New leadership at the General Services Administration

 

New permanent leadership at the General Services Administration! Sonny Hashmi has been named the permanent Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the GSA. Mr. Hashmi has previous experience managing large IT budgets with his pervious gig as the Deputy CIO for the District of Columbia. His main goals at each concurrent positions seems to always focus on modernization and adopting new technologies to move government information technology r into the future at a fast pace.

Mr. Hashmi believes that the way of future for IT will be cloud technology and has been working tirelessly to help create agile processes for cloud development as well as swiftly attempting to move email systems within the GSA to the cloud. To this end he received the 2013 Federal 100 award for Digital Government Innovation as a “could expander”!

Moving forward, Mr. Hashmi will likely be a leader for innovation for GSA IT. Cloud is growing quickly on the commercial side of IT business and the government must follow or be lost in a sea of never-ending data recovery problems. According to a Forbes.com overview of an IBM Study, “84% of CIOs are focusing on mobility solutions to support closer customer engagement, 83% are evaluating business analytics and optimization and 64%, cloud computing.”  Mr. Hashmi should be able to bring these commercial CIO ideas to the GSA for IT success.