As CIO, Burlingame will report directly to Chief Justice Mulligan and provide leadership for the continued development of MassCourts, the Trial Court's major automation initiative. Working within the Administrative Office of the Trial Court, he will provide strategic direction and implement policies for IT operations, develop IT programs and initiatives throughout the Trial Court, manage the IT budget and provide coordination between the Information Technology Department and the MassCourts Project. He will be working closely with Judge James F. McHugh, who was recently named special adviser to the Chief Justice for Administration and Management for the MassCourts project.
Burlingame brings to the Trial Court more than 20 years of state and local governmental experience, leadership and expertise in the information technology field. He is presently CIO for the city of Boston, a cabinet-level position, and is responsible for overseeing the city's utilization of IT at all levels. Prior to that, Burlingame worked in several major positions in state government, including CIO for the Secretary of Public Safety, director of the Criminal History Systems Board, which operates the statewide criminal justice data center, and as the assistant commissioner for IT at the Department of Social Services.
During the course of his government career in information technology, Burlingame has served on several national commissions and committees. He chaired the commonwealth's Criminal Records Improvement Task Force and the Statewide Emergency Telecommunications Board, which was responsible for emergency 911 operations in the state. He also served as the state's gubernatorial representative to SEARCH, the national criminal justice policy consortium.
Burlingame has also served on several Massachusetts Trial Court IT subcommittees during the past few years.
In the March issue of Government Technology magazine, Burlingame was featured as one of the "Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers."
