Krishna Mohan Mupparaju was recently chosen as Kentucky’s new Chief Data Officer and Chief Technology Officer. He will be reporting to Chief Information Officer (CIO) Chuck Grindle.
Mupparaju has worked in the state government for over 20 years. His last post was executive director of the office of project management.
Theo Douglas filed this report in Government Technology:
As CTO, currently an informal role, Mupparaju will be responsible for shaping the state’s long-term technology vision, optimizing infrastructure and “evolving” how COT (Commonwealth Office of Technology) delivers IT services. It’s a shift, he said, that will enable the state to have another focus beyond necessary, operational needs around “keeping the lights on, performance and putting out the fires” toward long-term planning and adapting to newer tech like cloud and 5G.
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But Mupparaju’s attention is also on data, where the new executive said his “principal short-term requirement” is to understand best practices in data management. Somewhat similar to how its hardware and software assets were once divided among cabinets and agencies pre-consolidation, the state’s data assets are currently de-centralized. Mupparaju said he’ll work to create a baseline inventory of data assets and how those are defined — a necessary first step in determining how to correlate data and data systems to create meaningful asset from information.
