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Todd Kinley

Position:

Senior Systems Analyst

Employer:

Northrop Grumman

Job description:

Currently employed as a senior anlayst providing technical support on missile defense contracts for the Department of Defence. In this posiiton I have been involved in areas such as radar modeling, discrimination algorithm creation, kill assessment algorithm generation, Bayesian classification algorithm modeling, Kalman filtering, as well as research and development.

Salary range:

>$100,000

Job satisfaction:

Over the past 15 years the missile defence industry has provided me with an incredible arena to learn state of the art statistical and stochastic modeling techniques.

Employment history:

1990 - 1994 Sparta, Inc. Huntsville, Al. Analyst / scientist. Supported research and development, testing, and deployment of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system
1994 - 1998 Nichols Research Corporation, Huntsville, Al. Analyst / scientist. Supported research and development of the National Missile Defense (NMD) missile defense system.
1998 - present XonTech / Northrop Grumman, Huntsville, Al. Senior Analyst / scientist. Supporting the research and development, testing, and deployment of the Ground based Missile Defense (GMD) system.

Suggestions for students:

Most employers in the missile defense industry are happy to hire a talented applied mathematician. A person entering this field should seek out small inovative companies with support contracts under large contractors. THese small companies provide ideal one on one learning environments.

Suggestions for improvement:

The field of statistical analysis is constantly changing. A curriculum that introduces a wide variety of analystic approaches would be very beneficial for an entry level analyst. For example, Bayesian, Nueral nets, Riemmannian Geometric manifolds, and least squares derivative approaches are common in the missile defence industry.

Willing to be contacted:

Yes

Internships:

Unknown at this time


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Date of last update: April 6, 2005