FieldMetrics Personnel

Pamela Hamilton received a BSc in Business Management and Marketing from Cornell University in 1987. She gained valuable lab experience while working as a technician, a technologist and a graduate research assistant from 1995-2000, successfully completing development projects of several system subcomponents. From 2000-2001, Pam, serving as project manager at Scientific Materials Corporation, exceeded goals of a Manufacturing Technology Project developing monoblock lasers. Since 2001, Pam has been President of FieldMetrics Inc., previously CPY Consulting, which develops and manufactures sensors and instrumentation for power utility applications. She has 5 patents pending and one publication. Pam is a member of the IEEE.

Chris Yakymyshyn received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1989. While at GE Corporate Research and Development, he worked on electro-optic sensors, optical ultrasound and micromachining. He joined ABB in 1993 where he developed optical voltage and current sensors for power utility applications, and oversaw field trial installations. From 1997-2001, Dr. Yakymyshyn was a professor at Montana State University, where he developed optical sensors for particle accelerators, and consulted for several companies developing optical sensors for utility applications. Since 2001, Dr. Yakymyshyn has been with CPY Consulting Inc. dba FieldMetrics where he develops and manufactures sensors and instrumentation for power utility applications. Dr. Yakymyshyn has 19 U.S. patents, 13 foreign patents and 54 publications/ presentations. He twice received honorable mention in the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of the Year award, the Cornell Sage Fellowship, and the NSERC, Sir James Lougheed and Alberta Achievement Awards from Canada. He was the Mortar Board Professor of the Month at Montana State University in 1997 and 2000, and received two MSU Awards for Excellence in 2002. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Optical Society of America.

Mike Brubaker received a BS in Electrical Engineering (1989) from the University of Colorado followed by an MS (1990) and PhD (1995) in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He joined the Materials and Process Center at the ABB Transmission Technology Institute (now Electrical Technology Institute) in 1993. While at ABB, he was responsible for the dielectric design and type testing of optical voltage sensors and other new products. Dr. Brubaker joined the staff of the Dynamic Experimentation Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1997. He was the team leader for the development, testing, fabrication and calibration of electro-optic sensors for electron beam and pulsed power monitoring on the DARHT II accelerator. Dr. Brubaker left Los Alamos in 2001 to become an independent consultant. He joined CPY Consulting dba FieldMetrics in 2003 and is presently working on next generation technologies for instrumentation of the power grid. Dr. Brubaker has more than 20 publications, 5 US patents and 3 foreign patents.