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Verified engagements, with the airport relevance spelled out.

Every engagement below is drawn from TDH's published Capabilities Statement — client, role and year as stated. We have added why each one bears on airport work, and nothing else.

Single-engine aircraft on the apron of a small regional airport at mid-morning, with hangar, windsock and farmland beyond

Entrepreneurship & Small Business Technical Assistance

2023 – ongoing
Kern Community College District · City of Bakersfield

TDH was engaged to develop a business development training programme — building the curriculum and delivery structure from scratch rather than adapting an off-the-shelf course.

Why this matters for an airport sponsor: Programme design and stakeholder coordination are the same muscles used to run an airport's grant reporting cycle: recurring obligations, multiple parties, and a funder expecting evidence.

Bakersfield Transformative Climate Communities grant application

2022 · 2 years
City of Bakersfield · California Strategic Growth Council

Technical assistance for the development of active transportation and affordable housing projects in disadvantaged communities, supporting a competitive state grant application.

Why this matters for an airport sponsor: This is grant capture at the sharp end — assembling a fundable application against a published programme. The AIP equivalent is putting an ACIP project in front of FAA with the mapping to support it.

Integrated Land Use Model Development

2022 – ongoing
Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG)

Consultant providing modelling and GIS services for a regional metropolitan planning organisation's integrated land use model.

Why this matters for an airport sponsor: Regional MPO modelling is a high bar for geospatial data discipline. An airport layer set is a smaller problem handled with the same rigour.

Integrated Land Use & Transportation Model Update

2021 · 2 years
San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)

Modelling and GIS consultancy on the update of a major regional land use and transportation model.

Why this matters for an airport sponsor: SANDAG is one of the larger MPOs in the United States. Work at that scale is why parcel-level analysis around a runway protection zone is routine rather than novel.

Transform Fresno Clean Shared Mobility Network

2018 · 5 years
Strategic Growth Council · City of Fresno · Fresno Metro Black Chamber Foundation

Project Manager for a clean shared mobility network delivered in disadvantaged communities — a five-year engagement across state, municipal and non-profit partners.

Why this matters for an airport sponsor: Five years, three partner types, one project manager. Airport work has the same shape: a sponsor, a funder, and an operating environment that has to keep running throughout.

Electric Vehicle Marketing & Outreach

2019 · 2 years
California Energy Commission — Fresno, Tulare and Kern counties

Project Manager for a state-funded outreach programme covering three counties and their disadvantaged communities.

Why this matters for an airport sponsor: Multi-county delivery against a state agency's reporting requirements — the discipline that keeps a federally funded programme in good standing.

Kern County Census Complete Count Committee

2019 · 2 years
County of Kern

Technical assistance for local and regional community-based organisations, including creation of the GIS mapping used to target and track outreach.

Why this matters for an airport sponsor: GIS built to be used by non-specialists and to withstand public scrutiny — the same requirement as mapping an airport manager has to present to a board.

Mountain View Affordable Housing Sustainable Communities project, Lamont

2020 · 2 years
Strategic Growth Council · Housing Authority of Kern County · Kern County Public Works

Prepared the state grant application including greenhouse gas modelling, GIS mapping and bilingual community workshops.

Why this matters for an airport sponsor: Application, technical modelling, mapping and public engagement delivered by one team — the closest analogue to running an airport project from ACIP entry through to grant-assurance reporting.
Client base

Public, private, academic and non-profit.

Six of these open a short before-and-after case study, without leaving this page. Figures come from published state and federal records.

California Energy Commission logoCalifornia Energy CommissionState agency
Housing Authority of Kern County logoHousing Authority of Kern CountyPublic housing
Kern Community College District logoKern Community College DistrictAcademic
CSU Bakersfield logoCSU BakersfieldAcademic
NextEra Renewable Energy logoNextEra Renewable EnergyPrivate sector
Fresno Metro Black ChamberFresno Metro Black Chamber FoundationNon-profit
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