ENSCO - Transportation Technology Center

Hands-On Training

ENSCO with its partners including Ambipar, is conducting industry leading hands-on training at the TTC.

The TTC provides the unique ability to have classroom training accompanied with hands-on training conducted all at the same location.

Multiple courses offered in each focus areas support variable sizes of classes.

Hands-On Training

Hands-On Training at a Glance

HAZMAT and Emergency Response Training

  • Simulated emergency response conditions including train derailment site and highway accident sites
  • Training with live fire conditions under the supervision of qualified instructors and safety personnel
  • Simulated HAZMAT response and handling
  • Hydrogen & Battery vehicle emergency response training

Cybersecurity Training

Courses provide industry best practices for protecting systems to ensure mission survivability and use an integrated approach to protecting critical facilities and systems

  • Critical Infrastructure Assessment and Analysis training including:
    • Telecommunications Vulnerabilities
    • Supporting Utilities Vulnerabilities
    • Computer Network Defense (CND)
    • Emergency Operations Vulnerabilities
    • Offensive, (targeting) and Defensive Security Systems

Derailment Investigation Training

  • Beginning-to-end on how to perform a successful derailment investigation and determine root cause
  • Methods for conducting onsite investigation and information gathering
  • Simulation methods to aid in determining root cause
  • Inclusive of human factors aspects of derailment investigations
  • Applicable to all derailment and collision types

Security Training

  • Transportation Security Management including passenger & infrastructure vulnerabilities, suicide & terrorism prevention
  • Transportation Security and Compliance Management including building safety management programs, certification processes, and regulation compliance
  • Public transit safety courses including active shooter, defusing conflict, threat and vulnerability assessment

Rolling Stock & Track Inspection

  • Hands-on training working with actual rail vehicles including performing truck teardowns and re-assembly.
  • Hands-on training with various types of track infrastructure including maintenance adjustments to turnouts.
  • Training includes interacting with automated inspection technology such as track geometry measurement systems

Rail Vehicle Dynamics Training

  • Vehicle/Track Interaction training to understand derailment and ride quality risk conditions driven by rail vehicle dynamics
  • Hands-on training working with actual rail vehicles and track infrastructure at the TTC
  • Simulation software training including VAMPIRE and TEDS
  • Methodologies for vehicle suspension qualification testing and modeling

Capabilities

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Meet Our Keynote Speaker

Gerhard “Gery” Williams is Executive Vice President, Service Delivery & Operations, serving in this role since July 2022. Gery leads an organization focused primarily on safely and reliably delivering Amtrak services to customers, operating and maintaining the company’s core railroad assets – including infrastructure and rail car and locomotive fleets – and driving process improvement and efficiencies across the Amtrak network.

Service Delivery & Operations (SD&O) consists of the Transportation, Mechanical, Infrastructure Maintenance & Construction Services (IMCS), Customer Service Stations, Onboard Services and Food & Beverage, California Operations, Operations Integration and Network Support functions.

Gery had served as Senior Vice President, SD&O, since January 2022 and was responsible for the newly created IMCS group, which encompasses engineering production and maintenance functions. He also led day-to-day core service delivery across the SD&O organization, driving continuous improvement to safety, customer service and productivity. 

Prior to joining Amtrak in June 2017 as Vice President and Chief Engineer, he had spent almost three decades at CSX Transportation. Gery held a wide range of senior leadership roles, including Vice President, Mechanical Operations; Chief Mechanical Officer – Locomotives; AVP Network Operations – Locomotive Management; and Division Manager. In his last position at CSX as VP, Mechanical Operations, he reported to the Chief Operating Officer and directed a team of 3,800 employees responsible for the maintenance and repair of a combined fleet of 70,000 locomotives and rail cars. Early in his profession, Gery held various positions including trainmaster, manager of safety and terminal manager.

Across his long railroad career, Gery has consistently demonstrated collaborative and data-driven leadership and an ability to manage complex transportation, mechanical and engineering challenges successfully, with safety and efficiency.

Gery graduated from Drexel University with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Engineering. He also holds a Master of Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.

Gery M. Williams III

Gery M. Williams III

Executive Vice President,
Service Delivery & Operations