Simon Martin Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Asset Engineer (Renewals and Enhancements) working on the Anglia route. Responsibilities include management of the teams databases and records, together with workbank planning, Signalling Infrastructure Condition Assessments (SICAs), Asset Condition Reports (ACRs), amongst other duties including attendance of Level Crossing Optioneering meetings and more.Asset Engineer (Renewals and Enhancements) working on the Anglia route. Responsibilities include management of the teams databases and records, together with workbank planning, Signalling Infrastructure Condition Assessments (SICAs), Asset Condition Reports (ACRs), amongst other duties including attendance of Level Crossing Optioneering meetings and more.Skills: Engineering Management · Systems Engineering · Written Communication · Engineering

Working as a project engineer under secondment for Jason Martin, looking at the renewals & enhancements of switches and crossings. Worked as Project Engineer on multiple projects, assisted on IDRs and IDCs, prepared ODAs, took part in discussions on optioneering POE and general admin tasks in addition to attending seminars, external meetings with stakeholders and contractors alike.

London Area, United Kingdom

Asset Engineer (Renewals and Enhancements) working on the Anglia route. Responsibilities include management of the teams databases and records, together with workbank planning, Signalling Infrastructure Condition Assessments (SICAs), Asset Condition Reports (ACRs), amongst other duties including attendance of Level Crossing Optioneering meetings and more.

London, England, United Kingdom

Worked in the Network Rail Design Delivery team (NRDD) as a designer specialising in signalling design.Carried out archiving, design, and research work pertaining to a number of projects, including the Thameslink project.Day to day duties included design work, correlation, completion of packages to maintenance facilities, maintaining all current office copies and general administrative tasks relating to updates in the railway's signalling designs.

London, England, United Kingdom

Working in a further four month placement within Construction Management at James Forbes House in London, under Paul Burr, working alongside the Southern Capital Delivery construction managers.

United Kingdom

Worked on an apprenticeship scheme ( L4 NVQ in Rail Engineering and L4 Higher Technical Certificate in Rail Engineering) with Network Rail, through Babcock. Specialising in signalling design.Personal Track Safety (PTS) qualified, for AC and DC rail systems.

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Working for the Traction & Rolling Stock Team remotely during the Covid-19 Lockdown.

James Forbes House, London

Worked in a six month placement within Construction Management at James Forbes House in London, under Paul Burr, working alongside the Southern Capital Delivery construction managers. Worked on improvements within the CSA app for inspections, carried out inspections and supported ecologists in their work on construction sites. Created a suite of quality assessment checklists for the construction managers in a range of activities.

Stratford, London

Worked on a six month placement with IP Track, working on GRIP stage one project research, specialising in Signalling. Work included use of various online tools and apps, including SORAT, SICA, Intelligent Infrastructure, use of HDMS hubs and similar. Worked on producing a tracker for signalling work in coordination with an overall project to manage projects and work coordinated by David Cowley.

Hither Green

Worked in a six month placement at Hither Green Depot (Maintenance). Worked on a project to catalogue, correlate, and identify insulated rail joints in insulated block joints at major junctions on the South East Network.

London, Waterloo

Worked in Electrical and Plant (E&P) at the London Waterloo offices of Network Rail on placement for three months. Assisted on several projects including on site visits. Tasks included safe route planning for on site visits, research for design work, discussions on upcoming projects.

East Croydon

Worked in the Network Rail Design Delivery team (NRDD) as an assistant to the designers and project managers. Specialising in signalling design.Carried out archiving, design, and research work pertaining to a number of projects, including the Thameslink project.Day to day duties included design work, correlation, completion of packages to maintenance facilities, maintaining all current office copies and general administrative tasks relating to updates in the railway's signalling designs.

Battersea

Joined the MNLPS as a coopted committee member in February 2019.Voted onto the committee in June 2019 in the role of treasurer.Duties include overview of finances for the society and OpCo, paying all invoiced work from and to the OpCo, providing annual reports, VAT, Tax and Gift Aid support.

London, United Kingdom

The British Railway Stories Ltd was formed in June 2012 to write, illustrate, market and sell children's books under the same title. The original stories were written to provide the logical step between the imaginary, and the historical for children.More information can be found on the company's website.www.britishrailwaystories.com

Silver Service Waiter. A polite, well spoken and hard working waiter with experience of working in a busy environment looking after the needs of patrons. Attentive at all times with a willing and helpful manner. Always approachable, cheerful and possessing good observation skills as well as the ability to work alone or as part of a team.

Fawley Hill

Bromley, United Kingdom

Key Achievements: Designed, constructed and delivered a new database for the recording of, and remediation of compliance controls, which had been tested across businesses and vendors across Europe. Delivered a separate new database for analysing the controls tested and their potential for automation. Assisted on separate controls testing phases across Migration, Mandates and Events across countries.Responsibilities:Maintaining the databases for controls remediation, including a complete overhaul to automatically generate management information on a weekly basis. Enabling on-going forward planning, identification and mitigation of risks, whilst developing an understanding of risk weighting and business impact. Assisting the head of compliance with reporting to the US board. Understanding the Risk Management structure and being able to work with existing business frameworks for purposes of reporting back on, and helping to improve said structure. Assisting with controls testing using the company's risk profiling database.

Independent House, South Quay

Key Achievements:Delivered a new manual for Adjudicators not familiar with new ways of working on the final decision processes. Accredited on a number of different Adjudicator work streams, including complaints involving Credit Cards, Single Premium Loans, Alternative Redress Cases, Limited Information assessments, a pilot Verbal Resolution Project and working the Successive Sales work stream. Received an award in July 2015 for a specific piece of work relating to a case, being acknowledged at a divisional away day.Responsibilities:Playing a pivotal role as part of the PPI division, assessing financial disputes between consumers and businesses and liaising with clients over the phone and through emails on a daily basis. Enabling on-going forward planning, identification and mitigation of risks, developing a strong understanding of risk weighting and business impact. Ensuring compliance with the Financial Conduct Authority regulations, and ensuring service upholds standards. Undertaking needs analysis across the business and reviewing complex data to report back to stakeholder teams. Reviewing evidence gathered on financial disputes, ultimately mediating between consumers and businesses. Optimizing processes and implementing new ways of working with consumers, both internally and externally. Acting as team's security representative, maintaining the security of all work and improving standards.

Exchange Tower, South Quay

Key Achievements:Selected to work as part of the pilot Decision Help team in May 2014, writing and communicating the outcome of financial disputes to consumers and businesses. Specially picked for a team of consultants required to help bring the number of pre-conversion cases down from a level of around 12,000 cases to acceptable levels of stock. Led the development of the Decision Support’s Mailbox, implementing a system that improved ways of working. Acknowledged for quality of work, being seconded to Offers team and rapidly becoming accredited on new processes. Ensured accuracy and attention to detail when setting up and converting cases for adjudicators to assess.

High Wycombe

Key Achievements:Steered efforts towards implementing complaints procedures and new ways of working within each of the appointed representatives of the parent company.Took charge of Compliance Auditing, liaising with and reporting back to the parent company on the selling activities of their appointed representativesResponsibilities Gathered information for the submission of forms and important documents to the Financial Services Authority. Provided optimal support to the head underwriter in writing new policy documents and schedules for our insurance and warranty products.Engaged in a variety of administrative tasks, processing and managing documents, and improving the filing system. Received training in the Transactor internet merchant system to then fed back to appointed representatives.Applied insight when devising treating customers fairly (TCF) documents, auditing reports and scripts in line with FSA guidelines under the direction of the head underwriter.Duties included on site compliance visits, compliance audits, telephone recording checks, policy documentation writing and proofing, submission of compliance and audit reports, and designing and maintaining the filing system used for Appointed Representatives of UK Insurance Solutions Ltd.

Central London

General administrative tasks including filing and taking telephone messages.Processed invoices, improved filing system and redistributed materials to main offices.Answered telephone enquiries from existing customers.Strengthened spoken and written communication skills for business.

London, Waterloo

Quickly mastered and used complex systems.Dealt efficiently with general email and telephone enquiries.Strengthened IT skills, in both Excel and Word.Report production utilising a complex database.Dealing with extremely sensitive and highly confidential information.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Title: Hybridity, Relativity and Complexity in the Management of High Speed Rail, 1923 - circa 1963.

Tmiet

Railroad And Railway Transportation, Pass

Rail Engineering Advanced Technician (Signalling Advanced Technician) - Level 4

Eal Level 4 Diploma In Rail Engineering Advanced Technician Competence, Railroad And Railway Transportation, Pass

Eal Level 4 In Advanced Rail Engineering Technical Knowledge, Railroad And Railway Transportation, Distinction

Ba (Hons), English Language And Literature, General

Activities and Societies: Fencing, Equestrian, Athletics, Shooting, Pentathlon.In addition to my degree, I undertook an independent.

Education record

August 2006: A levels: English , Design and Technology and Mathematics. June 2004: GCSEs: 11 Subjects at grades A-C including English.