Director of Infrastructure Services

The State of Michigan's infrastructure organization employs over 700 staff members and oversees an annual budget of $160 million.

Since becoming Director of Infrastructure for Michigan in 2005, Mr. Hale's teams have consolidated 17 data centers, eliminating over 1,000 servers in less than a year. They centralized messaging for the state's 57,000 employees, with an expected savings of over $11 million in 4 years. They have developed an enterprise-wide backup and recovery strategy-backing up more than a billion objects a week. He has also led teams implementing VoIP for more than 6,500 employees in 78 locations, developing a wireless strategy for the state's network and migrating nearly a petabyte of state data to an enterprise storage solution.

Patrick Hale has over 17 years experience as a technical architect, infrastructure manager, and strategic planner. He has a long track record of assisting public and private sector entities through large-scale technology integration efforts and has spoken at numerous trade groups and organizations about the importance of technology and its successful implementation.

As a partner in a private consulting firm, he co-authored a method combining project management, change management, and strategic planning techniques that decreased project time frames by 30-40% and increased project success rates by 70%.

Before taking the post within infrastructure, Mr. Hale coordinated Michigan's Office of Strategic Policy in the development of the Governor's Cabinet Action Plan. In this capacity he served as liaison between gubernatorial staffers and 19 State departments, leading the analysis on how Cabinet and Department initiatives aligned to gubernatorial objectives, helping the administration set the stage for outcome-based budgeting.

Mr. Hale's experience as both a planner and technical leader give him a unique perspective on the importance infrastructure plays in the government or private company's bottom line.