EXPERIENCE

Work with multiple departments, personnel at all levels of the corporation, and external experts to achieve loosely defined objectives with the ultimate goal of improving safety, efficiency, and quality while reducing costs related to all aspects of railway construction and maintenance. Set operating practice for all engineering activities. Write work instructions and safety procedures for all processes related to rail and infrastructure. Create specifications and standard designs for all track components, tool, and railway structures. Test and approve all tools and materials used in railway maintenance.

Achievements:

• Predicted supply chain weak points and sought out alternative sourcing that prevented lost work when original supplier failed to deliver critical products.
• Conceptualized the redesign of the company's Standards Documents web application and planned and introduced its Implementation.
• Collaborated with industry partners to develop new products that achieve performance requirements while reducing cost by 60%.
• Established safe job procedures that contributed to engineering department achieving lowest personal injury rate of all Class 1 Railroads in the country.

Responsible for dispatch network, PTC network, voice radio network, and signal system operation with more than 12,000 edge networks across 16 states. Managed 60+ employees reporting to multiple offices across 3 shifts in 24/7 operation environment.

Achievements:

• Prevented critical component failures by analyzing failure trends and making recommendations on preventative maintenance.
• Collaborated with network planning and train operations to schedule maintenance windows and minimize maintainer wait time.
• Automated daily network health reporting and morning report generation.
• Improved overall motivation by facilitating team cooperation and development initiatives that increased the operational effectiveness of employees at all performance levels.

Managed, maintained, and operated track geometry equipment across CSX network. Reported on track conditions to operation leaders at all levels.

Achievements:

• Redesigned and retrofitted test system to achieve 60% reduction in operational down time.
• Improved track inspector effectiveness across the system by observing technical proficiencies and providing defect detection and field measurement training.

Managed all Wastewater and Stormwater compliance and enforcement activities in Northeast Florida. Performed a review and analysis of all Wastewater and Stormwater compliance and enforcement projects. Planned work flows and provided training for team of Wastewater and Stormwater inspectors and engineers.

Achievements:

• Negotiated enforcement actions that balanced cost of site improvements and damages, against the entities financial and technical ability to eliminate sources of environmental harm without causing an undue burden on the business owner.
• Provided technical expertise to environmental crimes task force comprised of law enforcement entities from federal, state, and local offices in the North East Florida Region.
• Reduced non-compliance by providing training and assistance in the development and implementation of Stormwater management systems to small-medium sized business owners.