Before his appointment as Hawaii’s first CIO, Bhagowalia served as Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies for the U.S. General Services Administration. At the GSA, Bhagowalia supported the Federal CIO in implementing Governmentwide e-Gov and Open Gov programs including Data.gov, Federal Cloud Computing and Federal Data Center Consolidation initiatives, and mobile applications.
Bhagowalia also served as the CIO of the U.S. Department of the Interior from December 2008 through May 2010, during which he oversaw an technology portfolio of approximately $1 billion. He modernized and unified Interior’s diverse IT environment under its top-rated Enterprise Architecture Program. Bhagowalia also served as the CIO for Indian Affairs from August 2007 until December 2008. From July 1999 through August 2007, he was the Information Technology Program Management Executive for the FBI.