Southern Ute Indian Tribe has named Jeff Engman as chief information officer for the Southern Ute Shared Services.

Before joining the tribe, Engman served as the regional IT director for Alterra Mountain Co. His career also includes technical and managerial positions at ConocoPhillips, IT director for San Juan Business Unit in Farmington, and another IT manager/director position working in Dubai U.A.E. for Dubai Petroleum Co., operated by Conoco Inc.

Engman also worked for Intel Corp. for more than 10 years with the bulk of his tenure leading the www.intel.com infrastructure hosting organization.

Engman’s initial goals for Southern Ute Shared Services are to get to know all the employees and stakeholders, advance the reservationwide Broadband Modernization project, assess IT security and operation efforts, and get up to speed on key application development initiatives.

Engman graduated from Durango High School and received his bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from Fort Lewis College.