IT Director

Cook County Government
2nd Largest County in the USA

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, was responsible for the planning, development, implementation and oversight of technology communications programs and projects on Web, intranet, social media and cable television platforms. Developed operating and capital budgets and managed director, manager, networking and software development staff.

Highlight

Received outstanding feedback directly from Cook County Board President, Toni Preckwinkle, for exemplary work developing cookcountyil.gov

  • Launched a redesigned Cook County Government responsive WordPress website (cookcountyil.gov) in the first four months of employment combining 4 websites into 1
  • Assisted in creating and implementing technology Incident Management policy, Mass Communication policy and Intranet Governance policy
  • Created training materials
  • Developed and implemented communication plan for the countywide intranet redesign to Sharepoint 2013
  • Oversaw open data initiatives, created standards, best practices, added new datasets and automated and maintained existing datasets for the Cook County Open Data Portal (datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/)
  • Responded to media inquiries regarding Cook County technology initiatives
  • Oversaw the County’s involvement in Big Data Week Chicago 2014 (bigdataweek.com)
  • Oversaw the shooting, producing and editing of video productions for Cook County Offices Under the President, Cook County and Forest Preserve Board meetings and the Cook County Cable television channel