A West Texas native, Rob attended Angelo State University earning an undergraduate in business administration and later a master’s degree in public administration. Rob later joined the university’s faculty as an adjunct and part-time lecturer in the political science department.
Rob began his transit career in a regional planning commission as a community planner, and program manager supporting city, county, and special district members. He was responsible for agency and district management, grant administration, and technical assistance to local governments developing strategies and programs that addressed statewide and local needs on a regional scale.
He has over 30 years of private and public sector transit experience providing operations, and management, planning, and capital improvement support leading systems as general manager in Texas, and Florida. Rob also provided operational support to new starts and provided technical assistance to transit systems in South Carolina, Maryland, and Tennessee.
Rob was selected by the governor’s office to serve on the Texas Department of Transportation Commission’s public transportation advisory committee and later appointed as chair by the Lieutenant Governor of Texas. From this body of work Rob was able to facilitate increases in state funding to rural and urban transit districts that created efficiencies in service delivery across all modes in urban and rural transit districts across the state.
Rob has served on numerous state association committees, and local boards as a contributing member providing technical assistance, and thought leadership to address local and state transit needs.
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