Pivotal Moments in Minnesota IT Services' history

Pivotal moments

in Minnesota IT Services' history

Government shutdown

State government shutdown occurs in July.

Technology Advisory

Committee (TAC) created

as part of Minnesota Statute 16E.036.

Data center consolidation

begins

Five-year project launches to consolidate 36+ state data centers.

Intranet launched

A temporary intranet is launched for the new State

IT organization.

Naming contest

A contest opens for state employees to help select a new name for the State IT

organization, with a new name - "MN.IT Services" announced as the winner.

MNIT on the Move

"MNIT on the Move" part of the tactical plan to organize functional areas, centralize utility services and implement

an enterprise framework model launches.

Employee Recognition Committee (ERC)

MNIT Employee Recognition Committee (ERC) establishes

program to recognize employees' contributions to state government. The ERC

remains one of the longest-standing employee

driven volunteer organizations in MNIT.

Mission, vision, values

MNIT establishes its mission, vision, and values statements.

New Enterprise Data Center 4

The new Enterprise Data Center 4 facility construction is completed in June and ready

for occupancy; physical equipment and data migrations continue through December as

old data centers are decommissioned.

"Where's OET" contest

MNIT launches "Where's OET" contest to help find

and replace old OET references with "MNIT

Services."

Capitol Code Hackathon

Code for America and MNIT host Capitol Code,

a hackathon that results in the first iteration of the

Homeless Veterans Registry.

Salesforce Center of Excellence established

MNIT establishes Salesforce Center of Excellence to provide licensing, storage, hosting, and professional services.

Achievement Awards

MNIT's ERC introduces Achievement Awards,

a precursor to the current Annual Awards program.

OSO program begins

Multi-year Operational Services Optimization (OSO) Program begins, with projects

and initiatives to define and implement Enterprise and

Shared Services, to provide standardized o erings and operational processes for rates

definitions, hosting and workstation management, LAN, WAN and Teleco services,

Service Desk and Cloud hosting options.

Financial Steering Team established

MNIT's Financial Steering Team is established, to

advise on MNIT enterprise services rate-setting.

Length of Service Awards

MNIT holds its first Length of Service Awards ceremony "MNIT Milestones" in March

of 2015 in the St. Paul College Theatre to

recognize employee service to the state of Minnesota.

Cybersecurity County Grant Program wins Tekne Award

Minnesota High Tech Association's Tekne Awards

recognize MNIT for the Cybersecurity County Grant Program (part of the Statewide Security Monitoring Initiative).

MNLARS launches

The Minnesota License and Registration System

(MNLARS) launches in July, replacing an aging, legacy IT

system to manage vehicle registration in Minnesota.

Food License Wizard wins Tekne Award

The Food License Wizard, a project in partnership with

MNIT and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, wins a Minnesota High Tech

Association Tekne Awards.

First MNIT Week celebration

MNIT hosts the agency's first MNIT Week celebration,

a training opportunity for MNIT sta across state government.

Johanna Clyborne appointment

Governor Mark Dayton appoints Brigadier General Johanna Clyborne as MNIT

Commissioner and State Chief Information O cer.

MNIT GEM (Going the Extra

Mile) program

MNIT Employee Recognition Committee launches the

"Going the Extra Mile (GEM)" program, a peer to peer recognition award.

ITS Trainee Program

MNIT launches the ITS Trainee Program, a program designed to build a pipeline of trained IT

talent to state agencies.

Tarek Tomes appointment

Governor Tim Walz appoints Tarek Tomes as Commissioner

and State of Minnesota CIO.

SWIFT upgrade

MNIT supports upgrade to SWIFT, the state's accounting and procurement system, used

by more than 5,000 state employees and nearly

240,000 active vendors to process around 46,000 payments per week.

Blue Ribbon Council

established

Governor Tim Walz establishes the Blue Ribbon

Council on Information Technology (BRC-IT) with

Executive Order 19-02.

Accesible maps

The Map Community of Practice rolls out first

accessible map guidance in the nation.

Sustainability reporting tool

MNIT partners with the Department of

Administration to launch the state's Sustainability Reporting Tool, which shows benchmarks and progress

toward reducing the state's footprint.

Connected Culture Campaign

MNIT launches internal Connected Culture campaign ?

strengthening relationships within our teams, with our

business partners, and with the Minnesotans that we serve.

Transition to remote work

Helps 36,000+ state employees transition to

remote work.

Supports unemployment

insurance

Rapidly upgrades Minnesota's Unemployment

Insurance system to meet unprecedented need for over 1 million

Minnesotans, paying out over $9.1B in claims.

MNDRIVE

MNIT and the Department of Public Safety launch MNDRIVE,

replacing MNLARS.

COVIDaware MN app launched

Minnesota launches COVIDaware MN, an exposure notification app made available by the State of Minnesota with technology

from the nonprofit PathCheck Foundation,

Apple, and Google.

Commissioner Tomes wins

ORBIE Award

Commissioner Tomes wins the Twin Cities Nonprofit/

Public Sector CIO of the Year ORBIE Award.

Modernization Playbook launches

MNIT's O ce of Transformation launches the

Modernization Playbook, a common end-to-end

framework of consistent roles, language, and activities to drive modernization.

COVIDaware expands to

1 million users

COVIDaware MN exposure notification system expands to over 1.6 million users and over

29% of the state population.

10 Year Anniversary

MNIT celebrates 10 years as an agency.

2011

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

2020

2021

Carolyn Parnell appointment

Governor Mark Dayton appoints Carolyn Parnell as Commissioner of the O ce of Enterprise Technology, which became MNIT, and State Chief Information O cer.

Consolidation of state IT

2011 legislation consolidates state IT functions and staff as the organization's original enabling statute (Minn. State. 16E.01) is amended.

Temporary name change

The O ce of Enterprise Technology temporarily changes its name from OET to "State IT."

Town halls

Commissioner Parnell begins Town Hall listening sessions to hear employee thoughts and ideas about the future of the newly consolidated agency.

Daily newsletter

MNIT publishes the first issue of Morning Java, an internal daily newsletter for state technology employees.

Service level agreements

State agency leaders enter MNIT Service Level Agreements, which included agency inventories of all IT items, mandated by legislation.

Health Insurance Exchange

MNIT teams engage in Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) work. HIX later becomes MNsure.

Planning

MNIT publishes first Master Plan, Strategic Plan, and Tactical Plan. The Tactical Plan covers Fiscal Year 2012 through Fiscal Year 2014.

Accessibility Standard

The State of Minnesota's Accessibility Standard becomes law.

Living the Mission

MNIT's ERC establishes "Living the Mission" internal campaign with quarterly peer-to-peer award events: Can do!, Respect, Work Smart, Practice Leadership, and Living the Mission awards. This program was expanded significantly, with ceremonies, gifts and certificates, and an online nomination form.

Innovation Program

Minnovations program launches in June to harness employees' creativity and ideas to solve real problems, assess feasibility, and foster a sustainable, innovative culture.

Governor's Unsession

Minnovations Program facilitates Governor Dayton's Unsession to crowdsource ways to make government work better, delivering 1,200 ideas.

Standardized job classifications

MNIT standardizes job classifications for Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Quality Assurance positions.

Tom Baden appointment

Governor Dayton appoints Tom Baden as MNIT Commissioner and State of Minnesota CIO.

Homeless Veterans Registry App wins Tekne Award

Minnesota High Tech Association's Tekne Awards recognize MNIT for the Homeless Veterans Registry App.

Enterprise license for GovDelivery

MNIT implements an enterprise license for GovDelivery, a mass email communications tool.

Workforce One wins NASCIO Award

Workforce One, a collaborative project between MNIT and the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) wins a State IT Recognition Award from the National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO).

Final migration to O365 GCC

MNIT migrates the state to Microsoft O ce 365 GCC. More than 38,000 Identity, Skype, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint accounts and sites were migrated. This gave Minnesota cloud-based user identity and authentication services, security enhancements, and state-of-the-art productivity tools.

First cybersecurity awareness campaign

MNIT launches Cybersecurity Awareness Month Digital Campaign to inform state employees and Minnesotans about cybersecurity best practices in coordination with Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Two projects win NASCIO State IT Recognition Awards

Tempo Go Live, completed in partnership with MNIT and the Minnesota Department of Pollution Control. The Minnesota Geospatial Commons, a collaborative, data-sharing website for state geographical information.

Annual Awards program

The Employee Recognition Committee rolls out MNIT's Annual Awards program.

MNIT goes to the State Fair

MNIT goes to the State Fair with first booth in the Education Building!

Climate trends app launch

The MNIT DNR team launches the Minnesota Climate Trends app to help Minnesotans explore available data on historic temperature and precipitation trends throughout the state.

Bill Poirier appointment

Governor Tim Walz appoints Chief Technology O cer Bill Poirier to be Acting Commissioner.

Legislature approves Cybersecurity funding

Minnesota Legislature includes a $20M cybersecurity investment in State Government, Elections, and Veterans & Military A airs budget bill to allocate funding for MNIT's cybersecurity program.

Point of Dispensing Pre-Check app wins NASCIO Award

MNIT teams partnered with the Minnesota Department of Health to develop the Medical PreCheck tool and the Point of Dispensing Locator tool. NASCIO recognizes the work with a State IT Recognition Award.

Minnesota Service Hub rolls out

The MNIT Enterprise Service Desk phases rollout of the Minnesota Service Hub ticketing system.

Minnesota Report Card

MNIT partners with the Minnesota Department of Education to launch the Minnesota Report Card, providing education data to help parents, educators, schools, districts, and Minnesotans make informed, engaged decisions.

Nation's first cyber-secured Connected Corridor

MNIT teams help establish the nation's first cyber-secured Connected Corridor (Connected Automated Vehicle (CAV) technologies), which sends basic safety messages between CAVs and tra c signals.

Launch of COVID-19 websites

Establishes and supports covid19 and staysafe. to provide pandemic information to Minnesotans.

Protects against DDoS attacks

Protects state systems against Distributed Denial of Service attacks in the wake of civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd.

Work Comp Campus

MNIT teams partner with the Department of Labor and Industry to launch Work Comp Campus, a new cloud-native, web-based portal for filing and accessing workers' compensation claims.

VATS recognition

U.S. Department of Veterans A airs presents the Abraham Lincoln Pillar of Excellence Award to the Minnesota's Veterans Application Tracking System (VATS-joint project between MDVA and MNIT), transforming the way veterans in Minnesota apply for and receive education benefits through the Minnesota GI Bill.

Strategic plan

MNIT releases the 2020 Strategic Plan and 2020 Tactical Plan with immediate opportunities for action to achieve the longer-term Strategic Plan.

New legislation

Governor Tim Walz signs HF 1952 into law, shifting MNIT's status from an "O ce" to a department and aligning membership of the Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) with the BRC-IT.

Supporting the vaccination e ort

MNIT partners with the Minnesota Department of Health to stand up COVID-19 vaccination tools, including the Vaccine Connector, case investigation/contact tracing tools, a vaccine locator website, and vaccine data dashboard.

2020 Tactical Plan

MNIT wraps up the 2020 Tactical Plan and develops and launches the 2022 Tactical Plan.

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