Danny Upton Email & Phone Number

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Achievements and responsibilities:• Assist in managing teams to deliver the business plan to time and create content requirements by working with both internal and external colleagues. Produced the System Operator (SO) CP7 strategic business plan, SO draft determination response and SO delivery plan.• Forge great relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including senior leaders and the regulator, providing them with timely and accurate information when needed. I can effectively present and communicate this information to influence a wide range of stakeholders.• Compile exec packs which are essential for our periodic reviews and achieving function objectives. This includes data collection processes and interpreting data to produce management information for the packs. • Have extensive and up to date knowledge of our regulatory obligations and commitments.• Delivery of a SO deliverables tracker that is fit for purpose and easy to understand, agreeing deliverable dates and milestones with Senior Leaders within SO.• Work with the senior leadership team to deploy strategies from our Your Voice results, this includes working with our teams to implement action plans for the top priority areas.• I understand our people - I work closely with our HR team to understand our people plan, how it benefits SO and how it supports us in delivering our CP7 objectives.• I lead the Social Mobility D&I Workstream for SO – I have presented lunch & learns with teams, worked with the recruitment team on a checklist to make it more inclusive, organised school sessions with pupils from socio-economic cold sports and increased the number of employees filling in their socio-economic data.• I mentor / coach a student from a lower socio-economic background through the Social Mobility Foundation

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Achievements and responsibilities: • I have been involved and contributed to all the GRIP stages of the TPS Enhancement Programme working across 3 different projects (Track Length Validation, TPS Routes and Electrification), all the projects have been a success and have been completed within required project periods.• I undertook my own project (Train Data Cleanse) and I can gather requirements and create the different reports required at each GRIP stages, this includes putting together a Project Plan, Feasibility Report, Option Selection Report and Detailed Route Requirements Document.• I create strong relationships and work collaboratively with customers and stakeholders to understand their requirements and to reach an agreement on project remit, I have been able to do this by putting together requirements workshops and meetings to understand stakeholder needs, I have been able to do this via Microsoft Teams while working remotely.• Analysed and implemented the project enhancements into TPS, undertook the testing of the changes and provided early life support to the customer as a subject matter expert for any issues and provided technical assistance when needed.• As a D&I Champion I contributed to the monthly Capacity Planning EDI Champions Meeting – Put together lunch and learn packs for teams share with their team members and collaborated with my colleagues to get a better understanding of their experiences

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Achievements and responsibilities: ● Give expert technical support and maintenance to all planning systems, users and data, and uphold their integrity, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.● Manage the creation, transfer, and validation of data to and between within Network Rail and between our systems and external systems and users.● Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders to identify problem areas within data management and systems, and access the effect this has on timetable activities, putting together ideas and finding the best solutions to minimise the impact.● Undertake continuous improvement activities that provide significant benefit to the needs within the team and Capacity Planning as a whole, I worked in collaboration with Systems Analysis Team

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Achievements and responsibilities: ● Investigate incoming delays and either accept, recode or dispute the delay to responsible team or contact and I have achieved the highest rate of delays investigated within the team, while keeping over 99% accuracy in feedback quality.● Consult with signal boxes, LOMs and other rail industry personal to establish the root of cause of a delay and to get a better understanding of how the train network runs in specific areas.● I have implemented strategies to decrease delay minutes, focusing on problem areas and collaborating with the various teams within planning to support them with additional training and knowledge bursts.● I have worked with route teams to establish ways to improve the train planning rules and provide a more efficient working timetable.● I have made improvements to delay investigation tools and spreadsheets, which now includes additional information that will help delay feedback and to improve delay analysis.

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Achievements and responsibilities: ● Produce and amend train timetables around critical maintenance and enhancement works, achieving the highest rates of quality to help deliver a zero-defect timetable.● Abide by rigorous rules and guidelines to ensure trains are scheduled safely and efficiently, consulting with route teams to improve the quality of the rules.● Consider the needs and interests of the customers, the passenger and the freight operators, assessing these needs in a fair manner that will give all shareholders an equal opportunity.● I have understanding in all planning routes across the train network, having taken the opportunity to gain knowledge

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Bcs Practitioner Certificate In Business Analysis Practice, Pass

Upper Second-Class Honours Degree, Social Sciences

Apm Project Fundamentals Qualification (Pfq)