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Lea Deesing

Lea Deesing is the director of information technology for the city of San Bernadino, Calif. She has been working in the information technology field for 25 years and in local government for over 15 years. She holds a bachelor’s degree in information systems and a master’s in public administration.

If you could travel back in time, what career advice would you give yourself? We posed this question to current and former public CIOs. We asked them to write letters to their former selves, and this is what they had to say.