{"id":249839,"date":"2025-09-23T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249839\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:44:17","slug":"new-york-state-names-new-deputy-cio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249839\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State names new deputy CIO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the departure of Jennifer Lorenz<\/a> this summer, New York State has tapped Jenson Jacob, a longtime state government employee, to fill her role as the new deputy chief information officer.<\/p>\n

As deputy CIO, he\u2019ll help lead the New York Office of Information Technology Services under CIO Dru Rai<\/a>. Jacob\u2019s first day on the job was last week after filling in as acting deputy CIO for the last couple of weeks. He has nearly 14 years of experience in New York\u2019s state government.<\/p>\n

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He started as a lead enterprise architect for New York in 2011, and has served in various other roles. Most recently, he was the state\u2019s chief digital transformation officer. Before that, he was the tech agency\u2019s deputy chief technology officer, overseeing business application development for a state government with more than 50 executive agencies.<\/p>\n

Jacob started his career in the private sector, spending five years at Gulf Computers as a system analyst before moving to HCL Technologies as a systems architect. In 2006, he joined Unisys as a senior solutions architect.<\/p>\n

Scott Reif, the chief communications officer of ITS, told StateScoop that Jacob was a \u201cnatural choice\u201d to serve as the permanent deputy CIO under Rai. Reif said Rai and Jacob have a great working relationship and that Jacob\u2019s strong technology background in both state government and the private sector during his early career were considerations.<\/p>\n

Reif said Jacob\u2019s role will include assisting the state\u2019s transition to a new IT model, in which every agency will receive a dedicated technology team, with support from ITS, as opposed to having to share resources with other departments. <\/p>\n

Reif added that Jacob\u2019s prior experience will be an asset to the state throughout the transition. In both his private- and public-sector positions, Jacob led initiatives that included building digital strategies using \u201cdisruptive and enterprise technologies\u201d and overseeing an \u201cinnovation journey\u201d across applications and services, according to a biography<\/a> published on the state\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Keely<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Keely Quinlan
\n\t\t\tKeely Quinlan reports on privacy and digital government for StateScoop. She was an investigative news reporter with Clarksville Now in Tennessee, where she resides, and her coverage included local crimes, courts, public education and public health. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Stereogum and other outlets. She earned her bachelor\u2019s in journalism and master\u2019s in social and cultural analysis from New York University.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the departure of Jennifer Lorenz this summer, New York State has tapped Jenson Jacob, a longtime state…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":249840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,132438,31548,132439,132440,405,403,17050,5226,5225,5228,5227,42096,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-249839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dru-rai","10":"tag-its","11":"tag-jennifer-lorenz","12":"tag-jenson-jacob","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-state-local-news","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115255565956480839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}