Eduardo Bellon

Senior rail systems engineering and integration professional with 15+ years of international experience across client, consultancy and supplier environments in Spain, the UK and Australia. Proven leadership across systems integration, requirements, interfaces, V&V, assurance and MBSE on major rail programmes, combining hands-on delivery with client advisory, team leadership, bid support and capability development.

Technical Director - Rail / Queensland Lead, Systems Engineering & Integration at Mott MacDonald (2023-12 – Present)

Client-side assurance and systems engineering support within Queensland's progressive ETCS rollout across the South East Queensland rail network.

• Developed and implemented the Assurance Management Plan for the Sector One South programme.
• Supported procurement and tender development for major delivery packages, integrating engineering, assurance, commercial and legal requirements.
• Provided senior technical leadership and systems thinking across multidisciplinary client and delivery teams.

Senior Engineer - Systems Safety Assurance (Contract) at John Holland (2022-10 – 2023-05)

Systems safety assurance on one of Victoria's largest rail programmes.

• Supported systems safety assurance across power, tunnel ventilation, underground stations, fire & life safety and tunnel systems.
• Performed risk assessments for requirement changes and standards waivers, hazard log management and safety requirements assurance.

Associate - Systems Engineering (Contract) at Acmena (2022-07 – 2023-10)

Senior Manager - Systems Engineering at Public Transport Victoria (2019-12 – 2022-05)

Lead Systems Engineer at Public Transport Victoria (2018-07 – 2019-12)

A systems architecture and visualisation initiative created to baseline Victoria's heavy rail network and improve network-level impact assessment and decision-making.

• Directed development of the Network Configuration Baseline / TRAVIS capability, applying MBSE principles and Sparx Enterprise Architect to capture network systems, dependencies and configuration information.
• Led a multidisciplinary engineering team; TRAVIS was selected as a 2020 Australian Engineering Excellence Awards - Finalist (R&D).

Manager - Requirements Engineering at Public Transport Victoria (2016-06 – 2018-07)

State-wide rail investment programme upgrading Victoria's regional passenger rail network.

• Led the development of a novel Systems Engineering framework for the programme and drove its practical implementation across project delivery.
• Developed Client Requirements Documents and the associated SESA processes, providing a consistent structure for requirements definition, assurance and lifecycle governance across the programme.
• Established requirements, V&V and configuration management practices aligned with ISO 15288, managed the IBM DOORS environment and coached programme teams in systems engineering good practice.

Railway Systems Delivery & Integration Engineer at Transport for London (2015-07 – 2016-06)

Major London Underground modernisation programme integrating new signalling and control across the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines.

• Acted as Interface Champion / Manager, coaching project engineers and managers and driving cross-package interface management.
• Developed the Systems Engineering Management Plan and acted as Requirements Manager using IBM DOORS, working closely with signalling supplier Thales.

Manager - Contract Requirements at Transport for London (2014-07 – 2015-07)

Requirements, V&V and procurement support across the London Underground Sub-Surface Upgrade Programme and the subsequent ATC re-tender.

• Led requirements development and management for the approximately £800m ATC re-tender, including revision of the ATC System Requirements Specification.
• Delivered requirements engineering and V&V for communications and customer information work packages, including V&V plans, matrices, reports and lifecycle evidence.

Engineer - Requirements, Verification & Validation at Transport for London (2013-05 – 2014-07)

Systems Engineer at Alstom Transport Information Solutions (2009-05 – 2013-05)

International turnkey systems engineering from bid and design through integration, testing and commissioning across multiple projects.

• Supported systems engineering and integration across signalling and wider electromechanical interfaces, from bid/design through system integration and testing.
• Worked in multidisciplinary, international turnkey environments across Spain, Algeria and France.
• Supported signalling systems engineering, product integration and testing activities on UK mainline resignalling schemes.
• Experience included Smartlock 400 CBI, NX / IECC testing, Smart IO requirements and Frauscher FAdC axle counter integration with Alstom signalling products.

MSc in Railway Systems Engineering & Integration – University of Birmingham (2011-01 – 2014-01)

BEng in Electrical & Electronics Engineering – University of Wales (2008-01 – 2009-01)

Ingeniero Técnico in Industrial Electronics Engineering – Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (2004-01 – 2009-01)