Ken Nidiffer
Director at Software Engineering Institute
- Role
- Director at Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University
- Location
- Springfield, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ken Nidiffer
Dr. Kenneth E. Nidiffer has over 53 years of government, industry, and academic experience in the field of software and systems engineering. Ken has successfully executed positions as a Senior Vice-President at Fidelity Investments, Vice President of the Software and Systems Consortium, and Director of Technical Operations/Engineering at Northrop Grumman Corporation. He is currently the Director of Strategic Plans for Government Programs at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. Ken received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University, Indiana; his M.S. degree in Astronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Ohio; his MBA degree from Auburn University, Alabama; and his D.Sc. in Systems Engineering from George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Experience
Director
Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2010 — Present
Education
U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology
Master's Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
1965 — 1967
The George Washington University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Systems Engineering
1982 — 1988
Purdue University
Bachelor's Degree, Chemical Engineering
1957 — 1962
Auburn University
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
1974 — 1975
Skills
- Configuration Management
- Business Intelligence
- Six Sigma
- Business Process
- Software Engineering
- Requirements Gathering
- Software Development
- Scrum
- IT Strategy
- Software Quality Assurance
- Metrics
- Capability Maturity Model Integration (Cmmi)
- Change Management
- Software Project Management
- Itil
- Dod
- Agile Methodologies
- Integration
- Process Simulation
- Project Portfolio Management
- Management
- Process Engineering
- Business Analysis
- Systems Engineering
- Agile Project Management
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Cmmi
- Systems Analysis
- Governance
- Business Process Improvement
- Requirements Analysis
- Strategy
- Pmo
- Pmp
- Software Design
- Enterprise Architecture
- Testing
- Soa
- Quality Assurance
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