Tom Hayes (civil servant)

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Tom Hayes, an Ohio civil servant, has held positions within the Ohio state government such as director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, director of the Ohio Lottery Commission, and as project manager for Cuyahoga County's board of elections.

Ohio State of the United States of America

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Of the fifty states, it is the 34th largest by area, the seventh most populous, and the tenth most densely populated. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government responsible for supervising the state's public assistance, workforce development, unemployment compensation, child and adult protective services, adoption, child care, and child support programs. Prior to July 2013, ODJFS was also the state agency responsible for the administration of Ohio's Medicaid program. In July 2013, a new state agency was created, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM), Ohio’s first Executive-level Medicaid agency. ODJFS employs about 2,300 full time employees and has an annual budget of $3.3 billion.

Ohio Lottery lottery run by the state government of Ohio

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Background

Hayes was appointed as the director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), Ohio's largest agency, and a member of the Ohio Governor's Cabinet, by Governor Bob Taft on September 4, 2001. Hayes served until he resigned on October 1, 2004. [1]

Bob Taft Ohio politician

Robert Alphonso Taft III is an American politician and attorney.

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services

During his time as director of ODJFS, Hayes oversaw a department that employed 3,700 employees and had an annual budget of more than $15 billion. [1] As director, Hayes created a performance center for the department, federally certified a child support computer system, and started an online job-matching system. [1] In 2002, Hayes argued with Hamilton County over the ownership of $8 million of welfare money. [2] In response to the Controversial Ohio database searches of Joe Wurzelbacher, Hayes stated that the ODJFS, during his tenure as director, did not conduct searches due to an individual's status being raised to "celebrity." [3]

Controversial Ohio database searches of Joe Wurzelbacher occurred during the last few weeks of the 2008 US Presidential election campaign, when Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) employees, and Ohio officials, became embroiled in a controversy over searches of Joe Wurzelbacher's government records after he came to national attention as "Joe the Plumber." The matter led to substantial news media attention during the presidential campaign, a new law being signed in Ohio, and a federal civil rights lawsuit which was dismissed on August 4, 2010, on grounds that the privacy violation did not amount to a constitutional violation of the right to privacy.

Ohio Lottery Commission

In 2005, Hayes became the director of the Ohio Lottery Commission. In August 2006, Hayes resigned after accepting a job with Cuyahoga County as project manager for the county's board of elections. [4]

Project manager professional in the field of project management

A project manager is a professional in the field of project management. Project managers have the responsibility of the planning, procurement and execution of a project, in any undertaking that has a defined scope, defined start and a defined finish; regardless of industry. Project managers are first point of contact for any issues or discrepancies arising from within the heads of various departments in an organization before the problem escalates to higher authorities.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Job and Family Services chief retires". Advance Publications . 2004-08-05. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  2. "County, state duel over $8M". The Cincinnati Enquirer . 2002-04-23. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  3. "Jones-Kelley regrets allowing database searches". Springfield News-Sun . 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  4. "New Ohio Lottery chief appointed". Lottery Post. 2006-08-16. Retrieved 2009-04-14.