--- title: About author: Bill Hunt type: page date: 2009-03-16T19:16:43+00:00 permalink: /about/ layout: page experience: - company: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission title: Assistant Director, Cloud Center of Excellence start: May 2021 end: Present description: |+ Currently, I lead the Cloud Center of Excellence at the SEC, overseeing modernization efforts of our many applications and tools for regulatory oversight. This is a brand-new team at the SEC, responsible for driving cloud adoption and managing our Amazon Web Services environment. We also provide training and resources to the rest of the Commission. In this role, I've been able to speed the adoption of modern practices in agile software development, budgeting, and cloud security. In May 2023, I was [appointed to the Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee (FSCAC)](https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/-gsa-administrator-appoints-inaugural-members-to-the-federal-secure-cloud-advisory-committee-05122023), better known as the FedRAMP oversight board, by GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan. That same month, [GSA accepted my proposal for a 10X accelerator project](https://10x.gsa.gov/posts/2023-selected-projects/) on digital identity and mastodon for government. highlights: - name: Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee type: group link: https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/-gsa-administrator-appoints-inaugural-members-to-the-federal-secure-cloud-advisory-committee-05122023 - name: 10X Digital Identity Project type: document link: https://10x.gsa.gov/posts/2023-selected-projects/ - name: FedTech Magazine – 2021 Top 30 Federal IT Influencers type: award link: https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2021/07/30-federal-it-influencers-worth-follow-2021 - company: U.S. Small Business Administration title: Chief Enterprise Architect start: September 2019 end: May 2021 description: |+ As the Chief Enterprise Architect of the SBA, I helped to set the roadmap for technology across the organization. As chair of the Architecture Review Board, I worked with agency offices to ensure they were in compliance with Federal law, policy, as well as adhering to the enterprise-wide future state plans. This included the evaluation of new technology solutions, performing analyses of alternatives, and the rationalization of agency system and application portfolios. highlights: - name: FedTech Magazine – 2020 Top 30 Federal IT Influencers type: award link: https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2020/07/30-federal-it-influencers-worth-follow-2020 - company: U.S. Small Business Administration title: Director of IT Services (acting) start: September 2019 end: April 2020 description: |+ For my first six months at SBA, I served as the acting Director of IT Services, managing all of our operations and infrastructure. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I led efforts to keep staff connected and working as the agency rapidly shifted to telework. I also supported implementation of cloud-based services for implementation of the CARES Act, enabling the agency to distribute over $350 billion in loans. - company: Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer company2: Office of Management and Budget title: Cloud Policy Lead start: September 2017 end: September 2019 description: |+ As Cloud Policy Lead for the Federal Government, I collaborated daily with White House officials, Cabinet-level CIOs, and practitioners across the entire Federal enterprise to drive modern and mature practices in IT infrastructure for government services. To address the government’s largest barriers to IT modernization, the capstone of my work was creating the 2019 Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, “Cloud Smart.” In my first year at OMB, I received the prestigious Professional Achievement Award — an honor usually reserved for three years or more of exceptional service — for my innovative, collaborative approach to this work. In 2019, I was also named to the Fed100, after being nominated by my peers both inside and outside of government. highlights: - name: 2019 Federal 100 type: award link: https://fcw.com/articles/2019/03/21/fed-100-hunt-bill.aspx - name: 2018 OMB Professional Achievement Award type: award - name: Federal Cloud Computing Strategy (Cloud Smart) type: document link: https://cloud.cio.gov/ - name: M-19-19 Data Center Optimization Initiative type: document link: https://datacenters.cio.gov/ - name: Application Rationalization Playbook type: document link: https://www.cio.gov/assets/files/Application-Rationalization-Playbook.pdf - company: Department of Veterans Affairs company2: United States Digital Service title: Digital Services Expert start: May 2017 end: September 2017 description: |+ In 2017, I served a tour of duty with USDS at the Department of Veterans Affairs, working to create Veteran-centric, modern services. During my time at the VA, I worked closely with the modernization teams on several initiatives and policies focused on user experience, including identity management & authentication, mobile application strategy, patient scheduling, and open data. This work included evaluation of new technology solutions, policy & user research, and stakeholder engagement ranging from Veterans to senior agency executives. - company: Sunlight Foundation title: Senior Technology Adviser start: August 2016 end: November 2016 description: |+ The Sunlight Foundation is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses civic technologies, open data, policy analysis, and journalism to make government more accountable and transparent. I served as Senior Technology Adviser through their board transition, working with the Labs Director to shut down their technology program (Sunlight Labs) responsibly. This involved rationalizing and open-sourcing our entire application and infrastructure portfolio containing dozens of applications and tools used by political journalists and organizations worldwide. I transferred our software projects to new maintainers, reengineered our entire IT infrastructure to use commercial off-the-shelf products, and open sourced all of our tools and data under open licenses for future journalists, researchers, and the general public to use. DC Legal Hackers named me Legal Hacker of the Year 2016 for this work. highlights: - name: 2016 Legal Hacker of the Year (DC Legal Hackers) type: award link: https://dc.legalhackers.org/2017/01/le-hackies-3-2016-winners/ - company: OpenGov Foundation title: Lead Developer start: August 2013 end: August 2016 description: |+ The OpenGov Foundation was a small, scrappy organization that worked to create policy and tools for open government and public engagement in law and policy. Founded by former Congressman Darrell Issa in 2013 as a nonpartisan organization to help the public fight the SOPA and PIPA legislation in the House, the scope of our work quickly expanded to open law and legislation efforts nationally and internationally, local to Federal. Acting as our CTO, I worked to grow our team and collaborate with officials at all levels of government to make the law open and accessible to everyone. I also evaluated business opportunities and new technology initiatives, and lead the development of our two flagship applications, Madison and The State Decoded, which are used by governments and organizations all over the world. Our clients included the White House, the United Nations, the Government of Mexico, as well state and local governments including Maryland, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and many others. As part of this work, I was an original member of the Free Law Founders, a national open-law organization of city & state officials and civic nonprofits working to drive open policies and standards. I also served as a subject matter expert on law and legal data to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s Web Annotation Working Group. highlights: - name: Free Law Founders type: group link: http://freelawfounders.org/ - name: The State Decoded type: application link: https://www.statedecoded.com/ - name: Madison type: application link: https://mymadison.io/ - company: WillowTree Apps title: Lead DevOps Engineer start: April 2012 end: August 2013 description: |+ WillowTree Apps is one of the largest and fastest-growing mobile app companies, specializing in creating cutting-edge technology solutions for the most famous brands in the world, including Fortune 50 companies. As Lead DevOps Engineer, I oversaw the architecture and implementation of dozens of projects to deliver high-availability Cloud-based infrastructure and APIs for some of the most popular mobile apps of the day. As our company rapidly expanded, we worked to build an intentional, diverse team by leveraging means such as paid apprenticeships and internships to provide training opportunities to candidates from non-traditional backgrounds. - company: Boyd Caton Group title: Lead Developer start: January 2010 end: May 2012 description: |+ BCG is a government contractor focusing on transportation safety & security, with clients including the Federal Transit Administration (Department of Transportation) and WMATA. During my time as Lead Developer, I lead the team working on Federal safety websites, met with top agency officials, lead the rebranding and redesign of our company website, and created a series of cloud-based data visualization dashboards and tools for safety and security information for a variety of audiences. - company: Hotelicopter title: Lead Developer & QA Manager start: January 2008 end: January 2010 description: |+ Hotelicopter was a hotel booking startup with over 20 partners and many times the inventory of its contemporary, Kayak. Serving the dual roles of Lead Developer and Quality Assurance Manager, I built several international teams, integrating three shifts across overlapping timezones. I lead the engineering efforts across the entire application stack, from infrastructure to application to user testing. Hotelicopter was acquired in 2012 by a joint venture group consisting of Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, and others. - company: Category4 title: Senior Programmer start: September 2003 end: January 2008 description: |+ Category4 (now called Convoy) is one of the longest-running technology service firms in Virginia. I worked with dozens of clients during my years there, building a variety of applications to suit different project needs. In the time before Etsy and Shopify, we built one of the first reusable, customizable e-commerce website engines, and I created one of the first applications to show real estate listings on the internet. Category4 won the Gold award from the American Marketing Association two years in a row for websites that I worked on. highlights: - name: 2005 American Marketing Association Gold Award type: award - name: 2004 American Marketing Association Gold Award type: award - company: Munk & Phyber title: Programmer start: June 2000 end: September 2001 description: |+ One of the first web development companies, Munk & Phyber built some of the earliest e-commerce sites in the world, as well as making sites for local non-profits and artists. M&P was one of the first companies to use PHP – a relatively unknown programming language at the time, but which now powers over 80% of websites in the world. - title: Freelance Developer start: April 1996 end: May 2017 standalone: true description: |+ I've spent over two decades building hundreds of sites and applications for a variety of clients. Throughout my work, I’ve stayed current with the latest cutting-edge tools. I've created plugins and themes for popular content management systems, built custom applications in a dozen different programming languages, and written many articles about various topics from technology to management to data standards policy. volunteer: - company: U.S. Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council title: Cloud & Infrastructure Community of Practice - Advisory Board Member start: September 2020 end: Present - company: Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) title: Government Advisory Board Member start: October 2018 end: June 2023 - title: Cloud & Infrastructure Working Group Chair start: September 2019 end: May 2023 - company: American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) title: Customer Experience (CX) Working Group Board Member start: September 2019 end: April 2022 - company: Free Law Founders title: Member start: July 2014 end: August 2016 - company: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) title: Web Annotation Working Group – Subject Matter Expert start: 2016 end: 2016 - company: title: Guest Lecturer - Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center, George Washington University Law School, etc. start: 2016 end: 2019 ---
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I'm a civic technologist and policy enthusiast working for the US Federal Government. After over two decades leading award-winning Agile engineering teams building cutting-edge solutions for some of the best-known companies in the world, I turned my skills towards improving government.

At heart, I believe in collaboration, transparency, and equity to make things better - teams, software, and government.

Please feel free to reach me at hello@billhunt.email. No sales emails, please!

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