Leader, Executive Advisory Team, State & Local Government
- Chief Information Officer, State of Arizona
- Director, Data Center Services, Expedia
- Head of IT Governance, GoDaddy
- Director, Global Datacenters, GoDaddy
Bachelor of Science, Production Operations Management, DeVry University
- Using private sector technology to solve public sector problems
- Workforce development: attracting and retaining talent in government
- Cybersecurity collaboration across whole-of-state
- IT Infrastructure Library (ITLB)
- Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT)
Think big. Start small. Go fast."
As an Executive Government Advisor, Morgan works with senior leaders from public sector organizations and their partners to share real-world examples of innovation in government, and develop strategies for modernizing citizen services with the cloud. Morgan helps organizations work backwards from the outcomes they hope to achieve, then optimize for the people and process parts of the change before diving deep on technology.
Prior to joining Amazon Web Services (AWS), Morgan served as the State CIO for the State of Arizona’s Strategic Enterprise Technology office where he implemented Arizona’s cloud-first policy, migrating applications off the state-owned mainframe, modernizing agency licensing and permitting systems into cloud hosted Customer Relationship Management, and consolidating 30 on-premise legacy email systems to a single cloud-based collaboration suite, enterprising cybersecurity tools and governance across 100+ state agencies, and helping craft legislation to make digital signatures legal for Arizona contracts.
Before serving in government, Morgan ran the global Datacenters for Expedia for three years, held a variety of IT leadership roles for GoDaddy for over 10 years, and supported the B2B ecommerce platform for the Fortune-50 Intel corporation before that.
Morgan graduated with a bachelor’s of science in Business Operations from DeVry University, and is pursuing a Masters of Information Systems Management from Keller Graduate School of Management.
Resources featuring Morgan
Whitepaper
Disruptive change is well within reach for government agencies
In this Center for Digital Government paper, Morgan answers how local governments can modernize agencies, align stakeholders with a shared vision, and shares how to get future-ready.
Disruptive change is well within reach for government agencies ›
Blog
5 best practices to create a cloud cost allocation strategy for government customers
Read to blog to learn best cost practices that you can leverage to design an effective cloud strategy to meet your organization’s needs
5 best practices to create a cloud cost allocation strategy for government customers ›
Is your on-premises data center weighing you down? Accelerate your cloud journey with these cost-savings strategies
Read the blog to discover three best practices to help free up budget resources and accelerate your journey to the cloud.
Is your on-premises data center weighing you down? Accelerate your cloud journey with these cost-savings strategies ›
Brief
How NYC is building cloud career pathways
Read about how New York City, higher education institutions, a coalition of companies, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) can inspire municipal and state governments to get started filling their public-private pipelines.
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