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OIT Organizational Structure

OIT 2009
By Kathy Record, Associate CIO, OIT

While most in the Office of Information Technology have been aware of the organizational changes that will take place at the beginning of the next fiscal year, new questions about the specifics of these changes come up constantly.  In response, two webinars were conducted to provide an overview of the revised IT organization and to provide answers to these questions.  The impetus to these changes occurred from the need to reduce costs.  However, this does not translate into reducing services but rather increasing efficiencies and, most importantly, achieving the Governor’s vision for changing the way we do business to create a single, responsive agency to manage IT.

All of the organizational changes were focused on management and administration. Prior to the consolidation, there was 29 senior management staff; after the consolidation with the creation of OIT, there were 22 senior management staff, and today there are 16 senior managers, 12 of whom report to the Chief Information Officer, Dick Thompson.  In the future OIT configuration, there will be three divisions within OIT and the head of each of these three entities with report directly to the CIO.  Jim Lopatosky will lead Applications Development and Shared Services, Greg McNeal will lead Core Technologies and Service & Relationship Management, and Kathy Record will lead Policy, Planning and Oversight.

High level organizational charts on the new OIT organizational structure that were presented at the Webinar, along with the questions and answers are available to state employees at http://inet.state.me.us/oit/aboutus/

Information on the webinar format that was utilized for the meetings can be located in the What’s New article titled “OIT Utilizes Juniper to Hold Webinar”. More information regarding this re-organization initiative will be included in subsequent editions of this newsletter.