Alameda County Appoints IT Director

Alameda County will ring in the New Year with a new Director of Information Technology who is bringing the East Bay one step closer to Silicon Valley.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors appointed Tim Dupuis as the official Director of Information Technology and the Registrar of Voters, with a unanimous vote on Tuesday.  Dupuis had been doing the job as the county’s Interim Director of IT since 2012, when Dave McDonald retired. Since then, he’s worked on multiple projects for the county that led to his appointment.

“By working as both Information Technology Director and Registrar of Voters, Tim Dupuis has helped keep Alameda County in the forefront and on the leading edge of many new technologies that are being created to help make our elections operate more efficiently,” said Keith Carson, president of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.

Dupuis has worked for Alameda County since March 2000, according to his LinkedIn profile. He credited with bringing the county’s data into the digital age by creating a level of transparency normally found in major metropolitan areas. He optimized Alameda County’s web presence for mobile devices, as well as created the county’s first iPhone/iPad and Android apps, according to Guy Ashley, chief communications officer for Alameda County.

During that endeavor, he worked on projects for the Registrar of Voters, automating the roster indexing process in a way that reduced the amount of time it takes to process a request from two weeks to two days. County officials say he also created an application that tracks all of the equipment used at polling places during election seasons.   

The California State University-Long Beach graduate officially starts on December 22, 2013.