Vice President Business Development - Asia Pacific, Total Rail Systems, Singapore.

Successfully completed projects:

* for Union Carriage & Wagon in South Africa as Senior Projects Manager setting up computerised project management and production planning systems and provision of systems and technical liaison between consortium members and the client.

* for Kennedy & Donkin as operations and maintenance advisor for Bangkok Metro project planning and tender assessment.

* for Brush Traction carrying out on site technical training and computerised documentation preparation for the Channel Tunnel locomotives.

* for Kennedy & Donkin Group and British Rail as project manager appraising the traffic, revenue, operating, engineering and environmental costs of a route in the Network SouthEast area.

Development Manager (Train Services)

Responsible for the planning, appraisal, implementation and financial control of major systems projects for the Underground (£250m p.a. in my budget) and for the improvement of the safety, efficiency and quality of train services.

* Prepared and implemented new IT based financial management system for the £700m Central Line modernisation project to eliminate overspend whilst maintaining project scope.

* Introduced economic appraisal of safety projects to increase cost effectiveness of capital spend.

* Carried out strategic review of rolling stock contracts to introduce half-life modernisation for trains to improve customer image and increase revenue.

* Introduced new computerised train service simulations to prove selected options for improvements and correction of poor service performance.

Employed, first by Kennedy Henderson Ltd, then by Eurotunnel, to manage transformation from civil engineering project to operational business.

* Reorganised system engineering requirements to place maintenance facility in France and control facility in England to reduce UK land take and capital costs.

* Reduced proposed on-train staffing levels by 50% to increase profitability of operations. Reduced original train requirements by 20%.

* Responsible for design of new computerised operating MIS plan.

* Drafted first rules and regulations database for railway.

Resident Consultant

Employed as resident consultant on various overseas metro projects including New York, Los Angeles and Taipei, reviewing and improving systems designs to ensure that maximum operational and safety requirements were met to lowest cost with maximum financial return.

* Project managed the design, testing and manufacture of inter-car safety barriers on the New York Subway to eliminate passenger deaths running at 2-3 per annum.

* Set economic operational and maintenance standards to reduce capital and revenue costs of Los Angeles Metro.

* Designed train services and rolling stock facilities of Taipei metro system to ensure match with traffic levels and infrastructure.

Joined LT in 1963 as platform staff.  Subsequently took promotion to train crew and later gained Operations Instructor's and Station Supervisor's certificates.  Became rolling stock Maintenance Instructor 1975 and, in 1979, Chief Instructor.  Became Training & Safety Manager, Acton Works 1981.

Joined as junior office clerk dealing with rail, shipping and air finance and the mechanisation of the offices.

Master's degree in Railway Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, Member Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport; completed: Safety Engineer's Training, Further Education Teachers Training, Various railway training courses.  Published several books and papers on rolling stock.

Age - 56, married - two children, nationality - British, resident - Derby, UK.