Director, Software Engineering
Austin, Texas Area
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- Director, Engineering at BMC Software
- Director, Operations at Evity (now BMC Software)
- Lead Engineer, QA & Automation at Onebox.com
- Senior Engineer, QA & Automation at Acuity Corporation
- QA Engineer at Teubner & Assoc. / Esker
- Education
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- Oklahoma State University
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Mike Lunt’s Summary
Over fourteen years of software life-cycle experience with a proven track record in delivering both packaged and SaaS products. High energy, technical manager with the ability to construct and manage highly productive teams across domestic and international locations. Excel in balancing immediate customer demands with strategic planning to achieve business goals. Strong project management experience within startup and established environments with an emphasis toward continual process improvement.
Mike Lunt’s Specialties:
enterprise software delivery, Agile coaching and implementation, process improvement, offshore team development, software quality assurance, IT operations, systems management, SaaS
Mike Lunt’s Experience
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Director, Engineering
BMC Software
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BMC; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2008 (8 years)
• Directed engineering functions for major releases of enterprise, high availability systems management software.
• Release manager for 5-7 Agile teams (100+ engineers) with many in remote locations such as India and other parts of the U.S.
• As a Certified ScrumMaster, championed and implemented Agile methodologies into existing waterfall development processes.
• Established software life-cycle for product that functioned as both a packaged and SaaS-based product for Fortune 500 customers.
• Managed personnel and budget for a 60 person staff.
• Coordinated test plans to provide full coverage for multi-platform, multi-tier software running on Windows, Solaris and Linux. -
Director, Operations
Evity (now BMC Software)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
• Hired and managed IT team in the setup and maintenance of Internet data centers around the world.
• Hired and managed QA team for enterprise level systems management product.
• Established production life-cycle for high availability SaaS product at startup company. -
Lead Engineer, QA & Automation
Onebox.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
• Hired and led software QA team in conducting system tests for SaaS and telephony-based product
• Developed automated computer telephony and HTTP-based tests to simulate high volume traffic against servers. Tests were written with C++ and VB.
• Set up and administered nationwide network of data centers at startup company. -
Senior Engineer, QA & Automation
Acuity Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year)
• Led software QA team for instant messaging and Web-based products.
• Developed automated test tools for simulating high volume client/server interaction over TCP/IP. Tools were written with C++, Perl, and VB.
• Developed automated functionality tests for Web-based products using SilkTest. -
QA Engineer
Teubner & Assoc. / Esker
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1997 (3 years)
• Led software QA team for enterprise fax server product line.
• Set up telephony simulators and related fax hardware to test fax server hardware and software.
Mike Lunt’s Education
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Oklahoma State University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering
