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Rachael Squires
Salt Lake City, UT · Open to remote

Rachael
SquiresMS · PMP

Enterprise IT service delivery and operations, run at state scale.
IT Service Delivery Operations Endpoint Security ITSM · ServiceNow
Rachael Squires, IT Director
Service Desk4.9 / 5.0 CSAT
$24M
Portfolio
26
Agencies
22K
Users
150+
Team
PMP
Certified
Rachael Squires

Enterprise IT runs best when service and security metrics move in the right direction at the same time.

My work as IT Director for the State of Utah's Division of Technology Services covers a $24M technology services budget and a 150+ person organization serving 26 agencies and 22,000 users. Over the past year my teams raised Tier I first-contact resolution from 65% to 80% and lifted desktop patching from a 490 to a 700 RiskSense score, while the Service Desk closed 70,000 tickets at a 4.9 of 5.0 satisfaction average.

Operations console

The metrics that moved

Two service and security measures, baseline against current. Toggle to compare where the operation started with where it runs today.

Service Operations · DTS
Tier I first-contact resolution
80%
↑ 15 points in one year
0Top techs at 93%100%
Desktop patching, RiskSense score
700
↑ 210 points, fewer vulnerabilities
0Endpoint governance roadmap850
70K
Tickets closed
per year
4.9 / 5.0
Service Desk
satisfaction
22,000
Devices on Intune
about $100K saved a year
Source: State of Utah, Division of Technology Services · FY delivery record
Scope of the seat

What the role carries

$24M
Technology services budget owned
150+
Person organization led
26
Federated agencies served
22,000
Users across the environment
19
Promotions into a new Tech Lead track
15+
Vendor and contract relationships
800+
Employees in the culture initiative
70K
Service Desk tickets a year
Three ways in

The same track record, framed for the seat

One operator, positioned across the roles the work has already covered. Select a lens.

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IT Director
02
PMO and Program Governance
03
Chief of Staff

Enterprise service delivery and operations

Run enterprise IT operations at scale and move service and security metrics together. ITSM in ServiceNow, SLA and KPI frameworks, endpoint governance, and a Service Desk that closes 70,000 tickets a year at 4.9 of 5.0.

ITSMService DeskEndpoint SecuritySLA and KPI DesignIncident and ChangeIAM

Portfolio governance and delivery oversight

Govern a $24M technology portfolio, chargeback-funded and structured to net to zero each year, across 26 agencies with 15+ vendor contracts. Agile, SAFe, Scrum, and Waterfall delivery under RAID and risk tracking, with executive dashboards that standardize reporting across a federated environment.

PMO DesignPortfolio GovernanceRAID and RiskSAFe and ScrumVendor ManagementExecutive Reporting

Operations partner to the executive line

Translate executive priorities into execution across a 26-agency federated environment. Operating-cadence design, organizational redesign that created a new Tech Lead career track with 19 promotions across a layered structure of 6 directs and 9 supervisors, and a culture program for 800+ employees. Nova Chief of Staff certified.

Strategic PlanningOperating CadenceOrg DesignChange ManagementExecutive AdvisoryCulture and Engagement
Track record

Where the work happened

March 2023 to Present
IT Director
State of Utah, Division of Technology Services
  • Accountable for a $24M technology services budget and a 150+ person organization delivering Service Desk, desktop, endpoint, and SaaS services to 26 state agencies and 22,000 users.
  • Raised Tier I first-contact resolution from 65% to 80% in a year, with top technicians reaching 93%, by giving frontline teams more ownership.
  • Lifted desktop patching from a 490 to a 700 RiskSense score under a new Endpoint Governance roadmap, sharply cutting exposure.
  • Redesigned the organization under a headcount-reduction mandate, created the division's first Tech Lead career track, and promoted 19 people, holding every SLA target through a seven-position reduction over three years.
  • Migrated 22,000 devices to Microsoft Intune for about $100K in annual licensing savings, and stood up a cross-functional Endpoint Governance team spanning security, identity, hosting, and networking.
  • Built ITIL-aligned service models, SLA and KPI frameworks, and executive dashboards in ServiceNow, and serve as product owner for a ServiceNow Virtual Agent, now in final testing and projected to deflect at least 20% of password-reset requests.
August 2026 to Present · Advisory
Customer Success Director
TSL Tech, Transit Systems LLC
  • Advise an early-stage transit technology startup, owning the relationships for its first two customer accounts.
  • Support business development and represent the company at the October 2026 APTA transportation conference.
April 2020 to March 2023
IT Analyst Supervisor
State of Utah, Division of Technology Services
  • Delivered an AWS cloud migration and SaaS modernization about three months ahead of schedule, in a regulated state environment.
  • Built executive delivery dashboards and evaluated high-volume RFP responses, directing public-fund technology investment into multi-year vendor partnerships.
January 2023 to January 2025
Chairperson, Culture of Excellence
State of Utah, Division of Technology Services
  • Led a division-wide culture initiative for 800+ employees and launched Motivosity, the division's first formal employee-recognition platform.
  • Built a cross-functional steering structure that embedded culture accountability into operational leadership across every division.
July 1995 to April 2020
Environmental Program Compliance Manager, then Environmental Scientist
State of Utah, Department of Environmental Quality
  • Built Utah's statewide Safe Drinking Water Act compliance program from the ground up, overseeing 1,000+ water systems and 2,000+ sources as executive liaison to EPA Region 8.
  • Led Utah to become the first state in the nation to report compliance data electronically to the EPA through the CMDP, recognized by the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators in 2016.
  • Served as product owner for WaterLink and the Emergency Response Tracker, used by thousands of external users, and launched a monthly video-based operator training program that sustained training through the pandemic.
The arc

The path here did not start in IT. Twenty-five years of statewide regulatory program management came first, building compliance systems, owning products, and answering to federal regulators. That grounding in governance, delivery, and public accountability is exactly what enterprise IT operations reward.

Credentials

Certified, and still building

Certifications

PMP, Project Management Professional
PMI Northern Utah Chapter
Valid to 2028
Nova Chief of Staff
Executive operations program
2026
Leading in the AI-Powered Future
MIT, executive education
2025
ITIL Foundation
IT service management
In progress, Oct 2026

Education

M.S., Secondary Teaching
Western Governors University
B.S., Biology
University of Utah
Core stack
ServiceNow, Microsoft Intune, AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, Jira, SmartSheet

AI and automation, on the operations side. An MIT executive certificate in leading through AI, paired with product ownership of a ServiceNow Virtual Agent now in final testing, projected to deflect at least 20% of password-reset requests, keeps the operation moving toward automation that removes routine work rather than adding to it.

Let us talk delivery.

Open to IT Director, IT Operations, Service Delivery, and program or portfolio leadership roles. Remote, or Salt Lake City within about 50 miles.

Salt Lake City, UT