Christopher Rowley Email & Phone Number

Alliance, Nebraska, United States

Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

As Senior Site Manager, I have been responsible for building strong communications and relationships that benefit both the consumers and the Wabtec company and its employee's.Providing world-class technical support and materials for a Class 1 railroad customer is an ever changing challenge. This fast-moving environment services various types of locomotives from Dash 9 to Tier 4 that require a surplus amount of attention and hard work to keep things moving on track.I have used my teamwork and interpersonal skills to successfully lead and guide a diverse team with different levels of knowledge, experience and backgrounds in the industry.In addition, I have also gained the opportunity to use my skills to de-escalate issues and errors that tend to arise during day-to-day business routines, while also ensuring compliance in many fields such as: EHS, Quality, and Wabtec's Policies and Procedures. One of my biggest accomplishments while in this position was leading my team and shop to become certified as a Golden Standard Warehouse.

Fort Worth, Texas

Sustains a strong history of UP TA (Task approvals) management. A proven level of researching and justify all high cost material approvals for responsible MSA fleets.Highly experience at CSX Work Order creation. Successful at tailoring all shopping wo's and building action plans for poor performing units including Train Delays and LOR failures (line of road).• CSX Work order- Material ordering and logistics to provide customer material for all LOR and non MSA maned locations.• Accountable and knowledgeable in creating and maintaining fleet shopping and operating performance metrics.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

North Platte, Nebraska

•​Completed the GE tier 0-4 Level 1 electrical and mechanical courses certifying my technical capacity to deliver quality repairs to a wide fleet of AC/DC locomotives under strict ERail safety standards•​Assigned 24/7 to service NA Class I GE fleet operations to drive locomotive availability, reliability, safety and successful GE customer productivity wherever training, data capture, corrective action or servicing was priority•​Team contributor tasked with completing “On The Job Training” (OJT) documents, coordinate Safety Stand Down training, writing MMBF packets with detailed processes to drive a reliable and cost efficient repair on bad actor locomotives. Recorded detailed shopping records on every locomotive through the shop, ran morning regional reporting calls, coordinated and delegated daily shop work flow plans according to customer needs•​Single point of contact for UP shop directors, managers, foreman & craft members, along with GE engineers and leadership responsible for meeting or exceeding performance guarantees•​Accountable for leading and achieving strategic, long term objectives in maintaining, supplying materials, mechanical servicing, life cycle overhauls and continuously improving the value of the UP GE locomotive fleet• On-site technical resource dedicated to local training on all innovations, monitoring quarterly software loading, all customer driven modifications, and PTC systems

Accountable for organizing and coordinating the team logistics, trip & manifest verification, crew orientation, system readiness, and all activities critical to successful GE Trip Optimizer (TO) deployment, onboard data validation, retrieval & remote transfer for use in TO system optimization by the GE Team  Assigned 24/7 to service NA Class I GE fleet operations to drive locomotive availability and successful GE customer productivity wherever training, data capture, corrective action or servicing takes priority  Delivers GE QNX/Trip Optimizer customer training and practical familiarity through system demonstrations and simulated deployments to boost crew efficiency and use; enriching customer relations as GE product representative, as onboard liaison & crew operational assistant during assigned train runs  Sustains a meaningful and on-site positive point of contact for train & terminal masters, locomotive servicing crews, GE engineers and managers; recognized for dedication to shared success & rapport

I have done system updates, implemented a back-up system, designed websites, provided tech support, designed databases, and replaced hardware.

Accountable for organizing and coordinating the team logistics, trip & manifest verification, crew orientation, system readiness, and all activities critical to successful GE Trip Optimizer (TO) deployment, onboard data validation, retrieval & remote transfer for use in TO system optimization by the GE Team  Assigned 24/7 to service NA Class I GE fleet operations to drive locomotive availability and successful GE customer productivity wherever training, data capture, corrective action or servicing takes priority  Delivers GE QNX/Trip Optimizer customer training and practical familiarity through system demonstrations and simulated deployments to boost crew efficiency and use; enriching customer relations as GE product representative, as onboard liaison & crew operational assistant during assigned train runs  Sustains a meaningful and on-site positive point of contact for train & terminal masters, locomotive servicing crews, GE engineers and managers; recognized for dedication to shared success & rapport

During my seven years with the company I held many different jobs inside the plant for example I did setup on cnc

Responsibilities include maintaining the setup of 5 Haas machining centers with 4th and 5th axis control making offsets and operation of mills. Other duties include making specialty tools for the mills and lathes plus many other miscellaneous duties.

Aas, Network Specialist

Deans List 2006, 2008

Network Specialist, Aas, Multimedia Web Design

Diploma, Precision Maching