The Interior Department has tapped Andy Lewandowski to serve as its first-ever chief digital experience officer – effective Jan. 29 – a department spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk.
Lewandowski came from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where he served as the digital experience advisor to Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana since July 2021.
“Thank you to Clare M., Chris DeRusha, Jay Teitelbaum, and Drew Myklegard for doing big things in the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer to support digital delivery, like publishing new digital experience, accessibility, and cybersecurity guidance that meets the moment and leading tech policy activation across federal agencies,” Lewandowski wrote in a Jan. 31 LinkedIn post.
In his new role, Lewandowski will be in an agency that with four components delivering services dubbed high-impact because of their scale and effects on those that use them — the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Trust Funds Administration, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service.
“I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the U.S. Department of the Interior and the terrific team in the Office of the Chief Information Officer,” Lewandowski’s post reads. “Together with the incredible DOI workforce, we’re going to use design and technology to improve public-facing services and customer experiences at the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), US Indian Affairs, and Bureau of Indian Affairs and across the agency – and we’ve got millions of people counting on us!”
Before joining OMB, Lewandowski spent three and a half years as a digital services expert at the United States Digital Service.
