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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsibilities:- Manage and deliver client engagements- Ensure the delivery of high-quality services within budget and timelines- Provide expert advice in aligned industry sectors and capabilities- Contribute to continuous improvement and innovation- Cultivate client relationships- Team management- Knowledge sharing- Demonstrating leadershipIndustries:- Transport- Energy & chemicals- Defence

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsibilities:- Lead RAM assurance engineer on multi-disciplinary rail industry projects including new rail lines and stations.- Developing RAM management plans- Developing RAM assurance strategies for design packages in consultation with customer and designers- Performing RAM analyses- Writing and approving RAM assurance reports

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:- Champion reliability culture within Engineering and Maintenance.- Representing the reliability discipline in strategic decision making.- Data analytics for reliability reporting and forecasting of Sydney Trains infrastructure performance.- Mapping and analysing systems and processes for performance improvement opportunities.- Business case development and project scoping for the implementation of reliability and performance improvement projects.- Research and review of new and emerging railway technologies that can be implemented at Sydney Trains to improve reliability.- Coaching and mentoring of staff to improve maintenance and reliability outcomes for Sydney Trains.Achievements:- Analysed of how the new timetable will affect the reliability of the signalling system, successfully predicting the most exposed assets.- Identified under-performing assets and unsatisfactory procedures, developed the Signalling Reliability Growth Plan, proposed and drove reliability improvements.- Introduction of the formal Apollo style root cause analysis (RCA) process into Sydney Trains.- Proposal and successful implementation of a failure cause coding system for the new Enterprise Asset Management system.- Development of a business case to allow Future Network Delivery to install five sets of points near Sydenham for the benefit of the Sydney Metro.- Developed a system that identified failure records suspected of being assigned an incorrect asset and automatically recommended an alternative asset type. Secured action from the Signalling Maintenance Manager for his staff to manually review 1,300 identified failure records. The system proved accurate and the vast majority of identified failures were re-coded as recommended. Secured commitment that Signalling maintenance engineers review and re-code assets as part of routine procedure.- Created documentation how to obtain Signalling failure, defect and population information from the new EAM.

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:- Providing expert engineering advice regarding safety, reliability, maintainability and standards compliance and design, while aligning with business strategy and customer requirements.- Investigating, evaluating and type approving new equipment and systems.- Investigating equipment failures and irregularities.- Creating engineering standards, procedures, manuals and guidelines.- Third line technical support.- Liaising internally and externally with suppliers and customers.Achievements:- Investigated and evaluated new types of track circuits for the detection of trains.- Reviewed the signalling power systems in the Eastern Suburbs Rail line, reporting on the condition of the assets, the conformance to standards and making recommendations for future works.- Modelling of Dupline communications networks and cabling requirements.- Signals interference testing of new rolling stock.

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:- Same as while Signalling Technical Engineer in Sydney TrainsAchievements:- Proved that levels of 50Hz current within the overhead wiring system were not responsible for problems that a new model of train was experiencing.- Discovered a serious flaw in a new voltage sensing relay that was undergoing type approval that would have resulted in equipment failure on a mass scale had it gone into service.- Designed a mains segregation valve from off-the-shelf components that automatically shuts off compressed air flow in the event of a major air fault on either side of the valve.- Analysed the compressed air system on the ECRL rail line and found the root causes of the periodic air compressor breakdowns. Developed a range of alternative solutions with pros and cons.- Created a design guideline for overcurrent circuit protection for AC and DC signalling systems, providing guidance for technical and design engineers on circuit protection principles and design.

Sydney, Australia

- Managing budgets and time on robotics projects and other jobs.- Performing technical and risk evaluations of new concepts, preparing quotes and cost calcs.- Designing and commissioning new robotic cells and improving existing ones.- Supplying technical, project management, sales and other services to internal and external customers.- Sales development and customer relations.- Troubleshooting, repairing and maintaining robotic and other automation equipment.- Delivering various types of training courses.- Safety assessments.- Keeping up to date with the robotics industry.

- Coordinated the School of Engineering's efforts in oil & gas research and training.- Created proposals for a new oil & gas training centre and reviews of research directions, including discussions with industry and government.- Developed a research project into energy modelling in desert Australia.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: The research was in the area of rapid prototyping and wear replacement using robotic gas metal arc welding.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering, Honours First Class

Activities and Societies: Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (BE) (Honours First Class), with final year thesis in the field of computer.