Bill Zielinski is returning to municipal government in Colorado after a career that has taken him from federal technology leadership to the CIO\u2019s office in Dallas and, most recently, the private sector.<\/p>\n
Zielinski announced<\/a> Sunday on LinkedIn that he is starting a new position as CIO for Thornton, Colo. City officials did not respond to a request for comment on the appointment.<\/p>\n Zielinski spent nearly four years as Dallas\u2019 CIO, helming its Information and Technology Services department from June 2020 to April 2024. During his tenure, the city worked on network upgrades, improvements to its 911 communications capabilities and a new human resources management system.<\/p>\n Dallas also piloted an effort to address gaps in residents\u2019 Internet access and introduced recurring reports covering IT security, management, projects and performance.<\/p>\n Zielinski\u2019s work extended beyond Dallas\u2019 own operations. He helped shepherd a new P25-compliant public safety radio system, designed to support communications across the region, through cooperation with other jurisdictions and a vendor partnership.<\/p>\n After leaving Dallas, he joined Gartner as an executive partner, advising public-sector leaders on technology and drawing on lessons from his own time inside government. The move gave Zielinski an opportunity to work with public-sector executives from a different vantage point \u2014 sharing his experience with leaders facing many of the same questions about tech investments, cybersecurity, infrastructure and service delivery.<\/p>\n Zielinski\u2019s public-service career spans more than three decades, per LinkedIn. Before Dallas, he held several federal tech leadership positions, including serving as CIO of the Social Security Administration. He also served as an assistant commissioner overseeing the IT category at the General Services Administration and helped lead implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act across the federal government.<\/p>\n He has a personal connection to public service, Zielinski told Industry Insider \u2014 Texas* in 2023, when he was still Dallas CIO. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to leave government \u2014 I\u2019m the child of public servants,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cI wanted to get back into operations where I was much closer to those who I\u2019m trying to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n *Industry Insider \u2014 Texas is part of e.Republic,\u00a0Government Technology\u2019s\u00a0parent company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Zielinski is returning to municipal government in Colorado after a career that has taken him from federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-464180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}