Yolanda Oliver-Commey

About Yolanda Oliver-Commey

Engineering News Record (ENR) MidAtlantic 2020 Top Young Professional. Currently registered Professional Engineer (PE) in PA, NJ, DE, MD, MI. Registered Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE). Experienced professional transportation engineer and project manager with more than two decades of global experience ranging from small design projects / task orders to large design-build environments; her background encompasses traffic analysis, design and simulation, transportation planning, and roadway design projects. Challenge-driven professional who critically analyzes situations / assignments, prioritizing cost-effective services. Strong communicator and relationship-builder with ability to work independently and on teams. Involved in business development through technical proposals in response to RFPs / RFQs, conducts project public information open houses (PIOH). Project management, project scope, estimating labor hours, and preparing invoices. Offer superior knowledge of Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) and Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) methodologies; microsimulation knowledge using VISSIM, CORSIM & Transmodeler, traffic impact analyses and studies (TIA/TIS), traffic capacity and operational analyses, safety studies, Interchange Modification/Justification Reports (IMR/IJR) and Point of Access (POA) studies, traffic signal warrants, signal design and plan presentation, signal timing and optimization (SYNCHRO/VISTRO), roundabout feasibility studies (HCS, SIDRA) and roadway design (Microstation, AutoCAD). In addition to being on several local projects, she is passionate about developing and leveraging networks and expertise for the advancement of transportation infrastructure and beyond in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Experience

1. Project Manager Traffic Engineering Group Lead

   Pennoni

   Jan 2017 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

   Senior Engineer I, Senior Engineer II, Group Lead

Education

• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi

  BSc, Civil Engineering

  1999 — 2003

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  MSc., Civil Engineering

  2006 — 2008

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Master of Science - MS, Civil Engineering

Skills

• Drainage
• Microstation
• Traffic Simulation
• Microsoft Excel
• Bentley Microstation
• Roadway Design
• Vissim
• Traffic Engineering
• Pavement Engineering
• Hcs
• Traffic Studies
• Traffic Management
• Traffic Analysis
• Synchro
• Traffic Impact Studies
• Autocad
• Geopak
• Road Traffic
• Signing
• Corsim
• Inroads
• Traffic Signals
• Bentley Inroads