How New York and Texas pursue secure identity and access management differently

Todd Kimbriel serves as the Deputy Executive Director of the Texas Department of Information Resources and State Chief Information Officer. He previously held the position of Deputy Executive Director at the agency.

Mr. Kimbriel joined the agency in 2008 to serve as the Program Manager for the internal Information Technology division and was promoted to Director eGovernment and Information Resource Manager (IRM) in 2010. As the Director of eGovernment, he absorbed added responsibility for leadership of Texas.gov, the Official Website for the State of Texas. In 2012, he was given the additional responsibility to lead the Data Center Services transformation and program. Through hard work and a dedicated focus on customers, staff and bottom line results, Mr. Kimbriel was promoted to Interim Chief Operations Officer in 2013, and confirmed as Chief Operations Officer in 2014. As Chief Operations Officer, in addition to existing areas of responsibility, he provided leadership to critical programs including the state's voice and data network, technology cooperative contracts program, and technology policy and planning. Mr. Kimbriel was promoted again in 2014 to Deputy Executive Director. On January 1, 2015, he was named Interim Executive Director and Interim Chief Information Officer for the state, and currently oversees all operational aspects of the agency.

Before joining state government, Mr. Kimbriel served more than 25 years in the private sector. He is a lifelong information technology professional, having spent time in all aspects of technology including planning, design, operations, customer service and management. His industry experience outside of public service includes telecommunications, aviation, retail merchandizing, and import/export. He graduated from Syracuse University with an undergraduate degree in Finance.

Rajiv Rao is Chief Technology Officer at the NYS Office of Information Technology Services. Rajiv Rao is an IT executive veteran with 23+ years of experience. He was named Chief Technology Officer for the NYS Office of Information Technology Services in December 2015. As Chief Technology Officer, Rajiv is dedicated to leading New York State’s innovative technology solutions and roadmap. He is responsible for the building and operation of all core infrastructure services, engineering, architecture, and advancing standards, as well as exploring long-term technology objectives that deliver enormous value to NYS such as containerization, data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Rajiv was the chief architect of the design and build of New York State’s Excelsior Cloud, the primary consolidated data center located in the largest zero energy, multi-use facility in the world. The Excelsior Cloud provides high levels of resiliency and security. In 2018, Rajiv was awarded the National Association of the State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) State Technology Innovator Award, established to recognize outstanding individuals who have made contributions that advance state technology policy agenda while promoting best practices, adopting new technologies, and advancing service delivery.

Doug Robinson has served as Executive Director of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) since 2004. Founded in 1969, NASCIO is the only national organization representing state chief information officers of the fifty states and territories. It is the premier network and resource for state CIOs and a national leader and advocate for information technology policy at all levels of government. Doug is responsible for the overall executive leadership of the association including strategic plan and policy execution, government affairs, strategic alliances, emerging issues and board and committee oversight.

Doug is a frequent speaker, panelist, author and recognized national expert representing state CIOs, policy issues, priorities and trends in state government IT. In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Public Administration. Doug represents NASCIO on several national councils, boards and advisory committees. Notably, he is a longstanding member of the Executive Council for Information and Technology Management of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Among his recognitions, in 2015 he received the Advocacy for Archives award presented by the Council of State Archivists. In 2006, he was named to Government Technology magazine’s top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers in public sector information technology.

His career spans over thirty-seven years in public sector information technology including positions in state government, higher education and IT consulting. Prior to joining NASCIO he served as Executive Director in the Governor’s Office for Technology, Commonwealth of Kentucky. As a senior IT executive in the state CIO office, he led IT strategic planning, enterprise architecture, policy and research initiatives for state government. Specific areas of responsibility included developing and advancing the enterprise architecture, digital government, cybersecurity policy, privacy issues and emerging technologies. During this tenure, he served as the lead executive for numerous enterprise IT initiatives, projects and business process improvement efforts.

His previous leadership positions in state government include Executive Director of the Kentucky Information Resources Management Commission and Executive Director of the Kentucky Office of Geographic Information. For fifteen years, he served in a university public service and technical assistance role with NASA’s Technology Applications Center in the Martin School of Public Administration at the University of Kentucky.

Doug holds a BA from Maryville College in Tennessee and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) with a concentration in science, technology and public policy from the University of Tennessee.

Jerry Cox has been with HID Global since 2010, serving in senior technical and business roles. He is currently Director of Business Development, responsible for primarily responsible for the western State, Local and Education market. Prior to his current role, Jerry served as a Director of Product Management, responsible for the development and U.S. FBCA cross-certification of HID Global’s IdenTrust Global Common PKI at assurances from Basic through PIV-I. Jerry also developed core solutions for the healthcare vertical.

Prior to joining IdenTrust, Jerry served as Director of Identity and Access Management (IAM) for CA’s Federal Government business group based out of Herndon, VA, followed by serving in the same role for CA’s Asia, Pacific and Japan business group, working out of Hong Kong. In these roles, he regularly met with information and security executives as an IAM subject matter expert and was responsible for mentoring security sales and technical sales teams to drive new sales growth. Jerry has also been a speaker at major security events around the world and has spoken in China, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and many other countries.

Jerry is an active Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) since 2004. He has worked in the enterprise IAM space since 1984, before the internet publicly existed.

Jerry is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and loves snow skiing, water skiing, hiking in the mountains and all things outdoors.

John Thomas Flynn, former chief information officer in California and Massachusetts, and former president of the National Association of State CIOs, features conversations with state and local CIOs, CISOs, program leadership and elected officials, plus the IT vendor community.