John Cogliano

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John Cogliano is an American businessman, and a former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation. He was appointed to the position by former Governor Mitt Romney in May of 2005. Current Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick replaced Cogliano in January of 2007 with current Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, Bernard Cohen.

Contents 1 Education 2 Before the Massachusetts Highway Department 3 Commissioner of the Massachusetts Highway Department 4 Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation 5 Massachusetts Turnpike Authority 6 References

[edit] Education

John graduated from Boston College with a degree in Political Science and Economics. He later studied Administration and Management at Harvard University.

[edit] Before the Massachusetts Highway Department

Before being appointed Highway Department Commissioner in 2002, Cogliano held a number of senior management posts at the agency. Secretary Cogliano also worked for five years at the Massachusetts Division of Capital Planning and Operations and at his family-owned business on the South Shore of Massachusetts.^[1]

[edit] Commissioner of the Massachusetts Highway Department

John Cogliano served as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Highway Department. As Commissioner, he managed more than 1,800 employees and a budget of $700 million. During his tenure, Cogliano advanced a number of the Romney Administration's key initiatives, such as implementing the Fix it First and Communities First policies, streamlining operations and reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies and Red Tape at the Highway Department, implementing the use of GPS technology to bring accountability to MassHighway's snow and ice operations, accelerating spending on road and bridge projects to a minimum of $450 million a year, and breaking ground on the project to eliminate the Sagamore Rotary. He also helped develop the Romney Administration's Long-Range Transportation Plan, which calls for $31 billion in transportation improvements over the next 20 years and will serve as a blueprint for carrying out projects and policies under his Secretariat.^[2]

[edit] Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation

Not three months after being named Secretary of Transportation, Cogliano began a quiet "shake-up of Massachusetts' transportation bureaucracy, by freezing new hires, putting more than 250 additional employees under his control in preparation for streamlining, and initiating the relocation of the Registry of Motor Vehicles from expensive Copley Square offices to more modest downtown digs."^[3]

[edit] Massachusetts Turnpike Authority

After Cogliano was replaced as Secretary of Transportation by current Governor Deval Patrick, Cogliano was allowed to keep the job of Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority given to him by former Governor Mitt Romney. Chairman Cogliano has recently ordered annual inspections of all tunnel ceilings on the Massachusetts Turnpike. These inspections were fueled by the death of a woman in the summer of 2006 due to the collapse of a tunnel ceiling. ^[4]

[edit] References