She took over for Michael Lane, who stepped down in May after serving as CIO since December 2016. Prior to that, Lane had been deputy CIO, and before that he worked with casino and gaming technology.
According to Hansen's LinkedIn profile, prior to being Clark County’s deputy CIO, she ran her own small IT consulting agency, Result Logix, for four years. Before that she worked in both the private and public sectors as a director of business intelligence services at VizExplorer, which makes software for casinos; as an analyst and project manager at the city of Henderson, Nev.; as an analyst/programmer for Clark County; and as a spokeswoman, data specialist and Web developer for various companies.
She is pursuing an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor’s in computer science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
She is also an advisory board member for e.Republic's* annual Nevada Digital Summit. She volunteers on other advisory boards as well, such as SIM Las Vegas and Tech Impact.
With more than 2.2 million people, Clark County contains nearly three-quarters of Nevada’s population, and Hansen will be leading its technology initiatives at a time when the state has been pushing for a unified approach to IT. Nevada is currently in between state CIOs, but its most recent one led efforts to consolidate siloed technologies, improve collaboration between various departments and develop a 20-year plan for state IT services.
*e.Republic is Government Technology's parent company.
Editor's note: This story was corrected to show that Hansen is currently pursuing a master's degree.
