My name is Joshua Ogunleye. I graduated from
Kingston University in 2010 and I studied
Human Geography with Applied Economics.
At Crossrail I'm based at the Canary Wharf
building which is based at Canary Wharf, the
Canada Square, 25 Canada Square.
I'm a logistic assistant working in regards
to traffic coordination, making sure that
the lorries that we use at our sites are following
approved routes and are encouraging safety
as road users as well as the instant response
test which deal with management of incidents
on site that prove a threat to anybody that's
working on site so they call us within our
business.
I think it's the purpose, I think one aspect
which was dominant within my dissertation
was graphs and data analysis and that's a
lot of what I do here with regards to a major
aspect of the logistics departments within
this job base is instant response and we gather
thousands and hundreds of data from different
sites of incidents because these are unstable
environments, not just on the roads or other
people working come by on their daily work
on a construction site, it's a minefield and
we get thousands of datas in from the lorries,
from the trucks and we have to produce these
things to be legible and a massive aspect
of that which I thought actually helped me
in understanding the basics of how to present
them and how to identify what was necessary
came from me also mining a lot of data for
my dissertation.
I would chose which ones were applicable,
which ones should be made reference to should
it be needed, I think that aspect did allow
me to take these things full on and be more
comfortable with it. It's good to have basic
skills like with Excel for instance and Word,
definitely good skills, especially when you've
been doing your dissertations and writing
your essays online on the computers, very
good skills, however, being able to work with
a vast number of data quantitatively analysing
them and trying to find out some quality information
from that you do need a good number of experience
with it. And being a geographer I'm sure most
people probably have gone through or would
be looking forward to going to Malta and if
they already haven't done it, allows you to
learn how to sort out what's necessary for
you, what's needed, what you're trying to
find out and often at times finding out what
you weren't interested in finding out could
also be as valuable and I feel you couldn't
fully prepare a geographer without learning
about data management and sorting these things
out in terms of what's useful and what isn't
useful and that's an aspect that I feel is
quite important.
I think the main aspect of the three years
in geography, it teaches one valuable skill
and I feel it's the ability to survive in
the real world I think and most people underestimate
the strength of geography and being able to
convince other people of what the quality
of what you've learned as a geographer.
