1. BSc Mathematics Careers event Geoff Bunce

2. What key competencies are essential for your job? Numerate Background Railway Knowledge (not essential as you learn on the job) Logical reasoning How did you get your job? Applied via speculative letter and CV (email) Interview and presentation

3. What are your job prospects / what do you want to be doing in 5 years time and does your present position prepare you for that? I would like to do Project management Yes – it gives me an insight into project work and manage smaller projects In a small company, you have to do everything – whether you want to or not

4. Did you take some other qualification ie MSc - was this essential for your current position / how did you chose this course etc A CPD course on Railway Economics, Management and Operations Not essential but good for my personal development (at Newcastle University) Bosses idea – he lectures the course =EXP(lowerpklogit*gencost!O11)/((EXP(lowerpklogit*gencost!O11))+(EXP(lowerpklogit*gen cost!O32)))

5. What courses that you took as an undergraduate prepared you for what you are doing now? Projects Done

6. Network Rail – Capacity Analysis Team (CAT) Simulation of New infrastructure, enhancements and other proposals Use of RailSys Software Logic Data analysis (Statistics)

7. Saudi Arabia – Freight port simulation

8. Abbey line survey and analysis Analyse data Statistics Trip Matrices Write up report Not much practice as a Maths graduate

9. Benchmarking Nova and CoMet benchmarking groups (association with Imperial College London) Very complex Excel work {=IF(COLUMNS($G4:G4)<=$F4,INDEXMonday Even'!$D$4:$D$17041,SMALL(IF Monday Even'!$A$4:$A$17041=$E4,ROW]Monday Even'!$A$4:$A$17041)-ROW]Monday Even'!$A$4)+1),COLUMNS($G4:G4))),"")} A ‘small’ project called CrossRail Statistics Correlations

10. GOCO – Timetable creation and capacity analysis Logic and Railway understanding Data analysis for capacity

11. Southern – Queuing analysis Counting surveys (To meet government standards WinQSB – Operational Research (Queuing theory)

12. Conclusions Maths degree is very helpful Mind set for problem solving and logical thinking Mathematic knowledge less so May be an essential component in job spec Presentation of data and report writing very important Company size and culture important Flexibility Variability of work

13. Any Questions?