{"id":73758,"date":"2025-11-24T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/?p=73758"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:24:20","slug":"pennsylvania-digital-service-director-appointed-state-cio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/pennsylvania-digital-service-director-appointed-state-cio\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania digital service director appointed state CIO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/bio\/bry-pardoe\/\">Bryanna Pardoe<\/a>, who has served as executive director of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Commonwealth Office of Digital Experience, or <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/tag\/code-pa\/\">CODE PA<\/a>, since its <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/pennsylvania-code-pa-digital-services\/\">formation<\/a> in April 2023, has been appointed to lead the state&#8217;s tech efforts as its newest chief information officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pardoe was named to the CIO role in October, according to the Office of Administration&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/Bry Pardoe was named the Commonwealth\u2019s Chief Information Officer in October 2025. In this role, she has overall responsibility for the management and operation of IT services for all executive agencies under the Governor\u2019s jurisdiction.\">website<\/a>, which shortly followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/amaya-capellan-pennsylvania-cio-cto-steps-down\/\">departures<\/a> last month of former state CIO Amaya Capellan and Chief Technology Officer Brian Andrews, both of whom stepped down for unspecified reasons.&nbsp;Pardoe has been serving in the CIO role in an acting capacity, according to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bryannapardoe\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As CODE PA&#8217;s executive director, Pardoe led initiatives to improve the digital experiences residents have when interacting with the commonwealth, such as&nbsp;the consolidation and redesign of <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/pennsylvania-consolidates-online-presence-one-website\/\">dozens of websites<\/a> into a single PA.gov website,&nbsp;and&nbsp;introducing <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/pennsylvania-unnecessary-bureaucracy-technology-procurement\/\">streamlined processes<\/a>&nbsp;for procuring new technology products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Pardoe&#8217;s promotion, Sara Hall, a senior product manager for PA.gov, was appointed to lead CODE PA as acting executive director, according to the state&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Association of State Chief Information Officers <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/nascio-2025-state-technology-innovator-award\/\">honored Pardoe<\/a> last month with an award for her leadership and work to revamp the states&#8217; digital presence through the website redesign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two years as head of the commonwealth&#8217;s digital services division, Bry Pardoe has been named statewide chief information officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":60144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_grayscale_images":true,"grayscale_contrast":0,"sponsored_content":false,"display_author_bio":true,"story_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4677],"tags":[12,23,29,66,99,13703,24046,24399],"people":[],"special-report":[],"authors":[23807],"class_list":["post-73758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-state-local-news","tag-innovation","tag-states","tag-chief-information-officer-cio","tag-pennsylvania","tag-digital-services","tag-code-pa","tag-bryanna-pardoe","author-kquinlan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v24.5) - 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