Idaho names interim chief information officer
After losing its chief information officer to another agency this month, Idaho’s Office of Information Technology Services on Monday confirmed that an interim replacement has been named.
Jake Reynolds, who’s spent 13 years with the state’s Department of Commerce, most recently as its business development and operations administrator, is serving as the state’s interim chief information officer, a spokesperson wrote in an email.
Before joining the state government, in 2013, Reynolds served in various management roles, first at Aerotek, the recruiting agency, and later Carl F Reynolds & Sons, an agricultural firm, and In The Ditch Towing Products, which sells storage and accessories to the towing industry.
Reynolds was selected after, on July 1, Idaho Gov. Brad Little announced that Alberto Gonzalez, who’s served as the state’s CIO since 2022, was being appointed director of the state’s Department of Transportation. Gonzalez, who has spent more than 20 years with the Idaho state government, took over the top seat at the Transportation Department after the recent departure of Scott Stokes, a longtime public servant who announced his retirement in April.
A biography on the Idaho technology bureau’s website notes that Reynolds, “an Idaho native,” at the Commerce Department oversaw “economic development, broadband, community development, finance and major state grant and incentive programs.”
