Profile

At the minute I’m busy training for and running half marathons, I spend weekends relaxing with friends and cooking with my wife. I try to go away to places in the UK regularly and sometimes go camping and surfing.

I like to eat Thai Food or Indian Curries which I enjoy cooking at home, I also make pizza too. My wife’s vegetarian so I get to cook some interesting vegetables which I had never seen before I started living with her!

I’m refurbishing my house so I sometimes spend weekends painting, decorating and fixing things.

I’ve learned skills from work which help me to fix my car or change the electrics at home and even fix the WiFi when it goes wrong.

I write specifications which explain how the equipment should work,  I help people write down what they want the equipment to do, I build computer  models of the railway to experiment and see what changes our equipment would make and how that affects passengers.

I really enjoy my job because I get to help make the country a little bit better, I have got to travel to places like Spain and Germany. I get to see the benefits of what I do when people are able to get around easier. I help to reduce the Carbon Dioxide emissions which helps to reduce the impact of global warming.

My alarm goes off at 06:30. I have a quick breakfast and leave the house about 07:30. I drive to Work in Chippenham from my house in Bristol. This takes about an hour and I’m in the office by 08:30.

I make a cup of coffee, turn on my laptop and check my e-mails. I then look at what I did yesterday and see what I can do. Sometimes if there are urgent e-mails asking me for information I have to go and talk to people to find out the answers if they are the expert. Sometimes they send me to someone else so this can take a long time.

I have lunch at about 12:00 when I go for a walk with my friend Paul and we get a sandwich from the local shop. I eat this while I read the news or catch up on Facebook on the computer.

After lunch I do some more people chasing or writing documents to sort things out. I finish at about 5pm and  drive home. I get home about 6pm. Most days I go for a run with my wife and then we cook dinner. We watch TV for an hour before we got to bed about 10:00.

I’m looking to build a model to show how Railways can be changed to reduce energy usage. The model will also show how wind and solar power affects the energy grid and how we need to modify our usage as well as our grid to make sure we use energy as efficiently as possible.