This session dives into the fast-paced partnership between Colorado's Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) and SIPA. We'll showcase how we collaborated to swiftly deploy critical technology solutions for the state's newest department, CDEC. Takeaways:
- Explore the breadth of SIPA's extensive technology portfolio
- Learn how SIPA's streamlined procurement process can support the rapid deployment of critical technologies
- How CDEC, OIT, and SIPA partnered to support a key priority of Governor Polis
Stephanie Beasley is the Deputy Executive Director and oversees the day-to-day operations of the department.
Ms. Beasley has led operations in health care statewide social service agencies throughout her career. She began her career providing direct services to children and families involved in child welfare and served in many roles in child welfare in Indiana, including program and policy oversight. She served in policy, operations, program and ultimately as Deputy Director of Field Operations leading child welfare services in all 92 counties.
After leaving the Department of Child Services, Ms. Beasley served as the VP of Statewide Outreach for Indiana Youth Institute providing community development and capacity building services to youth serving organizations in Indiana. She was the Chief Operating Officer for Adult and Child Health providing mental health and addictive disease services as well as housing, foster care, and youth development services in central Indiana. Then in 2020, Ms. Beasley was appointed as the Director of Children and Family Services in Nebraska. In that role she led child support enforcement, child welfare, adult protective and economic assistance programs for the state of Nebraska. During her tenure, Ms. Beasley led the largest health and human services agency in the state during COVID 19 and made marked improvements to the child welfare and social service programs.
Most recently, she served as Vice President of Community Impact for Mile High United Way overseeing United For Families, United For Schools and Personal Investment Enterprise. Beasley earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Indiana University. She has a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma from Purdue University.
Jon has served in the public service tech industry, first in higher education and now in state government, for over 25 years. He first cut his teeth in technology as a user support analyst and has served in many different roles, from system administrator, email administrator, marketing technology, and senior IT director. Throughout his career, Jon has consistently worked to advance technology with creative solutions that consider equity, focusing on historically underserved populations.
Jon earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in management information systems and Master of Business Administration in information assurance from the University of New Mexico.
During his most recent stint as an IT Director and Senior IT Director for Colorado’s Governor’s Office of Information Technology, Jon leads several initiatives, including the creation of a Universal Preschool Technology System. In this effort, he helped create the agile product team and secured resources for the preschool technology system which launched on time in less than a year of the project’s kickoff. Jon is a proud recipient of OIT’s 2024 Public Service Recognition award and was CU Boulder’s Employee of the Year in 2018.
Duane Tucker joined the SIPA team in May of 2022, where he serves as the Customer Success Director. Duane’s responsibilities include managing the relationships with SIPA’s customers, managing supplier relationships, and expanding adoption of current and future SIPA technology solutions. Duane brings many years of experience working in the public sector to his role at SIPA, most recently as the Director of Strategic Procurement at the University of Colorado where he focused on customer success, supplier relationship management, and executing enterprise-wide strategic contracts for IT and other solutions. Duane has a BA and an MBA from the University of Colorado.
