Shane Cordileone founded HOAL Consulting in 2023 to provide GIS and planning support to transportation, freight, and energy clients. Alexandra Beesting joined as co-owner in 2025, adding zoning administration, NEPA, and program management experience. Today HOAL is a two-principal firm: every client works directly with an AICP-certified planner who has held the job on the other side of the table.
HOAL also owns Planning Certification (aicpexam.com), an AICP exam prep program that has helped more than 2,000 planners prepare for certification.
We partner with Greentree Strategies to support school districts with enrollment, demographic, and facility analysis.
Shane Cordileone, AICP
Principal, GIS & Location Intelligence
Shane has spent 10 years at the intersection of GIS, urban planning, and real estate development. He built and led the GIS department at Intersect, a renewable energy and data center developer later acquired by Alphabet, where his team supported land acquisition, engineering, development, and construction. Before that, he was the GIS task lead for the CATS Silver Line Light Rail Project at WSP, managed transportation and site suitability projects at Kimley-Horn, and led long-range planning studies for the Tennessee DOT. At WSP and Kimley-Horn, most of his clients were municipal governments and transit agencies. He also founded BuildWise, an AI-powered zoning intelligence platform. Shane holds a Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Florida State University.
Alexandra Beesting, AICP
Principal, Planning & Operations
Alexandra brings 12 years of municipal, state, and consulting planning experience. As Senior Planner and Interim Zoning Administrator for the Town of Waxhaw, NC, she managed the rewrite of the Town’s Unified Development Ordinance and reviewed development applications from subdivisions to conditional rezonings. At WSP, she managed more than 100 NEPA projects as an embedded consultant in the Tennessee DOT’s Environmental Division. She has also prepared state park management plans for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Since 2021 she has managed programs, budgets, and operations for consulting clients. Alexandra holds a Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography, summa cum laude, from the University of Florida.