Speakers :

Matthew Miszewski
CIO
State of Wisconsin

In March 2003, Matthew J. Miszewski was appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the state of Wisconsin by Governor Jim Doyle. Miszewski oversees the state's approximately $400 million annual investment in information technology (IT). Prior to his appointment, Miszewski worked in the private sector. In 1999 he started his own company, Topical Networks, which provided IT consulting and enterprise resources systems to national clients. He also was a founding partner of the firm people.political, which provided political data-management tools to labor organizations and candidates for public office. As an attorney in private practice, Miszewski focused on labor law and advised high-tech firms on issues ranging from start-up and finance to strategic direction. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School (1995) and Marquette University (1992).

Miszewski's accomplishments since becoming State CIO include:
  • Successfully coordinating efforts to reduce IT-related spending across state agencies by $40 million for the 2003-05 biennium; the Division of Enterprise Technology (for which Miszewski serves as division administrator) has directly implemented initiatives that are saving nearly $30 million per year across state and local governments on an ongoing basis;
  • Launching a comprehensive consolidation of both server and local area network (LAN) services throughout executive-branch state agencies;
  • Negotiating a Microsoft enterprise licensing agreement with terms as good or better than those for all other states except California and New York; the agreement will save a total of more than $2.5 million per year for the participating state agencies and local governments;
  • Negotiating an enterprise contract for purchasing desktops and laptops, which resulted in prices that save approximately $300 per computer and more than $3 million per year across the enterprise; and
  • Implementing an "extended enterprise" approach to IT management, so that local governments are direct partners and are expressly included in contracts such as the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and desktop buy; Miszewski appointed the CIOs from Rock and Milwaukee counties and a representative from the University of Wisconsin to serve with state agency representatives on the Wisconsin Enterprise Architecture Team.
These and other efforts led Government Technology magazine to name Miszewski as one of its Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers for 2004.

Miszewski's current additional appointments and service include:
  • Vice President and Board Member of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO);
  • Chair, NASCIO Programs Committee;
  • Board member of the UW E-Business Consortium;
  • Member of the Worldwide Licensing Advisory Council for Microsoft;
  • Chair, state of Wisconsin Technology Leadership Council;
  • Member, state of Wisconsin's Accountability, Consolidation and Efficiency (ACE) Initiative Executive Committee;
  • Executive sponsor for state of Wisconsin's Shared Information Services (SIS) Initiative; and
  • Member, Wisconsin Justice Information Sharing (WIJIS) Policy Advisory Group

 

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