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March 25, 2011 By Sarah Rich
New York State CIO Melodie Mayberry-Stewart has resigned and plans to return to the private sector.
In a letter to colleagues sent on March 18, Mayberry-Stewart said she will be leaving the Office of Technology at the end of the fiscal year, on March 31.
Mayberry-Stewart was appointed state CIO and Office for Technology director in 2007 by then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and was the first African-American female to serve in the position.
She took an active role in raising participation of minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBE) in technology procurements. The program aims to help eligible companies compete fairly and equally in city procurement processes.
During her time as CIO, participation levels of MWBE-registered firms increased from less than 1 percent in 2007 to more than 21 percent in 2010.
“Going from less than 1 percent to 20 percent was no small undertaking and it involved the hard work and dedication of a lot of partners, and we’re very thankful to our vendor community that also assisted us in pursuing that,” Mayberry-Stewart said.
Mayberry-Stewart said her other accomplishments include implementing open government initiatives such as publishing the state’s first transparency strategy for records retention. She also drove efforts to increase broadband coverage to help close the state’s digital divide gaps.
The state still has work to do. Mayberry-Stewart said the state’s infrastructure still has antiquated facilities that need to be modernized and legacy systems that need to be replaced. Her successor as CIO will face these challenges.
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Dr. Mayberry-Stewart, As an African-American business owner and technology professional, I applaud your efforts in New York. It is good to follow your personal success since we last worked together.
It will be very interesting to see if OFT maintains or increases that 21 percent M/WBE participation. Its very obvious this was due to the efforts of Dr. Mayberry-Stewart.
Good riddance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!