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The Tom O’Connor Group Inc., Fairfax, VAPresident (2012-Present)• Tom O’Connor assists clients by providing regulatory and litigation support and by offering management consulting services. The firm's regulatory and litigation support activities involve the development, preparation and presentation of expert witness testimony before courts and regulatory agencies. Tom O’Connor has participated in dozens of proceedings before state courts and commissions and Federal courts and commissions that regulate the transportation industries in both the U.S. and Canada. Tom O’Connor and the Members of the firm have provided litigation support in the form of expert witness or economic research services in antitrust, merger, divestiture, rate and other cases before Federal and state courts.• In the area of management consulting, we assist both government and private clients in developing management information systems, evaluating contract performance and conducting management audits.• Tom O’Connor specializes in the analysis of the operations, costs, revenues and services of enterprises, both public and private, involved in all modes of surface transportation. We have developed an array of transportation and logistics related negotiation planning and financial and management tools, including detailed models for negotiations, litigation, cost allocation, accounting, traffic flow, and carrier operations. • These tools have been successfully employed on behalf of clients in well over 500 projects, including merger proceedings, contract negotiations, strategic planning and operational analyses. Our transportation practice extends beyond the U.S. borders throughout North America and into Eastern Europe.• Contact Information:Tom O’ConnorPresident13222 Point Pleasant DriveFairfax, VA 22033 Tom@TomOConnorGroup.com571.332.2349www.TomOConnorGroup.com

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Manages strategic and other projects, specializing in telecommunications and logistics.Mr. O’Connor authored guides on transportation negotiations and contracting and has conducted transportation negotiations and contracting seminars for a wide range of clients. Mr. O’Connor also designed and helped lead negotiations resulting in tens of millions in cost savings.Mr. O’Connor has appeared as an expert witness in dozens of cases, achieving millions of dollars in savings for the client. He has served many clients as an expert adviser. He created and managed numerous computerized management and regulatory systems to address complex problems and is a widely recognized expert on costing and economics. He has appeared as an expert on the ICC-STB rail regulations . He also developed the most widely used line economic analysis system in the US rail industry; the USRA LDL Analysis system.He conducted analyses of tug and barge operations, both inland and off shore, for governmental and private sector clients. Mr. O’Connor has conducted analyses for Canada used to shape policy for freight transportation and studies for the U.S. used to shape Freight and Passenger Transport Policy, including analyses of Amtrak. For Bulgaria, he developed the Master Plan for MIS, including telecom and computer facilities to operate and manage freight and passenger operations of the Bulgarian State Railways. Mr. O'Connor has analyzed more than 45 rail merger scenarios and cases. He has provided expert testimony before state and federal courts and commissions in the U.S. and Canada on economic and policy issues. He has also testified as an expert on computerized transportation analytical systems, rail operations, anti trust issues and transportation economics and costing. Mr. O’Connor has served as an impartial and expert monitor of data and processes at issue in litigation on transportation.

Tom O'Connor directed and participated in numerous projects including merger analyses, transportation infrastructure analyses, plant and network rationalization and feasibility studies. Tom designed and implemented mainframe and microcomputerized systems for analyzing rail, truck and barge logistics. The computerized cost systems Mr. O'Connor created are in widespread use throughout the United States and Canada. Mr. O'Connor also advised the U.S. Rail Accounting Principles Board (RAPB) on the costing aspects of regulatory reform policies. The RAPB mission included advising the ICC as to the inclusion of productivity in the RCAF.Tom provided expert testimony on coal rates, computerized data bases and cost systems and rail cost issues before the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Managing a large staff of professionals, Tom O'Connor designed and managed major economic analysis projects. He helped formulate industry economic policy positions culminating in the Staggers Rail Act of 1980. He submitted expert testimony on behalf of the railroad industry in numerous cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission and state regulatory commissions. He also appeared regularly in national forums on economic issues. Mr. O’Connor directed the most significant computerized industry Costing System project in 40 years, URCS, the cost system now used by all major US railroads. Mr. O’Connor’s staff was responsible for development of the Rail Cost Adjustment Factor (RCAF). He also conducted industry seminars on URCS and related economic issues. Mr. O'Connor also testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission on the design and application of the pathbreaking URCS rail cost system since adopted by the Commission and the rail industry. He also directed development and installation of a commercial computerized economic and market analysis system now used by virtually all major US railroads.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Developed, presented and defended cost and economic information for both internal and external use by Conrail

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Managing a staff of about 30 professionals, Mr. O'Connor was responsible for all Conrail management and regulatory cost analyses in both freight and passenger areas, including line abandonments. He testified before the ICC on the development of line subsidy standards now widely used in the US railroad industry. He also finalized the design, installed and managed Contribution Simulator and Calculator (COSAC), a computerized internal management economic analysis system at Conrail. The COSAC system uses specific management accounting data to develop economic costs. COSAC replaced earlier systems and was used to guide virtually all transportation management decisions, including competitive market initiatives, consolidations, line abandonments and service discontinuance. Mr. O'Connor also participated in cost allocation negotiations between Amtrak and Conrail on cost sharing of joint facilities on the North East corridor. He initiated and directed profit maximization and plant rationalization programs. He also designed and implemented computerization and improvement of a wide range of economic and cost analysis systems used to manage and turn around this multi-billion dollar corporation.

Mr. O'Connor conducted and directed numerous transportation- related projects in the U.S. and Canada ranging from national logistics analyses to site-specific studies. He specialized in costing systems and appeared as an expert witness on such systems in a precedent setting proceeding before a Canadian Crown Commission.

In a project of unprecedented scope and historic impact, Mr. O'Connor developed, computerized, and implemented the light density lines cost analysis system, which defined Conrail. This system was used to reach asset disposition and line service decisions for thousands of miles of railroad. He served as liaison with congressional staffs and shipper groups, as well as federal, state, and local governments, and planning agencies. The system he created was a major element in the design and implementation of the streamlined Midwest-Northeast regional rail system. Mr. OConnor subsequently appeared as an expert witness to present and defend the operation of the USRA costing system.

Mr. O'Connor served as a staff economist and authored a report analyzing industry investment patterns and ICC regulatory policy, including ICC use of cost evidence.

Trained and led US Army Combat Engineers in a range of missions. Missions included design and execution of infantry; demolition; and river crossing objectives.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics And Mathematics

Risk Analysis

Business

Economics, Statistics

Completed All Course Work And Comprehensive Exams For Masters Degree In Economics, Econometrics And Quantitative Economics

Ba, Economics, Mathematics, History

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics