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February 28, 2012 By News Staff
West Virginia CTO Kyle Schafer will step down effective Friday, March 2, to take a job outside of state government, according to a local media report.
The Charleston Daily Mail newspaper reported Schafer sent a message to his LinkedIn contacts informing them of his resignation.
Schafer was appointed the state’s CTO in 2005 by then-Gov. Joe Manchin. Schafer worked for years to consolidate West Virginia’s technology infrastructure. According to Schafer’s official biography, he was also working on mobility projects, broadband services and statewide implementation of an enterprise resource planning system.
In 2011, Schafer served as the president of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. Prior to coming to public service, Schafer worked for more than two decades in various IT positions for NiSource Corp.
West Virginia’s Office of Technology is housed with the state’s administration department. The office operated with a $1.8 million budget in fiscal 2012, and delivered $74 million in services to state agencies and departments. The Office of Technology also oversees an enterprise server for the state, as well as disaster recovery capabilities.
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Kyle will be sorely missed in the public sector. best wishes in his future endeavours.
Thank God he is finally gone and his agenda to outsource us. His whole reason for having the job was to replace our good paying American jobs with H1b foreign visa workers or offshore the work. Thanks to the UE local 170 for fighting for working people of West Virginia and saving our jobs...
I agree with OT Employee here. Kyle came in with a plan to consolidate the state's IT infrastructure which looked good on paper. But it was shown later with his association with outside vendors and behind closed door negotiations, that he planned all along to outsource what he could and layoff hundreds of hard working West Virginians. Sorry but this gentleman will not be missed at all in West Virginia state government.
Yes, thank God Kyle left now maybe we can get someone in his position that does not care more about Corporations than the people of WV. Kyle wasted Millions of dollars on projects that were not needed to begin with. The state Infrastructure ran fine without him and will be better again as soon as we can do away with his practice of putting people in positions that they are not familiar with and get them in positions that they are experts in again. Also, I hope anyone that is going to hire this man knows what he is about. He is in the business of breaking infrastructure so he can sell it to IBM. Thank God for UE he was unable to do this in our state.