Kam F. Yee

Kam Yee leads and works on consulting projects related to design of solutions for Communications and Control & Monitoring systems for transit agencies (WMATA-Washington DC, MTA-Baltimore MD, MBTA-Boston, MA, and TransLink-Vancouver BC) and railroad operators (Amtrak). His work includes system-level engineering design and development of specifications for Control Centers, Control & Monitoring, and SCADA Systems for light rail and heavy rail; and design of radio communications systems in aboveground and underground geographical locations. Project highlights involve: Power and Communications for Digital Displays for public advertising at WMATA metro stations; Automatic Train Control (ATC) and Computer-Based Train Control (CBTC) system for MTA Baltimore Metro; Railcar Fleet Replacement for MTA Baltimore Metro; Bus Unified System Architecture for MTA Baltimore bus fleet.

Mr. Yee is also a Systems Engineering Quality Assurance specialist, providing Maryland MTA transit agency's oversight on contract work and deliverables performed by external parties, to ensure quality of work and compliance with FTA quality management systems guidelines. Prior to joining GL in 2011, he held dual roles as a product engineering technical lead and project manager at JDSU (formerly Acterna and TTC), where he led and supported project development and product lifecycle management (design, manufacture and obsolescence) for communications networks test equipment for electrical (TDM), optical (SONET, SDH) and packet-based (Ethernet) networks.

Mr. Yee has served in an Advisory Area Committee for the Corridor Cities Transitway Project (Montgomery County, MD). He is also an adjunct faculty in the Department of Engineering and serves in a governance council at Montgomery College (Rockville, MD).

Mr. Yee is a certified Professional Engineer (PE) in the state of Maryland and a credentialed Project Management Professional (PMP). He earned a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, a MS degree in Electrical Engineering, a BS degree in Electrical Engineering, and a BS degree in Computer Engineering, all from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.