Michael Hunter

About Michael Hunter

Excellent technical generalist for your Agile team.Self-starter with a strong record of achievement. Professional AWS certification. Masters of Systems Integration. Graduate of Lockheed Martin\'s prestigious Advanced Technical Leadership Program.Technical acumen with effective communication skills. Experienced in all phases of the Software Developmnt Lifecycle. Excellent at understanding large systems and optimizing communication between engineering, operations, and stakeholders. Experienced at department management and candidate interviews. Lifelong learner continuing to investigate new topics.Goal: to lead teams in performance excellence on software projects, building on the experience that I have in all phases of software development.Career highlights-Team Lead for Cloud Infrastructure team for Technical Integrator program for the 2020 Decennial Census-Senior Systems Engineer for mobile applications for test censuses leading up to the 2020 Decennial Census-Coding Development IPT Leader for the 2011 Census for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Implemented advanced text-matching software for coding free-form responses such as occupations, languages, countries of origin, and industries of employment-System Administration training and support for the 2009 Census Rehearsal and the 2011 Census for England, Wales and Northern Ireland-Contributing author of the successful proposal to win the 2011 Canada Census proposal-Coordinator of external interface testing for all interfaces of the 2010 Decennial Response Integration System in preparation for the 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal-Worked solo as Field Engineer for the paper capture system for the 2007 Census Test for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland-Software Developer for the 2010 Decennial Response Integration System for the 2010 US Census-One of two primary Field Engineers for the 2006 Canada Census during Operations. Provided technical support to systems engineers speaking English and/or French-Edits development team lead for the 2006 Canada Census-Hardware installation for the 2006 Canada Census-Test Engineer for a web-enbled processing system under Customs and Border Protection. Tested the stability of the system to prove the high-availability design of the system.Other Certifications:Scrum Master (ScrumStudy, 2016)Snowflake SnowPro (2018)

Experience

1. Engineer and Manager

   SES Corporation

   Apr 2016 — Present

   Cloud Engineering team lead, including AWS using CloudFormation for Infrastructure as Code. Python programming, CloudFormation, Jenkins, and Ansible for cloud automation. Systems Engineering, including system and software architecture and design, testing and implementation plans for a cross-platform mobile survey application for the US Census Bureau.

Education

• Missouri University of Science and Technology

  Master of Science (M.S.), Systems Engineering

  2012 — 2016

• Missouri University of Science and Technology

  Graduate Certificate in Systems and Software Architecture, Computer Science and Systems Engineering

  2012 — 2015

• University of Virginia

  BS, Computer Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Technical Leadership
• Statistics
• Systems Modeling
• Systems Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Security Clearance
• Configuration Management
• System Architecture
• Sdlc
• Requirements Management
• Integration
• Requirements Analysis
• Linux
• Javascript
• Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Windows
• C++
• Automated Software Testing
• Software Development
• Python
• Earned Value Management
• Team Leadership
• System Integration Testing
• Architectural Patterns
• System Design
• Risk Management
• C#
• Mathematical Modeling
• Software Design Patterns
• Programming
• Software Engineering Practices