Alex Lu is a Senior Transport Specialist at Buzzmaestro LLC and had been a management analyst in the rail and transit industries for more than twenty years.He joined the railway industry in 1999 with Railtrack PLC (the former British Rail’s Infrastructure Division) in Capital and Strategic planning, and later got his first Operations job as a scheduling clerk at ScotRail Railways Limited, responsible for the short-term timetabling of the Glasgow “Blue Train” electric suburban network.Since then, he has worked with many railroads from Maine Central to Florida East Coast to Central Japan Railway to the New York City subway system, in a variety of roles including planning, infrastructure, big data analytics, international benchmarking, technology, and industrial engineering.