Pat Porzillo, P.E.

With nearly four decades of experience in the planning, design, construction and maintenance and operations of transportation infrastructure, Pat serves as our transit engineering director. He works with teams to use resilient and emerging technologies to develop tailored solutions that tackle communities’ greatest transit challenges. His leadership provides direction and oversight through all phases of transit projects to enhance high quality delivery of light rail, subway, automated people movers and commuter rail.

His experience includes serving as chief engineer of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, associate vice president of commuter rail for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, deputy division engineer at Amtrak, and track, bridge and building supervisor at Norfolk Southern. He implemented infrastructure upgrades that enabled the Acela high-speed operation in Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. As a project manager, he has led contracts valued at up to $1.5 billion across the U.S. and overseen teams of up to 1,000 employees.

Pat is a member of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association’s Ties and Fasteners Committee and the Rail Transit Committee. He is also a member of the American Public Transit Association’s Noise and Vibration Committee.