Urban Indy

Curt riding the IMA Trolley on 100 Acres Opening Weekend

I am a product development engineer putting my skills to use on a daily basis figuring out what makes things work on a repeated basis. It is this analytic type of thinking that has drawn me to focus on how transportation systems are put together from a technical point of view as well as a spatial point of view. My experience is based on 15 years of post high school work with a 2 year degree in computer graphics, and currently in my junior year at IUPUI working towards a BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology; with a minor in Geography. My free time is spent keeping up with my wife Casey Jo Ailes and my son Oscar (born in 4/2010). We like to take a lot of photographs!

Occasionally, I shoot photographs for my wife’s business, Figaro’s Studio.

My personal webpage which is mostly comprised of my photography can be found at: www.hustonstreetracing.com. My blog on Urban & Transporation Advocacy is also located there although all my posts from Urban Indy are sydincated there. You won’t find anything new there, that is not here.

My photographs have appeared in the Broad Ripple Gazette, IBJ, The Statesman (Austin, TX) and BRICS website.

Regular twitter updates can be found: http://twitter.com/curtailes

Contact: curtis.ailes@gmail.com

My civic activism includes:

• I was a scholarship recipient to the 2010 Railvolution Conference in Portland, OR.
• I was a speaker on a panel regarding blogging at the 2011 Railvolution Conference in Washington, DC.
• I am a member of the NE Corridor Advisory Committee.
• I have travelled to Guatemala with Indy Metro Church and volunteer from time to time through the church.
• I have assisted my wife and her annual efforts photographing dogs with ARPO.