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President - Joe Homan , Site Support, IT Manager - Nebraska 
As the site support IT manager for Nebraska's Office of the CIO for over five years, Joe manages the consolidated site support team, which includes 65 staff across the state providing desktop support for over 60 state agencies, county automation, district, and supreme courts, supporting more than 17,000 computers and laptops. His team works with each agency to ensure their computer needs are addressed and provides guidance on hardware standards.
Joe has worked for the state of Nebraska for over 20 years. He supervised the desktop support team for the Department of Health and Human Services for eight years and managed customer services, overseeing the level one and two help desks, desktop support, 24-hour facility support, and IT warehouse operations for over ten years.
Joe is happily married for 36 years with two sons. He is an active member of HDI and a certified support center manager. His interests include woodworking, construction, and involvement with the Camp Creek Threshers, an antique farm machinery club in Waverly, Nebraska.
Vice President - Andy Ogan , Tele Enterprise Architecture Manager - South Dakota 
Andy Ogan manages the Telecommunications Enterprise Architecture team for the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications. This dynamic team researches, develops, and sets the state’s technology direction for networking, voice services, video conferencing, public safety communications, and endpoint technologies. Over the past 20+ years, Andy’s work has included PC, software, networking, data center, broadband deployment, grant writing, ServiceNow, business intelligence, and GIS mapping, eventually moving into management.
Treasurer - Kevin Gravel, Director - Connecticut
 As the director of compute for the state of Connecticut, Kevin oversees multiple areas of pratice, including platform, database, mainframe, directory, cloud and app hosting. Brought on in June 2022 as part of a new department, Bureau of Information Technology Solutions, this newly formed executive board is tasked with successfully consolidating all IT across 47 agencies within the executive branch.
Kevin is happily married to his wife Kelly of 26 years. They have four children (ages 15-23). In his spare time, he typically acts as a personal Uber driver chasing their kids all over and attending multiple sporting events. Fun fact – Kevin graduated from Johnson and Wales University as a classically trained chef and spent ten years traveling the United States as a private country club chef. He loves cooking, but hates the cleaning part.
Immediate Past President - Rick Woodruff , Executive Director of Infrastructure Services - Kentucky 
Rick Woodruff joined the Commonwealth Office of Technology (COT) in 2005 and has held various leadership positions. Currently, he serves as the executive director of the Office of Infrastructure Services, overseeing services related to compute, storage, cloud, network, voice, and large-volume printing for the Kentucky Executive Branch of state government. With over two decades of IT leadership, Rick is an advocate for openness, trust, and continuous improvement in technology service delivery through enterprise models.
Rick is happily married for 30 years with one adult daughter. In their spare time, Rick and his wife enjoy food odysseys, traveling to new destinations, and serving others through Christian missions.
Midwestern Region President - Bryan Falk, IT Supervisor, Nebraska
 Bryan is a site support IT supervisor for Nebraska's Office of the CIO. He manages support staff across the state providing desktop support, including both hardware and software troubleshooting, for more than 60 state agencies, county automation, district and supreme courts, supporting more than 17,000 computers and laptops. His team works with the end users for each agency to ensure their computer needs are addressed and provides troubleshooting support on a wide variety of hardware and software solutions.
Bryan has a bachelors degree from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He has been married for more than 31 years and has two sons. In his spare time Bryan plays in a soft-tip dart league.
Eastern Region President - Jim Lipinski , Director Shared Services, Vermont
 Jim Lipinski is the director of shared services for the Vermont Agency of Digital Services (ADS). He is responsible for the IT services provided by ADS that serve more than one state agency or department. This includes things like storage and messaging, but increasingly is moving into supporting shared line of business services like call center as a service, digital asset management and case management. This is his second stint with the state of Vermont. Previously he spent 23 years with the Department of Public Safety and then the state’s E911 board. He left in 2012 to work in the private sector as a technology strategy consultant for federal cabinet-level clients and returned to state government ten years later to take his current role.
Jim is most passionate about IT governance, technology business management, enterprise architecture and IT business process improvement. He has a B.S. in computer information systems from Champlain College in Burlington Vermont, and an M.B.A. from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington Indiana. He is happily married for 20 years with three adult children. When he is not at work, he can be found skiing, paddle boarding, fishing and finding other ways to enjoy Vermont’s outdoors.
Western Region President - Craig Felchle , Chief Technology Officer, North Dakota
 As chief technology officer for North Dakota, Craig Felchle is responsible for the vision and strategic direction for technology that enables and empowers North Dakota's state government, local government, educational entities and public safety operations. He leads enterprise architecture, cloud and infrastructure, service management, public safety technology and broadband programs for the state and is responsible for ensuring North Dakota continues its transformational journey with effective technology use for its customers and citizens. He is passionate about leading transformational journeys with enabling technologies, such as the adoption of major low code platforms, cloud transformation and now AI platforms, all increasing the accessibility, availability and collaboration across government for the services provided in North Dakota.
Craig has been a member of NDIT since 2007 and has been actively involved with state government since 2004. He believes strongly in leading by example and being a true servant leader to the state. He is a born and raised North Dakotan and enjoys many of the outdoor and sportsman activities the state has to offer. He is also actively involved as a youth sports soccer coach for his two children and loves to spend time with his family.
Southern Region President - David Tucker, Director of Strategic Digital Services, Texas
 Dave is the director of strategic digital services in the Chief Technology Office of the Texas Department of Information Resources. He leads the team that assists agencies and IHEs in adopting digital technology, transforming manual processes with digital processes and replacing legacy technology with modern technology. He has managed or supported state government programs for 25 years as a project manager, vendor manager, business analyst and grant manager.
Dave holds a bachelor’s degree from Bard College and is a certified project manager, Texas contract manager, scrum master, facilitator and ITIL practitioner. When not working or parenting two daughters, he rehabilitates vintage mechanical watches (at times successfully) and is usually recovering from electric skateboard injuries.
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