March 29, 2006
ROMNEY ADMINISTRATION NAMES CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER
Administration and Finance Secretary Thomas Trimarco today named John O’Leary as chief of the state Human Resources Division, the department that oversees human resources policy and administration for executive agencies. The appointment is effective on April 3, 2006.
“John O’ Leary has an impressive record of achievement in both private and public sector leadership positions,” said Trimarco. “He is a creative thinker whose skills will be put to good use at HRD.”
Since 2004, O’Leary has served as commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance, where he oversaw 670 employees and an annual budget of $75 million. He is a former chairman of the Civil Service Commission and served as Governor Romney’s designee to the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission.
An expert in operational efficiency, O’Leary has been a Vice President at Scudder Kemper Investments and the Director of Business Process Reengineering at Lycos. As a consulting manager with KPMG Peat Marwick, he advised governments on public sector reinvention. In 2004, O’Leary won the Pioneer Institute’s Better Government Competition for his ideas on reforming the Civil Service system in Massachusetts. He is a co-author of Revolution at the Roots: Making Our Government Smaller, Better, and Closer to Home (Free Press, September, 1995).
“I am honored that Governor Romney and Secretary Trimarco have chosen me to lead this important division,” said O’Leary. “I look forward to further refining and improving the processes that have made HRD a center of excellence within state government.”
O’Leary received his undergraduate degree in Materials Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a master’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He and his wife, Nancy, reside in Needham with their daughter.
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