Catherine Tulley | Transportation Planning Data Analyst | Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission
About Speaker
Catherine is a transportation planning data analyst for the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the 10 counties of southwestern PA. She specializes in data wrangling and visualization for regional and transportation planning, working with a variety of demographic and economic datasets, travel time data, transportation ‘Big Data’ products such as StreetLight Insight, GIS data and more. Catherine started her career in the telecom industry and holds an A.S. in Network Administration (2005). She transitioned to the GIS field after graduating from Slippery Rock University in 2007 with a B.S. in Geography and a concentration in environmental studies. She has previously worked as a GIS Analyst in the civil engineering & environmental consulting field, and is a current board member of the PA Mapping & Geographic Information Consortium (PaMAGIC), a statewide GIS advocacy organization. Catherine has lived in Bellevue, a historic streetcar suburb of Pittsburgh, since 2011 and served on the borough’s multi-municipal joint planning commission since 2014. She enjoys biking to work and living in a walkable, transit-connected community.