Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham has been active as a leader and engineer for over 30 years focusing on developing people in the community, church, military, and industry as well as developing innovative process, procedure and technical solutions.

He has various industry certifications in continuous process improvement, continuous service improvement, process standards, quality engineering management and operational excellence.

In the community, Michael provided and coordinated financial education through a non-profit organization, Institute for Financial Success (IFS). He served as the President of a neighborhood association that focused on public safety and quality of life issues and coordinated activities with local and state politicians. Also, he runs a home business investing in real estate.

Michael served in the Army National Guard as a radio teletype operator, logistics officer, communications officer, and an executive officer (second in command) of a headquarters unit of a 500-person armored cavalry unit. He left honorably as a Major.

Over the years, Michael has volunteered with the Philadelphia Regional Introduction for Minorities to Engineering (PRIME), an IT Apprentice Program (ITAP), a Robotics/STEM program, and Junior Achievement as well as a choir director and youth department founder and president at church.

Michael currently serves as a Quality Manager in an aerospace company where he leads quality analysts and quality engineers to infuse quality in program processes, products and services.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Michael still resides there with his wife and three children. In his spare time, Michael has coached youth sports teams and plays sports with his children. He, also, likes to participate in run/walk fund raisers to raise money for worthy causes like colon cancer research as he is a colon cancer survivor.