Leadership
Aleta Seaman
Sr. Director of Customer Success & IT Operations
Aleta Seaman is the OMES IS senior director of Customer Success and IT Operations. In this role, Seaman leads the state’s Information Technology Operations Control Center which monitors applications, servers and the network for outages across the state. Seaman also manages the teams that supports business continuity, operational management for technology changes, computer support, ordering and installation, troubleshooting, provisioning of users and mobile device management, along with OMES' world-class disaster recovery services.
Seaman started with the State of Oklahoma in 1995, serving in a variety of roles including her tenure as OMES IS director of Server and Network Services, which was successful in refreshing the state’s network and server hardware and partnering with Dell and NTT to build out the state’s secondary disaster recovery data center.
Michael Toland
Chief Information Security Officer
Michael Toland joined OMES in May 2023 as the Chief Information Security Officer. In this role, he is charged with leading all information security efforts and compliance and privacy practices.
He brings over 20 years of experience as an information technology professional. Toland specializes in IT security operations and providing proactive defense, and he prides himself in promoting an outstanding IT security culture by facilitating training, testing and coaching.
Jason Lawson
Deputy General Counsel
Jason Lawson was appointed lead attorney for the Information Services division of OMES in December 2020. He had been a member of the OMES General Counsel office since March 2020. In his role, Jason provides counsel to the executive leadership of OMES. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the General Counsel office has assisted OMES with navigating all the demands the state’s response has required. Lawson has led the OMES IS Legal team in transitioning state employees to a telework environment at warp speed, assisted other state agencies in their services to Oklahoma citizens and worked to ensure the state’s use of federal emergency funding helped the citizens of Oklahoma.
