Barry Lemke, an experienced signal design engineer with more than 35 years in the rail industry, has rejoined WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff as a senior principal technical specialist in the Orange, Calif., office.
Lemke will design control, power and communications systems for rail and transit projects. Prior to rejoining WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, he was a senior signal designer with GeoDecisions, a division of Gannett Fleming, Inc., where he designed systems for light rail operations in Seattle and the North County Transit District in Oceanside, Calif. From 1995 to 2008, he was a senior supervising engineer in the Salt Lake City, Chicago and San Francisco offices of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, working on a number of projects for such agencies as the Utah Transit Authority, Bi-State Development Corp. (St. Louis), and Caltrain.
Lemke is an AREMA (American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association) member.
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff has four offices with 400 staff in Southern California. The firm’s current and recent projects in the region include the Expo Line 2, Regional Connector, Westside Subway Extension and I-10/I-110 ExpressLanes in Los Angeles; the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center; the San Bernardino Transit Center, and the Mid-Coast Trolley in San Diego.