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Harrisburg, PA-based Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has Appointed Rosa Lara as Deputy Chief Information Officer
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Nearly 80 thousand state government employees work for the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania employs personnel in a broad range of fields in full-time, part-time, temporary, or seasonal capacities. Employees can work in a civil service, non-civil service, appointed, or elected position.. When taken as a whole, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania state government is the largest single company employer within the state of Pennsylvania. The next closest employer is CPA Pavement Services with about 56 thousand employees. Most employees of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania work for one of the 74 departments, agencies, offices, or councils found on this page (http://www.pa.gov/Pages/Agency-Directory.aspx). The state government operates on a budget of approximately 64 billion a year. On an employee basis per citizen basis, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the second most efficient state government in the country.
About the Person
Rosa Lara was named Deputy Chief Information Officer in March 2015. Rosa has over 15 years of experience in the information technology field, including oversight of very visible and highly complex initiatives. Notably, she earned a Governor’s Award for Excellence in 2009 for her role in leading the implementation of the IT solution the commonwealth leveraged to oversee $6.7 billion in ARRA funding from the Federal Government. She has experience in the areas of business process reengineering, large scale implementation efforts, financial management, procurement and managing for results. In her current role, Rosa has oversight over the IT policy, governance, strategic planning, project management, and the commonwealth’s broadband program. She has held numerous positions within OIT – including the Director for the Bureau of Application Development, which was responsible for close to 300 applications and a Deputy Chief Information Officer for Health and Human Service agencies. Rosa earned a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from The College of NJ, a Masters of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a Masters of Information Resources Management from Syracuse University. She and her husband, Francisco, have two sons.
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