Steve Fletcher's Bio

J. Stephen Fletcher, was appointed by Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. on April 6, 2005 to serve as the state's Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of the newly-formed Department of Technology Services. His charge is to review all IT functions for the State of Utah for efficiency and productivity, and build an optimized IT service organization to better meet the business needs of the State.

As Executive Director of DTS he is responsible for leading State Executive Branch agency efforts to reengineer the State's information technology architecture by coordinating central and individual agency information technology so that it is cost effective and that IT resources are efficiently deployed by agencies to reduce redundancies and improve system interoperability and accessibility between agencies. Most importantly, these efforts are part of an overall objective to better meet agencies' business and service needs.

Before his position as CIO, he was at the U. S. Department of Education where he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management and later as the CIO/CTO. While at the Department he reengineered all of the business processes in the CIO's office transforming the office into a performance based service organization with responsibilities for supporting all activities associated with information technology, information management, information assurance, and operations. Mr. Fletcher was also responsible for implementing and directing the Departments' enterprise architecture, capital planning and investment, system development life-cycle and strategic planning for all Department IT activities.

His career has focused on applying technical solutions to business problems. He founded and managed an IT communications consulting firm, providing communications and management services to Federal sector and Fortune 500 companies. He built a start-up firm into a viable engineering firm that provided E-government solutions to federal, state and local governments. He has held senior executive positions at several companies, responsible for daily operations.

Mr. Fletcher graduated from the University of Utah. He also has received an MBA from the University of Dallas with an emphasis in engineering management.

Steve is married to Kelly. They are the parents of 4 children.