Rob is currently the Routeway Delivery Director at Crossrail. A Chartered Naval Architect, Rob spent 17 years in Shipbuilding before joining Network Rail in 2007. From delivering the Cambrian ETCS pilot (commissioned in 2011), Rob has spent time delivering signalling & electrification projects for NR, running the PMO on Thameslink, as Area South Programme Director on High Speed 2 before joining Crossrail via Nichols & Transcend in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 crisis.
Robs first job was to write the Crossrail Recovery Strategy, pulling together all the plans and strategies into a cohesive document to support the Delivery Control Schedule that was presented to the Board in August 2020. On CRL achieving Trial Running on time to the revised schedule, Rob went on to lead the Programme Management Office from mid 2021 to May 2022 before taking on his current role.
Rob is accountable for delivering the final routeway upgrades before Crossrail demobilizes at the end of May 2023.
