CHIEF
JUSTICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF
THE TRIAL COURT APPOINTS NEW CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
Boston, MA — Chief
Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan
today announced that Craig D. Burlingame will be the new
Chief Information Officer for the Trial Court, beginning
on June 7, 2004.
As
Chief Information Officer, Mr. Burlingame will
report directly to Chief Justice Mulligan and
provide the leadership for the continued development
of MassCourts, the Trial Court’s major automation
initiative. Working within the Administrative
Office of the Trial Court, he will provide strategic
direction and implement policies for IT operations,
develop IT programs and initiatives throughout
the Trial Court, manage the IT budget, and provide
coordination between the Information Technology
Department and the MassCourts Project. In his
role as Chief Information Officer, Mr. Burlingame
will be working closely with Judge James F. McHugh,
who was recently named Special Advisor to the
Chief Justice for Administration and Management
for the MassCourts project.
Mr. Burlingame brings to the Trial Court more than twenty years of state
and local governmental experience, leadership, and expertise
in the Information Technology field. He is presently
the Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston,
a cabinet level position, and is responsible for overseeing
the City’s utilization of IT at all levels. Prior to
that, Mr. Burlingame worked in several major positions
in state government, including Chief Information Officer
for the Secretary of Public Safety, Director of the Criminal
History Systems Board, which operates the statewide criminal
justice data center, and as the Assistant Commissioner
for Information Technology at the Department of Social
Services.
During the course
of his government career in information technology, Mr.
Burlingame has served on several national commissions and
committees. He chaired the Commonwealth’s Criminal Records
Improvement Task Force and the Statewide Emergency Telecommunications
Board, which was responsible for emergency 911 operations
in the state. He also served as the state’s gubernatorial
representative to SEARCH, the national criminal justice
policy consortium.
Mr. Burlingame has
also served on several Massachusetts Trial Court IT subcommittees
during the past few years.
In the March issue of Government Technology Magazine, Mr. Burlingame
was featured as one of the “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers,” who “implemented
innovative ideas that improved citizen services and public safety,” and who did
it “with cost-effectiveness demanded by current budget realities,” according
to the magazine’s editor.
A
native of Cape Cod, Mr. Burlingame presently lives in
Boston.
