holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida Atlantic University. Ms. Sinatra Gould has also written evaluation and appraisal reports, comprehensive plans and zoning and land development codes. She is experienced in writing form-based codes and transit oriented zoning codes.Ms. Sinatra Gould has over 10 years of experience handling planning issues within Miami-Dade County and provides her planning expertise to a number of municipal clients including the cities of West Park, Medley, Surfside, and Cutler Bay. As the planning department director for Calvin, Giordano & Associates, she acts as the community development director for the City of Weston, the City of West Park and the Town Planner for the Towns of Surfside and Medley. For those entities, she carries out day-to-day planning and zoning activities, presents staff reports and recommendations to the commissions, the planning and zoning boards and provides customer service assistance to residents, developers and business owners. 13