Al  Rosabal
Deputy CIO
City and County of Denver

In January 2008, Al Rosabal was appointed as the Deputy CIO for the City and County of Denver. In his role, Al is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Technology Services department. Information technology is consolidated in the City & County of Denver under the Technology Services Division (TS). Al has been instrumental in kicking off a Strategic Improvement Roadmap for Denver. This initiative includes implementing IT governance, Enterprise Architecture, infrastructure optimization, and organizational realignment.

Before accepting his position with the City and County of Denver, Al Rosabal was the CIO for Douglas County, Colorado. Since October, 2005, Al had been responsible for setting technology strategy and for delivery of the County’s technology projects and initiatives. His accomplishments included implementing more robust project management controls, developing a rapid response pipeline using agile software development methodologies; promoting a tiered structure for storage, computing, databases, and services, and pushing the County toward embracing a Service Oriented Architecture-based integration approach. Al also drove core IT strategic initiatives that included identity management, data quality management, services definition, information security, business intelligence, and automated quality control.

Before Douglas County, Al was with Sprint-Nextel, where he directed a team that supported Customer Finance and Marketing. Al’s team modeled predictive behavior for late and delinquent payments, managed customer identification and credit management, supported Treasury operations, modeled customer turnover, and structured marketing campaigns and offers. Before joining Sprint, Al led IT for a company in Northern Colorado that delivered outsourced Customer Relationship Management services to Fortune 500 clients. Prior to that, he lived and worked in London for two years as the Chief Technology Officer for a Joint Venture with Ford Motor Company. Earlier in his career, Al managed programs in the healthcare, energy, and telecomm industries as a consultant with IBM Global Services.

Al graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with a degree in civil engineering. He also has his MBA from Boston University, graduated from the Maximum Impact executive program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and is a certified PMP. He served as a Captain in the US Air Force, working on air defense systems as well as air warfare simulation systems.