Planning expertise meets modern technology — built by someone who lived the problem for over a decade before building the solution.
After spending over a decade as a Transportation Director at a federally-designated MPO, I watched the same problems compound at every agency I knew: federal reporting requirements kept growing, budgets didn't, and lean teams were spending 40+ hours per quarter on manual data entry and spreadsheet calculations.
Meanwhile, I'd been building automation tools and custom dashboards at home. I run my own servers, maintain a homelab, tinker with retro tech, and stay deep in the current landscape — AI, cloud infrastructure, spatial data pipelines. The combination I had wasn't common: real planning knowledge plus real technical ability.
Parker & Vale was born from that intersection — a consulting practice that can do the planning work and build the systems that make it sustainable.
"The organizations that most need modern data tools are exactly the ones generic tech consultants can't serve — because they don't understand federal compliance, documentation burden, or the operational reality of a 12-person agency managing $40M in funds."
We started in transportation planning, but the problems we solve aren't transportation-specific. Any organization with complex data, limited staff, and external reporting requirements has the same underlying challenge.
Nonprofits with grant reporting. Workforce development agencies with outcomes tracking. Community development organizations with geographic program data. Small municipalities without a dedicated GIS department. The tools and approach translate directly — only the domain vocabulary changes.
Every engagement considers four things: your immediate deliverable need, long-term sustainability (can we automate this so it's easier next time?), your budget constraints (we price for public-sector reality), and your team's capacity (practical solutions that don't require specialized staff to maintain).
The plan, the grant, the map, the tool — on time, correctly formatted for your audience.
We always ask if next time could be automated. Often the answer is yes.
We understand procurement constraints, small budgets, and the value of not wasting either.
We build tools your team can run. No GIS analyst or developer required to maintain.
Most organizations aren't failing because of bad intentions or lazy people. They're failing because their systems are broken and no one has had the time, budget, or technical knowledge to fix them. That's what we do.
Time-consuming compliance tasks that shouldn't require human attention
Geographic and operational data that currently lives in inaccessible formats
Tools that keep working long after the engagement ends
Systems designed to survive leadership transitions, not depend on them