{"id":18615,"date":"2018-08-16T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statescoop.scpnewsgrp.com\/fulton-county-georgia-cio-sallie-wright-has-stepped-down\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:03:51","slug":"fulton-county-georgia-cio-sallie-wright-has-stepped-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/fulton-county-georgia-cio-sallie-wright-has-stepped-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulton County, Georgia CIO Sallie Wright has stepped down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sallie Wright, the chief information officer for Fulton County, Georgia, resigned from that position Aug. 3, ending a three-year run.<\/p>\n

Wright stepped down to “pursue other opportunities in her field,”\u00a0according to a county press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank Sallie for her service and her leadership during a time of major transition in our digital transformation,\u201d Fulton County Manager Dick Anderson said in the release.\u00a0\u201cTechnology is a critical component touching everything from internal systems for a complex Justice and Courts operation to customer facing systems for water treatment infrastructure and voter registration and elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sallie Wright<\/p><\/div>\n

With a population of just over 1 million and 90 percent of the city of Atlanta, Fulton is Georgia’s largest county and economic hub. Wright was brought on in 2015 in the wake of a damning auditor’s\u00a0report <\/a> that found the county’s Department of Information Technology had wasted millions of dollars on contracts. Her predecessor, Maurice Ficklin, was fired in November 2014 and later\u00a0sued the county <\/a> , claiming he was the target of whistleblower retaliation.\u00a0The case was dismissed in early\u00a02017.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Wright launched a $22 million, five-year <\/a> process to update the county’s IT\u00a0infrastructure, including upgrades aimed at cybersecurity and disaster recovery, as well as making it easier for residents to access county services digitally. The goal, county officials said at the time, was to reduce the frequency at which residents actually have to visit county agencies in person to get their questions answered.<\/p>\n

“It’s really important to meet the needs of a changing public,” Wright told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution then.<\/p>\n

Wright’s work for the county has earned her some praise \u2014\u00a0she’s a finalist for a Georgia CIO\u00a0of the Year <\/a> award to be presented\u00a0in October.<\/p>\n

Among Wright’s other actions were the creation of an IT “Governance Council”\u00a0to oversee tech priorities at county agencies, and digitizing the property-tax process, the county judicial system and internal IT support for the county government’s roughly\u00a05,000 employees.<\/p>\n

Wright could not be reached for comment. Sharon Whitmore, the county’s chief financial officer, will oversee the IT\u00a0department while a replacement for Wright is recruited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wright, who took over IT leadership for Georgia’s largest county in 2015, left Aug. 3. 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