John Donato
Chief Of Staff at Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Donato is a procurement and operations leader with over a decade of experience managing multi-hundred-million to multi-billion dollar public-sector programs, currently serving as Chief of Staff at the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. He has led large-scale transformations—consolidating fleet contracts into a vendor-managed inventory, introducing Job Order Contracting as a first for a state agency, and steering ERP/SAP implementations—to streamline procurement and reduce costs. Regularly drafting legislation, testifying at the Capitol, and presenting high-value contracts to board finance committees, he blends policy, compliance, and vendor strategy with hands-on contract management. John has a proven track record of expanding supplier participation and driving measurable savings through renegotiation and consolidation. Based in Old Toronto but operating in U.S. state government contexts, he combines public-sector rigor with a practical, results-oriented mindset. Outside work he brings a tinkerer’s curiosity—“building, breaking, learning”—to continuous improvement in procurement systems.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Operations Management, B.S., Operations Management at Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
donneypr/DonLang
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
donneypr/xphilosphy_bot
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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