White House Chief Technology Officer Steps Down 55
New submitter Krazy Kanuck writes "The White House is running a story on their OSTP blog that Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra is stepping down after being appointed to the post by President Obama in 2009. There is some mention of him returning to his home state of Virginia, and the Washington Post suggests a possible bid for lieutenant governor."
Re:Big talker, little substance (Score:5, Informative)
Care to give an example to back up your claim? He seemed to do a good job, from the little I saw about him. He was behind the push to bring better internet access to rural areas, expanding access to electronic health records, and he opposed SOPA. For a new position without a very clearly defined set of goals, I'd say he did fine.
Re:Big talker, little substance (Score:4, Informative)
consolidating the government's Data centers and starting a real push to update the infrastructure to something resembling the 2010's rather than the 1980's is not doing much?
Re:Big talker, little substance (Score:2, Informative)
When he was the CTO of Virginia, he made an agreement with Northrop Gruman that setup large systems for the DMV such that if there were any failure in the server area, the entire system--statewide--lost connectivity. It wasn't until the current governor of Virginia took office that the contract was forced to be renegotiated so that we got a better deal.
Similarly thanks to him, the Virginia State Police now rent all of their computers rather than buying them outright, and their systems lack the resources to handle their actual requirements.
Awesome job by him, not only by giving the work to a defense contractor when an in-state business could have absolutely done it better, and likely for less, but for just generally screwing it up.
In short, he left Virginia's infrastructure in a devastated position whenever he touched it because he is a fool in good clothes.