Rishma M. Khimji
Chief Information Technology Officer
Clark County Department of Aviation
Rishma M. Khimji joined the Clark County Department of Aviation in 2022 as the department’s first Chief Information Technology Officer. She brings more than two decades worth of information technology experience, including more than a decade in the public sector. In this role, she will oversee the development, implementation and maintenance of all information technology for Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) and its four sister general aviation airports.
Most recently having served as the Chief Information Officer for the San Francisco Police Department, Khimji also brings to CCDOA her experience with the Albuquerque Police Department as well as the City of Reno. Throughout her career, she has implemented many high-profile projects to enhance municipal services, resources and accountability. Among the most notable, were the migration of an onsite, data center to a private data center at Switch. This ensured operational stability and upgraded an overtaxed physical server infrastructure to a virtual environment that offers compute, storage, networking and virtualization of resources in a single device.
Khimji is a two-time graduate of the University of New Mexico, having earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Economics, as well as a master’s degree in Economics. She is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Project Management Professional (PMP).
Khimji was born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she still has family. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and traveling.