Mr. Cummings has over 43 years of professional consulting experience, with an extensive background in engineering, strategic and operational planning for vertically integrated investor-owned utilities and municipalities in North America and Asia Pacific. He has supported the industry in addressing (1) key strategic and operational challenges related to T&D network modernization, (2) electric system cost and service level performance through comparative analyses (benchmarks) and the integration of industry best practices, (3) project and portfolio management, (4) reliability and risk mitigation, (5) energy efficiency, (6) fleet optimization, (7) capital investment planning and prioritization, (8) asset risk strategy and plan development, (9) organizational transformation, and (10) regulatory strategy. When called upon, he has offered expert testimony and/or opinion, most recently for a Canadian Provincial Utility, one Mideast Utility and for four US Investor-owned utilities operating in Kansas, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.Mr. Cummings holds an M.S. degree in Operations Research from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a B.S. degree from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.