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 Brian
Ragland is the director of the Finance Division.
The Finance Division is responsible for the management and control of budget,
revenue, disbursements, accounting and debt management for the agency as well as
programming and scheduling and letting management of all transportation
projects. Ragland, born in Plainview, received his Bachelor of Business
Administration degree in 1990 from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned
a Master’s of Business Administration from Southwest Texas State University in
1999. He is a licensed, Certified Public Accountant. Ragland began his TxDOT
career as the Director of the TxDOT Claims Management Section of the Finance
Division in 2003. He left TxDOT in 2005 to pursue an opportunity as Senior Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of Walden Affordable Group, LLC, an
affordable housing management firm. He began his career with the University of
Texas System Administration as an accountant/auditor in their Oil and Gas
department and then became the Financial Manager of their Employee Group
Insurance section where he served until 1996. He then became Chief Financial
Officer for the State Preservation Board where he oversaw all financial, human
resources, enterprise and information resource functions of the agency until
2003, when he joined TxDOT. He is a member of the Texas Society of CPA’s
and the Texas State Agency Business Administrators Association. Ragland and
his wife Kim live in Austin with their son and daughter. |
