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[ ROB LLOYD ] Seattle IT is the IT department for the entire City of Seattle:
from parks and rec. to utilities
to the internal services of the city.
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I’m Rob Lloyd and I have the honor of being the chief
technology officer for the city of Seattle.
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My parents met in Taiwan.
Father was in the US service for Vietnam.
So, mother is Taiwanese.
Was born actually in Okinawa, Japan and grew up the first part of my life
in Okinawa, in Taiwan and across
a bevy of states on the East Coast.
When my parents divorced, went with my mom.
We lived in Hawaii for my high school years, and we lived in public housing.
There were two weeks where we were homeless, had really good teachers.
Ended up going to college, met my wife the second week of college.
We've been together for 31 years.
I've been a proud public servant ever since graduating college.
Have been able to be in Colorado
and Oregon and then Arizona and then California
and now here.
And I will faithfully conduct myself. - As Chief Technology Officer and Director.
-I really like my job.
And my family knows how much I love what I do.
I probably talk about it too much, how a city works.
But I also love hiking.
I snowboarded a lot in my 20s.
I can jump. I can't land.
I have a good number of pictures of me looking good in the air,
but it hurts.
So, I stopped snowboarding because I was like,
I am going to... I’m going to break something. (laughter)
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One of the most
powerful things you can do in a leadership team is, make sure that everyone
is working together and in the common direction.
We're here
to make sure that the city works and we earn and keep trust.
Our projects get done, they get done fast
they get done well, they get done right.
And that trust is one of the most powerful mechanisms we have.
It comes from brilliant, exceptional employees
being free to do their job and to know how to align.
It's something we as leaders have to work on every day
and to make sure that we're teaching culture every day.
One Seattle is such a powerful mechanism
because it unifies three things all at once.
It says we are going to address things honestly.
Number two is how do you work together, design solutions together,
own the problem together. And then number three, it's a team philosophy.
We should call each other in and not call each other out.
Government is filled with
people who are there to do good.
The future ahead of us is a lot of people working together.
And the role of technology is to make sure we unleash that and we connect people.
And what One Seattle allows us to do is to put that all together.
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