Ms. Diana Williamson

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Diana Williamson

Diana Williamson, CSD Deputy Director for IT, Office of the Attorney General
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"We're proud to honor leading IT professionals such as Diana Williamson and Cathy Fulton who demonstrate measurable leadership and accomplishments."
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Diana Williamson, CSD Deputy Director for IT, Texas Office of the Attorney General, named Austin IT Executive of the Year

At the time Ms. Williamson joined the Child Support Division of the Texas Office of the Attorney General, the technology in use by the division was aging.Ms. Williamson pushed for immediate change which lead to improved system availability and response time.She lead an effort to refresh and update the existing equipment infrastructure.While results from these efforts were impressive, Ms. Williamson saw the need to go further and develop a long-term vision and strategic plan for the use of technology within CSD.Ms. Williamson sponsored an Applications Architecture project.As a result of plan, a large number of applications improvement projects were initiated under Ms. Williamson's leadership.

In September 2001, one such effort, the Texas child support program was recognized by the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement for national leadership in the areas of child support collections, fatherhood initiatives and client services.
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The idea for an interactive web site was Ms. Williamson's.

Diana WilliamsonEmail: diana@governmentpartnersllc.comPhone: 512-413-3357

Diana Williamson - Texas Attorney General

Diana Williamson, Deputy Director - Child Support Information TechnologyOffice of the Attorney General

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Diana WilliamsonDiana has a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas.She spent 8 years in the private sector doing survey research and technical statistical analysis.She worked for 22 years at the Department of Human Services and became the Deputy Commissioner of Information Technology (CIO).In this position, she was responsible for the automation supporting Food Stamps, TANFF, Medicaid, and Long Term Care Services.

Diana became the Assistant Deputy for IT (CIO) at the Attorney General's Child Support Division.In this job, Diana was responsible for all of the technology for the statewide Child Support program including a system that processed over a billion dollars of Child Support a year.

She has been very active in Inter-agency work groups and with DIR work groups.She was President of the Texas Association for State Systems and Communications (TASSCC).During her tenure on the TASSCC Board, Diana started a scholarship program, an education program and a special interest group about web computing.She won a prestigious annual award from TASSCC for extraordinary service to the State in the field of IT.Diana was appointed by the Lieutenant Governor to serve on the Telecommunications Planning and Oversight Committee.The legislature formed the group of members from K-12, Universities, State Agencies and private industry.The purpose was to provide a master plan for the state network managed by the Department of Information Resources.She was also recognized as the "CIO of the Year" by the Austin Software Council.

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