Mr. Rosapep serves as the Regional Administrator for Region 8, providing executive direction to a multidisciplinary staff which delivers FTA’s planning, operating, and capital programs in the States of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. In his five years with FTA, he has directed activities in FTA’s headquarters’ offices of Planning and Program Management covering programs that included metropolitan and statewide planning; project management oversight for major transit capital investments; and transit safety and security. He has testified before Congress multiple times with the Department of Homeland Security in support of enhanced security for the transit industry.
Prior to joining FTA, Mr. Rosapep served as Director of Transportation Planning with the City and County of Denver. Overall, Mr. Rosapep has over 25 years of transportation-related experience at the local level, including other positions with the City of Tucson as Transportation Planning Administrator and with the City of Greenwood Village Colorado as Director of Community Development/Assistant City Administrator.
Mr. Rosapep received his BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from Virginia Tech. In addition, he completed required coursework in the doctoral program in Civil Engineering and Transportation at the University of Toronto. Terry has received several performance and honors awards including the US DOT Secretary’s Ribbon for National Security; the Secretary’s Team Award for Evacuation Planning; and the FTA Administrator’s Award for Supervisory Excellence.
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