Mr. Cummings once heard that many individuals can come up with a good solution to a problem if given enough money and time.  But to him, “it takes an engineer to produce a cost-effective product on schedule,” an engineering challenge that Mr. Cummings takes seriously. For 40 years he has produced viable and cost-conscious products even during current economic times when clients must do more with less. With a professional obligation to keep quality high and designed solutions safe, it takes a talented, dedicated engineer such as Mr. Cummings to strive to meet the needs of both clients and communities.

Mr. Cumming’s interest in the engineering profession came naturally, as he enjoyed math and science from an early age. He graduated from Cornell University with an industrial engineering and operations research degree.   His first summer internship was in the plant engineering department for General Motors at the Lordstown Assembly Plant.  After working full-time for one year, he decided he didn’t enjoy working for a large company. In 1971, when he heard that Mosure-Fok & Syrakis (now ms consultants, inc.) was looking for engineers, he quickly jumped on the opportunity to be part of the team. Under the guidance of the late Jim Bixby, Mr. Cummings developed his expertise and grew into the skilled and respected traffic engineer he is today.

Currently, Mr. Cummings provides leadership to all of ms consultants’ traffic engineers, assuming responsibility for establishing overall standards for work, managing schedules and budgets, and monitoring all traffic projects through completion.   Mr. Cummings recently managed two projects that involved traffic engineering applications in situations that were unique. The first was a project for the Ohio Turnpike. The Ohio Turnpike was planning to implement an E-ZPass electronic toll collection system, and ms was hired to determine the final traffic signing strategy and to prepare construction plans. The second project was with Bechtel Corporation at First Energy’s Sammis Plant along the Ohio River. That project involved developing maintenance-of-traffic plans for S.R. 7 that enabled the plant improvements to be constructed safely.  Mr. Cummings said, “One of the unique features of the project resulted from that fact that S.R. 7 is located between the river and the plant. Huge sections of scrubber stack rings were transported on barges and had to be moved across SR 7 to reach the site.”

A Life Member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and with a 40-year tenure at ms consultants, we are truly appreciative of his devotion to the engineering profession and his commitment to the ms consultants team.

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