Roger Garner

Background

About Roger Garner

Astute professional with extensive national and international experience in the management, design, integration, and installation, test and commissioning of railway telecommunication projects wayside and onboard trains and wayside for Canadian National Railway (Signals & Communications and Canac Telecom), Bombardier Transportation, and Alstom- Extensive experience in responding to proposals, Project Requirements Database (DOORS), negotiating contracts, writing purchase specifications and technical requirements, planning budgets, controlling expenses, resource planning, test procedures, testing and commissioning. Highly reliable, thorough professional whose extensive engineering experience includes Radio Systems, Local Area Networks, fibre optics, CCTV, PA, PI, SCADA/Integrated Control Systems, Telephone, and Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) Systems- Proposals: Responsible for the Communications proposals for: Sydney, Australia Northwest Rail Link (NWRL); Ottawa LRT; Edmonton Valley Line LRT Southeast; and Edmonton Valley Line LRT West- DOORS: Responsible for compiling the DOORS traceability Communications and AFC compliance for Las Vegas Monorail Project, South Korea Yong-In LRT Project, Riyadh Monorail Project, Riyadh Metro Project, and Edmonton Valley Line LRT Southeast- Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) Systems for the Las Vegas Monorail Project (ERG, Kuehne + Nagel), and Riyadh Monorail Project (VIX)- CCTV Systems: CCTV controllers and cameras from Axis, Genetec, Pelco, and Samsung- Network Systems: Local Area Networks and Fibre Optics Communications design using Cisco, Moxa, Nortel, and OTN- Onboard Communications Systems from TrakCom, Bombardier, and Alstom/- Operations Control Center (OCC) furniture from Evans- Passenger Information (PI) Systems from Daktronics, Penta, and Samsung- Public Address (PA) Systems from ASL, Penta, and TOA- Telephone Systems from Mitel, Nortel, and Talkaphone- Radio Systems: Extensive radio experience in Railway VHF and UHF systems, P25, TETRA, Wi-Fi Access Point Radios (802.11a/b/g), wayside radio systems, and onboard radio systems. Performed radio coverage design and surveys, Experienced with interfaces and integration with Signalling Systems, Train Control Systems, Power Supply & Distribution, Traction Power and Overhead Catenary, Light Rail Vehicles, Track Infrastructure, Stations, and Control Centres. Prepared and reviewed Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for each system to confirm compliance to the requirements with internal systems, Civil Joint Venture (CJV) and subcontractors.