Aberdeen Management Group was created with the benefit of over 18 years of delivering high quality project services and solutions to clients.
a passion for parking
Originally from Aberdeen in Scotland, Steven Grant founded Aberdeen Management Group (AMG) in 2015. With almost two decades of experience, Steven forged a management consulting career with global leaders in the field, including Oracle, Booz Allen Hamilton, and LTK Engineering Services.
AMG is on the leading edge of helping clients make the right decisions for their customers.
Based at the beltway of Northern Virginia and Washington D.C., AMG is an LDBE certified firm with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and a SWaM certified company in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
AMG is an active member of the International Parking Institute (IPI) and the Mid-Atlantic Parking Association (MAPA). Steven is the former Parking chair of the Secure Technology Alliance where Steven successfully led in the publication of both versions of the defining white paper on EMV and Parking available here.
Our skills
Aberdeen Management Group has extensive consulting experience including a wide range of project roles focusing in parking, mobile payments, technology, and revenue management. Aberdeen Management Group has a diverse industry experience with significant expertise across private, federal, state and local markets with a current focus in the airport, transit and retail industries.
AMG's focus on parking includes being actively involved in designing, documenting, testing and overseeing deployments of the following parking technologies:
Parking Access and Revenue Control Systems (PARCS)
Automated Parking Guidance Systems (APGS) including single space and camera-based solutions
Frictionless parking solutions
Parking product strategies and market research
Pre-booking reservation systems
Payment technologies
Valet systems
Loyalty programs
License Plate Recognition
Wayfinding Signage
Parking Management Contracts
Integration of 3rd party technologies with PARCS and APGS solutions
Aberdeen Management Group's exceptional project management skills include extensive full project life-cycle experience with particular focus on:
Project Management Oversight
Technical Specification Creation
Pre-booking and yield management solutions
Procurement and proposal writing from capture to successful award
Parking Operator contract creation
Design including payment technologies
Testing including Factory Acceptance Testing, Lane Acceptance Testing, System Acceptance Testing
Installation oversight
Project System Acceptance
Critical Path Method Scheduling Planning
Scope and Execution Strategy Development
Risk and Contingency Management
Project Performance Measurement
Document Management
Primavera Unifier Architecture
What We've Achieved
Successfully deployed the critically acclaimed frictionless Parking Access Revenue Control System (PARCS) at Westfield Century City, Los Angeles.
Successfully assisted in the design and testing of the PARCS solution at Washington Dulles International Airport.
Successfully assisted in the procurement and deployment a parking count system solution on behalf of Virginia Railway Express (VRE).
Implemented multiple APGS solutions (both ultrasonic and camera-based) across multiple locations.
Led the oversight effort to select and deploy a ground breaking mobile ticketing application at VRE.
Created a seamless parking 'ecosystem' solution for Westfield Labs and currently assisting Westfield across multiple locations to deploy leading PARCS and PGS solutions.
PM team member for PARCS deployment at Orlando International Airport
PM team member for the PARCS deployment at Dulles International Airport
Led oversight of successful deployment of PARCS solution at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport including overseeing a pre-booking system.
PM team member assisting in Tampa International Airport's PARCS replacement
Led writing of landmark 'EMV and Parking' white paper for Smart Card Alliance and International Parking Institute
Former Parking Chair, Transportation Council, Smart Card Alliance