Building Stronger Transit Agencies, One Skill at a Time
Congratulations! Your project was selected under one of FTA's competitive grant programs. Congress has provided your agency with Community Project funding. You've received your annual formula suballocation from your Designated Recipient or State Department of Transportation. FTA has published the amount your tribal government has been allocated for this fiscal year. Your State highway department has transferred funds to you for a transit project. These investments will ultimately provide mobility and access to opportunity for people in your community. However, turning funding into reality requires more than just receiving a grant—it demands comprehensive knowledge of grants management, accurate data reporting, civil rights compliance, and strategic understanding of how funding formulas work.
TrAMS Camp & Consulting is here to support your agency's capacity building journey every step of the way. Whether you're navigating TrAMS for the first time, ensuring your NTD reporting maximizes your formula allocations, maintaining civil rights compliance in a changing regulatory landscape, or building your team's foundational knowledge of FTA grants management, our comprehensive curriculum empowers you and your colleagues to administer Federal transit funds with confidence. From seasoned professionals looking to sharpen their skills to new staff members getting up to speed, our hands-on training, practical advice, and ongoing technical support will help you minimize mistakes, meet Federal requirements, and free up time for your other priorities—ultimately accelerating project delivery and ensuring good stewardship of taxpayer dollars for your community.
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) received over $317 million to replace aging rail cars. Source: SEPTA
The City of Fort Collins, CO received $2.4 million to enhance bus stops and upgrade its downtown transit center. Source: FTA
Meet your Trainers
David Schneider is the founder of Schneider Analytics, which builds digital tools and provides training and consulting for the public good. From 2003-2024, David worked as a career civil servant with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), where he managed programs, conducted research, developed policy, supervised data analytics teams, and led FTA’s effort to develop, deploy, and maintain the Transit Award Management System (TrAMS), a modern and innovative digital grants management platform. From 2012-2019, David served as the TrAMS product owner and the system’s principal data and design architect, leading FTA’s efforts to develop, deploy, and improve all aspects of the system’s grantmaking and grant management functionality. David has led TrAMS trainings and provided technical assistance to hundreds of TrAMS users. He has degrees from Oberlin College, The University of Maryland School of Public Affairs, and the Catholic University School of Engineering. Feel free to connect via LinkedIn
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Monica McCallum is the founder of Badass Money Mama (BaMM), which provides transformative coaching on personal finances and your relationship with money so you can live a fuller, wealthier life. Prior to BaMM, Monica was the Director of the Office of Recipient Civil Rights Management at the Federal Transit Administration. Through that role and during her 17 years with FTA’s Office of Civil Rights, she managed the oversight of and technical assistance offered to hundreds of FTA recipients (transit agencies, state DOTs, MPOs) in the US and its territories. Monica served as a subject matter expert for the US Department of Transportation’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program (DBE) rulemaking in 2024. Monica has extensive background and knowledge of the applicability and implementation of DBE, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) in public transit. She has a Master in Public Administration from Seattle University and lives in Seattle with her family
John Giorgis is an independent consultant. He has nearly 20 years of experience working on all aspects of the National Transit Database, from data collection to data analysis using NTD data products. He has previously delivered NTD training sessions at several different conferences around the United States, with attendees ranging from the largest transit agencies to some of the smallest transit operators in the country. He's a recognized expert in NTD reporting requirements, particularly in applying NTD reporting requirements to new, unusual, and unique situations. John grew up in upstate New York and holds a bachelor’s in economics and geology from Case Western Reserve University and a master’s in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University. In his free time, he is an active volunteer with Scouting America (formerly the Boy Scouts of America) and he loves to travel, especially when he is able to add to his lifetime count of having visited 341 out of the 433 areas in the US National Park System. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife, Sara, and three adorable children, ages 14, 11, and 9.