Meet JMT: Insights from Within Featuring Richard Muster
Discover more about our industry professionals with our podcast series, Meet JMT: Insights from Within, where we share employee tales, experiences, and inspirations within our organization.
In this episode of the Meet JMT podcast, we are shining a spotlight on Richard Muster , senior inspector based in our Pittsburgh, PA region.
To hear his audio session, click here!
What inspired you to choose your professional career?
Prior to this career, I was enlisted in the US Navy, and after that I worked for the Department of Defense as a contractor for DynCorp Aerospace and Boeing Military Aircraft and Missile Systems. Then my wife and I decided that I was traveling too much too often and decided to take a chance at a different path. My career in this industry started in 2005 in Waldorf, MD, as a field inspector/materials tester, and I quickly understood the nature of this business and the need for trained and certified inspectors due to the engineering technician background that I had previously. I moved to Pennsylvania in 2006 and found work fairly quickly in this industry, and I met some very influential and dedicated people in this industry, and I decided to take full advantage of all the information that fellow inspectors/managers and project managers had to offer and were willing to offer, and I think it has been a very interesting career, a career that not only I can be proud of, but my peers and my family as well.
Can you tell us about a significant project you’ve handled and how it has impacted you, our company, or the architecture, engineering, construction, and/or technology industries?
I have only been a part of JMT for just over a year, and the only completed project I have done is for Pittsburgh Airport Authority at the International Airport Short Term Parking Garage Rehabilitation project, and currently the Mon-Fayette Expressway. I have a few projects that were very interesting and complex to work on, and those are the Replacement of a Bridge that was awarded the Architectural Bridge of the Year award from Architectural Digest in 2011, Rehabilitation of the Elizabeth Bridge that was the first cable suspension bridge to have the suspension cables replaced in Western Pennsylvania in 2018, and the Allegheny River Bridge Replacement project in 2007-2009 which is a segmental post tensioned cable bridge for the PA Turnpike Commission, and Kenmwar bridge replacement that was awarded the Western Pennsylvania ASCE Bridge Replacement Project of the Year Award in 2020, and was also one of the Drone Pilot Programs for PennDOT District 11.
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Are there any hobbies or interests outside of work that you feel have influenced your professional journey?
I enjoy the outdoors, such as camping, fishing, hunting, and just spending time with my family. I like building things; working on my house and my camp are very important to me. I give a lot of time to help some local veteran facilities and charities throughout the year. I am a US Navy veteran, and I know and understand issues that veterans have, and the one charity organization I help is to buy and train service dogs for veterans, and we have raised awareness and money to start a new training facility in the Pittsburgh area. My professional journey is a rocky but great one that has made me into a better RCM/Sr. Inspector due to the complex projects and the variety of people along the way that I have been involved with, and the engineering that had to go along with those projects has definitely influenced me to be better and more involved in this industry.
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