{"id":6171,"date":"2018-01-15T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statescoop.scpnewsgrp.com\/philadelphia-releases-cio-charles-brennan%e2%80%8b\/"},"modified":"2018-07-29T19:42:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T19:42:17","slug":"philadelphia-releases-cio-charles-brennan%e2%80%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/philadelphia-releases-cio-charles-brennan%e2%80%8b\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia releases CIO Charles Brennan\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has decided to part ways with\u00a0Chief Information Officer Charles Brennan, the city\u00a0confirmed late last week.<\/p>\n

Mike Dunn, a spokesperson for the Kenney, told StateScoop on Monday that despite the good service Brennan has provided, the city seeks to move in a different direction\u00a0and has charged Mark Wheeler, Philadelphia’s\u00a0deputy CIO and chief geographic information officer, to take on the role temporarily.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Charles Brennan has made important contributions to OIT in the past two years, the administration has determined that a change in leadership is appropriate at this time,\u201d Dunn said. \u201cThe mayor remains fully committed to the work begun under Charlie, including fixing the back-office information systems that, in many instances, are desperately in need of modernization. We wish Charlie well in his future endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dunn did not offer more specifics about why Brennan was let go or give details about Kenney’s preferred type of IT leadership. Yet Dunn said via email that new information will come from the city\u00a0soon.<\/p>\n

“When it appears, the [job] posting for the position will provide information about what the city is looking for in the CIO position,”\u00a0Dunn said.<\/p>\n

During his time as CIO, Brennan, a former police officer, was part of a\u00a0major structural change\u00a0to the Office of Innovation and Technology. When Kenney took office in 2016 he\u00a0closed the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, an office designed to drive smart city innovation, and placed the city’s website and open data staff within a new office called the Open Data and Digital Transformation Office. The change<\/a> meant that the primary outfits driving civic tech and smart city innovation operated outside of Brennan’s leadership and under the oversight the chief administrative officer.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Controller Rebecca Rhynhart, who was the city’s chief administrative officer in 2016 when Brennan was appointed by Kenney, said the change enabled Brennan to dedicate his time on more traditional IT shop\u00a0work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will allow OIT to focus on the core legacy systems and IT services to departments that are sorely in need of modernization,\u201d Rhynhart said.<\/p>\n

Brennan said in a smart cities panel in 2017 that one of his biggest accomplishments was a broadband contract with Comcast to deliver more affordable Wi-Fi to residents. The 15-year\u00a0agreement, established in 2016, doubles the bandwidth of the city\u2019s network at no additional cost.<\/p>\n

Last year, Brennan was also involved in\u00a0the city’s work to\u00a0modernize its 911 dispatch system<\/a> with a new text-to-911 feature that was scheduled to launch in January, with a full upgrade to the system\u00a0set for completion sometime in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prior to his work with the City of\u00a0Philadelphia,\u00a0Brennan\u00a0worked for the State\u00a0of Pennsylvania for five\u00a0years to assist with a\u00a0$500 million\u00a0communications network. Before this, he served\u00a0the Philadelphia Police Department for 33 years, with 20 of those years spent in\u00a0its IT\u00a0department where he managed 911 and geographic\u00a0information systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After two years with the city, the technology official has been told that “a change in leadership is 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