LINCOLN- Long before Nebraska's governor picked him to transform one of the state's most anonymous agencies, Matthew McCarville was already here, but on a path that seemed headed elsewhere. McCarville, the 38-year-old whom Gov. Jim Pillen tabbed in April to lead the state's technology department, first arrived in Nebraska when he was 2 years old after spending his earliest years in Miami. McCarville has been through multiple hardships including being moved around the country between parents and guardians often during childhood, losing family members prematurely, and surviving cancer while attending college at Creighton University.

Now, armed with an education forged out of his upbringing here, McCarville is back in Nebraska following stints leading IT departments at public institutions in Florida and Colorado. "I was hired to come in and be a change agent," McCarville said in an interview in the fourth-floor conference room of the unmarked downtown Lincoln building that houses the office he now leads. McCarville may be among Pillen's chief allies in the governor's quest to "(run) state government like a business."

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