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In that role, Wheeler revitalized Philadelphia's geospatial data operations and fostered collaboration across departments for sharing location-based data. Philadelphia initially hired Wheeler in as a city planner for the Philadelphia City Planning Commission , where he contributed to public outreach, land use and public facility planning.

For example, this year we completely replaced our firewall and our VPN platform. We were not on bad footing, but it was time to look at the marketplace and look at new vendors, assess situations and modernize. Like many other cities, the security of systems and security of data is top of mind for our team members.

Also, we can be better in terms of delivering projects on time and within budget by looking at more agile procurement and implementation methods instead of going all-in with a single monolithic approach, then trying to just turn that on one day and turn the old system off.

WHEELER: Cities have to be able to make decisions that are informed by good data, and they have a wealth of data that sometimes gets siloed in departments. The biggest struggle I hear my counterparts dealing with is unlocking the silos and making that data available for informing decision-making and raising awareness. Getty Images. Related news. Digital Services. Search for:. The latest state and local government tech news, delivered straight to your inbox.

The areas in business environment where solutions do not yet exist or not up to the mark, and which if existed, would've made job easier. While we have a great team in place and have improved our security posture significantly, we have to resist the temptation of falling into complacency because we spent a significant amount of dollars deploying security solutions.

In , we plan to focus internally on user education and raising awareness which is the weakest link in any good security strategy. To make these things happen the city also needs to develop a strategy for recruiting and retaining IT agency staff who represent the city they are serving, Wheeler said. This story was updated on Sept. Close Ad. Continue to StateScoop.