Our team

Meet The team - Engineering

Matthew Bott

Director, Engineering Lead
Having gained degrees in Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, after several years as a sole trader Matt has run MBRC since its creation in 2015.

Through his time with smaller companies and turnkey projects, Matt gained a rounded experience including APIS, PIU, SMS, CMS, Training, Procurement, & Contracts.

Matt has worked as PM on retrofitment projects including GSM-R, NG RETB and ETCS. In recent years he has specialised in Project and Engineering Management.

Brendan Cassidy

Engineering Manager
Brendan has 15 years experience in Rail Industry, after starting out on Network Rails Graduate Engineering programme.

He attained BEng Honours in Railway Engineering, specialising in Signalling, and is experienced in Signalling Faulting, Maintenance, and Installation.

He branched out to work for major Signalling contractors on various large installation projects prior to joining MBRC.

Robert Allan

Senior Project Engineer
Rob has 16 years’ experience in Rail Industry, after starting out as an apprentice at the age of 16.

He attained experienced in traction and rolling stock Fault finding,Maintenance, commissioning, Installation, planning, production, and operational excellence.

He has experience in various projects including fleet introduction, and TR&S solutions prior to joining MBRC.

John Thomson

Junior Manager
John is responsible for the management of junior staff and assisting with technical information on the ETCS project.

With 15 years Experience of maintaining rail vehicles John brings a wealth of hands on experience to the team.

Drawing on his previous experience as a team leader with a national freight operator, John is at ease managing the junior staff at MBRC.

Alasdair Mair

Project Engineer
Following studies in both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Alasdair went on to work in the distilling industry.

Having developed his people and fault finding skills, Alasdair joined MBRC.

Alasdair works in the ETCS project and is focussed on the review of documentation.

Steve Davies

Principal Project Engineer
Steve spent 5 years as the ETCS Systems Engineering Manager within Siemens on the Freight project.

Steve Has then spent two years working within the EMO on ECDP working on the ECDP ETCS DRACAS project as the ECDP ETCS DRACAS manager and chairing the monthly ECDP ETCS DRACAS committee meeting.

This has allowed Steve to develop a wide skill set including engineering management, requirement management and stakeholder management.