Amanda Arriaga
Austin, Texas, USA
Amanda Arriaga is the Chief Administrative Officer at the Department of Public Safety, State of Texas, overseeing the functions of Human Resources, Facilities, Procurement & Contracts and Enterprise Projects. She is also the co-chair of the Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communication (TASSCC) Special Interest Group in Project Management, and President of the Austin Young Lawyer’s Association. Amanda earned her BBA in Management from Texas A&M University and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. She has served as Governor Rick Perry’s Special Assistant for Homeland Security and Border Affairs, and DPS Chief of Government and Media Relations. Amanda can be contacted at amanda.arriaga@dps.texas.gov.
Articles and Papers
- Be Bold or Be Beige - Second Editions - Arriaga, Ballew - September 2017
- What to Expect When You’re Expecting (A Major Organizational Change) - Second Editions - Arriaga, Ballew - June 2017
- The Five Stages of Grief (aka Setting Up an Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Organization) - Second Editions - Arriaga, Ballew - June 2016
- When Millennials and Baby Boomers Collide - Second Editions - Ballew, Arriaga - November 2015
- How the Texas Department of Public Safety Maximized the Value of Project Management by Creating an Enterprise Project Management Office - Case Studies - Arriaga, Ballew - October 2014
- Applying Project Management Principles to Key State Government Processes - Second Editions - Arriaga, Ballew - August 2014