Derwood Sheppard
Derwood.Sheppard@dot.state.fl.us
Derwood Sheppard, P.E., M.Eng. currently works in the FDOT State Office of Design as the State Roadway Design Engineer. Derwood has been with the Department since September 2014, and most recently worked as the State Standard Plans Engineer from 2019 thru 2022. During his time with the Department Derwood has worked on; the redevelopment of policy and specifications for various roadside safety hardware systems and roadside safety design policy, the implementation of various safety countermeasures (e.g., ground-in rumble strips, railroad dynamic envelope markings, and wrong-way driving advanced countermeasures), and updates to the Department’s Temporary Traffic Control (TTC) Standard Plans/Policy. Derwood graduated from Florida State University in 2004 with a BS in Civil Engineering and received his Masters from the University of Florida in 2013.