Joe Pugh

Joe Pugh is the former Deputy CIO for Chesterfield County local government and helped lead them to a top 10 finish in the NACo digital counties survey ten years in a row, finishing first three times. He has extensive leadership experience building teams and championing innovation. Joe managed technical teams for Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Customer Relationship Management, Portfolio Management, GIS, eGovernment Services and Data & Analytics. He collaborated with Infrastructure Services, Security Management, and the Project Management Office, to ensure all cloud initiatives were deployed securely at the lowest operational cost to the county. Joe excelled at working with business units to plan and budget for capital funding requests for large technology initiatives. Joe also served as the IT assistant director while a VDOT from 1999 until 2012 where he led the data management and enterprise application development teams. Joe was awarded the commissioner’s award for excellence for his work on the asset management system. His teams won numerous COVITS awards over the years. Joe was a guest speaker at the 2017 Microsoft Cloud Forum for the Federal government where he shared innovative solutions developed by local government utilizing Microsoft Dynamics. This presentation was featured in the keynote address to all participants. Joe also served on the client advisory boards for Microsoft Dynamics and CivicPlus.