Daniel Shepard:  

I have held the position of Planning Director for the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians from 1998 to present. I wear many hats for the tribe including: Roads Program Manager, Building Official, US Census tribal coordinator and Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Program Manager. In my capacity I manage the tribes BIA Indian Reservation Roads Program that includes creating and updating the Long Range Transportation Plan and maintaining the tribe’s Transportation Improvement Plan. I have received training in the following: Geographic Information System (GIS), Road-Soft, Auto-Cad, 638 contracting for construction and non-construction, Dale Carnegie, conducting traffic counts, 106 National Historic Preservation program, Federal Roads Inventory Field Data System and Indian Reservation Roads Program Management and am a Certified Master Citizen Planner thru MSU. To date I have assisted the Little River Band in creating the tribeâ€Â...Expand for more