Robert Vitello

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Robert J. Vitello is a semi-retired Senior Consultant with v257 LLC, a small business which he cofounded in 2011. He can be found on LinkedIn at [1], on twitter @robertvitello, and on Google+ at rvitello@gmail.com. He is an experienced government technology manager, thought leader, and collaborative teamwork Mentor. With a distinguished history managing technology as the Chief Information Office for five different New York State agencies, Robert has broad experience in software architecture, software development methods, and government enterprise administration and collaboration He has extensive experience in the use of Agile methodologies in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Governance, Business Process Management (BPM), and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). He is a specialist in state and local government IT management, IT organization modernization, Open Source product adoption and management, and international standards formulation.

Robert retired from New York State government in 2010 as the Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Technology and Chief Information Technology Officer for the New York State Department of Labor. He was responsible for developing improved, more cost-effective business processes at the Labor Department, typically bringing computer technology to the service of Labor’s governmental programs. He has established Labor’s first strategic technology agenda.

Robert has introduced innovative approaches for serving Labor’s customers, including use of social networking, educational games, virtual realities, and dynamic user experiences (in which the content of web sites respond to the behavior and backgrounds of individual users). The redevelopment of CareerZone (a site at [2] aimed at career exploration for youths) won the Best of New York prize in innovation in 2009. (CareerZone contains the Department’s “STEM Venture” production, the agency’s first venture into web-based games.)

For twelve years prior, Robert was CIO and Director of Legal Technology & Systems Management for the Office of the New York State Attorney General. There he built a finely tuned electronic discovery support service that was instrumental in the prosecution of such celebrated cases as those against Merrill Lynch, AIG, and Prudential. The award winning silverCase legal case management system was also built under his direction.

Previously, he served as Director of the Computer Science Laboratory at the Wadsworth Health Labs, and from 1989 to 1995, he was Executive Director of the Strategic Systems Laboratories, a research and development arm of the New York State Office of General Services. From 1981 to 1989, he served as the Director of the Computer Services Bureau of the NYS Department of State. From 1975 to 1981, he lead MIS efforts for the City of Buffalo's grant programs with federal Labor, HUD, and Justice Departments.   Robert is a frequent lecturer on such topics as innovation, games in education, Service Oriented Architecture, agile programming, open source development, open data, legal electronic discovery, and enterprise technology management.   He is a founding member of the collaborative Economic Security and Human Services Advisory Board. He sits on the NYS STEM Network Design Board. He is on the Governance Committee of the interagency Identity Management project. He is on the Board of Governors of the national Information Technology Support Center, a USDOL-funded program which supports state Labor departments’ technology efforts. He is a member of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies Technology Committee. He sits on various OASYS standards committees, including eGovernment, legalXML and SOA Reference Architecture. He is a member of the NYS CIO Council Enterprise Architecture Committee. He was Chair of the Office of General Services Computer Center Advisory Board, which was a precursor to today's Office for Technology, and is a former member of the Government Open Code Consortium.

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