Carlos Hernandez’s leadership of Boulder’s transportation department was short-lived.

Hernandez, whom Boulder hired in November to start last month as director of the Department of Transportation and Mobility, has resigned effective immediately, officials announced Friday.

The news shocked Boulder Transportation Advisory Board Member Mark McIntyre.

“It’s totally out of the blue, stunning,” McIntyre said. “I was a Carlos fan, and excited first of all to have a full-time actual director and was excited by the fact that was Carlos. I have no idea why or how this happened.”

Hernandez is a certified planner and transportation planner, and University of Colorado Environmental Design program graduate with a degree in city, urban and regional planning. His previous work included partnering with Boulder staff on the Chautauqua Access Management Plan, East Arapahoe Transportation Plan, and the 30th Street and Colorado Avenue Corridor study.

He started Jan. 13.

Hernandez was selected after the city last year declined to hire either of two other finalists brought forward by a previous search. Hernandez was hired after the search was reopened in July, after the city did not make offers to Josh Diekmann, a city traffic engineer in Tacoma, Wash., or to Amy Ford, director of the Mobility on Demand Alliance for Intelligent Transportation Society of America.

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