Mazer steps down as Interior CIO
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Longtime department leader will assist with transition until July.
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Interior Department CIO Bernard Mazer is retiring after more than 25 years in government.
Federal News Radio, which first reported the news, quoted an internal agency email as saying Mazer would stay until July to assist with the transition, but would step out of his CIO role immediately.
Mazer won a 2014 Federal 100 award for his leadership in consolidating Interior’s IT operations, and for driving the department's Foundation Cloud Hosting Services contract.
He will be replaced on an interim basis by Sylvia Burns, Interior's acting associate deputy CIO for service planning and management.
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