Jose currently serves as the Director Strategic Development for El Paso County and is responsible for the oversight and implementation of the County American Rescue Plan Act Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund Portfolio, management of strategic investments of large capital and operating funds, and development of strategic and capital planning documents and their associated funding priorities. Jose is also the Interim Director of the Economic Development Department and has previously served as the County’s Director of Planning & Development. He currently chairs the Transportation Project Advisory Committee at the El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization, the technical working committee that provides recommendations on regional transportation planning issues to the agency’s Transportation Policy Board. He also serves as a director on the boards of the El Paso Area Transportation Services, LGC and the West Texas Spaceport Development Corporation, LGC. Jose is a third generation Texas whose family emigrated from Northern Mexico at the turn of the last century as railroad laborers. Jose is a proud graduate of Texas A&M University and earned his Master of Public Administration from The University of Texas at Arlington. He has over 20 years of public policy and economic development research experience. Jose and his wife Cindy live in the Greater El Paso area with their daughters Luna and Sofía Emilia.