To support the firm’s commitment to providing expert transportation services, LJB has hired Cindy Yerkey, P.E., RSP2I, to serve as the firm’s first corporate Transportation Operations Lead. Working from LJB’s Cleveland, OH, office, Yerkey focuses on LJB’s transportation service line in Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, and beyond.
Yerkey brings over 24 years of experience in transportation engineering, including projects with the Ohio and New Jersey Departments of Transportation, other state and local government organizations, private and public developers, and national research boards. In her previous roles, she served as a transportation group lead, a principal technologist, and the lead highway safety and traffic engineer for numerous projects throughout the country.
Joining LJB’s experienced infrastructure team, Yerkey’s experience and reputation as a strong local and national subject matter expert in highway safety and traffic engineering will further expand the firm’s growing portfolio nationwide.
“Cindy is a respected strategist in program and project leadership and a proven builder of multi-disciplinary teams across diverse business environments,” said LJB CEO, Rod Sommer. “She possesses an entrepreneurial spirit, and she truly embraces the positives that come with change.”
“I’m incredibly excited to join the talented and dedicated LJB team for the next chapter of my career. It is an honor to serve in this role and I look forward to this opportunity to help drive the future growth of our transportation engineering practice,” said Yerkey.