Get in touch with Shane
Contact Shane, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck RackActions
Shane McDaniel’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Currently I am the Director of IT for the City of Seguin, TX, just outside of San Antonio. I have twenty-six years of experience across multiple IT disciplines supporting the Air Force, national intelligence, private industry, and municipal government operations.
Throughout my career I have overseen and supported numerous widespread technology initiatives. These include Federal support missions, data center implementation and decommissioning efforts, and cloud migrations.
I have been a stakehol…
Shane McDaniel’s Journalist Portfolio
See all 12 portfolio items →
Interview
See all 18 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Have you ever used a typewriter?
How is social media changing news?
Awards
See all 10 awards →CSO50
2022 - Cybersecurity
The CSO50 awards recognize security projects that demonstrate outstanding thought leadership and business value. The awards are scored according to a uniform set of criteria by a panel of judges that includes security leaders, industry experts, and academics.
CompTIA PTI Solutions Award
2022 - Cybersecurity
The annual PTI Solutions Awards program recognizes CompTIA member cities and counties that have developed or deployed innovative technology solutions within the past 15 months that positively affected local government performance and service to the communities.
CompTIA PTI Solutions Award
2022 - GIS
The annual PTI Solutions Awards program recognizes CompTIA member cities and counties that have developed or deployed innovative technology solutions within the past 15 months that positively affected local government performance and service to the communities.
ELGL Top 100 Local Government Influencer
2021 - Influencer
One of our strategic goals as an organization is to find the joy in local government, and one way we do this is by recognizing the incredible people who work for towns, cities, counties, and districts. The List is based on an individual’s influence in their community and outside their community through professional associations, mentoring, and writing.
GMIS International Government to Citizen (G2C) Award
2021 - Technology
The GMIS G2 Awards honors government in fulfilling its mission is expected to collaborate with and serve other entities. This competitive award recognizes the GMIS member agency whose IT project exhibits the best example of G2 of the year in the G2C (Citizens) and G2G (Government) categories. The G2C Award was received by the City of Seguin, TX. – Radio Infrastructure Upgrade.
TAGITM President's Award
2021 - Technology
The President’s Award is presented at the discretion of the President to a member that has made an exemplary and lasting contribution to the organization. For 2020-2021, the Awards Committee selected Shane McDaniel.
TAGITM Excellence Award - Radio Infrastructure Upgrade
2021 - Technology
Excellence Award winners demonstrate outstanding innovation and application of leading edge computing or communication technologies. Candidates for Excellence Awards are nominated by TAGITM members. Winners are chosen by a committee of peers who judge nominated projects based on their impact on improving internal operations, providing exceptional customer service or enhancing communications.
LocalSmart IT Innovation of the Year Award
2020 - Technology
SEGUIN, Texas – The City of Seguin’s IT Department has been named as a 2020 LocalSmart IT Innovation of the Year Award recipient by StateScoop Magazine, a publication that features the latest leaders and innovators, news and events in state and local government technology.
Best of Texas Award - Government Technology Magazine
2020 - Technology
TAGITM Excellence Award - Spillman CAD/RMS Project
2019 - Technology
Organizational award for the implementation of a public safety computer aided dispatch records management system on behalf of the City of Seguin.