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City Promotes 14-Year Veteran to CIO Position

The promotion follows the recent retirement of the previous CIO, who served for over two decades in that role.

A 14-year employee has been chosen to lead the IT department as the CIO for a city 15 miles north of Austin.

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This follows the departure of Round Rock’s former CIO, Heath Douglas, who served in the role for 22 years before his recent retirement.

Ramsey Saad has worked with Round Rock for 14 years in various roles. He started with the Geographic Information Systems group before moving to other IT services in different roles. He was promoted to the role of assistant director of IT in 2015.

Saad has selected Megan Tschoerner to take on his previous role of assistant director of IT.

“From public safety to the library, we’re working on several exciting projects to improve the experience for our citizens, business community and visitors,” Saad said in the Aug. 3 announcement.

This article first appeared in Government Technology, sister publication to Industry Insider — Texas.