[jonhurlock]

First step apply. With that background, you have a high chance of getting a job straight off.

The problem you may face, is you will need to know how to program in a 'production' environment. So were as in academia you can be a single person running code, in industry, you will have multiple people utilise and check your code. It will have to be robust and scalable. So you may need to brush up on programming skills, though you could be great from the start.

Something I've seen with Academics, is that whilst they are great at solving detailed problems, they sometimes fail to present the impact of their work in a business context, or what they can offer and how it solves business problems, rather than just "interesting" problems.

My advice would be to apply and see what comes back, and get feedback from the people you apply to.

[davidmayerf]

Thanks! That is more or less what I am doing