Curt Ailes

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 17 years of post high school work with a 2 year degree in computer graphics, and currently in my senior year at IUPUI working towards a BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology. 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 photographs have appeared in the Broad Ripple Gazette, Indianapolis Business Journal, The Statesman (Austin, TX),  Bicycle Times Magazine as well as various neighborhood publications and websites and IndyGo promotional materials.

I am the Urban Indy monthly wallpaper photographer as well.

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.
• Volunteer with the Downtown Indianapolis Streetcar Corporattion.
• I am a member of the Indy Connect Green Line Citizens Advisory Committee.
• I have traveled 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.