Yuma County Names Jeremy Jeffcoat as New Chief Information Officer

Yuma County named Jeremy Jeffcoat its next Chief Information Officer, tapping the IT leader who last year won the City of Yuma's Dream Team Award for wiring a 16-repeater-site public safety network across two counties.

Jeffcoat most recently served as Assistant IT Director for the Yuma Regional Communications System at the City of Yuma. His team, which included Rafael Orduno, Lazaro Guerrero, and Josue Luna, implemented a highly resilient voice and data network connecting 16 radio repeater sites and 15 dispatch centers across Yuma and La Paz counties. The project replaced an aging system and improved communications reliability for law enforcement, fire, and EMS agencies throughout the region, earning the 2025 Dream Team Award.

Before joining the city, Jeffcoat spent years inside county government itself, holding the roles of Senior Manager, Network and Manager, Information Technology at the Yuma County Sheriff's Office. That institutional familiarity with county systems, combined with military service, formed the core of the profile CPS HR Consulting sought when it conducted the recruitment search on the county's behalf.

As CIO, Jeffcoat will lead the Information Services Department at 2717 South Avenue B, overseeing five divisions and roughly 35 staff members. He reports directly to the Deputy County Administrator.

His most concrete near-term priority is leading the second phase of Yuma County's Oracle Cloud optimization project, a countywide enterprise modernization effort touching financial services, human resources, and core administrative operations. County departments had already catalogued specific pain points with the existing ERP system, giving Phase 2 immediate urgency. The Oracle project's outcome will directly shape the reliability of online services the county's 203,881 residents use regularly, including permit lookups, e-check payments, and county records access.

With cloud misconfigurations and ransomware ranking as dominant threats facing Arizona local governments in 2026, according to a state cybersecurity analysis, the CIO role carries stakes well beyond server rooms and software upgrades.

The Board of Supervisors, with District 1 Supervisor Martin Porchas serving as chairman and District 2 Supervisor Jonathan W. Lines as vice-chairman, guides county administration. In naming Jeffcoat, the county passed over an outside executive in favor of a professional whose career has been built inside Yuma's own public agencies.