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| Samuel A. Ferguson |
| Director of Information Technology |
| Village of Schaumburg, Schaumburg, Illinois |
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Mr. Ferguson has been employed by the Village of Schaumburg since 1998 and was hired as Schaumburg's first Director of Information of Technology. He worked as the Village of Palatine's first Director of Information Technology from 1989 to 1998. In his director roles, Sam brought together various islands of departmental technology to form cooperative enterprise technology organizations capitalizing on standards, establishing policies, and information technology governance providing a clear direction for municipal technology. The last two years Schaumburg's IT Team worked to implement over 25 ERP modules in a 19 month timeframe.
Mr. Ferguson has been the president for the Illinois chapter of Government Management Information Sciences (GMIS) and has held all officer roles of International GMIS, culminating in the president's position in 2000/2001. Currently Sam serves as the GMIS International Treasurer. Mr. Ferguson has been recognized in the northwest suburbs as having one of the top technology organizations in the metropolitan area. The Village of Schaumburg has been recognized 5 times as a one of the top 10 digital municipalities in the nation by the Center for Digital Government.
Mr. Ferguson holds a M.S. in Administration from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, a B.A., with departmental honors, from Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL, and graduated from the U.S. Army Computer Science School, Indianapolis, IN. |
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