Extract: The presenter has 30 years of experience of systems engineering applied to railway projects. Deadlines, budgets, organisational structures and competing objectives can all conspire to make the application of this important discipline a difficult proposition. Success often requires patience, innovation and a good dose of people skills. This seminar provides insight into the pitfalls and learning points that will help any aspiring systems engineer to navigate their way through complex railway (or for that matter, other complex systems) projects.
Bio: Paul has worked in the railway sector for 35 years. He was sponsored by British Rail to undertake a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds and this led to a variety of roles supporting the introduction of new traction & rolling stock up to the late-90s. The era was marked by the first deployment of three-phase electric traction and this created a need for safety cases to prove the compatibility of this new technology with existing, and often antiquated, control & command systems. Paul was instrumental in developing the safety case for the Class 365/5 Networker Express fleet and this led to a successful career developing safety cases for other rolling stock.
From 2001 Paul turned his attention to developing an independent assurance business within Lloyd’s Register. A key milestone was the award and delivery of Notified Body assessment of Railtrack’s West Coast Route Modernisation Project. In 2010 Paul moved to Berlin and worked as a director in Bombardier Transportation (BT). Here he was tasked with deploying best practice functional safety, testing and requirements engineering disciplines on BT’s €multi-billion rolling stock projects.
Paul returned to the UK in 2013 as the Managing Director of Lloyd’s Register’s railway division. He oversaw the division’s divestment to Ricardo PLC in 2015 and thereafter led Ricardo’s newly-created railway business until 2022. During this time the division’s raison d’etre was to enable performance optimisation of the world’s complex railway systems and Paul oversaw a large portfolio of systems engineering and assurance projects across several continents. Paul has just joined Mott Macdonald to lead the development of a systems engineering capability.
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