Randy Obar

Randy OBar serves as the Chief of IT Operations at the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity since November 2019, following a significant tenure as Chief Information Officer for the State of Florida - Lottery from April 2004 to November 2019, where oversight of a 95-member IT operations team contributed to over $7 billion in annual sales. Prior experience includes serving as Systems Manager for the Florida Lottery Account at IGT-OES (now Scientific Games) from 1988 to 2004, leading a systems administration group on various technical aspects. Additionally, Randy OBar was a small business owner at Computer Products Unlimited and Harvest Computing from 1985 to 2004, engaging in a range of computing solutions, and began a military career as a Telecommunications Technician in the United States Air Force from 1978 to 1988, managing teams responsible for data and voice circuit operations.