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Obama Establishes Director Of White House Information Technology, Appoints Former Facebook Engineering Director

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

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President Obama established the Director of White House Information Technology (IT) and appointed David Recordon, former Engineering Director at Facebook [FB], to the position, the White House announced in a presidential memo and release on March 19.The director is to be the senior officer responsible for the IT resources and systems provided to the president, vice president, and executive office of the president (EOP) by the Presidential Information Technology Community.The director’s primary authority is “to establish and coordinate the necessary…

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