Nicholas Masucci received his MCRP from Rutgers in 1975, and over the ensuing 40+ years he worked principally for the Louis Berger company, an international engineering, science, and planning firm, and VMS, Inc. a firm he founded, which was the first transportation asset management firm in the US, along with a couple of brief stints in NJ government.

He began his career as an environmental planner at Louis Berger, where he worked primarily on environmental permitting projects for transportation projects in New Jersey and New York. He worked on projects throughout the U.S. for numerous public clients and expanded his horizons to work internationally with urban and transportation planning projects in Yemen, Nigeria, and Malawi, among others. In the mid-1980s, he became the leader of the company’s environment and planning group, growing it to become the fastest-growing and most profitable division of the company.  In 2002, he was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of Louis Berger, the first planner to lead a top 25 US engineering firm.  At the time, the firm generated approximately $250 million in annual revenue.  By the time of his retirement in 2016, the firm was generating $1.2 billion in annual revenue.  Over this period, he oversaw an expansion of the firm’s international work and managed through the security, technical, staffing, regulatory, tax, and currency complexity of working in hostile conflict environments, including Afghanistan, Zaire, Iraq, Southern Sudan, and the Philippines.  He developed new lines of business such as power and assisted in creating new methods of reintegrating post-conflict child soldiers into society.  Along with other key employees, he reinvented Berger by implementing new systems, processes, and technology along with new staff to increase the overall efficiency of the operations.  During his tenure, overall Berger profitability was consistently the highest in company history as measured by return on equity.  He passed on the leadership of the company in 2015 and retired in 2016.

For the period 1995-2001, he created a new company focusing on the operations, maintenance and management of transportation facilities.  This firm created statistical based decision-making models to manage the maintenance of facilities to meet specified levels of quality coupled with innovative methods of risk management.  This was the first application of what became known as the asset management approach to maintenance.  Mr. Masucci’s approach was copied in Australia, New Zealand, and other countries.  The firm received several technical awards and was recognized three times by Inc. 500 magazine as one of the ten fastest growing companies in the US.  Mr. Masucci stepped down from the leadership in VMS to return to Berger in 2002.  The firm was sold in 2006.

In his retirement, he keeps busy by serving as a Senior Policy Fellow at the Bloustein School, being an independent Director on two Boards of Directors and overseeing a company that finances, owns and operates commercial solar facilities.  His proudest accomplishment has been to develop a team which together shared in the satisfaction of performing interesting and challenging work and the prosperity arising from their success. All of the team members, many from the Bloustein School, became full partners in his companies.