Darryl Young’s most recent position was as assistant deputy director and chief technology officer for the California State Lottery, a role he’s held since September 2013.
Brian Ferguson, deputy director of public affairs for the governor's office, told Techwire in an email Wednesday afternoon, “Yes, can confirm that Darryl Young is now the IT chief in our office.”
Young began his IT career in 1986 as an intelligence information system analyst with the U.S. Air Force, where he “maintained, coded and compiled application query programs (SQL programs) for an electronic information system. I designed routing applications for an automated intelligence collection system.”
He began his state tenure in 1996 with the state Franchise Tax Board (FTB) as a senior programmer analyst, where he oversaw a staff of 15 and was “responsible for managing, designing, and implementing the data warehouse architecture and database design components.”
From FTB, Young moved to the State Water Resources Control Boards, where he was first a senior programmer analyst supervisor and then acting deputy director and CIO. He subsequently worked as an enterprise test manager for the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) and then as chief of data and information architecture for the Employment Development Department.
In his most recent role at the California State Lottery, Young was charged with overseeing the Application Services and Infrastructure office, including planning, organizing, staffing and budgeting.
At the Office of the Governor, Young will oversee IT for Gov. Gavin Newsom and his staff, including enterprise, applications, procurement, hardware and software and system support.
