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President - Andy Ogan , Ops Enterprise Architecture Manager - South Dakota 
Andy Ogan manages the Telecommunications Enterprise Architecture team for the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications. This dynamic team researches, develops, and sets the state’s technology direction for networking, voice services, video conferencing, public safety communications, and endpoint technologies. Over the past 20+ years, Andy’s work has included PC, software, networking, data center, broadband deployment, grant writing, ServiceNow, business intelligence, and GIS mapping, eventually moving into management.
Vice President - Kevin Gravel, Director of Compute - Connecticut
 As the director of compute for the state of Connecticut, Kevin oversees multiple areas of pratice, including platform, database, mainframe, directory, cloud and app hosting. Brought on in June 2022 as part of a new department, Bureau of Information Technology Solutions, this newly formed executive board is tasked with successfully consolidating all IT across 47 agencies within the executive branch.
Kevin is happily married to his wife Kelly of 26 years. They have four children (ages 15-23). In his spare time, he typically acts as a personal Uber driver chasing their kids all over and attending multiple sporting events. Fun fact – Kevin graduated from Johnson and Wales University as a classically trained chef and spent ten years traveling the United States as a private country club chef. He loves cooking, but hates the cleaning part.
Treasurer - Henry Kaylor, Director - Hosting Services, North Carolina
 With more than three decades of experience in designing and managing information management technology programs and people, Hank Kaylor offers a distinctive blend of leadership, vision and exceptional knowledge of people and communication technology. He has served as the director of hosting services for North Carolina’s Department of Information Technology for more than five years, improving risk management programs, enhancing state data center capabilities and promoting budget constraints against the rising costs of information technology programs.
Hank has been actively engaged with IT infrastructure since its inception, providing functional, innovative and timely deliverables for data centers, deployment of distributed networks and systems, expanding radio networks, integration of the communications grids and programs for federal, state and local communication systems worth more than $200M. He has successfully developed strategy and resourcing plans for IT personnel and programs from conceptual ideals to working capital assets. These deliverables include the development of future IT budgets, development of personnel programs to support these new and emerging programs and inclusion of future sustainment of the programs by applying life cycle methodology to minimize long-term loss of IT capital investments.
His experience includes more than 26 years of Air Force Reserves Aviation Crew Chief and Army Infantry, Chemical, Operations and Signal Officer assignments. Additional experiences include Department of Army Civilian managing National Guard Bureau’s data center and more than fourteen years in IT management for Massachusetts and North Carolina. He has an MBA/IT degree from American Public University and BBA in accounting from the University of Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the Army’s Command & General Staff College, including the Army’s CISSP certification. He graduated from Air Force Crew Chief Training School. He has retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel. Currently, Hank supports North Carolina and was recently assigned to the governor’s EO-80 climate project as the IT representative. He has held previous NASTD positions as president and vice president of its southern region.
Immediate Past President - Joe Homan , Regional Site Support, IT Manager - Nebraska 
As the site support IT manager for Nebraska's Office of the CIO for over five years, Joe manages the consolidated site support team, which includes 65 staff across the state providing desktop support for over 60 state agencies, county automation, district, and supreme courts, supporting more than 17,000 computers and laptops. His team works with each agency to ensure their computer needs are addressed and provides guidance on hardware standards.
Joe has worked for the state of Nebraska for over 20 years. He supervised the desktop support team for the Department of Health and Human Services for eight years and managed customer services, overseeing the level one and two help desks, desktop support, 24-hour facility support, and IT warehouse operations for over ten years.
Joe is happily married for 36 years with two sons. He is an active member of HDI and a certified support center manager. His interests include woodworking, construction, and involvement with the Camp Creek Threshers, an antique farm machinery club in Waverly, Nebraska.
Midwestern Region President - Todd Baxter, Chief Operatons Officer, Indiana
Eastern Region President - Donnie Patterson, Chief Operations Officer, West Virginia
 As the chief operations officer for the West Virginia Office of Technology (WVOT), Donald “Donnie” Patterson is the driving force behind ensuring seamless tech operations across the state. His responsibilities encompass a wide range of critical areas, including the enterprise service desk, field support and the management of OS and workstation platforms. He also plays a key role in configuration and accounts management, as well as overseeing ITSM and ITIL governance for WVOT. With a dedicated team of 84 employees spread across 55 counties, Donnie's leadership safeguards the support that over 22,000 users need.
Donnie's journey in public service began after earning his management information systems degree from Marshall University in 1994. He has dedicated 26 years to serving the state of West Virginia, starting his career at the Department of Transportation. Following the 2005 consolidation of the state's IT functions into the WVOT, Donnie demonstrated consistent professional growth through various roles, including field technician, team lead, regional manager and deputy COO, before assuming his current leadership position.
Beyond his professional achievements, Donnie enjoys a rich personal life. He has been happily married to his wife, Tara, for 26 years. Together, they have one daughter, Harper (age 12), and two beloved dogs, Freya and Bailey. Donnie is also deeply committed to leveraging all that NASTD has to offer.
Western Region President - Ryan Ogan, Service Delivery Manager, South Dakota
 Ryan has worked in various areas of IT for the state of South Dakota for more than 25 years. His responsibilities have varied from PC support, networking, Windows and AIX server administration, emergency communications, ServiceNow, telephony, security and firewall administration, project management and, most recently, in a management capacity. Currently, Ryan is the service delivery manager within the Technology Operations and Communications Division of the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications. Ryan oversees endpoint deployment, telephony, network deployment and employee onboarding. The bureau supports IT systems for all executive branch agencies as well as some services to elected offices, the Board of Regents, judicial systems and K-12 schools.
Ryan met his wife, Nicole, at Black Hills State University while obtaining a degree in business administration and working in the campus IT department. He and Nicole have been married for more than 20 years and have 2 boys, Jamie (19) is studying psychology at Black Hills State University and Alex (16) is a junior at Riggs High School in Pierre.
Southern Region President - Stephen Patterson, Director - Data Services, Mississippi
 Steve Patterson is the director of data services at the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services (ITS), where he leads statewide initiatives to modernize and secure Mississippi’s digital infrastructure. With experience in the private sector where he served as corporate IT director for a financial dot-com startup, and nearly two decades in public service, Steve has built a career combining strategy and operations.
At ITS, he oversees the state’s private cloud platform, enterprise cloud partnerships, mainframe hosting, custom application development and identity management services, all designed to help agencies deliver secure and scalable digital services to citizens. Beyond his operational leadership, Steve contributes to Mississippi’s AI policy workgroup and plays a key role in planning a new Cloud Center of Excellence, ensuring the state has the governance, innovation frameworks and workforce readiness to thrive in the next era of digital government.
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