Faizan Akram
Bengaluru
Summary
Highly skilled Train Control Subsystem Engineer with 8+ years of experience in railway signaling, onboard systems, and industrial automation. Experienced in event recorder systems, master controller interfaces, signaling integration, and HMI development for Operations Control Center (OCC) systems, providing real-time monitoring and control of train operations. Prior experience in SCADA systems and industrial automation. Adept at requirements engineering, system integration, and supplier coordination, ensuring compliance with customer and regulatory standards. Possess good knowledge of C#, C programming, VBScript, SQL databases and queries, with a basic understanding of OOP concepts and a strong understanding of railway and industrial standards including IEC 61131, IEC 50128, IEC 61537, EN 50155 etc. Collaborative and detail-oriented, capable of bridging technical teams, suppliers, and stakeholders for seamless project execution.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Train control Subsystem engineer
Alstom Transportation
Bengaluru
05.2025 - Current
- Working in Rolling stock as subsystem engineer and responsible for system design, System requirements, System integration, Supplier discussion, cross functional Team collaboration, Following each DR dates to complete the deliverables, Customer Document preparation.
- Managed requirements engineering, gathering and analyzing customer and stakeholder requirements for onboard systems.
- Coordinated with suppliers to ensure design compliance of equipment and interfaces with all specified requirements.
- Developed system specifications, interface control documents, and functional requirement documents for project implementation.
- Performed system integration planning and verification to ensure all subsystems operate reliably together.
- Conducted design reviews, risk assessments, and requirement traceability to ensure full compliance with project standards.
- Acted as a bridge between customers, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure smooth system delivery and validation.
HMI Design Engineer
Alstom Transportation
08.2021 - 04.2025
- Worked in Scada Designing and development for OCC for Railways project based on Australia, USA and Columbia.
- Used GE complicity for designing and several programming languages like C#, VB script to develop few of the backend and standalone application.
- Reading and understanding of signaling diagram given by customer for development.
- Preparing the data tables according to the Control & Indication data given by customers.
- Designing and development of Scada screen as per the visio plan.
- Handling of SQL Data base and storing the data prepared on spread sheet to SQL.
- Handling and writing stored procedure to Update/select the data from DB.
- Preparing standalone tools based on project requirement using C#, WPF etc.
- Handling of Server / Client machines on different VMʼs Preparing configuration for all the I/Oʼs connected to the server from the controllers.
- Handling projects as a Team member and maintaining good understanding with all the members.
- Attending several team meetings with Bengaluru, US Team for more clarification on customer requirements and project handlings.
- Troubleshooting of the bugs given by Validation & Verification Team.
- Preparing Change Request test document for the given task.
Software Application Engineer
Alten India Pvt Ltd.
02.2020 - 08.2021
- Working on preparing HMI by analyzing the signalling plan for different kind of railway projects.
Automation Engineer
Ak Automation Systems
06.2017 - 02.2020
- Plc programming and control automation.
- Installation of new projects.
- Scada project development.
- Scada screen development, Reports creation.
- Online Support for plc & scada.
- Generating query for reports and data handling.
Education
B.Tech/B.E. -
Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT)
Skills
- Requirement Analysis
- Requirement Engineering
- System Engineering
- Cross Functional Coordination
- Team Management
- C#
- Visual Studio
- Visual Basic
- Movicon
- Industrial Automation
- HMI
- SCADA Designing
- VB SCRIPT
- Indusoft
Certification
- One month plant training from Tata Power at college time in an 'overview of Power Plant'
- Embedded System
- Industrial Automation And SCADA
Languages
- Hindi
- English
- Urdu
Projects
DT6 Hamberg Metro
- Leading the DT6 Hamberg Metro project for a duration of 7 months, implementing Master Controller for driving and Braking. Coordinating cross-functional teams and Supplier to deliver critical subsystem.
Chennai Metro Phase
- Working on Signalling Interface for Rolling stock with signalling equipments, Master Controller and Event recorder. Coordinating with Suppliers for Signalling and Radio to align with the Design and interface for the train and its equipments. Coordinating with Supplier for EVR and Master controller to comply with all the customer and cross functional requirements along with the Design and Interface.
FMG, Australia
- HMI designing, sql data configuration for all the signalling data, creating train on tracks and movement of train according to signal and other devices, Giving Authority to train for movement, all kind of animations on HMI.
Cerrejon, Columbia
- Working as an Application engineer on developing the Scada system for coal rail line of 350km based on Columbia.
WIPRO, Anantapur
- Project consists of 37 chemical stages with more than 10 heating/cooling coil and 4 rectifier stages.
Polyplastic, Bhiwadi
- Project consist of PLC PROGRAMMING FOR ELECTROPLATING PLANT ON OMRON CJ2M CONSIST OF 10 HEATING/COOLING COIL AND 5 RECTIFIER STAGES.
Years Of Experience
8 Years 0 Month
Job Title
Train Control Subsystem Engineer
Languages
Hindi
First Language
English
Advanced
C1
Tools
- DOORS- REQUIREMENT MANAGEMENT TOOL
- DOC4/ACOMIS - DOCUMENT MANGEMENT TOOL
- SMS/ALM - DELIVERABLES TRACKING TOOL.
- CLEARCASE/ GIT- FILE CHECK IN TOOL
- CLEARQUEST - CHANGE REQUEST TOOL
- SAP - WORK EFFORTS TOOL
Software
- Visual studio - 2008,2014
- GE Cimplicity scada -ver8.0, ver10.0
- Movicon scada - ver 11.3,11.5
- Indusoft scada- ver 8.0
- CX Programmer - plc Software
- Sysmac Studio - plc Software
Timeline
Train control Subsystem engineer
Alstom Transportation
05.2025 - Current
HMI Design Engineer
Alstom Transportation
08.2021 - 04.2025
Software Application Engineer
Alten India Pvt Ltd.
02.2020 - 08.2021
Automation Engineer
Ak Automation Systems
06.2017 - 02.2020
B.Tech/B.E. -
Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT)