Our Company
Mobility Works Inc., or Mobilitat, was founded by Cindy Johnson in Green River Wyoming in 1998 to provide affordable paratransit scheduling software for smaller, rural transit agencies. Since it’s inception it has grown to employ 7 full time staff, has over 60 installed systems, 3 editions of our software, including advanced capabilities to provide affordable software for systems as small as 2 vehicles and as large as 150!
Our Mission
Mobilitat’s mission is to empower Mobility Managers of small and medium transit systems through consulting services and innovative computer aided dispatching software and shared information. Rural and medium size urban Mobility Managers must be equipped with the knowledge and the technology in order to stay in business.The ultimate goal is to help them provide more rides (which equates to more revenue) from their fixed investment (vehicle fleet).
Why fight with clip boards and paper binders when you could work easier with Easy Rides-and provide more rides?
Easy Rides was designed to help Mobility Managers increase accountability, increase productivity and decrease the amount of time spent completing reports.
Our Software
Easy Rides is a computer aided dispatching system developed by Mobilitat. It was designed for use by rural demand response transit systems serving the elderly, handicapped and the general public. The reporting capabilities of Easy Rides allow for easy completion of Federal, State and local reports. Larger transit agencies of up to 150 vehicles use our more comprehensive software, Easy Rides Plus. Easy Rides Plus can include GIS and Auto scheduling to facilitate the use of Mobile Data Terminals, Swipe Cards and Automatic Vehicle Locator Systems.
No ride notice… no problem! Easy Rides makes adding a ride at the last minute a snap. Allowing for the addition of last minute rides significantly increases productivity.
Our People
Cindy Johnson, CCTM, CEO
Mobilitat, Inc. has been in business since 1998 and is wholly owned by Cindy Johnson. The company was started after Cindy Johnson left the directorship of a Wyoming rural transit provider where she had provided 15 years of service. She met with developers both at the University of Wyoming and the University of Utah to expand on her idea of making an affordable easy to use software for small para-transit systems. Cindy knew that many caring professionals were spending too much time hand tabulating data for reports to different funding sources that had different requirements. Her hands-on experience, and keen understanding of both the transit customer and the transit provider helped to design a transportation software that is easy to learn and easy to operate.
Nick Schrader, Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Nick has an optimistic way about him, and like most of us has spent many years at the helm of a transit system. Nick was instrumental in developing a coordinated transportation system in Cleveland. He understands what transit systems need to provide more rides and understands the challenges that exist. On the personal side, Nick lives with his wife and four teenagers in Cleveland. When his mind is not on transit Nick enjoys sports and the great outdoors.
Ken Banks, Director of Product Development
Ken is an outstanding programmer and has excellent communication skills. He has practical experience with network implementation of MS SQL Server using MS Internet Information Server (IIS). He has in depth knowledge of program languages including C++, Java, Visual Basic, Delphi, and Structured Query Language (SQL).
When the Nevada commission on aging contracted with Mobilitat! to develop a new and specialized swipe card system for their seniors, Ken took the lead for designing and implementing the hardware interface, the database, and the reporting interface for Easy Rides. Ken also provided installation and customization for customers in Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, and Indiana.
Cliff Hales, Director of Customer Services
Cliff graduated from Utah State University in Computer Science in 2005. He studied web programming languages, databases and data oriented application design. His previous work involved web site design and maintenance and customer service in the web hosting industry. He currently oversees customer support, training, testing, and maintains our website.
Karen Birck, Office Manager
Karen is our Office Manager. Prior to relocating to Green River, Karen worked as assistant to the Headmaster of a private school for many years and then for a company that provided brain imaging equipment for research to various universities and private sector businesses. She brings 20 years of finance and accounting experience to Mobilitat.
Paul Gardner, Director of Training & Support
Since his start in transportation in 1991, Paul Gardner has worked in nearly every capacity from Driver to Director of Operations and many roles in between. He has developed a host of customized software solutions for rural and specialized transportation providers, assisted in several new transit startups and has provided training and technical assistance to transportation service providers nation-wide since the mid 1990s.
Paul began as a contracted employee to Mobilitat in 2001 when he began providing training and support to nearly all Easy Rides customers from 2001 to early 2007. Now Paul is thrilled to be back on board as a regular full-time employee in his role as Director of Training & Support.
Paul’s commitment to customer satisfaction, attention to detail and good-natured personality are well suited for his role assisting Mobilitat’s customers. His broad range of experience in operations and administration coupled with in-depth knowledge of Easy Rides provide him the skills needed to leverage all of our software’s features to improve accuracy and efficiency of your organization’s transportation program.
Karen Burkhardt, Information Technology
Karen has more than twenty years of Information Systems management, network management, project management, Web development, and full program life cycle development experience. She has built and managed an international wide-area network; designed, built, and managed corporate Internet sites, developed private and public sector Internet and Intranet sites; and has developed programs in use government-wide. She is a Novell Certified Network Engineer (C.N.E.), and has achieved Microsoft Advanced Programming Status in Visual Studio, Advanced Certification in Visual InterDev (A.S.P.), certification in Windows 95/98/NT, and certification in Cold Fusion Applications Development. Karen has also designed and taught technology courses for the Internal Revenue Service, the Naval Surface Weapons Center, the French Embassy, and the National Institutes of Health.
In her years of working with technology and people, she has developed the skill to demystify technology so users can understand the software concepts. She has been the featured speaker in technology demonstrations at the FDA, EPA, BMDO, and HHS. The FDA chose her to provide web site and Inspectors Help training in all-agency teleconferences.
Christopher McCoy, Informations Systems Service Manager
Christopher assists with Customer Support, Training and Documentation. Prior to Mobilitat, he spent 11 years providing technical support on a customer support help desk and worked as a Planning Coordinator, testing and rolling out software products and enhancements.