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The IRS Has Hired Its First CTO

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Nov 18, 2008

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While the tech world eagerly waits to see who Barack Obama will appoint Chief Technology Officer of the United States, a similar appointment of more immediate impact to many people has just occurred. Terence Milholland began work this week as the first Chief Technology Officer in the history of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Milholland worked previously as Executive VP and CTO for Visa International. He enters an IRS that the General Accounting Office said last week suffers from technology so outdated it leaves the agency with inadequate integrity, reliability and security for sensitive taxpayer information. Check out our coverage of the first IRS CTO and the daunting problems he'll face on our new blog the RWW Jobwire, sponsored by VisualCV. We write there about scores of new hires in tech and new media every day, but this one is particularly interesting!

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