I am a retired Senior Signal Engineer with broad international experience in safety management, signalling principles, automatic train protection and train detection. Extensive experience in international harmonisation and standardisation. Involved in the specification and development of ERTMS/ETCS from itsinception. Founded Railcert as Dutch Notified Body and acted as Lead Assessor and Certification Manager. Ample experience as Safety Manager and Safety Coordinator, managing delivery and acceptance of large and complicated safety cases under time pressure. Served as the President of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) for the 2007-2008 session.
Specialties: Specification, development, certification. RAMSHE, Safety Management, Safety Case Delivery, Management of Independent Safety Assessors and Notified Bodies