Interim Chief Information Technology Officer - John Boucher

John Boucher
Interim Chief Information Technology Officer
Office of Information Technology
Butrovich Building Suite 103d Fairbanks, AK 99775
Website: alaska.edu/oit/
John Boucher was appointed as the University of Alaska’s Interim Chief Information
Technology Officer in October 2020. Prior to his appointment at the University of
Alaska, he served as the Chief Information Officer for the State of Alaska’s Office
of Information Technology (OIT). OIT was responsible for delivering enterprise IT
services to the fifteen Executive Branch agencies of the State of Alaska. As the State
of Alaska’s CIO, he oversaw telecommunications, enterprise level application services,
networking services, data centers, platform services, security services as well as
the Alaska Land Mobile Radio system (ALMR)- a public safety radio communication network.
Before appointment as the State of Alaska’s CIO, Boucher had a nearly 40-year long
career serving the State of Alaska as an administrator and economist. He served as
a Deputy Commissioner for the Alaska Department of Administration (DOA). At DOA, he
oversaw activities of the Office of Information Technology, Division of Finance, Division
of Retirement and Benefits, Risk Management and the Office of Administrative Hearings.
Prior to that he worked as a Policy Analyst and Economist at the Governor’s Office
of Management and Budget.