Sharon Buck

Director of the Business Services Center

Sharon Buck is the Director of the Business Services Center (BSC), where she will oversee New York State’s central office for processing HR and finance transactions for multiple State agencies. Throughout her 20-year career in government, Sharon has developed multi-faceted expertise in organization management, performance measurement, project management, and business analysis. Sharon joins OGS from the NYS Office of the State Comptroller (OSC), where she served as Assistant Comptroller in the Office of Operations, overseeing the NYS Payroll system, Office of Unclaimed Funds, and two primary accounting and reporting bureaus. While at OSC, Sharon helped implement a major upgrade to the State’s payroll system, guided multiple procurements for systems and technology, and led a new data analytics initiative. Sharon previously served as the BSC’s Deputy Director, overseeing the transition of numerous agencies to BSC services. She also served as an Assistant Director in OGS Procurement Services. She led various program units at the NYS Division of the Budget, where she managed the multi-million dollar budgets of the NYS DMV and multiple NYS transportation agencies and transit authorities.

Sharon received her BA in Political Science from Utica College of Syracuse University and her MBA in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.