The Department of Motor Vehicle’s deputy commissioner has been promoted to the top role. A business exec has been tapped to be the new deputy.
Michael R. Bzdyra, of Wallingford, has served at the DMV since 2011 as deputy commissioner. Prior to that, he worked for 13 years with the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority as a government relations liaison and senior analyst, responsible for directing, planning and implementing the organization’s governmental, legislative and regulatory activities.
At today’s announcement he said he will work on making the department, which went through a disastrous new computer system roll-out last summer, more customer focused. Bzdyra replaces the former commissioner Andres Ayala, who resigned because of the ongoing snafu that sharply increased customer wait times – the opposite of the intended upgrade.
Judeen Wrinn of Middletown has been named deputy commissioner. She most recently worked for Voya Financial Inc. as the company’s chief operations officer for Retirement Business, where she oversaw approximately 1,500 employees and helped institute LEAN methodologies that in 2013 and 2014 delivered the company $18.8 million in earnings and $6.1 million in other benefits.
Dennis Murphy has been temporarily serving in the role of acting commissioner of DMV since February. Immediately prior, he had been serving as deputy commissioner of the state Department of Labor since 2011. The governor intends to appoint him to serve as a member of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration.
