Effective IT is critical to the achievement of overall government objectives. As the Corporate Chief Strategist, Samantha lead the alignment of IT strategy, policy and governance with government priorities and directions. Samantha directed transformative, IT-enabled change to government business, while simultaneously generating cost-savings and efficiencies and driving innovative solutions. She set the strategic directions in the federated I&IT organization within the Ontario government, supported implementation and control, provided advice to Management Board of Cabinet and Treasury Board, managed the enterprise architecture and reference models and prepared the annual IT report. Chief Information Officer, Central Agencies Cluster November 2008 - September 2010 (1 year 11 months) As CIO, Samantha provided information and information technology leadership to the ministries of Finance, Revenue, Energy & Infrastructure and Cabinet Office managing an annual budget of $87M and 290 staff. During her tenure, Samantha delivered key initiatives including the Ontario news room (the Ontario government’s online news distribution portal), the infrastructure stimulus tracking portal (open data and analytical visualizations on the $33B infrastructure spend), Ontario taxes online (a $135M, 6 year major IT project) and launched one of the first public sector telework pilots. Samantha also oversaw significant increases in employee engagement and client satisfaction, with employee engagement up to 74% from 66% and Internal Business Client Satisfaction survey results of: 2008=49%, 2009=58%, 2010=78%. Head (Director) Strategy & Planning, Central Agencies Cluster August 2007 - October 2008 (1 year 3 months) Samantha provided leadership in strategic planning, communications, project and information management, IT security, privacy and architecture. She managed a branch of 45 staff and an annual budget of $10M and spear- headed converting consulting resources to FTE to be used as an internal bench of flexible resources to allow balance of supply with demand. Head (Director) Customer Services and PMO, Infrastructure Technology Services September 2005 - July 2007 (1 year 11 months) Director responsible for customer services branch and project management office. Engaged with ministry clients across 27 government ministries and 8 I&IT clusters on 'keeping the lights on' and project activities. Annual project expenditures in excess of $25m. Direct responsibility for 60 staff. Page 3 of 4