Drawing upon nearly 20 years of professional experience, Zoltan Egel is distinguished in the field of engineering, with a particular focus on railway safety technology. Since 2018, he has served as the director of RAMS engineering at Siemens in New York. In his role, Mr. Egel maintains responsibility for ensuring equipment and solutions for railroads are viable without service disruptions, collisions or derailments, as well as ensuring that maintenance workers are operating safely without hazards. Likewise, he is proficient in mentoring and leading teams and liaising with federal authorities and executive management.
Mr. Egel joined Siemens in 2010, having first worked as a business analyst in Germany. Remaining in this role for one year, he was promoted to the positions of product safety engineer and verification manager, where he remained until 2012. Subsequently, Mr. Egel immigrated to the United States and began working for Siemens in New York, where he served as a product safety engineer and a product safety manager. Earlier in his career, Mr. Egel worked for FTSRG in Hungary between 2007 and 2010 as a research associate and research team lead. He commenced his career in 2005 as an embedded software developer for evosoft Hungary until departing from the company in 2007.
Highly educated, Mr. Egel holds two master’s degrees in computer engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. He has also completed numerous courses and certifications in project management, psychological safety for teams, managing talent and leadership. Since the inception of his career, Mr. Egel has also co-authored several works, such as “Model-Based Approaches for Dependability in Ad-Hoc Mobile Networks and Services” in 2008. Two years later, he co-authored “Qualitative Performance Control in Supervised IT Infrastructures” and “Sensor Selection for IT Infrastructure Monitoring.”
In accounting for his success, Mr. Egel credits his responsible nature and ability to communicate directly with individuals to aid in their understanding of intricate safety concepts. To this end, he considers himself an elastic communicator, where he has the capability of explaining complex problems at different comprehension levels depending on to whom he is speaking. Among the many highlights of his career, he is particularly proud of being awarded a patent in 2017, which helped secure a concrete position with the class one freight railroad.
Looking toward the future, Mr. Egel aims to advance within Siemens to foster greater collaboration with a mission to enhance public railroad service in the United States. He notes that there is still much to achieve within the corporation, and he looks forward to witnessing future advancements.