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    Piers Connor

    Piers Connor

    Managing Director and Senior Consultant

    Loughborough, United Kingdom

    I am an international railway system professional with extensive senior management expertise and front line experience in rail project development, planning, design, maintenance,...Read moreI am an international railway system professional with extensive senior management expertise and front line experience in rail project development, planning, design, maintenance, operations and manufacturing in Europe, Middle East, USA, South Africa and Asia.

    I run my own consultancy company and I have a wide ranging and recent portfolio in the UK and overseas, with projects completed for both existing and new systems around the world including the UK, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Canada. These projects include technical advice, preparation of franchise bids, tender assessment, setting up international consortia, engineering assurance, expert witness work, report preparation and railway system studies.

    I have written several books, papers and articles about rail system history, technology and development and I am visiting lecturer for a number of universities in the UK. I have an MSc in Railway Systems Engineering, with professional membership of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and the Institute of Railway Operators. I am also Lead Tutor for the Engineering module in the Institute of Railway Operators degree course.

    My recent works include a paper for the International Group for Lean Construction conference in Peru in July 2011 and an article for Modern Railways July 2011 on Automatic Train Operation in London.

    Area Covered: Technology, engineering, construction, rail, transport, systems, training and projects.
    Work Experience Summary: Piers Connor is an international railway system professional with extensive senior management expertise and front line experience in rail project development, planning, design, maintenance, operations and manufacturing in Europe, Middle East, USA, South Africa and Asia.

    Piers was born and educated in the UK and began his railway career with Canadian Pacific Railway in London. He subsequently joined London Underground and worked in a number of front line operational and maintenance positions until he was seconded to work overseas in London Transport International. He was appointed to various projects in the US and Asia in an advisory capacity covering railway operations and engineering.

    In 1986, Piers was engaged by Kennedy & Donkin as an advisor for the Channel Tunnel project and worked for a number of years on operating and engineering parts of the project, planning the design and operational systems. In 1990, he rejoined London Underground with responsibility for financial control of all the rolling stock and signalling projects being carried out on the system. A large part of the work covered the rolling stock refurbishment programme of the early 1990s.

    Subsequently Piers set up his own consultancy company completing projects for Union Carriage & Wagon in South Africa setting up computerised project management and rolling stock design and production planning systems, for Kennedy & Donkin as operations and maintenance advisor for Bangkok Metro where he totally redesigned the rolling stock depot to fit new site and the Siam elevated station complex to reduce size, complexity and cost of original design.

    In 1997, he joined Bechtel to assist in the design and planning of the new West Rail system in Hong Kong. He then moved to Singapore to run the south east Asia business development office for Adtranz.

    In 2003, Piers was appointed as engineering director of a new senior management team set up to run the company’s £3bn London Underground manufacturing and maintenance projects. With responsibility for all technical and system interfaces between the Bombardier contracts and Metronet.

    Following the winning of the London Underground contract, Piers returned to his own consultancy company and now has a wide ranging and recent portfolio in the UK and overseas, with projects completed for both existing and new systems around the world including the UK, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Canada. These projects include technical advice, preparation of franchise bids, tender assessment, setting up international consortia, engineering assurance, expert witness work, report preparation and railway system studies.

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