Who We Are
Built by the people who owned the problem.
Encompass was founded by operators who ran some of the most demanding parking environments in the country, then spent a decade auditing everyone else’s. The method exists because we needed it ourselves.
Joe Dudek
Co-Founder & Managing Principal, Operations & Governance
LinkedInJoe has spent 35+ years in parking, with deep expertise in financial management, operational leadership, and asset-level governance across airports, hospitality, medical centers, Class A office, valet, and municipal contracts. He is a super-connector in the industry and one of the most respected operational voices in the western United States.
His defining operational credential is LAX. Joe ran one of the largest parking operations in the country: 800+ employees, $85M+ in annual gross revenue, and simultaneous oversight of multiple third-party operators across the airport campus. Under his leadership the operation delivered a 40% increase in net revenue and a 200% improvement in net operating income. That came not from technology upgrades but from financial controls, staff discipline, contract enforcement, and operational accountability. Joe has seen every way a parking operation can underperform, and built the playbook for fixing it. He went on to found JD Enterprises (JDE), bringing that playbook to owners across the western United States.
Joe leads governance at Encompass. He sets the standards for what proof looks like, how exceptions get handled, how close packs are verified, and what separates an auditable operation from a reporting exercise.
At Encompass, Joe owns the discipline: what gets reconciled, how, and to what standard.
Jason Scott
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Delivery & Assurance
LinkedInJason brings 20+ years of parking operations, project management, and assurance experience. His career has two chapters and both are essential to what Encompass delivers.
The first chapter was operations. At LAX, Jason managed 450+ employees, a $22M payroll, and parking operations generating 30%+ profit margins. He learned what breaks inside a parking operation when nobody is watching, and what it takes to build systems that catch it.
The second chapter was JDE, where Jason built the project management and assurance practice into a nationally recognized capability: 800+ projects, $150M+ in installation value managed, 30,000+ PGS spaces across 90+ facilities. The range tells the story, from One Beverly Hills ($10B luxury development, active engagement) to the LAX PARCS program ($6M airport installation) to LA Metro (28,000+ spaces across 92 facilities) to 40 concurrent enterprise PARCS projects run simultaneously. He also built the assurance practice end-to-end: PreFlight audits across 8-city portfolios, Little Tokyo Mall ($600K projected revenue increase), Kilroy Realty portfolio reviews, and the Parking PI mystery shop program from concept through 3,000+ completed shops.
Jason leads delivery at Encompass. He sets the standard for how sites get onboarded, how governance cadences run, and how quality holds as the delivery team grows beyond the founders.
At Encompass, Jason owns execution: how the work gets done, at every site, every month.
Steven Grant
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Technology & Architecture
LinkedInSteven brings blue-chip consulting DNA to the parking industry. His career includes Oracle, Booz Allen Hamilton, and LTK Engineering, a combination of enterprise systems architecture, strategic consulting, and large-scale infrastructure program management that is rare in parking. He has led five major airport parking technology deployments and pioneered the frictionless parking system at Westfield Century City. He went on to found Aberdeen Management Group (AMG), the technology consultancy whose architecture practice now underpins Encompass.
Steven leads technology architecture at Encompass. He ensures integrations are designed correctly, data pipelines are reliable, and the PACT platform scales without accumulating technical debt. His experience bridging enterprise technology frameworks with parking-specific requirements is what makes Encompass’s vendor-agnostic approach technically credible.
At Encompass, Steven owns the architecture: how data moves, how systems connect, how the platform scales.
How Encompass Was Formed
Three firms. One operating philosophy.
Jason and Steven first met as opposing consultants on Westfield Valley Fair in San Jose, a $1.1B renovation for Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield with 4,200+ new parking spaces and full PARCS deployment, complicated mid-construction by COVID. They crossed paths again on opposing sides at Sacramento International Airport and the Port of Portland before aligning at One Beverly Hills, where JDE brought AMG in as a strategic technology partner.
Working together at that scale proved what each firm had independently concluded: the parking industry’s control gap was structural, not incidental. Each firm was diagnosing the same systemic problems, writing parallel reports, and handing recommendations to owners who lacked the standing team to implement them continuously.
An ultra-luxury major project in Los Angeles became the catalyst. A $10 billion mixed-use development with institutional governance requirements that no single consulting engagement could satisfy on a recurring basis. The owner didn’t need another audit. They needed a permanent controllership function that could operate across operators, normalize across technology stacks, and deliver closure-grade evidence every month. This realization is what fueled Encompass to grow.
Encompass is what you build when you stop being consultants who diagnose the problem and start being the control layer that prevents it from recurring.
Our Standards
The method is fixed. On purpose.
Every site gets the same exception taxonomy, the same tie-out lineage, the same evidence format. That is not rigidity. It is what makes proof comparable across operators, vendors, and years.
Independence
No operating contracts. No hardware commissions. No referral fees. We are paid by owners to prove the number, and by no one else for anything.
Evidence
Every figure traces to source data. Every exception carries a reason code and a closure record. If it cannot be evidenced, it does not go in the pack.
Continuity
Recommendations without follow-through revert. The function runs every month, so improvements hold and the baseline keeps getting better.
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