[mdlthree]

He answers this question fairly concisely in the first section "What I do", the link in the first section [http://www.the-adam.com/adam/math-4q6/hypersq.htm], and the second last section "What I am not".

I am finishing an MS in Industrial Engineering, a synonym of Operations Research. I have also been looking for related jobs that use those skills for two years. Many relevant jobs are in big data and analytics, subjects common to Hacker News; many belong to business operations such as demand planning and supply chain management. To find jobs I use Indeed.com and this is the search query I use. I based a term project in business intelligence on the problem of finding good search terms based on course descriptions.

[http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=title%3A(-vp+-director+-manager...]

But I will digress from making this more personal. Basically from the stand point of one line job titles, there isn't one for the line of work he is in. The obvious ones are to frightening to the masses. Maybe it is just our culture today where "Math" is a four letter word.

[cschmidt]

He says he is not a lot of things, but OR person isn't one of them. In fact, what he does do sounds very much like OR to me. Do you think OR is a scary term for the masses? I find saying I do Operations Research works with many people.

It is a good time to be in the IE/OR job market. Predictive analytics is very big, even as supply chain has decreased a bit since the glory days. One firm I consult with is hiring a person like you, for example (http://www.firstfuel.com/home/staff_scientist).

That's quite the search query by the way.

[mdlthree]

I am not proud of its length, a by product of the poor vocabulary that summarizes my skills. Instead I have to list the words that are most likely to be associated with my skills. http://youtu.be/qiPc1mbRCxs