I have spent most of my professional life working in the areas of management improvement and internet technology.

Management consulting

• Curious Cat LLC (Contact me for consulting or coaching. I am also available for short phone call consultations)

Author

• Management Matters (book, published 2013)
• Blogs
• Curious Cat blog network, see my blogging honors

Software development consulting, web site network

• Continuing to build and management the Curious Cat Ltd. network of over 30 web properties (since 1998).

 

Highlights of my career

• Information Technology Project Manager, White House Military Office (2001 to 2004)

• Deputy Director for Web Operations, Office of the Secretary of Defense Quality Management Office (1996- 2001)

• Founder and CEO, Curious Cat LLC (2000 to present)

• The W. Edwards Deming Institute
  • Presented seminars  (2004 to 2015)
  • Created their blog and authored and edited it (2012 to 2018) 

• Published: Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. The book provides an overview of a complete management system (heavily based on Dr. Deming's management ideas and the devevlopment of those ideas through lean thinking and agile software development implementations). (2013)

• Senior Consultant, Hexawise (combinatorial software testing), 2010-2018.

• Information Technology Program Manager for the American Society for Engineering Education for 9 science and engineering fellowship programs including the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2004 to 2011)

 

See a more complete timeline of my professional life.

 

My mission: To expand the knowledge and awareness of customer focused continual improvement management practices and promote their application in government, education and business in order to improve people's lives.

Management consuting by the minute - get quick answers to your management improvement question via a simple phone call with me.

See more details on my career below and in a more detailed timeline.

My first web publication was the Online Quality Resource Guide starting in 1995 and still popular today.

 

I have spoken at various conferences including the National Quality Education Conference, the W. Edwards Deming Institute Conference and the ASQ Quality Management Division conference (topic: Using Quality to Develop an Internet Resource). And I have presented to the Deming Scholars MBA program at Fordham University. I have also served on the planning committees for FedWeb and Government Services online conferences.

My professional life builds on some of the work of my father (Bill Hunter): I created a web site to share his work: Life and Legacy of William G. Hunter. The site includes Information on his life, his work and his legacy: the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, the Madison Area Quality Improvement Network's annual Hunter Conference on Quality (no longer held), the ASQ Statistics Division's Hunter Award and more.

Peter Scholtes and my father worked on what I believe to be the first application of Quality Management principles in the Public Sector: working with the First Street Garage in Madison, Wisconsin. I manage Peter's web site: Scholtes Seminars and Consulting. Peter dedicated the Team Handbook to Bill Hunter. He also wrote the Leader's Handbook.