William Schoeppner

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ABOUT WILLIAM SCHOEPPNER

Will Schoeppner is an accomplished strategy, business operations and technology leader with more than 25 years of progressive experience developing, managing and leading integrated operation teams spanning business operations, performance, human resources information technology, business intelligence, and vendor management. Will’s extensive depth and breadth of strategy, innovation and strong business acumen allows him to lead Strategy and Business Operations for the Governor’s Office of Information Technology.Will began his career as a military Counterintelligence Agent in the U.S. Army with numerous deployments to the Middle East and Haiti while serving with the Green Berets. He was deployed to Bosnia Herzegovina and South Korea. During this time, Will was responsible for criminal investigations with jurisdiction on national security crimes.Will managed the information technology services for Catholic Health Initiatives’ (CHI) national office in Minneapolis, Minnesota and later, for the national headquarters in Denver, Colorado where he was instrumental in the development of the regional health system’s technology and communication infrastructure, creating the organization’s technology platform, security standards and operational best practices. Additionally, he created and managed CHI’s vendor management and performance program, resulting in more than $3 million annually in cost savings.In 2015, Will joined OIT as the first Business Intelligence Manager and developed a robust program for performance measurement directly aligned to the state’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting (OSPB) and the SMART Act. Will has grown the Strategy and Performance Group and is proud of the team’s efforts on OIT’s strategic plan, the OIT Playbook, which, as part of OIT’s submission Strategy of Success: Playbook and 5-Year IT Plans, was the Recipient of the State CIO Office Special Recognition of the NASCIO 2017 State IT Recognition Awards.