Steve E. Kolodney

Steve E. Kolodney is Vice President, State and Local Solutions at AMS, responsible for AMS� digital government strategy and e-government initiatives. He is working with a number of states to establish their CIO functions and digital government programs.

Mr. Kolodney served as director of the Washington State Department of Information Services (DIS) prior to joining AMS in June 2001. He was Washington�s Chief Information Officer and a member of the Governor�s Cabinet. Governing magazine named Kolodney as one of its Public Officials of the Year 2000, citing Washington for the �finest information technology system in any state government in America.�

Kolodney managed the state�s computing and telecommunications facilities and was responsible for information technology policy, oversight and procurement. With annual revenues exceeding $120 million, his department served more than 700 customers including state agencies, cities, counties, school districts, colleges and universities, and tribal organizations.

Under Kolodney�s leadership, the Progress & Freedom Foundation named Washington the nation�s �Digital State� for the third consecutive time in 2000. Washington received the only �A� grade for information technology in both 1999 and 2001 in Governing magazine�s Report Card on Government Performance. In 1999, Federal Computer Week named Kolodney one of the 100 executives in the nation from industry, government and academia who had the greatest impact on the government systems community.

Kolodney holds an MBA degree from the University of California at Berkeley.