What Happened?
Washington, DC-based United States Department of Veterans Affairs Resigned Art Gonzalez as Deputy Chief Information Officer
About the Company
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was established on March 15, 1989, succeeding the Veterans Administration. It is responsible for providing federal benefits to veterans and their families. Headed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, VA is the second-largest of the Cabinet departments and operates nationwide programs for health care, financial assistance and burial benefits. Of the 22.2 million veterans currently alive, nearly three-quarters served during a war or an official period of conflict. About a quarter of the nation`s population is potentially eligible for VA benefits and services because they are veterans, family members or survivors of veterans. The responsibility to care for veterans, spouses, survivors and dependents can last a long time. Two children of Civil War veterans still draw VA benefits. About 184 children and widows of Spanish-American War veterans still receive VA compensation or pensions. VA`s fiscal year 2013 spending is projected to be approximately $140 billion, including almost $64 billion in discretionary resources and nearly $76.4 billion in mandatory funding. The discretionary budget request represents an increase of $2.7 billion, or nearly 4.5 percent, over the 2012 enacted level.
About the Person
Arthur Gonzalez joined VA in 2013 to lead SDE through several phases of change. Previously, Art Gonzalez As TISTA`s Chief Information Officer (CIO), Art leads TISTA`s Project Management Office (PMO), and PMO Center of Excellence with standardized best practices for managing federal IT programs. He has extensive experience in the public and private sectors, including the federal government, financial services, retail, and healthcare. Prior to joining TISTA, Art served as Chief Information Officer for the Internal Revenue Service. As CIO, he managed and oversaw an annual budget of $2 billion and 7,000 IT professionals in the Modernization and Information Technology Services organization that provided services to 100,000 employees across 700 locations to support the U.S. tax system. Prior to his tenure with the IRS, Art served as CIO and Senior Vice President with Oxford Health Plans, where he leveraged an $83 million budget and a staff of 400 employees to support the turnaround of a 1.5 million member managed healthcare organization. Prior to that Mr. Gonzalez was Divisional Vice President with Kmart Corp in Troy, MI. where he was responsible for application development and support services for all financial and administrative systems. Earlier in his career, he held information technology leadership positions at Great Western Bank, Glendale Federal Bank, California Federal Bank, and Western Airlines. Gonzalez will become the IRS CIO after serving for two years as Deputy, Chief Information Officer.As CIO, Gonzalez will oversee strategic and operational responsibility for the IRS Modernization and Information Technology Services (MITS) organization, which supports the US federal tax administration system.The CIO organization oversees a nearly $2 billion annual budget and a 7,000-person organization that maintains over 400 systems and supports more than 100,000 IRS employees. As Deputy CIO, Gonzalez oversees the IRS information technology functions and operations.While Deputy CIO, Gonzalez also served in a dual role as the Acting Associate CIO for Enterprise Networks, responsible for managing the design and engineering of the IRS telecommunications environment.Gonzalez joined the IRS in September 2004 as Deputy Associate CIO for Information Technology Services, where he assisted in managing the IRS portfolio of Information Technology operations. Gonzalez has more than 25 years of IT leadership experience in financial services, retail, transportation and health care.Before joining the IRS, he served as CIO and Senior Vice President of Oxford Health Plans, where he oversaw all IT services for the company`s business units and business partners.He has also held IT leadership positions at Kmart, Great Western Bank, Glendale Federal Bank, California Federal Bank and Western Airlines.
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