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Yesterday, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy appointed James Redeker commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT). Redeker has been serving as interim commissioner since March.

“Over the last five months, I’ve been impressed with Jim’s confidence, his vision and his ability to manage the department during a period of great uncertainty due to budget negotiations and union ratification issues,” Malloy said in a prepared statement.

Prior to being named interim commissioner, Redeker was chief of the ConnDOT’s Bureau of Public Transportation, where he was responsible for planning and management of rail and bus programs. State-owned bus service CTTransit and state-owned commuter-rail service (on MTA Metro-North Railroad’s New Haven Line) each carry more than 35 million riders a year. The bureau also oversees the Shore Line East, a commuter-rail service between New Haven and New London.

Redeker joined the department in 2008 after a 30-year career with the New Jersey Department of Transportation and New Jersey Transit. His experience includes strategic planning and policy, capital programming, transportation planning, and transit-service planning and scheduling.