Michael Thieme has been in the Federal service for 34 years and with the Census Bureau for 26 years. He is currently the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Director for IT and Operations, where he leads development of the Census Bureau’s Business Ecosystem – a major modernization and centralization of the systems the Census Bureau will use to do its business well into the future. During the 2020 Census he was the Assistant Director for Decennial Census Programs, Systems and Contracts. In that position he led three Census Bureau Divisions: The Decennial Information Technology Division, the Geography Division, and the Decennial Contract Execution Office. His work enabled a modernized approach to the 2020 Census that includes digital data collection, adaptive survey design, and advanced analytics.