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Description
Seasoned railroad track and safety engineer with more than 40 years of experience in railway track engineering, civil engineering, railroad machinery, and industrial safety. Brings deep expertise in track construction, maintenance, alignment, drainage, ballast, bridges, safety engineering, and heavy track maintenance equipment.
Leadership experience includes more than two decades as president of an international rail business overseeing large-scale track construction, renewal, machinery manufacturing, and on-track service operations across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.
Additional experience includes consulting on heavy-haul coal mine rail systems, bridge inspection, structural design, procurement systems, and international rail infrastructure projects. Technical knowledge spans multiple global track gauges, railway bridges, rolling stock, diesel power systems, and construction machinery.
Holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering, is a registered professional engineer, and has extensive experience in both railroad and industrial safety.
- More than 40 years Railway Track Engineering and Civil Engineering Experience
- Recent Career Business Experience: 21 years as President of a $300 M per year international company constructing new track, design of new track and structures, renewal of existing track, manufacturing railway track maintenance machinery, and providing other on track contract services.
- Design of heavy track maintenance and construction machinery, engineering of structures, design for safety, Company: Harsco Track Technologies Now Harsco Rail 1986 – 2007
- Railway track alignment, location, and environmental factors such as wind shear, drainage, noise, clearances, overhead line catenary location, rail lubrication residue, soil, subgrade, ballast, and near track vegetation.
- Most Recent Work: Railroad track and bridge consulting engineering for “heavy haul” coal mines 2011 – 2012 Patriot Coal Charleston West VA
- Business locations: USA, Canada, China, India, Russia, United Kingdom, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Brazil, Hungary, Ireland, and other countries
- Track Gauge Experience: Meter Gauge, 1066 mm 42 inch, Standard 1435 mm, Russian 1520 mm, Irish 1600 mm, and the multiple gauges of Australia and Brazil.
- Graduate US Navy Officer Candidate School: Commissioned Officer 1969 – 1972
- Non Railroad: AMS Accredited Marine Surveyor for legal, insurance, Diesel engines & safety 2007 – 2013
- Extensive railway and industrial safety experience.
Academic Background
- Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering University of Tennessee 1968
- Master of Science Mechanical Engineering Postgraduate University of Tennessee 1974
Additional Academic Activities / Honors
- Registered Professional Engineer, South Carolina Registration #16987 with reciprocity in all 50 states 1974 – Current
- National Academy of Railroad Sciences Bridge Inspector April 2012
Professional Experience
- 1968 – 1969 Design Engineer Sanford Day – Long Airdox Mining Machinery
- 1969 – 1972 US Naval Officer Main Engines Officer USS Albany CG – 10
- 1972 – 1974 Graduate Student University of Tennessee MS Mechanical Engineering
- 1974 – 1977 Design Engineer Tamper Division of Canron Railroad Machinery and Railroad Track
- 1977 – 1980 Manager of Research and Development Tamper Division of Canron Railroad Machinery and Railroad Track
- 1980 – 1982 Manager of Engineering Tamper Division of Canron Railroad Machinery and Railroad Track
- 1982 – 1986 Vice President of Operations Fairmont Railway Motors Division of Harsco Corporation Railroad Track and Railroad Machinery
- 1986 – 2008 President Harsco Rail Division of Harsco Corporation Railroad Track and Railroad Machinery Official Retirement Date 2009
- 2009 – Present Consulting Engineer for Railroad Track and Railroad Machinery. Also Marine Engineering Consultant for Diesel propulsion.
- 2020 – Present, RTI Group, LLC. Railroad Track and Safety Engineer Expert
Partial Project List
- Class 1 US Railways
- Metros & Transits
- Indian Railways
- Canadian National Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, Queensland Railways, Network Rail
- Coal Mines, Iron Mines, Others worldwide
General Railroad Expertise
- Large Civil Engineering Project Management
- Procurement Systems ADB and others
- On track safety
- Railroad Shop Safety
- Industrial Safety
- Project and Business Finance
- International Business Marketing and Management
- Railroad Environmental
- FIDIC International Asian Development Bank Projects
- World Bank Projects
- Export Import Bank Projects
- Bridge Inspection
- Bridge Design
- High Speed Rail Japanese Railways East, DB Germany, and Network Rail, UK
Areas of technical expertise
- Railway Track Construction and Maintenance
- Railway Track Surfacing and alignment
- Railway track construction and maintenance machinery
- Railway Ballast, sleepers, rail, fasteners, drainage, switches, crossings, & other trackwork
- Railway Bridges
- Structural
- Track Gauge Engineering
- Safety engineering
- Track Alignment
- Railway Bridges
- Rail Cars
- Power Train Including Railway and Marine
- Construction Machinery Including Earth Moving
- Lifting Equipment
- Conveyors
- Structural Design
- Material Handling
- Electric – Hydraulic
- Control Systems
- Metal Fabrications
- General Machine Design
- Diesel Power
- Brakes
- Rail Flaw Detection
- Railway Engineering Track & Rolling Stock
- US Navy Experience with Diesel Engines, Boilers, and Turbines
Other Information / Accomplishments
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary Society 1966
- Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society 1966
- Eagle Scout 1962
- Past Leader Boy Scouts of America
- Holder 4 patents: Railway Engineering
- Author or Co-Author Several Papers for Railway Engineering