Israel Joffe

PMI-CPMAI and AI project management

In 2026, Israel Joffe received the PMI-CPMAI, the Project Management Institute credential for managing AI initiatives. It adds formal AI project management training to a background that already spans government project portfolio management, newsroom production, enterprise IT, automation, and web publishing.

scooter.exchange uses that same practical project mindset: combine structured mobility data, fast product iteration, and clear user workflows so riders can find scooters, e-bikes, dock bikes, and used two-wheel listings without bouncing between a half-dozen apps.

The short version

Born and raised in New York City. Based in Boca Raton, Florida. Israel Joffe currently works as a Senior Project Portfolio Manager at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, previously served as a Program Specialist for the FDIC, and spent four years as a Senior IT Specialist and Project Manager at the FDA.

He served as a firefighter for the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department through Hurricane Sandy until debilitating back injuries forced an exit. Before his government project management work, he spent nearly two decades in IT, project management, web production, and media operations for organizations including Fox 5 News, ABC News, Fox News, and Starwood Hotels/Marriott.

scooter.exchange is one of those properties — and the reason it exists is annoyingly simple. Israel Joffe spent four years in DC bouncing between meetings and learned, the hard way, that finding a Lime, Bird, or Capital Bikeshare station the second you actually need it is a genuinely bad experience. The operator apps don't talk to each other. The maps lie. You'd open three apps to find one bike that was already gone. That's the gap scooter.exchange fills: every shared scooter, e-bike, and dock-bike in walking distance, in one map, refreshed in real time.

Public bio

Muck Rack lists Israel Joffe in Boca Raton and as seen in Newsweek, Yahoo, WNYW-TV, WTVT-TV, and Greenwich Time. His public biography describes him as born and raised in New York City and the Five Towns on Long Island, a former Lawrence-Cedarhurst firefighter, a senior IT executive at Starwood Hotels/Marriott, and a journalist, senior web producer, and senior social media manager with Fox 5 and ABC News Good Morning America.

His public profile also notes a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu 2nd-degree black belt under Matt Serra, plus published work around World of Unpredictable Wrestling at Gleason's Gym, Atlantic City, civic coverage, and eclipse footage carried by Newsweek and Yahoo.

Why this niche specifically

Israel Joffe lived through the dock-bike rollouts in NYC (Citi Bike, 2013), the e-scooter detonation in DC (Bird and Lime, 2018), and the Palm Beach build-out that came years later. Three different markets, three different operators, three different apps that all had the same problem: they assumed you knew which network was nearest before you opened anything. That's backwards. Most riders don't care if it's a Lime or a Bird or a Spin — they care that there's something with two wheels in the next 200 feet.

scooter.exchange treats shared mobility the way Kayak treated airfare in 2005. Aggregate the operators. Show what's actually in walking distance. Stop making people pick the brand before they pick the ride. The live map, the swipe feed for used scooters and e-bikes, and the sell-or-trade private-seller layer all feed the same thesis: people who ride two wheels deserve a single front door.

Press & verified documents

• Israel Joffe — World of Unpredictable Wrestling at Gleason's Gym
• Israel Joffe — The Next Detroit: Atlantic City
• Israel Joffe — Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe
• Israel Joffe — Promoted to 2nd-degree black belt by Matt Serra
• Israel Joffe — PMI-CPMAI certificate reference
• Israel Joffe (DocumentCloud file)
• All Israel Joffe documents on DocumentCloud