GSA shuffles key IT personnel

General Services Administration Administrator Emily Murphy shifted one of the managers of the agency's $50 billion next-generation telecommunications contact to another position in the agency’s acquisition service and appointed a top manager for its Technology Modernization Fund.

In an internal memo issued earlier this week to all agency personnel and obtained by FCW, Murphy rolled out a flurry of personnel promotions and moves in several of the agency’s contracting and regional offices.

Among the changes was a shift of one of the Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract’s managers, Amando Gavino.

Gavino, who had been director of telecommunications services in the agency’s Federal Acquisition Services, according to the memo, will now serve as director of information technology services in the Office of Information Technology Category. Murphy’s memo didn’t name a replacement in Gavino's position.

GSA has been looking to raise the visibility of EIS among agencies, touting its value as part of the Trump administration's overall IT modernization strategy at industry events.

The memo also announced Joanne Collins-Smee is now deputy commissioner of FAS and director of the Technology Transformation Services. She had been acting deputy commissioner of both.

Elizabeth Cain was named as executive director for the Technology Modernization Fund. She had been a financial management analyst for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. GSA houses the current $100 million that undergirds the Government Technology Act revolving modernization fund.  The GSA's fiscal 2019 budget requested another $210 million for the fund.

Among other moves, the memo said Jessica Salmoiraghi was named associate administrator for the Office of Governmentwide Policy. She was previously director of federal agencies and international programs at the American Council of Engineering Companies.

"I'm honored to lead such a strong team of talented and dedicated professionals and I look forward to working with them as we continue to deliver effective and efficient government for the American people," Murphy said in a statement to FCW about the moves.