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2021 ASHE August Luncheon
August 20, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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What to expect:
Josh Rowan, P.E.: City of AtlantaCommissioner, ATLDOTUpdate on City of Atlanta (This event is 0.5 PDHs)
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Josh Rowan has been appointed Commissioner of Atlanta’s new Department of
Transportation (ATLDOT) formed to significantly accelerate and diversify
projects with better options for getting around Atlanta safely, affordably and
equitably.Born Texan, raised New Mexican, and lived his adult life as a Georgian, Josh attended Covenant College (Lookout Mountain, GA) as a basketball walk-on, earning a scholarship before transferring to the Georgia Institution of Technology (Georgia Tech).
Graduating with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Josh remained in Atlanta and spent the first five years of his career working with a local highway contractor. There, he learned the road building business from multiple perspectives – laborer, foreman, estimator, and project manager. Later, as a consultant in Cobb County, Josh was introduced to the management of large capital construction programs. For nearly two decades, Josh has worked in the public sector as a program manager for transportation, transit, education, healthcare, and law enforcement capital construction programs throughout the eastern United States, as well as Mozambique and Tanzania. Most recently, he served as General Manager for the City of Atlanta’s Renew | TSPLOST Program.