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Jeffrey C. Arndt was selected for the position of interim president and chief executive officer of VIA Metropolitan Transit, November 2012. VIA provides service to the fast growing city of San Antonio, identified as the 7th largest city in the United States.
In Arndt's current capacity as deputy CEO and the Chief of Business Support Services he supervises the areas of Finance and Procurement, Information Technology, Human Capital and Development, Government Affairs, and Public Affairs. He assists in full organizational oversight, and he is responsible for extensive coordination with internal and external entities.
Arndt's expertise encompasses transit service and capital facility development, training and safety, financial management and planning, labor relations, special event transit/traffic management, and transit operations. He is working to bring innovations to VIA and San Antonio, and he is overseeing the final stages in the implementation of Primo, VIA's signature bus rapid transit service and the agency's first foray into multimodalism.
Arndt came to San Antonio from Houston where he most recently served as the general manager of fixed route transit services for First Transit, a company under contract with the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, or Houston METRO. Arndt previously worked for Houston METRO for 25 years and achieved the position of senior vice president of operations/chief operating officer before moving on to the Texas Transportation Institute, or TTI. Arndt spent five years as a research scientist/research specialist at TTI, and then he became the senior planning manager at Parsons Brinckerhoff before taking his position at First Transit.
Arndt holds a master of arts degree in public administration from the University of Houston as well as a bachelor of science in civil engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He currently serves on the Bus Safety Committee and the Paratransit Committee for the American Public Transportation Association. He also has served as an adjunct professor in the graduate program in public administration at the University of Houston.