{"id":105130,"date":"2026-02-04T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105130\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:15:07","slug":"pennsylvania-promotes-four-interim-it-officials-to-permanent-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105130\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania promotes four interim IT officials to permanent roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil Weaver, Pennsylvania\u2019s secretary of administration, on Wednesday announced that four interim leaders at the state\u2019s Office of Information Technology have been promoted to permanent roles.<\/p>\n

Jim Sipe, who\u2019s been the state\u2019s chief information security officer<\/a> since 2023, is now the state\u2019s executive deputy chief information officer.<\/p>\n

Andy Ritter, who\u2019d been serving as interim CISO since October, was named as state CISO. Ritter previously served for nearly two years as deputy CISO after nearly six years as enterprise IT security risk manager, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

Sara Hall, the acting executive director of the Commonwealth Office of Digital Experience, was made its permanent head. She previously served as a senior product manager for PA.gov. The office\u2019s former executive director, Bry Pardoe<\/a>, was named to lead the state\u2019s tech efforts as its chief information officer<\/a> in October following the sudden\u00a0departures<\/a> that month of former state CIO Amaya Capellan and Chief Technology Officer Brian Andrews.<\/p>\n

Sarah Kinter, acting chief of staff at the Office of Information Technology, is now chief of staff. She previously served as head of operations at CODE PA, according to her LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll four have demonstrated themselves as highly capable leaders and experts in their previous positions, and we are excited to move ahead with certainty on the new OIT leadership team and direction forward,\u201d Weaver wrote in an internal memo. \u201cPlease join me in congratulating each of them on their well-deserved career advancements.\u201d
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\t\t\t\t\t\"Keely<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Keely Quinlan
\n\t\t\tKeely Quinlan reports on privacy and digital government for StateScoop. She was an investigative news reporter with Clarksville Now in Tennessee, where she resides, and her coverage included local crimes, courts, public education and public health. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Stereogum and other outlets. She earned her bachelor\u2019s in journalism and master\u2019s in social and cultural analysis from New York University.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Weaver, Pennsylvania\u2019s secretary of administration, on Wednesday announced that four interim leaders at the state\u2019s Office of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50809,25777,25778,28,30,29,19962,4634,50810],"class_list":["post-105130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-chief-information-security-officer-ciso","tag-code-pa","tag-digital-services","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-state-local-news","tag-states","tag-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}