George Raymond: curriculum vitae

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Summary Independent consulting in rail freight and in road-rail combined transport
Origins
 Grew up and studied in the US
Residency Resident of Switzerland since 1986
Citizenship
 France/EU
Languages
 English, French and German

My experience

Since 2004 Founder and owner of Raymond Railweb Consulting (formerly Railweb GmbH), a Swiss-based independent consultancy in rail freight. Main project domains (see also my project portfolio):
 
Market monitoring Monitoring of trends in rail freight within Europe, including the visibility of road-rail combined transport within supply chains.
Locomotives
 Marketing of a technology for locomotives involved in shunting or track work.
Intermodal services Development of road-rail combined transport:

  • Technologies for vertical loading of non-cranable semi-trailers.
  • Coordination between short-sea links and intermodal hinterland services.
  • Planning of an ocean shipping company’s overland intermodal network.
  • Studies on rail capacity in ports’ hinterlands, including loading gauge, speed and train length.
Public policy Strategy development for lobbying on behalf of European shippers for improvements in infrastructure, rolling stock and operations. Committee “Yes to Port Basin 3” in Basel (statement).
Planning and operations Digitalisation of planning and operations in rail freight:

  • Consulting for US and German firms in the implementation of their software for rail-freight operations planning in France.
  • Implementation of the European TAF TSI data exchange standards.
  • Improvement of processes in international path planning.
Resource planning For rolling stock and train drivers.
Infrastructure and vehicles
 Market studies and international marketing in track maintenance, signalling, traffic control and rail vehicle engineering.
 
2002-2003 Euro-Interlocking project (UIC) to standardise requirements for interlocking systems in Europe.
1997-2002 Systor AG, now part of Accenture. Development of user interfaces and user’s guides for IT applications.
1990-1997 Danzas AG, an international transport and freight forwarding company. Specification of IT applications to process and track shipments.
1987-1989 EPFL, Lausanne. Development of IT applications for the planning of rail operations and infrastructure.
1982-1986 Renault Automobiles. Specification and development of IT support for logistics, including production planning and materials supply.
1980-1982 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MS in Transportation; thesis on management control systems for rail marshalling yards.
1979-1980 Policy and Management Associates, Washington DC. Study of deregulation of truck and rail freight transport.

Higher education

1980-1982 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Master of Science (MS) in Transportation. Transport systems analysis and rail freight operations.
1974-1978 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA: Bachelor’s degree (BA) in economics, political science and history.

Publications and project portfolio

See also my Railweb Reports, publications and project portfolio. Member of Swiss Rail Journalists (Bahnjournalisten Schweiz).