Cresson joined OHM in 2021 after more than three decades in various roles with the City of Ann Arbor. As a senior project manager with OHM Advisors’ municipal engineering group, he uses his extensive expertise to help clients with their private and publicly funded infrastructure projects, as well as their strategic and technical infrastructure planning efforts.
Through his 33+ year career with the City of Ann Arbor in their engineering, systems planning, and public works groups, including seven years as the City’s systems planning unit manager, Cresson has significant background in private development reviews and construction oversight, in addition to capital improvement project design, bidding, and project management. Cresson also worked extensively on the City’s infrastructure planning, including master planning, capital improvements planning and programming, and infrastructure asset management across its municipal utilities, transportation, and solid waste systems, including coordinating these efforts with other local and regional agencies and stakeholders.
Q: Why do you work in community advancement?
I truly enjoy working with communities to develop and deliver projects that will improve the quality of life for the people who live, work, and visit those communities. I feel that locally derived projects are typically the most positively impactful projects for that community.
Q: What is one thing you wish communities seeking funding knew?
Be prepared and strategic. Understanding your community’s assets, their condition and needs, and what it will take to address those needs in a well-documented and understandable manner puts you in the best position to obtain outside funding for those projects
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