I am now an independent engineering consultant in the rail, transportation, and technology sector, building on an initial 25 years of experience in the railway industry in which I primarily worked closely with new technologies and developments, both within the supply chain and, since 2007, with Network Rail. In 2022 I started my new chapter as an independent consultant, working on a range of projects large and small.My primary work is currently leading the railway systems design for the Global Centre of Rail Excellence, a truly multi-disciplinary and leading role in an outstanding project. I continue to support assurance work for the EULYNX consortium, and am more recently involved with Birmingham University developing one of their Masters modules. My career began as part of the team developing the original WCML Train Control System proposals, which came full circle when undertaking the role of Programme Engineering Manager for NR’s ETCS and Traffic Management delivery team in Infrastructure Projects. In between these assignments I have been involved throughout the project lifecycle on a number of infrastructure and systems development projects with a signalling and systems bias but regularly involving multidisciplinary elements, building a breadth of experience and understanding of project delivery, and leading on adoption and embedding of Systems Engineering principles throughout NR’s project delivery organisation.My role in Network Rail heading up the Signalling Innovations Group was a natural progression, providing the perfect opportunity to support and influence the introduction of new technologies and processes, not just in signalling but for products and design technology across multi-discipline applications. Responsibilities ranged from the day to day delivery of infrastructure surveys using the latest technologies designed to remove the workforce from the operational railway, and support of a range of innovative design tools, through to advanced research and development activities looking at adopting the latest technologies from outside the railway industry to achieve further advancements in design tools and signalling products.I also took on the role of Assurance Lead for the EULYNX project, which brings together a dozen European Infrastructure Managers in developing standardised interfaces between signalling equipment, leading the assurance activities to enable all IM’s to adopt the specifications directly and shaping the certification and testing processes that will endorse the systems that implement these interfaces.